Journals. Accounts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books containing accounts of an individual's or organization's occurrences or transactions, including records of financial transactions.
Found in 79 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscript account of the Honourable George Francis Stewart Elliot on his visit to Paris during the Armistice of Versailles.
File
Identifier: Acc.14099
Scope and Contents
The file also contains diplomatic passes, notes, press cuttings, and a map of Paris.
Dates:
1871.
Meteorological journal, volume 2, kept in Edinburgh by George Waterston.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10776
Dates:
1809-1816.
Microfilm of ‘Cartae de Cella de Coldingham, in ecclesia Dunelmensi Conservatae’, 1702-1703; and, copy, 1828, of the account, 1568, of the adventures on the coast of Norway of James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.351
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Cartae de Cella de Coldingham, in ecclesia Dunelmensi Conservatae’. An inventory, 1702-1703, of Coldingham Priory compiled by John Smith, prebendary of Durham (Adv.MS.15.1.13);Copy, 1828, of the account of his activities leading to his flight from Scotland in 1567 and his subsequent adventures on the coast of Norway composed by James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, in 1568, whilst he was confined at Copenhagen by order of the King of Denmark....
Dates:
1568, 1702-1703.
Microfilm of ‘Diurnall of the 2d parl: of our Soverainge Lord King Charles from the 15 day of Julay 1641 to ye 27 of November holden at Edinburghe’ by Sir James Balfour.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.541
Dates:
1641.
Microfilm of journal of the Calabar Mission of the United Presbyterian Church, kept by the Reverend Hope M Waddell.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.931
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Journal, volume 1, January-June 1846 (MS.7739);
Journal, volume 7, 1846-1850 (MS.7740);
Journal, volume 8, April 1850-June 1851(MS.7741);
Journal, volume 10, September 1853-July 1855 (MS.7742);
Journal, volume 11, September 1855-September 1856 (MS.7743).
Dates:
1846-1856.
Microfilm of ‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes' collection of Jacobite papers, volume 4.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1679
Dates:
1746-1775.
Microfilm of ‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, volume 2.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.72
Dates:
1746-1775.
Microfilm of ‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes's collection of Jacobite papers, volume 2.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1582
Dates:
1746-1775.
Mimeographed extracts from the "Alexander Graham Bell Home Notes", a household journal.
File
Identifier: Acc.10726
Dates:
1916-1921.
Miscellaneous items.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.12
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Abstract in English of Gerard Goris`s treatise on mercury, ‘Mercurius Triumphator’, probably made from the Leyden edition of 1717. Written in three hands of the early 18th century (folio 1).(ii) `The Dyet of Poland, A Satyr. Lib. J.H. Aug. 27. 1705.` A copy in two hands, of Daniel Defoe`s verse satire, published anonymously in London (with the false imprint `Dantzick`) in 1705 (folio 20). It is followed (folio 41) by a...
Dates:
16th century-18th century.
Miscellaneous papers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Translation, 17th century, of Jan de Laet`s edition of ‘Lexicon Vitruvianum’. The beginning is missing; the text starts at `Abstantia` and breaks off at `Mataxa`. (Folio 1.)(ii) Article attacking the service-book, circa 1638. (Folio 51.)(iii) Manuscript, 1709, of ‘A Letter directed thus, for Mr James Lyon in Kirkwal’ by James Sands. (Folio 72.)(iv) Copy, late 17th century, of George Buchanan`s...
Dates:
?1595-18th century.
Miscellaneous papers of the family of Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10283-10286
Dates:
1653-1804.
Notebook of Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.17
Scope and Contents
(i) Note of decisions (folio 1).(ii) Note of expenses (folio 1 verso).(iii) Note of expenses in London, 1667 (Crawford, page 180) (folio 2).(iv) Note of expenses (folio 3).(v) Journal of travels in England and Scotland, 1667-1670 (Crawford, pages 167-204, omitting folios 39-40) (folios 4-46).(vi) Observations on Public Affairs, 1669-1670 (Crawford, pages 228-236) (folios 46-34).(vii) Accounts, 1670-1671 (Crawford, pages...
Dates:
1667-1676.
Notes and a journal of Alexander Murray concerning the Douglas Cause.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.21
Scope and Contents
Notes, dated 30 November 1762, on the Douglas Cause by Alexander Murray (afterwards Lord Henderland, Senator of the College of Justice) (folio 1), and journal, December 1762-February 1763, of his visit to Paris in connexion with it (folio 1 inverted).
Dates:
1762-1763.
Papers, mostly of Marshall Anderson, from the Attic Archive, Dundee.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 1-Box 51(19)
Scope and Contents
The Attic Archive evolved organically from the activities of Pete Horobin, beginning in 1978. When Horobin's association ended, the archive was continued in turn by Marshall Anderson, Peter Haining and, lastly, aitch. Each change of custody coincided with the start of a new phase of activity, each phase undertaken, usually, over ten years.The papers of the Attic Archive are now dispersed through various cultural institutions, each having a particular association with the archive,...
Dates:
Circa 1980-2010.
Papers of ASH Scotland (Action on Smoking and Health).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12241
Dates:
circa 1980-1989.
Papers of Professor Alexander Campbell Fraser, Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at Edinburgh University.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.208
Dates:
1806-1931, and undated.
Papers of T J Douglas MacDonald (Fionn MacColla), including literary and autobiographical notebooks.
Series
Identifier: Dep.265
Dates:
Circa 1957-1975.
Papers of the Dunbars of Mochrum.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.282
Dates:
1630, 1791, 1798, 1834-1889, early 20th century.
Papers of the Stewart and Christie families, and concerning the Murdostoun estate.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.164- is now Acc.5058.
Dates:
19th century-20th century.
Papers of the Sutherland Estates.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.314
Scope and Contents
This deposit comprises special items from the Sutherland archives as listed in the agreement of 19 March 1978.
Dates:
15th century-1814.
Papers of the Waddell School of Music, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12190
Scope and Contents
Includes programmes, photographs, personal and corporate papers, journals and related ephemera.
Dates:
Late 19th century to late 20th century
Papers of Verney Lovett Cameron.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10120/1-21
Scope and Contents
Includes journals, notebooks and correspondence.
Dates:
1872-1892.
Records of the Edinburgh Highland Reel and Strathspey Society.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13305
Dates:
1881-2011.