Exercises.
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of twenty-one documents relating to the Stuart family and the French royal family.
Compositions of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Ewing, author of ‘Jerusalem the Golden’, consisting of part-songs, anthems, exercises for the choir, and solos.
The lyrics of some of the pieces were written by the composer's wife, Juliana Horatia Ewing.
Exercises in Latin translation by Patrick Anderson.
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.
‘Exercitationes Physicae’.
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.
`Fondament van de Geometry`, a practical treatise with propositions and proofs from Euclid.
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.
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).
Manuscript music-book, containing ballads, dances, and pianoforte pieces, hymns, and vocal exercises and scales.
Manuscripts from Perth Academy containing notes and exercises in mathematics, astronomy and physics.
All three volumes are illustrated with pen and wash diagrams and sketches.
MS.14296 is initialled ‘I M’ by the compiler (folio 91).
Microfilm of diaries and musical compositions of Dr T H Collinson, Organist and Choirmaster of St. Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh.
Microfilm of lectures of William Edmondstoune Aytoun, and some related papers.
The contents are as follows:
Introductory lectures, 1856-1864, of William Edmondstoune Aytoun: a series of lectures opening Aytoun's yearly courses (MS.4897);
Miscellaneous lectures, [1845-1865], of William Edmondstoune Aytoun (MS.4912);
Examination papers and class lists, [?1852-?1870], of William Edmondstoune Aytoun (MS.4913);
Exercises, [?1863-?1864], of William Edmondstoune Aytoun’s students (MS.4914).
Music book of Henrietta Dundas Dalrymple Hamilton, daughter of Sir Hew, 4th Baronet of Bargany, later the Duchesse de Coigny.
The music book is dated 1816 on folio i. It contains, at the front, dance tunes and other pieces, and at the back, a beginner's musical exercises in pencil, followed by further compositions. The lower part of folio 11 has been cut out, and leaves have been torn out after folio 12 and folio 5 inverted.
Music books and papers of Robert Moir (died 1869), who was President of the Edinburgh Church-Music Society and subsequently Conductor of Music at St Magnus' Cathedral, Kirkwall.
Notebook of Robert Jackson, a schoolboy, consisting chiefly of geometrical rules, exercises, and diagrams; followed by some more general mathematical notes, and some punitive 'lines'.
Notebook ruled for cash, which was used for legal notes, elementary French exercises and as a commonplace book (folios 2-12, 1-34 verso inverted). The entries, the latest of which is dated 1739, are written mostly in Byrom`s system of shorthand, which was not published until 1767.
The owner, who remains unidentified, was a young man, probably of wealthy family, studying law, possibly at one of the Inns of Court in London. Pages have been torn out after folios 11, 12 and 13 inverted; folios 30-34 are written sideways. The volume, which was received without the original covers, was unintentionally rebound upside-down, and incorrectly labelled on the spine ‘French Commonplace Book’.
Notes and exercises in mathematics, mechanics and dynamics by Duncan Turner, Garnethill, a student at Glasgow University from 1840-1844, who later became minister of Tealing Free Church.
Papers of Lady Evelyn Stewart-Murray (1868-1940).
Papers of Thomas H Collinson, organist of St Mary's (Episcopal) Cathedral and conductor of the Edinburgh Royal Choral Union.
‘Practical mathematics, vol. 1', containing problems on measuring heights, distances and areas, on surveying (with examples from the North and South Inch at Perth), and on levelling.
There are numerous watercolour vignettes illustrating the problems. The paper is watermarked 1804.