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 93 Collections and/or Records:
Supplement to the ‘Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language’ by John Jamieson., [1825, or before.]
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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.5
Supplement to the ‘Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language’ by John Jamieson., [1825, or before.]
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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.6
Supplement to the ‘Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language’ by John Jamieson., [1825, or before.]
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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.7
Supplement to the ‘Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language’ by John Jamieson., [1825, or before.]
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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.8
Supplement to the ‘Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language’ by John Jamieson., [1825, or before.]
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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.9
'The illustrated Gaelic-English dictionary', 9th edition (Glasgow: Gairm Publications, 1977), by Edward Dwelly., 1977.
File
Identifier: Acc.11338/20
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes a thesis entitled "The World of 4 to 7 Years", 1960, together with printed items illustrating Gray`s work as a graphic artist and book designer.
Dates:
1977.
'The new English-Gaelic dictionary' (Glasgow: Gairm Publications, 1981), by Derick S Thomson., 1981.
File
Identifier: Acc.11338/40
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes a thesis entitled "The World of 4 to 7 Years", 1960, together with printed items illustrating Gray`s work as a graphic artist and book designer.
Dates:
1981.
Topographical dictionary of Scotland, volume 1: the counties of southern Scotland from Berwickshire to Kirkcudbrightshire., Circa 1794-1801.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.20.1.1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The localities are listed alphabetically within each county: the counties are arranged topographically. The work appears to have been compiled from the map of Scotland by John Ainslie which was published in 1789 (Adv.MS.20.1.5, folio 94): the list of place-names in Norway is taken from Pontoppidan`s map of 1781. It is in a number of unidentified hands, with numerous deletions and alterations throughout. It is not known for whom it was compiled: it may have been for George...
Dates:
Circa 1794-1801.
Topographical dictionary of Scotland, volume 2: south-west and west Scotland, from Wigtownshire to Dunbartonshire., Circa 1794-1801.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.20.1.2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The localities are listed alphabetically within each county: the counties are arranged topographically. The work appears to have been compiled from the map of Scotland by John Ainslie which was published in 1789 (Adv.MS.20.1.5, folio 94): the list of place-names in Norway is taken from Pontoppidan`s map of 1781. It is in a number of unidentified hands, with numerous deletions and alterations throughout. It is not known for whom it was compiled: it may have been for George...
Dates:
Circa 1794-1801.
Topographical dictionary of Scotland, volume 3: east central Scotland from Fife to Perthshire., Circa 1794-1801.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.1.3
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The localities are listed alphabetically within each county: the counties are arranged topographically. The work appears to have been compiled from the map of Scotland by John Ainslie which was published in 1789 (Adv.MS.20.1.5, folio 94): the list of place-names in Norway is taken from Pontoppidan`s map of 1781. It is in a number of unidentified hands, with numerous deletions and alterations throughout. It is not known for whom it was compiled: it may have been for George...
Dates:
Circa 1794-1801.
Topographical dictionary of Scotland, volume 4: north-east Scotland from Angus to Inverness-shire., Circa 1794-1801.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.20.1.4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The localities are listed alphabetically within each county: the counties are arranged topographically. The work appears to have been compiled from the map of Scotland by John Ainslie which was published in 1789 (Adv.MS.20.1.5, folio 94): the list of place-names in Norway is taken from Pontoppidan`s map of 1781. It is in a number of unidentified hands, with numerous deletions and alterations throughout. It is not known for whom it was compiled: it may have been for George...
Dates:
Circa 1794-1801.
Topographical dictionary of Scotland, volume 5: northern Scotland from Argyll to Orkney and Zetland, followed by Norway., Circa 1794-1801.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.20.1.5
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The localities are listed alphabetically within each county: the counties are arranged topographically. The work appears to have been compiled from the map of Scotland by John Ainslie which was published in 1789 (Adv.MS.20.1.5, folio 94): the list of place-names in Norway is taken from Pontoppidan`s map of 1781. It is in a number of unidentified hands, with numerous deletions and alterations throughout. It is not known for whom it was compiled: it may have been for George...
Dates:
Circa 1794-1801.
Transcript of the final draft of the Highland Society of Scotland Gaelic-English-Latin Dictionary containing words beginning with ‘C’., 19th century.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.13
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
These thick manuscript volumes were written by three clerks (James Connell, Evander McLeod and another) under the supervision of the Reverend Dr John MacLeod of Dundonald. They were part of the final draft of the Highland Society of Scotland Dictionary, and were transcribed between June 1822 and June 1823 from materials prepared by MacLeod and Ewen MacLachlan (see below). Corrections appear in MacLeod’s hand; he complained that it took him two days to correct what his clerks wrote in four...
Dates:
19th century.
Transcript of the final draft of the Highland Society of Scotland Gaelic-English-Latin Dictionary containing words beginning with ‘P’-‘Subhailceachd’., 19th century.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.16
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
These thick manuscript volumes were written by three clerks (James Connell, Evander McLeod and another) under the supervision of the Reverend Dr John MacLeod of Dundonald. They were part of the final draft of the Highland Society of Scotland Dictionary, and were transcribed between June 1822 and June 1823 from materials prepared by MacLeod and Ewen MacLachlan (see below). Corrections appear in MacLeod’s hand; he complained that it took him two days to correct what his clerks wrote in four...
Dates:
19th century.
Transcript of the final draft of the Highland Society of Scotland Gaelic-English-Latin Dictionary containing words beginning with ‘Subhaltach’-‘U’., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.17
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
These thick manuscript volumes were written by three clerks (James Connell, Evander McLeod and another) under the supervision of the Reverend Dr John MacLeod of Dundonald. They were part of the final draft of the Highland Society of Scotland Dictionary, and were transcribed between June 1822 and June 1823 from materials prepared by MacLeod and Ewen MacLachlan (see below). Corrections appear in MacLeod’s hand; he complained that it took him two days to correct what his clerks wrote in four...
Dates:
19th century.
Transcript of the final draft of the Highland Society of Scotland Gaelic-English-Latin Dictionary containing words beginning with‘D’-‘F’., 19th century.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.14
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
These thick manuscript volumes were written by three clerks (James Connell, Evander McLeod and another) under the supervision of the Reverend Dr John MacLeod of Dundonald. They were part of the final draft of the Highland Society of Scotland Dictionary, and were transcribed between June 1822 and June 1823 from materials prepared by MacLeod and Ewen MacLachlan (see below). Corrections appear in MacLeod’s hand; he complained that it took him two days to correct what his clerks wrote in four...
Dates:
19th century.
Word lists and notes for a Gaelic dictionary, ca. 1960s
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Identifier: Acc.13916/17
Scope and Contents
Word lists, partly corrected, and notes on orthography for a Gaelic dictionary, including three sheets of corrections signed by Angus Matheson (d. 1962). With a small notebook of Gaelic words and meanings marked "A-B", and a copy of the Scotsman, Saturday 16 March 1968, containing an article on Scots and Gaelic dictionary work in process.
Dates:
ca. 1960s
Works concerning law compiled by Lord Milton., Early 18th century-mid 18th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17814-17824
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:
Early 18th century-mid 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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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning law .