Exercises.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Examples, either recorded or demonstrated directly, from particular disciplines intended to be used to advance the development of practitioners in the discipline through repetition or analysis.
Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:
Academic and literary papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun., 17th century-1843.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17784-17806
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-1843.
Collection of twenty-one documents relating to the Stuart family and the French royal family.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.368
Dates:
1543-19th century.
Commonplace book of Alexander Keith of Ravelston, (died 1751), but written in more than one hand., 1684-?1688.
Item
Identifier: MS.21186
Scope and Contents
The commonplace book contains Latin poetry (including extracts from Horace, Virgil and Juvenal), songs, prose and exercises; astronomical, navigational, and mathematical notes and exercises, with some diagrams and tables; notes on the art of gunnery; some common psalm tunes; prayers; English proverbs, verse and poetry; extracts from a guide to the education of children and youth; instructions concerning card tricks; some verse attributed to the 1st Marquis of Montrose and notes on his role...
Dates:
1684-?1688.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, legal, miscellaneous, and estate papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre, Baronets, and their relations by marriage the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
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Papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
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Miscellaneous papers of, and concerning, the Keith family.
Compositions of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Ewing, author of ‘Jerusalem the Golden’., 1860-1876, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1785
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The lyrics of some of the pieces were written by the composer's wife, Juliana Horatia Ewing.
Dates:
1860-1876, undated.
Compositions of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Ewing, author of ‘Jerusalem the Golden’., 1866, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1786
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The lyrics of some of the pieces were written by the composer's wife, Juliana Horatia Ewing.
Dates:
1866, undated.
Compositions of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Ewing, author of ‘Jerusalem the Golden’, consisting of part-songs, anthems, exercises for the choir, and solos.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1785-1786
Scope and Contents
The lyrics of some of the pieces were written by the composer's wife, Juliana Horatia Ewing.
Dates:
1860-1876, undated.
Educational, literary, cultural and miscellaneous papers of the Chalmers family of Auldbar., 1637, 1675-1694, 1714-1867.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15508-15518
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Auldbar was bought in 1753 by William Chalmers, a Gibraltar merchant whose family had owned land in Aberdeenshire, at Federate and Hazlehead. His father and brother were physicians in Aberdeen, and the papers as arranged below begin with medical records of these men. An important section concerns the trade and administration of Gibraltar in the second quarter of the 18th century, and there is also much mercantile correspondence of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As with the rest of this...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1637, 1675-1694, 1714-1867.
Essays and dictation exercises written by James Leslie Mitchell when he was a schoolboy at Arbuthnott., 1913-1914, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26105-26107
Essays and dictation exercises written by James Leslie Mitchell when he was a schoolboy at Arbuthnott., 1913-February 1914.
File
Identifier: MS.26105
Dates:
1913-February 1914.
Essays and dictation exercises written by James Leslie Mitchell when he was a schoolboy at Arbuthnott., March-July 1914.
File
Identifier: MS.26106
Dates:
March-July 1914.
Essays and dictation exercises written by James Leslie Mitchell when he was a schoolboy at Arbuthnott., September-December 1914, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26107
Dates:
September-December 1914, undated.
Exercises in Latin translation by Patrick Anderson.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.7.4
Scope and Contents
The exercises are followed (folio 7 verso) by notes by Thomas Ruddiman on the sale of his second edition of ‘Rudiments of the Latin Tongue’, a related account, and notes of books lent out by Ruddiman.
Dates:
1709.
Exercises in Polish from ‘New Polish grammar’ by J A Teslar and notes on Czech and Polish literature., [1942, or after-before 1962.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15833
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the notebooks contain notes on a variety of subjects, only the more important of which are mentioned in descriptions.
Dates:
[1942, or after-before 1962.]
Exercises of John Purves on ‘Italian grammar’ by C H Grandgent., Early 20th century-[before 1962.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15648
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the notebooks contain notes on a variety of subjects, only the more important of which are mentioned in descriptions.
Dates:
Early 20th century-[before 1962.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
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Notebooks of John Purves containing notes on Italian language.
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Exercises, undated, of John Purves on ‘Italian grammar’ by C H Grandgent.
Exercises of John Purves on ‘Italian grammar’ by C H Grandgent., Early 20th century-[before 1962.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15649
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the notebooks contain notes on a variety of subjects, only the more important of which are mentioned in descriptions.
Dates:
Early 20th century-[before 1962.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
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Notebooks of John Purves containing notes on Italian language.
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Exercises, undated, of John Purves on ‘Italian grammar’ by C H Grandgent.
Exercises of William Edmondstoune Aytoun’s students., 1863-1864, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.4914
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Eight exercises by William Edmondstoune Aytoun's students, some with Aytoun's comments, 1864, undated (folio 1).
(ii) Manuscript of a poem, 'To God', with a covering letter sent to William Edmondstoune Aytoun by John Regan, 1863 (folio 33).
Dates:
1863-1864, undated.
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.
Exercises, undated, of John Purves on ‘Italian grammar’ by C H Grandgent., Early 20th century-[before 1962.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.15648-15649
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the notebooks contain notes on a variety of subjects, only the more important of which are mentioned in descriptions.
Dates:
Early 20th century-[before 1962.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
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Notebooks of John Purves containing notes on Italian language.
‘Exercitationes Physicae’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.7
Scope and Contents
The work consists of an introduction and four `exercitationes` divided into chapters. Mention is made of authors such as Gerard Vossius, Descartes and Gassendi. There are a few diagrams dealing with astronomy. The work is followed (folio 131) by theological notes in English and Latin, including part of an attack on the philosophy of Descartes.
Dates:
17th century.
Folder of mathematical notes and exercises., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.7617/60
`Fondament van de Geometry`, a practical treatise with propositions and proofs from Euclid.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.7
Scope and Contents
The text is followed (folio 43) by remarks on surveying. The inverted folios contain mathematical and geometrical problems.
The front cover has the letters A O and the date 1705.
Dates:
18th century.
Interleaved copy of ‘Fabularum aesopicarum delectus, cum Rogeri L'Estrange, equitis, interpretatione Anglica, necnon Latina variorum, Horatii, Phaedri, Faerni, &c. In usum studiosae juventutis Academiae Edinensis’ (Edinburgi, apud Jacobum Watson, MDCCX) with manuscript annotations of the first half of the eighteenth century on the interleaves., 1st half of 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.16484
Scope and Contents
The annotations consist of:
(i) Parsing, translation and etymology (all in Latin) of words from the Greek text of fables 1-34, almost identical with the corresponding part of MS.16485 (folios 1-23);
(ii) A writing exercise (folio 24);
(iii) Latin translations of fables 35-36, 38 (folios 24 verso, 27);
(iv) Lists of the sons of Sir James Grant of Grant, the children of Sir James Colquhoun of Luss, and the daughters of Sir James Grant of Grant (folio 26 recto and verso);
(v) A Latin version...
Dates:
1st half of 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript annotations of the first half of the eighteenth century on interleaved copies of ‘Fabularum aesopicarum delectus, cum Rogeri L'Estrange, equitis, interpretatione Anglica, necnon Latina variorum, Horatii, Phaedri, Faerni, &c. In usum studiosae juventutis Academiae Edinensis’ (Edinburgi, apud Jacobum Watson, MDCCX).
Latin and Greek prose exercises., 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.17785
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.
Latin prose exercises., 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.17786
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.
Letters and exercises of, to, and for the children, and some of the grandchildren, of the 2nd Earl and Countess of Minto., [Circa 1805], 1828-1853, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.11788
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Family and general correspondence of the 2nd Earl and Countess of Minto, 1789-1859, with a few associated letters of later date.
Dates:
[Circa 1805], 1828-1853, undated.
Letters and papers of and concerning the 1st Earl of Minto and the 2nd Earl of Minto., 1787-1803.
File
Identifier: MS.11092
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Letters and exercises of the 1st Earl's children to their parents, 1787-1803 (folio 1); (ii) Letters of the children's tutors, William Somerville at Minto and James Reed at Eton, to the 1st Earl and Countess of Minto, 1791, 1797 (folio 126); (iii) A Latin prose composition by the 2nd Earl of Minto, 1799, and essays composed by him at Vienna in 1800 (folio 170).
Dates:
1787-1803.