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Diplomas. School records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Formal documents conferring some honor, degree, or privilege, especially those bearing record of graduation from or a degree conferred by an educational institution.

Found in 68 Collections and/or Records:

Diploma of doctor of medicine awarded to Robert Moubray by the University of Saint Andrews., 14 July 1777.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.12996
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Comprised of: title deeds to their various estates and other properties in Fife and elsewhere (Ch.12871-12978), burgess tickets (Ch.12979-12984), military commissions (Ch.12985-12993) and other documents (Ch.12994-1296) relating to various members of the family, and a few apparently unrelated documents. An inventory, listing each document individually, is available.

Dates: 14 July 1777.

Diploma of the Royal Company of Archers in favour of Sir John J Scott-Douglas., 1825.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.7661
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Formal documents from the papers of the Douglas family of Springwood Park. They consist mostly of marriage-contracts, certificates and military commissions of members of the family, but also include a few documents relating to the family estates.

Dates: 1825.

Diploma of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts in favour of Sir George H Scott-Douglas., 1854.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.7665
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Formal documents from the papers of the Douglas family of Springwood Park. They consist mostly of marriage-contracts, certificates and military commissions of members of the family, but also include a few documents relating to the family estates.

Dates: 1854.

Diploma of the University of St Andrews conferring on Lord Kingsburgh the Degree of Doctor of Laws., 1911.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.B.1350
Scope and Contents

The diploma has been signed by the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University, Sir James Donaldson; by the Principal of St Mary`s College, Alexander Stewart; by the Principal of University College, Dundee, John Yule Mackay; by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Peter Redford Scott Lang; and by sixteen professors.

Dates: 1911.

Diplomas and plans of A E Borthwick and family., 1791-1952.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.10489-10491
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...
Dates: 1791-1952.

Diplomas of Archibald Gordon.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6311
Scope and Contents

With photographs of the Gordon pedigree.

Dates: 1832-1837.

Diplomas of learned bodies, 1814-1846, burgess-ticket of Edinburgh, 1815, and commission as Inspector of Factories, 1833, bestowed on Leonard Horner.

 File
Identifier: Ch.934-942
Scope and Contents

Included is a copy of a deed of sale of pictures, executed by Sir Thomas Hanmer, Baronet, of Hanmer and Mildenhall, Speaker of the House of Commons, endorsed, apparently, in Hanmer`s hand, 1718 (Ch.942).

Dates: 1718, 1814-1833.

Family papers, including correspondence, genealogies and inventories of documents, some concerning business of George Skene in Danzig, Poland., 1597-1709.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12092/5
Scope and Contents Contains: 85. Summons at the instance of James Murray of Halzardis against his tenants of Halkernis and Toddis hauch for nonpayment of rent - Joseph Dowglas in Halkernis and Elizabeth Thomesoun his spouse, Alexander Mathy there, John Wilsoun there, James Sammell there, John Bell in Halbernis, Marioun Dicksoun, Thomas Tait in Halbernis, James Zoung in Toddishauch and Margaret Polwarth, James Wast her son and James Zoung her spouse. Edinburgh, 24 March 1597.[On an attached sheet is...
Dates: 1597-1709.

Fine Art Degree Certificate, 1965

 File
Identifier: MS.50824
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series documents Lucinda Mackay's early education in Switzerland at the Châtelard School, Les Avants (1954-1958), and her subsequent education and training at Edinburgh College of Art (University of Edinburgh) (1960-1965) and the Central School of Art and Design, London (1973-1974).

Dates: 1965

Five leaves from an illuminated copy, dated 1665, of the diploma awarded by the University of Padua in 1658 to Jacobus Pasquali on his graduation as Doctor of Laws., 1658, 1665.

 Item
Identifier: MS.7148
Scope and Contents The diploma is signed by Antonius Paulutius, Vicar General to the Bishop of Padua, and attested, 1665, by Aloysius Baratti, Protonotary Apostolic and chancellor of the diocese. The designer's name is in the bottom margin of folio 5. At folio 1 verso is a portrait of the recipient in his nineteenth year, enclosed in an oval frame and surrounded by drawings in full colour of flowers and leaves and of a peacock. The surviving parts of the text are enclosed by wide borders containing ribbons,...
Dates: 1658, 1665.

Formal documents from the papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.15348-15377
Scope and Contents

These documents relate to Professor Traill`s family the Traills of Tirlot in Orkney, his daughter`s family, the Omonds, and the Grahams of Breckness and Gorthie.

Dates: 1645-1897, undated.

Further papers and photographs of William Winter Hamilton.

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14270/1-4
Scope and Contents

Personal memorabilia and photographs of William W Hamilton, relating to his education at Sheffield University, 1936-1941, and political career.

Dates: 1936-1989.