Dictionaries.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Reference sources containing alphabetical lists of words with information given for each word; generally including meanings, pronunciation, etymology, and often usage guidance.
Found in 132 Collections and/or Records:
Microfilm of final draft of the ‘Topographical Dictionary’ by George Chalmers. A-D., 1st quarter of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.94
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Final draft of the ‘Topographical Dictionary’ by George Chalmers: A-B. (Adv.MS.3.1.1);
Final draft of the ‘Topographical Dictionary’ by George Chalmers: C-D. (Adv.MS.3.1.2).
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Microfilm of final draft of the ‘Topographical Dictionary’ by George Chalmers. E-I., 1st quarter of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.95
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Microfilm of final draft of the ‘Topographical Dictionary’ by George Chalmers. K-M., 1st quarter of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.96
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Microfilm of final draft of the ‘Topographical Dictionary’ by George Chalmers. N-Z., 1st quarter of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.97
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Final draft of the ‘Topographical Dictionary’ by George Chalmers. N-R (Adv.MS.3.1.5);
Final draft of the ‘Topographical Dictionary’ by George Chalmers. S-Z (Adv.MS.3.1.6).
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Microfilm of final draft of the ‘Topographical Dictionary’ by George Chalmers, with notes, mostly etymological, on the dictionary.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.94-99
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Microfilm of Gaelic-English dictionary in the hand of Sir James Foulis (1714-1791), 5th Baronet of Colinton.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1158
Dates:
Mid 18th century-late 18th century.
Microfilm of Gaelic manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1270
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Gaelic manuscript (Adv.MS.72.2.19); - No A.S. Record
Gaelic manuscript (Adv.MS.72.2.20); - No A.S. record
Remains of a Gaelic-English dictionary, 1800-1801, written by Alexander Robertson, schoolmaster, Kirkmichael, Strathardle, Perthshire (Adv.MS.72.2.21).
Dates:
19th century.
Microfilm of Irish and Scottish Gaelic manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.653
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Book of the Dean of Lismore, 16th century (Adv.MS.72.1.37);
Manuscript, ?15th century-17th century, containing verse and tale fragments in Gaelic (Adv.MS.72.1.47);
Manuscript, 17th century, of syllabic verse (Adv.MS.72.1.48);
Manuscript, 1618-1647, containing Irish bardic verse (Adv.MS.72.1.49);
Manuscript, [circa 1658], containing historical miscellany in Gaelic, written by Niall MacMhuirich (Adv.MS.72.1.50).
Dates:
?15th century-17th century.
Microfilm of notes in “Jamieson's dictionary of the Scottish language", revised edition (Paisley, 1912), notebooks and a journal of William Soutar.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1132-1133
Dates:
1912-[Before 1944].
Microfilm of notes of William Soutar in "Jamieson's dictionary of the Scottish language", revised edition (Paisley, 1912)., 1912-[before 1944].
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1132
Microfilm of transcript made by the Reverend Walter MacLeod of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.956
Dates:
1897.
Mid 13th-century Bible, probably written in England.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.10
Scope and Contents
(i) The contents are in the order Genesis-Nehemiah, Esther, Tobit, Judith, Job-Matthew, Luke, Mark, John, Acts, Catholic Epistles, Pauline Epistles (with Colossians following 2 Thessalonians), Apocalypse (folio 1). Two leaves containing the end of the general prologue and the prologue to the Pentateuch, and Genesis chapters 24-25 are missing. There are no prologues to 2 Chronicles, Ecclesiastes, Hosea, or the Pauline Epistles from Ephesians to Hebrews. The prologues are the usual set (see...
Dates:
Mid 13th century.
Notes on French grammar, 18th century; dictionary of English proverbs, 18th century; and legal maxims in the hand of Lord Milton., 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.17788
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Academic and literary papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning law ., 17th century-18th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17807-17825
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Papers of the Scottish National Dictionary Association.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10873
Dates:
1929-1990.
Papers of the Scottish National Dictionary Association.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10885
Dates:
1945-1985.
Papers of the Sutherland Estates.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.314
Scope and Contents
This deposit comprises special items from the Sutherland archives as listed in the agreement of 19 March 1978.
Dates:
15th century-1814.
Photocopy of entry on James Ramsay MacDonald in the `Biographical Dictionary of Modern British Radicals`, with a postcard of him., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.13629/19
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Correspondence, research papers, photographs and audio tapes, 1904-1994, of Dr. Alice Gilmore Vines (1923-2009) relating to her PhD thesis on Margaret Ethel Gladstone MacDonald (1870-1911) and Ishbel MacDonald (1903-1982), James Ramsay MacDonald’s wife and daughter.Dr. Vines collected this material in the course of her research for an intended biography of the two women. Over a number of summers she visited Ishbel in Lossiemouth and corresponded with her. Unfortunately, she had...
Dates:
Undated.
Printed copy of the three parts published of the English-Gaelic dictionary of Alexander Robertson, schoolmaster, Kirkmichael, Perthshire.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.18
Scope and Contents
This is a printed volume, being the only complete copy now known to exist of the three parts published of the dictionary of Alexander Robertson, schoolmaster, Kirkmichael, Perthshire. It was printed by Charles Stewart, Edinburgh, 1803, on paper watermarked 1802.Another copy of the three specimens was sent by Robertson to the Highland Society of Scotland in 1808 subsequent to sending the manuscripts of the remainder of his work (now Adv.MS.73.3.16 etc.) and receiving £30. His...
Dates:
1803, 1820.
Printed items with notes or proof corrections in the hand of William Soutar., 1912-[Before 1944.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8768-8770
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.
Dates:
1912-[Before 1944.]
Proofs of the Highland Society of Scotland Dictionary, with correspondence between Mackintosh MacKay and the Reverend John MacLeod of Dundonald.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.3
Scope and Contents
Proofs of the Highland Society of Scotland Dictonary, complete except for A-Accent and Eng-Gae. The bottom half of each sheet was left blank by the printer. Mackintosh MacKay, the Corrector of the Press, sent the sheets, as they were printed off, to the Reverend John MacLeod of Dundonald. MacLeod added comments and corrections, and both used the blank portions for at times animated correspondence. This process took place between 18th June 1824 and 19th May 1828. Between the...
Dates:
1824-1828.
Remains of a Gaelic-English dictionary containing words beginning with the letter ‘M’ written by Alexander Robertson: volume 8., [1800, or after.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.3.19
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains the rest of volume 8: ‘M’. The first leaf is missing, hence begins Mac. There is also a slip of paper bearing Mackintosh MacKay’s handwriting.
The manuscript is watermarked 1800.
Dates:
[1800, or after.]
Remains of a Gaelic-English dictionary from Cathachadh-Cuthbharr written by Alexander Robertson: volume 4., [1800, or after.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.3.16
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is watermarked 1800.
Dates:
[1800, or after.]
Remains of a Gaelic-English dictionary from ‘D’-‘E’ written by Alexander Robertson: volume 5., [1800, or after.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.3.17
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is watermarked 1800.
Dates:
[1800, or after.]