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Lectures.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Documents containing the text of expositions of a given subject delivered before an audience or class, especially for the purposes of instruction. (AAT) Use for all lecture texts and students' notes. Index also under the subject of the lecture, and under the names of the lecturer and student where known (but not under the university or other place where the lecture was delivered). (NLS) .

Found in 143 Collections and/or Records:

Lecture of W Hiller, "The History of Polish Emigration in Great Britain".

 File
Identifier: Acc.8559
Scope and Contents

With list of books on the subject.

Dates: 1941.

'Lecture on ragged schools' by Thomas Guthrie.

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Identifier: MS.14236
Scope and Contents

The lecture is preceded (folio 1) by notes of its contents in another hand.

Dates: Mid 19th century.

Lectures and notes by James Moor, Professor of Greek at Glasgow University.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.5.8
Scope and Contents The principal contents are:(i) A lecture on ‘Tabula’ by `Cebes`, delivered to the Glasgow Literary Society on 1 March, 1754, and printed in ‘Essays’, pages 33-123. There is a short gap (corresponding to pages 39-40) between folios 2 and 3. (Folios 1-20.)(ii) A lecture on historical composition, delivered to the Glasgow Literary Society on 6 February, 1752, and printed in ‘Essays’, pages 125-178. The beginning (corresponding to pages 127-132) is missing. (Folios...
Dates: 1749-1765.

Lectures and notes of Charles E Green, the Edinburgh publisher, chiefly on musical, literary or religious themes.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14234-14235
Scope and Contents

The lectures and notes are not in chronological order and only a few record the occasion of delivery.

Dates: 1884-1892, undated.

Lectures and notes of Charles H Morris.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7714
Scope and Contents

Concerning private presses, William Morris and children`s books.

Dates: circa 1957-1962.

Lectures, lecture notes and journals of James Wright and Walter Macleod, ministers of Lauriston Street Original Secession Church, Edinburgh.

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Identifier: MSS.14228-14231
Scope and Contents

For James Wright's career, see David Scott, ‘Annals and statistics of the Original Secession Church’ (Edinburgh, 1886), pages 562-563.

Walter Macleod succeeded Wright in the charge of Lauriston Street Original Secession Church, Edinburgh on the latter's death in 1879.

Dates: 1850-1901.

Lectures on Aristotle delivered by Robert Balfour at the College of Guyenne, Bordeaux.

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Identifier: MS.2236
Scope and Contents The lectures, which are not the same in form as Robert Balfour's printed works, were delivered 'in Gimnasio Aquitanico' (folio 307 verso), and deal with Aristotle's logic in general, and particularly with Porphyry's 'Introduction' (folio 2); 'Categories' (folio 42); 'De Interpretatione' (folio 87); 'Prior Analytics' (folio 109 verso); 'Posterior Analytics' (folio 128); 'Topics' (folio 158); 'Sophistici Elenchi' (folio 176); 'Physics', I-V (folio 185); 'De Coelo', I-II, IV (folio 245); De...
Dates: 1587-1590.

Lectures on criminal law delivered at Edinburgh by Alexander Bayne, Professor of Scotch law at the University of Edinburgh.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.3.12(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents

These lectures of Alexander Bayne’s are a great deal fuller than his ? of discourse ? for the use of students in his class.

Dates: 18th century.

Lectures on Scots Law of Baron David Hume.

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Identifier: Acc.8005
Scope and Contents

Corresponding roughly to the contents of volumes 1, 2 and chapters xiv, xv and xvi of volume 3 in Stair Society edition.

Dates: 1805.

Lectures on Torsellino by Pieter Burman: `Viri eruditissimi Petri Burmanni professoris in Acad. Lugd. Batav. celeberrimi Dictata in Horatii Tursellini Historiarum Epitomen`.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.5.1.4, ... 1-3
Scope and Contents

Pieter Burman the elder was Professor of History, Greek, and Eloquence at Leyden from 1715 to 1741. In these lectures he seems to have used the work of Tursellinus (Orazio Torsellino, 1545-1599; the ‘Historiarum Epitome’ was first published in 1620, and frequently reprinted) as a framework for discourses on universal history. The writer of the dictates is unknown.

Dates: 1st half of 18th century.

'Lectures upon Pharmacy by Wm. Cullen M:D: Edinburgh', undated.

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Identifier: MS.3759
Scope and Contents These lectures do not appear to have been printed in the form in which they exist in this manuscript, nor is there any mention in J Thomson's ‘An account of the life, lectures, and writings, of William Cullen, M.D.’ that Cullen undertook a course of this kind. In addition it is not clear what relationship these lectures have with those which Cullen gave on Materia Medica, or with the ‘Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia’ of 1774, in whose publication Cullen took a principal part.The lectures...
Dates: Mid 18th century-late 18th century.

Literary correspondence and papers of Mollie Hunter.

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Identifier: Acc.11993
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts of novels, short stories and non-fiction, research notes, lectures and reviews.

Dates: 1958-2000.

Literary papers, a political notebook and letters of Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, Politician and Author [1845-1937]. With three letters to Gavin Maxwell.

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Identifier: Acc.13262
Scope and Contents

The main interest of the papers lies in the manuscripts and proofs of some of Sir Herbert’s many literary works including `Robert the Bruce and the Struggle for Scottish Independence`, 1897, `The Chevalier of the Splendid Crest`, 1900, `A Century of Empire, 1801-1900`, 1909, `Inter-alia : A Scottish Calendar of Crime and other historical essays`, 1924, and `Evening Memories`, 1932.

Dates: 1884-1937, 1945, undated