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There are also records of decisions taken for regulating trade and accounts of 1530 concerning payments for a play performed on Corpus Christi day (folio 8 verso).

The flyleaf is taken from a 15th-century Italian manuscript of Justinian's ‘Corpus luris Civilis’, with gloss (folio 1).

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This volume was started in 1584 and all entries of earlier date are noted to have been copied out of an "auld buik".

The contents are as follows.

(i) Admission of William Lander, book binder and parchment-maker, Perth, 1584 (folio 1);

(ii) Pious verses addressed to the Incorporation, 1584 (folio 1 verso);

(iii) Minutes and accounts, 1518-1744 (folio 2);

(iv) Fragment of early music (folio 268).

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Includes some modern notes, 1882-1883, 1902 (, folio ii).

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...

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A few newspaper cuttings and menus for Club Dinners have been pasted in to the minute book (folios 1-96). Additional material includes occasional verses, further menus and illustrations, and an Appendix listing the membership between 1778-1939 (folios 103-107), Directions for the Club Officer (folios 109-110), an Inventory of Club property (folios 111-112), Directions for the Watchmen, (folios 112-113), and Club Rules (folio 114).

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The minute book consists of copies of correspondence between Alex Dalziel, the Earl of Glencairn, and Robert Stewart, writer in Edinburgh. The volume was afterwards used by the Reverend George Craig Dalziel Buchanan, Minister of Kinross, for his receipt and expenditure book, 1837-1841; with further, scattered notes by Buchanan on money matters.

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The Kirkliston Reading Room was opened for the inhabitants of Kirkliston and district in 1904.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The minutes cover such varied matters as the island's defences, the state of agriculture, the completion of the observatory and the row over the disposal of Napoleon's furniture.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The minutes cover such varied matters as the island's defences, the state of agriculture, the completion of the observatory and the row over the disposal of Napoleon's furniture.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The minutes cover such varied matters as the island's defences, the state of agriculture, the completion of the observatory and the row over the disposal of Napoleon's furniture.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The minutes cover such varied matters as the island's defences, the state of agriculture, the completion of the observatory and the row over the disposal of Napoleon's furniture.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The minutes cover such varied matters as the island's defences, the state of agriculture, the completion of the observatory and the row over the disposal of Napoleon's furniture.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Chiefly relating to links with Women's Guilds at home and centenary celebrations, but also with material relevant to the history of Women's Forrign Missions. There is also a large number of play scripts in this accession.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The papers contain a large number of photocopies of documents dating back to the 17th century.