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:
Illuminated diploma from Edinburgh Association of Science and Arts to D W Kemp.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4781
Dates:
1891.
Illuminated diploma of Angelo Ripanti as a Knight of the Order of St George, Rome., 1603.
Item
Identifier: MS.25249
Lady Lucinda Mackay Archive
Collection
Identifier: MSS.50707-50842
Scope and Contents
This collection reflects the personal life and artistic career of Lady Mackay (b.1941). The papers contain correspondence, sketchbooks and loose artworks, writing drafts and proofs, school records, personal and art-related photographs, family papers, and career-related ephemera.The collection has been arranged into five distinct series as follows:1. Correspondence of Lucinda Mackay (with friends, close acquaintances, painting subjects, patrons, other artists, and...
Dates:
1941-2022
Medical diplomas awarded to John James Graham Brown., 1875, 1878, 1881-1882.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.4338/242-246
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Comprising correspondence and papers of T Graham Brown, concerning mountaineering.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1875, 1878, 1881-1882.
Microfilm of Solemn League and Covenant, 1643; and, copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas conferring titles and Baronetcies, 1554-1707.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.456
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Solemn League and Covenant, printed by Evan Tyler (Edinburgh, 1643), and subscribed in West St. Giles’s, Edinburgh, in October 1643. It has some 750 names, of which two-thirds are actual signatures (Adv.MS.23.3.16);
Copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas conferring titles and Baronetcies, 1554-1707, most of the material being late 17th and early 18th century. Also included are copies of material concerning the Order of the Thistle (Adv.MS.34.6.2).
Dates:
1554-1707.
Miscellaneous items relating to William Soutar, including academic certificates and class cards, unused picture postcards, greetings cards, bookplates and photographic prints., [1943, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.8764(I)
Scope and Contents
The photographic prints would appear to be of family relations of William Soutar.
Dates:
[1943, or before.]
Miscellaneous papers of Esther Barbara Chalmers., Circa 1900-1963.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.8695/109-113
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
This collection, while primarily composed of the letters and papers of Esther Chalmers herself, and reflecting her own life and activities, also reflects those of her family, from her grandparents to her nieces and nephews, and of her friends, both in Britain and abroad. The papers concern mostly her own life and her association with Lucie Dejardin, the Belgian socialist, with papers concerning her kinfolk the Lorimers of Kellie (particularly James Lorimer and J H Lorimer) and her father Sir...
Dates:
Circa 1900-1963.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers, correspondence, cuttings and photographs of Esther Barbara Chalmers and the extended Chalmers and Lorimer families, including research notes and drafts concerning the histories of the families.
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Personal papers and correspondence of Esther Barbara Chalmers, including some of her sisters and friends.
Miscellaneous papers relating to Traill., 1780-1833.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.15374-15377
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
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:
1780-1833.
Notebooks, papers, and diplomas connected with William Edmondstoune Aytoun's membership of the Religious and Military Order of the Temple., Mid 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.4933
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers consist mainly of letters written by authors to Blackwood as their publisher, and by others in search of publication, but they also include some manuscripts and proofs of works considered for publication, together with some papers of William Edmondstoune Aytoun and John Wilson ('Christopher North'). Broadly, this is the incoming correspondence of the firm during the nineteenth century. The outgoing correspondence, so far as it is represented by copies in letter-books, etc.,...
Dates:
Mid 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Letters and papers of William Edmondstoune Aytoun, which, on his death, came into the hands of John Blackwood as his executor.
Papers of Alexander Hunter.
File
Identifier: Acc.9560
Scope and Contents
Includes two diplomas, 1835 and 1844, of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and address, 1861, from friends on Hunter`s leaving Melbourne.
Dates:
1835-1861.
Papers of Lucinda Mackay concerning her education and training at Edinburgh College of Art (University of Edinburgh) (1960-1965); and Central School of Art and Design, London (1973-1974), 1961-2016
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.50821-MS.50827
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:
1961-2016
Papers of Lucinda Mackay relating to her academic education and artistic training, 1961-2016
Series
Identifier: MS.50820-MS.50827
Scope and Contents
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:
1961-2016
Photocopies of miscellaneous papers of David Livingstone., 1840-1857.
File
Identifier: MS.10754
Scope and Contents
The photocopied papers consist of:(i) The oath taken on being admitted to the medical profession, written by David Livingstone, circa 1840;(ii) Certificate of attendance at medical classes in London, 1840;(iii) Livingstone's diploma of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow, 1840;(iv) Livingstone's burgess-tickets of Glasgow, London, and Edinburgh, 1857;(v) An address to Livingstone by the United Presbyterian Presbytery...
Dates:
1840-1857.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters, manuscripts, maps, and other papers of and concerning David Livingstone, being the material formerly stored in the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre, Lanarkshire, and photocopies of material permanently exhibited there.
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Miscellaneous items of and concerning David Livingstone.
Photographic copies of some family papers of Mr and Mrs Thomas Adams, Alloway, relating chiefly to Mrs Adams’ great-great-uncle, the Reverend Donald Stewart (1803-1831).
File
Identifier: MS.14952
Scope and Contents
The Reverend Donald Stewart, a native of the Loch Earn district of Perthshire, was a minister of St Mark’s, Demerara, from his arrival 29 April 1831 to his death seven months later. The contents are as follows.(i) Lease of Lednascriden, Balquhidder, 1776 (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Donald Stewart, Georgetown, 30 April 1831, to his father and brother, both John Stewart, Findglen, Loch Earn. A further letter, dated Georgetown, 2 May 1831, is cross-written on...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1776, 1831, undated
Photographs of family relations of William Soutar, with his educational certificates and miscellaneous ephemera. , [1943, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.8764(I)-(II)
Scope and Contents
The contents relate chiefly to Soutar's educational and family life.
Dates:
[1943, or before.]
Printed diploma in favour of Thomas Sprot, W.S., admitting him to the `Order of the Freedom of the World`, and conferring on him `jus semper edendi, bibendi, ac fumandi in Nostra Societate`.
Item
Identifier: Ch.B.38
Scope and Contents
The diploma includes printed signatures of Thomas Mackenzie, Senator of the College of Justice; of Henry Glassford Bell, Advocate; and of Archibald Broun, Advocate.
Dates:
1856.
Prizes, certificates, degrees and related papers., Undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9533/296-305
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Sir George participated in three major botanical expeditions (to South Africa, 1927-8, East Africa, 1934-5, and Tibet and Bhutan, 1938) which are illustrated in letters, photographs and diaries.Correspondence of special interest includes letters from botanical explorers Frank and Jean Kingdon Ward, George and Betty Sherriff and Frank Ludlow (mostly from Burma, Tibet and Bhutan) and from King Gustav of Sweden and Stanley Smith (the latter discussing the possible foundation of a...
Dates:
Undated.