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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Transcribed collections of numbers, names, or other text indicating tallies of concepts collocated for any particular purpose.

Found in 1665 Collections and/or Records:

State books of the Free Church of Scotland containing lists of contributions to missions (in the widest sense)., 1844-1900.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.18269-18323
Scope and Contents

MS.18269 has only congregational lists (arranged by presbyteries), the remainder congregational lists preceded by individual lists (arranged alphabetically).

Dates: 1844-1900.

State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 13: papers., ?1639-1641, undated.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 [xiii]
Scope and Contents

Documents concerning political events, especially the Scots army at Newcastle and affairs in the English Parliament. Some printed ballads and letters to Sir James Balfour are included.

Dates: ?1639-1641, undated.

State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volumes 1-13: letters and papers on various topics., 1560-1641, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 (i)-(xiii)
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.

Dates: 1560-1641, undated.

Statistics and information concerning the inhabitants of Newfoundland and the development of its agriculture and fisheries., 1804-1810, 1826-1834.

 File
Identifier: MS.2351
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates: 1804-1810, 1826-1834.

Student's notes of lectures on Government given by Professor John Millar., 1780-1781.

 File
Identifier: MS.3931
Scope and Contents

The student notes are preceded by a printed title page, ‘A Course of Lectures on Government; given annually in the University, Glasgow, 1778', with an analytical list of the lectures.

Dates: 1780-1781.

Style-book of Senior William Steuart of Castlemilk, inscribed on the flyleaf, 'This styll Book was begun be Sr. Wm. Steuart of Castlemilk ye 6th of March 1690'., 1690.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5343
Scope and Contents

On folio 2 is a short poem. The styles occupy folios 3-9. On folios 10-15, written in an eighteenth century hand, is a list of books in Latin, French and English, on literature, agriculture, philosophy, divinity and law. The remaining folios are blank.

Dates: 1690.

Subject and people lists (M-Z), for 'Chambers Biographical Dictionary'., 1988-1990.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/24
Scope and Contents From the Series: Most, but not all, of Magnusson's published works are represented. Also included here are the translations that Magnusson undertook on the work of the Icelandic author and Nobel prize winning novelist Halldór Laxness (1902-1998). Material relating to Magnusson's book on Mastermind "I've started so I'll finish" can be found in the Mastermind section.The material includes correspondence relating to book proposals, research notes compiled by Magnusson while working on his books, and...
Dates: 1988-1990.

Succession of the dukes of Normandy and kings of England from 874 to 1307.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.9(viii), folio 60 verso
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Sections iv-vii are in the same hand. Folios 33 verso-34 verso are blank. There are a few pen drawings of faces in the margins.

Fragments of a 13th-century contents list from a collection of sermons have been used as binding strips; other fragments from the same source are in Adv.MS.18.2.4 and 18.4.5.

Dates: 14th century.

`Summa magistri Walteri de Agelon facta de dosis medicinarum`, and a list of symptoms., 14th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.9(iii), folios 59-68
Scope and Contents `Summa magistri Walteri de Agelon facta de dosis medicinarum`, incipit `Medicinarum uero quedam sunt simplices quedam composite` (‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column 860) (folio 59).A list of symptoms, incipit `Significat solutionem se acute mediante fluxu sanguinis a naribus’ (folio 65 verso).Vacant spaces are filled in by different hands of the 14th and 15th centuries with recipes (folios 65, 68 verso, some of the latter in...
Dates: 14th century.

“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents

The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).

Dates: 17th century.

“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of Scottish historical documents, for the most part copies from the Cotton Library, originally labelled ‘Kirk manuscripts B’., 17th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.19
Scope and Contents A collection copied by various hands without sufficient accuracy, possibly for Matthew Crawford.The contents are as follows: (i) Letter, 3 May 1582, of Sir John Foster to Secretary Walsingham. (ii) Advertisement out of Scotland, 22 June 1582. (iii) Letter, 20 August 1582, of the Queen of England to the King of Scotland. (iv) Depositions of George Douglas sent the 14 September from Stirling, and received the 20 September at Windsor. ‘Septr. 28 1582’. (v) The heads whereof George...
Dates: 17th century.

'Tabula super bibliam': an early 15th-century glossed copy of a summary of the Bible in Latin verse by Johannes Vasco, Order of Friars Minor, with explanatory verses which give the date of composition as 1393.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.2
Scope and Contents The text begins 'Ante fir. lux producitur' and the interlinear gloss '[fir]mamentum. quia deus appellat diem'. There are also interlinear capitals indicating to which parts of the chapter the verse refers. Rubrics at the beginning of each book give the number of chapters. The text is followed (folio 123) by mnemonic verses on the books of the Bible with the numbers of their chapters, beginning 'Pentateu genesis exitque levi'; explanatory verses (folio 123 verso) beginning 'Finit tractatus...
Dates: Early 15th century.

'The Chapmens Cowrt Book belonging to the West Nwck'., 1706-1767.

 Item
Identifier: MS.199
Scope and Contents

Includes 'The Acts of the Chapmen Cowrt of Fife', Dunfermline, 8 July 1706.

Dates: 1706-1767.

‘The coates armoriall of severall knights and gentlemen as they are matriculat in the New Register of Armes in the Lyon Office` by Robert Mylne. Followed (folio 204) by `The blazons of the Royall Burghs in Scotland`, also taken from the Lyon Register.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.8
Scope and Contents

A number of the entries include the date (1692 or later) on which they were extracted from the Register, and some have additional information probably supplied by Mylne. There are some notes (folio ii) in 19th-century hands, including a list of officials of the Lyon Court.

Dates: 1711.

`The Consultation Book of James Boswell Esquire of Auchinleck Advocate Who put on the Gown 29 July 1766. Written with his own hand.`

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.3.1.10
Scope and Contents

James Boswell’s case-book for the law sessions 1766-1772, listing the cases which he pleaded, together with the names of the agents, judges and opponents, and the fees received. Followed, from folio 12 verso, by lists, 1831-1833, of wines and spirits acquired from various merchants.

Dates: 1766-1772, 1831-1833.

The MacNicol collection, comprising Gaelic songs and other papers collected by the Reverend Donald MacNicol, minister of Lismore, and his son Dugald MacNicol, with some added papers and listings of later owners and users of the collection.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.14850-14864
Scope and Contents A collection of Gaelic songs and associated papers, brought together by the Rev. Donald MacNicol (1735-1802), minister of Lismore, and continued by his son Dugald (b. 1791), an army officer. The Gaelic songs are from a range of periods and include Ossianic verse, waulking songs and songs by contemporaries of the collectors, such as Dugald Buchanan, Donnchadh Bàn Macintyre and Seumas Mac Gille-Sheathanaich (Shaw). The Ossianic verse was published in John Francis Campbell's 'Leabhar na...
Dates: 1752-ca. 1900 and undated, with most of the material dating from the later 18th and early 19th century.

‘The War, 1914-1918’ (London, 1929) a booklist compiled by Edmund Blunden, Cyril Falls, H.M. Tomlinson and R. Wright, with notes in the hand of William Soutar., 1929-[Before 1944.]

 File
Identifier: MS.8769
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.

Dates: 1929-[Before 1944.]