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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:
Three documents concerning electioneering in Scotland in the 1830s.
File
Identifier: Acc.6204
Dates:
circa 1830-circa 1839.
Three documents concerning the family of Boyd of Knockson and to the farm of Knockson, near Ayr.
File
Identifier: Acc.5275
Dates:
1845, 1859-1860.
Tom Weir’s Soldiers Service and Pay Book with Old Comrades Association list of members., 1940-1945, undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.13059/488
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Tom Weir is probably best known for his long-running STV series ‘Weir’s Way’. He was born in Glasgow and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey before embarking on the career that was to make him a household name. Tom Weir is also notable as a mountaineer. He was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and a number of important exploratory expeditions in Nepal in the early 1950s. He became a...
Dates:
1940-1945, undated.
Topographical and other works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.22
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Scotia illustrata sive Theatrum Urbium, Arcium, Monasteriorum et aedium quarundam illustrium in Scotia`, circa 1692. The Latin text by Sibbald intended for John Slezer`s ‘Theatrum Scotiae’. It is very different from the published text which Slezer had had translated without Sibbald`s authority. The preface is in Slezer`s hand, and each entry is signed by both Sibbald and Slezer. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copy of William Harvey`s...
Dates:
Circa 1692-1709, and undated.
Tour diary of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton: Amritsar, Karachi, Bombay, Kanpur, 17 October - 5 November 1911., 1911.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.85.1.7
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.
Dates:
1911.
Tour diary of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton: Burma, 17 December 1911 - 8 February 1912; with appendices., 1911-1912
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.85.1.8-85.1.9
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.
Dates:
1911-1912
Tour diary of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton: Madras, Poona, Bombay, Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Bilaspur, July 1911., 1911.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.85.1.6
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.
Dates:
1911.
Tour diary of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton: Madras Presidency, August 1909., 1909.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.85.1.2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.
Dates:
1909.
Transcript, early 20th century, of a pamphlet, [?1745], titled ‘An impartial and genuine list of the ladys on the Whig or Jacobite Partie. Taken in hand merely to show that the common accusation and slander, rashly thrown on the Female Sex, as to their being all Jacobites is false and groundless, as upon a calculation the Whigs are far superior in number and not inferior either in rank, beauty, or sollidity’., [?1745.]
File
Identifier: MS.293
Scope and Contents
The ladies included on the list either are resident in or near Edinburgh or have frequented it for some time.
Dates:
[?1745.]
Transcript of part of Adv.MS. 35.6.6: Lists of religious houses and parishes in Scotland; with numerous additions by Walter Macfarlane, in his own hand.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.3.11
Dates:
[?1684-?1689.]
Transcripts and notes, I, early 20th century, partly typewritten, concerning the ‘Forty-five., 1685-1700, 1745-1747, 1802.
File
Identifier: MS.298
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Memorandum in the handwriting of Murray of Dollerie regarding the fate of his son Anthony, present at the battle of Culloden, 1746. (Folio 1.)(ii) ‘Memorial for the Lord Braco to the Lord Advocate’, 1747. (Folio 4.)(iii) Correspondence of Lord Lewis Gordon and others with Mr Harry Milne, factor to Duff, the Laird of Drummuir, and other documents relating to the payment of levy-money to Prince Charles Edward, 1745-1746....
Dates:
1685-1700, 1745-1747, 1802.
Transcripts and notes, II, early 20th century, all typed, concerning the 'Forty-five., 1740-1748.
File
Identifier: MS.299
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) "Mr. McLourin’s Journall of what passed relating to the defence of Edinburgh from Monday Septemr. 2d. till Monday Septemr. 16th 1745", journal of Professor Colin Maclaurin. (Folio 1.)(ii) ‘A succinct genealogical account of the Grosett family, and a narrative of services performed for the Government by Walter Grosett of Logie, Esqr., during the Rebellion in 1745. Lisbon, January 1764’, with a further account of the family at folio 53....
Dates:
1740-1748.
Transcripts, circa 1855, of extracts of the Kirk Session records, 1668-1768, of Melrose, compiled by James Swinson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9840
Scope and Contents
With Communion rolls, 1792, 1813, for Gattonside.
Dates:
1668-circa 1855.
Travel expenses., 1671-1709.
File
Identifier: MS.14646
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Lists of expenses, bills and receipts, 1674-1675, for travel on the European mainland, chiefly France and Italy, including Italian booksellers' bills (folio 1);(ii) Lists of expenses, bills and receipts, 1678-1679, for travel to Holland, including a Dutch bookseller's bill (folio 31);(iii) Accounts, 1677-1681, for Lady Anne Hay on the European mainland, chiefly Holland (folio 44);(iv) Bills of exchange,...
Dates:
1671-1709.
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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Personal, household and estate accounts of the Hays of Yester.
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Personal and household (Yester, Edinburgh and London) and Yester estates accounts.
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Accounts chiefly of, to or concerning the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale, or Mary, Marchioness of Tweeddale.
Travel journal of Emily Jackson containing an account of her holiday to Kilmorack, Scotland, 1887, and a tour in Italy with her family, 1891-1892., 1887, 1891-1892.
Item
Identifier: MS.23628
Scope and Contents
Emily Jackson departed from Edinburgh on 18 August 1887 with her sisters Ina, Jane, Joanna and Alice Maule, and travelled to Kilmorack Manse, Inverness, where they stayed until 21 September 1887. Narrative of Italian tour starts on 4 December 1891 after the family arrived in Rome until their departure on 9 February 1892. The narrative restarts on 7 April when the family travelled to Venice finishing on 22 April. There are a number of lists at the back of the journal...
Dates:
1887, 1891-1892.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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Journals, 1891-1892, of a tour in Italy by John Jackson, Craiglands, Edinburgh, and his daughter Emily. Also included is Emily`s account of her holiday in Kilmorack, Inverness-shire, Scotland, 1887.
Travel journal of Emily Jackson describing her tour of the Eastern United States and Canada., 1884.
Item
Identifier: MS.23625
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Narrative of the journey of Emily Jackson through the Eastern United States and Canada, with her sister Ina Jackson. They left Glasgow on 29 August sailed around the north coast of Ireland on 30 August and arrived in New York on 9 September. The Jacksons journeyed through Saratoga, Lake George, and Lacine Rapids (Montreal) and arrived in Toronto on 21 September. They visited Niagara Falls and returned to America moving through Buffalo, Chicago, Minneapolis, St Paul, Pittsburgh, Washington...
Dates:
1884.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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Travel journals of Emily and Ina Jackson describing their tour of the Eastern United States and Canada.
Travel journal of Ina Jackson describing her tour of the Eastern United States and Canada., 1884
Item
Identifier: MS.23626
Scope and Contents
Ina`s narrative ends on 29th September 1884. She indicates there is a second volume, but this is not in the collections of the National Library of Scotland. The location of the second volume is unknown.
Dates:
1884
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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Travel journals of Emily and Ina Jackson describing their tour of the Eastern United States and Canada.
Twenty songs and choruses of George Frideric Handel, composer.
Item
Identifier: MS.6301 [BH.Add.48]
Scope and Contents
The works are from the oratorios "Alexander's Feast", 'Samson', 'Deborah', 'Occasional Oratorio', 'Saul', 'Susanna', 'Judas Maccabaeus', and the "Ode for St Cecilia's Day", in vocal score; with two marches, from the 'Occasional Oratorio', and 'Judas Maccabaeus', arranged for keyboard. They are written in a professional hand, and most of them include a note of performance time.
The music begins on folio 7, the preceding folios containing a contents list.
Dates:
1733-1749.
Two 13th-century English medical manuscripts, bound together from an early date, each in the hands of two scribes.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.5
Scope and Contents
(i) Serapion (ibn Sarābī). `Liber aggeratus in medicinis simplicibus`, translated by Simon of Genoa and Abraham Tortuosiensis, incipit `Postquam vidi librum Dyascoridis et librum Galeni in medicinis` (folio 1).(ii) Alī ibn al-`Abbās al-Mağūsī. `Pantegni`, translated by Constantinus Africanus (folio 123). The text is sometimes attributed to Isaac (Isḥāq ibn Sulaiman al-Isrāeli) and was printed in his ‘Opera’. This is the earliest version of Constantinus` translation; it contains...
Dates:
13th century.
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 English medical manuscripts of the 12th century (each with later additions), bound together probably in the medieval period; the second at least belonged to a monk of Peterborough.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.16
Scope and Contents
A. (i) 'Macer Floridus, de viribus [so in title, 'virtutibus' in explicit] herbarum' by Odo of Meung(?). There are marginal headings throughout and two glosses on folio 1. A slightly later hand has added English equivalents of the plant-names (and also started to list them on folio 93 verso). A contents-list in a court-hand of the 13th century is on folio 39 verso. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Liber de virtutibus lapidum’, i.e. 'De lapidibus' by Marbod. (Folio 40.)(iii) Medical...
Dates:
12th century.
Two lists of answers, one of them of the Reverend John Gibson (afterwards, possibly Minister of Athelstaneford), to a series of questions posed by Richard Bancroft, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, concerning the organisation of the Church of Scotland., 1589.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.13(x), folios 37-41
Two lists of formerly enslaved Africans on the East Prospect Estate, Jamaica.
File
Identifier: Acc.13729
Scope and Contents
List of former slaves on Charles Blair`s plantation.
Dates:
1841.
Two lists of formerly enslaved people on the East Prospect Estate, Jamaica., 1841.
Item
Identifier: MS.50277 folios 160-161
Scope and Contents
List of formerly enslaved people on East Prospect estate, Jamaica.
Dates:
1841.
Two notebooks of Ruthven Todd containing shopping lists, addresses, sketches and other miscellaneous jottings., 1967, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26869-26870
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Ruthven Todd was born and educated in Edinburgh, and from 1932 to 1934 worked as a farm labourer in Mull before moving to London where he joined the Bohemian world of writers and artists in Fitzrovia. In 1947, he left for the United States where he eventually settled in Martha's Vineyard and became an American citizen. From 1960 until his death, he lived in the Balearic island of Majorca.Most of the papers date from Todd's Majorcan period, but because he based much of his work on...
Dates:
1967, undated.