Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Physical or digital representations of a body of information designed with the capacity to communicate. In its broadest sense, ""documents"" include any item amenable to cataloging and indexing, that is, including nonprint media. For the activity of gathering and recording information, see ""documentation (function)""For specfic types of documents, see concepts under ""document genres."".
Found in 242 Collections and/or Records:
Microfilm of geographical work of John Pinkerton and correspondence of the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, and of Andrew Stuart.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.779
Dates:
[?1689]-early 19th century.
Microfilm of heraldic and genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.26
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Breviat of the genealogie of the honourable surname of the Lesleyes, Earls of Rothes, sinc ther first arrivall in Scotland to thir dayes, collected out of ancient evidences, manuscripts and histories of the tymes, togither with some of ther cadents’, 17th century, attributed to Sir James Balfour of Denmill, Lyon (Adv.MS.17.2.4); Gordons of Craichlaw (Adv.MS.27.5.28);Letters, 1618-1712, to members of the Oswald family of Fingaltoun. Some...
Dates:
Late 16th century- early 19th century.
Microfilm of heraldic material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.27
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Collection of illuminate arms’, 1794, by Etherington Martyn, in 2 volumes, containing watercolour paintings of Scottish, English and a few foreign arms. (Adv.MS.31.4.1-2);
‘Original institutions of the princely orders of collars’ by Sir William Segar, 1603, or after (Adv.MS.31.4.5);Copies by John Wither, 1623, of English rolls of arms, mostly from ‘an auntient booke of Armes which Mr Glover Somerset the Harald had of Mr Joseph Holland in...
Dates:
1st half of 16th century-1794.
Microfilm of historical and genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.25
Dates:
1563-1st half of 18th century.
Microfilm of Industrial Revolution: a documentary history. Series 2. Papers of John Rennie, Thomas Telford and related figures, from the National Library of Scotland. Parts 1-2 (Adam Matthew, 2003).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1398-1437
Dates:
[?2nd half of 18th century-?early 20th century.]
Microfilm of lectures and other papers of William Edmondstoune Aytoun.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.941-944
Dates:
1827-[1865].
Microfilm of letter book and papers of Robert Pitcairn, Solicitor, Hobart Town, Van Diemens Land.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2029-2030
Dates:
[?Circa 1812-?1883.]
Microfilm of letter books, registers and orders and memoranda, from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1058-1060
Dates:
1842-[1847, or after].
Microfilm of letters and documents concerning the synods of the French reformed church, and chiefly the controversies over unity amongst the Protestant Churches.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1150
Dates:
1604-1614.
Microfilm of letters and documents concerning 'The works of Jonathan Swift’ by Sir Walter Scott.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.868
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Letters, 1808-1817, of the Reverend Edward Berwick, Matthew Weld Hartstonge, Theophilus Swift, and others, concerning Sir Walter Scott’s ‘Life and works of Jonathan Swift’ (MS.881);
'Cursory Remarks' by Theophilus Swift and other material, supplied by Matthew Weld Hartstonge and others, concerning Sir Walter Scott’s ‘Life and works of Jonathan Swift’, 1808-1817 (MS.882).
Dates:
1808-1817.
Microfilm of letters and enclosures from the Governors of Madras to the 1st Earl of Minto and the Bengal Government.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.401
Dates:
1806-1814.
Microfilm of letters and other papers, of, amongst others, David Hume and Scottish clubs, of the 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.170
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Letter, 1757, of David Hume to Charles Binning, Vice-Dean of the faculty of Advocates, resigning the Curatorship of the Advocates’ Library (Adv.MS.20.2.21);
Minutes, 1754-1762, of the Select Society of Edinburgh (Adv.MS.23.1.1);A brief account of the formation of the Belles-Lettres Society, Edinburgh, in January 1759 (folio 1) and minutes of its meetings until 29 May 1761 (Adv.MS.23.3.4);Copy of `An Account of the Number of People in...
Dates:
18th century.
Microfilm of letters and other papers of George Combe (1788-1858), lawyer, phrenologist and educationist.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.968
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Drafts of letters, 1820-1834 (MS.7377);Letter copy book, 1824-1837, used while in England and Germany (MS.7394);Letter copy book, 1841-1844, used while in Germany and Edinburgh (MS.7398);Phrenological notebook, [circa 1810] (MS.7401);Diary, 1811-1815 (MS.7402);Papers, 1805-1845 (MS.7436, folios 70-76).The dates are taken from the records for the original documents and might not be the...
Dates:
1805-1845.
Microfilm of letters and other papers of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh Carlyle.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.419
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Letters, [1823-1875], of Thomas Carlyle to various persons, with some written to him (MS.1796);Letters, [1833-1868], of Jane Welsh Carlyle to various persons, with some of Geraldine Jewsbury to Lady Amberley and of Margaret Welsh and Dr John Aitken Carlyle to William and Mrs Dods (MS.1797);Articles, notes, and fragments, 1767, [1832-?1871], in Thomas Carlyle’s autograph (MS.1798);‘Thomas Carlyle, Eine biographisch-literarische...
Dates:
1767-[1875].
Microfilm of letters and papers chiefly addressed to Sir Edward Hoby, the diplomatist and controversialist.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1003
Dates:
1550-1683.
Microfilm of letters and papers of Alexander Robertson of Strowan, the Jacobite.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.195
Dates:
1689-1745.
Microfilm of letters and papers of Thomas Borthwick concerning the Greenock Articulation School for deaf children, of which Borthwick was Secretary.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1715
Dates:
[?1877-?1885.]
Microfilm of letters and papers of, to, and concerning James Augustus Grant and family.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.517-518
Dates:
[?1821-?1908.]
Microfilm of letters, chiefly of Sir Douglas Haig, and other papers.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1157
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copies of letters, 1914-1917, of Sir Douglas Haig to Rothschild (Acc.3155/214(a));
Letters, 1914-1922, of Sir Douglas Haig to his brother John A Haig (Acc.3155/214(b));
Letters, 1898, of and to Sir Evelyn Wood, and other papers (Acc.3155/6(g));
Report, 1908, on a conference of General Staff Officer (Acc.3155/81 (part)).
Dates:
1898-1922.
Microfilm of letters of and to Sir Alexander Ball, governor of Malta.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2051-2052
Dates:
1803-1807.
Microfilm of literary papers of John Ramsay of Ochtertyre.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1842
Dates:
4th quarter of 18th century.
Microfilm of Livingstonia Mission Archives (1874-1934). Reels 1-7 (Adam Matthew Publications).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1993-1998
Scope and Contents
The microfilms in this series have been described to a basic standard.
The dates are taken from the records for the original documents and might not be the specific dates of the documents on each microfilm.
Dates:
1874-1934.
Microfilm of Livingstonia Mission Archives (1874-1934). Reels 8-28 (Adam Matthew Publications).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2003-2023
Scope and Contents
The microfilms in this series have been described to a basic standard.
The dates are taken from the records for the original documents and might not be the specific dates of the documents on each microfilm.
Dates:
[?1874-?1934.]
Microfilm of manuscript of `Etymologiae` by Isidore of Seville.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.374
Dates:
12th century.
Microfilm of manuscript of 'Regole della fortificatione' by Giulio Savorgnano, with many illustrations.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1383
Dates:
16th century.