Inventories.
Subject
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Scope Note: Detailed lists of things in one's view or possession, as of all goods and materials on hand, or detailed lists of all items in a given category. For documentation of examination conducted to achieve a comprehensive view, use ""surveys"". .
Found in 496 Collections and/or Records:
Testament testamentar and inventory of Alexander Home of Renton (d August 1619)., 3 December 1621.
Item
Identifier: Ch.14416
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
His widow, Margaret Cockburne, later married Sir William Graham of Braco and then Sir Andrew Fletcher.
Dates:
3 December 1621.
Testament testamentar and inventory of Mrs Catharine Forrester, daughter of Sir Andrew Forrester, deputy secretary for Scotland., 18 April 1733.
Item
Identifier: Ch.14603
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer purchased Saltoun and Glencorse in 1642; Glencorse was sold in 1647. The documents concern both the estate and individual members of the family.
Dates:
18 April 1733.
Three small groups of private letters and related material.
Series
Identifier: MS.6294
Dates:
1795-1855, undated.
Tour journals: two of Emily Jackson and Ina Jackson of their tour in the Eastern United States and Canada, 1884; and, two of John Jackson and Emily Jackson of their tour in Italy, 1891-1892.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.23625-23628
Scope and Contents
Emily Jackson`s journal of her tour in Italy includes an account of a holiday in Kilmorack, Inverness-shire, Scotland, in 1887.
Dates:
1884-1892.
Transcript by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1824, of the late 15th-16th-century cartulary of the cathedral of Aberdeen known as ‘Registrum Capellanorum Chori’ (‘Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain’, number 1112), which is kept at Aberdeen University Library., Late 15th century-16th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.3.1
Scope and Contents
The transcript is followed by: (i) copies by Hutton on leaves watermarked 1818 and 1819 of various leaves of the cartulary (folios 475, 519); (ii) Hutton’s transcript on leaves watermarked 1818 of the Inventory of the cathedral, 1549, which is printed in ‘Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis’, volume i, pages 179-199 (folio 487); (iii) transcripts (one in another hand) of two charters, 1492, 1499, of William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen (folio 521);...
Dates:
Late 15th century-16th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Hutton transcripts. A collection of transcripts of the cartularies of Aberdeen Cathedral (Adv.MS.20.3.1) and Newbattle Abbey (Adv.MS.20.3.3) and of charters and other formal documents, many of which are extracts from other cartularies, of and concerning several of the medieval dioceses and religious houses of Scotland.
Transcription, circa 1894, of the minute books of the Edinburgh Skating Club, 1784-1893., 1784-1893.
File
Identifier: MS.24643
Scope and Contents
A copy of the membership list follows the transcription (folios 141-148), with later additions up to the elections of 1939 (folio 148), and Directions and Inventory copied from the Minute Book for 1784-1888. Miscellaneous verses are transcribed from both original books at folios 158-172.
Dates:
1784-1893.
Transcripts made in the early nineteenth century (see watermarks) of Mey and Tarbat charters and inventories, titled 'Cartularium Eccles. Cathedral. Rossensis'.
File
Identifier: MS.1018
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Excerpts from an inventory dated 1641 of charters then in the House of Mey and from other inventories of charters covering the period 1464-1637, relating to the Sinclairs of Mey and to neighbouring lands (folio 1), with notes regarding rights of Sir George Mackenzie of Tarbat, 1666, and a testimonial regarding Tarrell, 1382 (folio 13); (ii) Copies of charters in Tarbat House, 1457-1642, undated.
Dates:
1382-1642, undated.
Transcripts of interviews recorded for the BBC television series, 'Writing Scotland', made by Hopscotch Film Productions.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13095/1-54
Dates:
2003-2004.
Two copies, one manuscript and one typescript, of the inventory of the lantern slides made to accompany certain lectures by William Kirk Dickson on the history of manuscripts and early printed books; with a further list of the slides prepared by the National Library of Scotland., 1937.
File
Identifier: MS.2979K
Scope and Contents
Manuscript inventory, 'List of lantern slides'(folio 1).Typescript, 'List of lantern slides' [with manuscript annotation] 'Presented to the National Library of Scotland by W K Dickson 2 Feb. 1937' (folio 29).Envelope in which the inventories were originally held, annotated on the front by W K Dickson: 'Lectures. Lists of slides, notes and sundries' (folio 60).Notes on omissions from the slides (folio 61).List in manuscript, produced by the...
Dates:
1937.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Typescript, 'The Rhind Lectures. The Development of Writing and Printing in Western Europe', by William Kirk Dickson; with accompanying lantern slides, glass negatives and inventories of the slides.
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Lantern slides, the glass negatives of the lantern slides and two inventories of the contents of the slides to accompany the Rhind Lectures, 'The Development of Writing and Printing in Western Europe', written and delivered by William Kirk Dickson.
Two letters of John Allen to John Clerk, 1806, and to James Gibson Craig, [?1827], on political changes; inventory of thirteen manuscripts of Sir Walter Scott, deposited in 1827 by J T Gibson-Craig, Writer to the Signet, on behalf of Archibald Constable, with Thomas Thomson, advocate, till their ownership be determined; and a letter from London, 1831, chiefly concerning the charters of the National and Commercial Banks, but also including a note of the sale of the above manuscripts., 1806-1831.
File
Identifier: MS.20767, folios 217-227
Dates:
1806-1831.
Typescript copy of the Inventory of Writs and Title-Deeds relating to the lands of Mount, Cupar, Fife, with genealogical and other notes and four pedigrees by Douglas Hamer, University of Sheffield, based on the original documents.
File
Identifier: MS.1678
Dates:
1714-1745.
Typescript of an 'Inventory of the papers of the family of Lawson of Cairnmuir, presented to H.M. General Register House ... by James Lawson ... Brooklyn, Wellington, New Zealand', compiled by the Keeper of Registers and Records, 1938.
Item
Identifier: MS.3001
Scope and Contents
The papers, the contents of which are summarized, consist of writs relating to the lands of Cairnmuir, 1423-1700 (folio 1), Netherurd, 1399-1744 (folio 11), and Bryandland, 1438-1742 (folio 23), and miscellaneous papers, 1670-1899, undated (folio 26).
Dates:
1399-1899, undated.
Typescript, 'The Rhind Lectures. The Development of Writing and Printing in Western Europe', by William Kirk Dickson; with accompanying lantern slides, glass negatives and inventories of the slides.
Series
Identifier: MS.2979A-K
Dates:
1909-1937.
Typescripts of correspondence, 1782-1811, undated, of James Grahame; with other papers, 16th century-19th century, of the Grahame family., 16th century-19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.20768, folios 109-134
Dates:
16th century-19th century.
Various finding aids relating to the papers of General Sir George Murray, with a report on the collection., 1st half of 20th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.9.23
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:
List of printed books in the collection which have been transferred to the Department of Printed Books (folio 1).
List of non-manuscript maps which have been transferred to the Map Room (folio 4).
Report on the collection by Robert Young, 1914 (folio 17).
Inventory of Murray’s private papers, 1907, including many not in the National Library of Scotland (folio 56).
Dates:
1st half of 20th century.
Volume containing genealogical and other notes in a number of early 18th-century hands.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.3
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) a chronological list of hereditary and other offices under the Great Seal, and the names of those to whom they were granted, from 1499 to 1650 (folio 1);(ii) an inventory of the writs of the lands and barony of Tulliallan arranged chronologically from 1402 to 1536 (folio 25 verso);(iii) notes from writs then in the possession of David Erskine concerning the Earls of Countesses of Buchan and some other peers...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Volume containing notes from the inventory of writs compiled about 1700 of lands belonging to the family of Fleming, Earls of Wigtown (folio 3) and to the family of Fleming of Bord (folio 18) made by James Dennistoun for a projected history of Dumbartonshire, in order to illustrate the pedigree of the Flemings and their estates in the county., 1841.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.22
Scope and Contents
Only a few leaves have been used: folios 15-17 and all after folio 18 are blank.
Dates:
1841.
Volume I of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'., 1830.
File
Identifier: MS.2129
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Dates:
1830.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'.
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Volumes I-X of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'.
Warrants, military papers, letters and inventories of the Earls of Callendar and Linlithgow, and of the family of Forbes of Callendar., 1613-1859, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.9639
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Warrants, etc., 1627-1689, of the Privy Council, chiefly to George, 3rd Earl of Linlithgow; and act of the Committee of Excise and Militia in Nithsdale, 1680 (folio 1);(ii) Miscellaneous military papers, 1644-1677, chiefly concerning the 3rd Earl of Linlithgow; receipts for military supplies, 1647-1688; and miscellaneous papers, 1677-1680, undated, concerning covenanters and conventicles (folio 26);(iii) Letters, 1613-1711,...
Dates:
1613-1859, undated.
Waterston family papers., 1759-1992, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12235/425-468
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
The business records, 1768-2002, of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd, Edinburgh, specialist printers, manufacturing and retail stationers, and sealing wax manufacturers. The papers also include material relating more particularly to the Waterston family.In addition to business records, the collection includes papers relating to the Waterston family or to the history of the business collected by various family directors, series of family and business photographs, sample specimens of...
Dates:
1759-1992, undated.
Yester household inventory., 1764.
Item
Identifier: MS.14553
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates:
1764.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of the Hays of Yester on special subjects.
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Papers chiefly concerning building at Yester House and Tweeddale Court (Edinburgh), and various household inventories.