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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 1237 Collections and/or Records:

Exercise-book, containing a list of debts of the Reverend John Thomson of Duddingston, February 1826, his income and expenditure account, 1826, and a list of his pictures sold in 1826-1827, with titles, prices, and names of those who commissioned them., 1826-1831.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3167
Scope and Contents

Loose sheets, containing a list of debts paid and outstanding since February 1826, and the income and expenditure account for 1827-1828, 1830-1831, which gives particulars of certain pictures, have been sewn into the book (folios 11-23). All the accounts are in Alexander Macdonald's hand. See MS.3135 (xxv).

Dates: 1826-1831.

'Exercitationes ethicae', a volume of lecture notes on ethics taken by James Hamilton from lectures delivered at Glasgow University by John Tran., 1687.

 File
Identifier: MS.9386
Scope and Contents

The name William Hamilton, brother of James, also occurs. The lectures are dated day by day. There are two class lists (folios 3, 88), and a list of the dates of birth of members of the Hamilton family (folio 6), which indicates that the writer of the notes was probably James Hamilton of Dalzell.

Dates: 1687.

Extracts from registers in Glasgow, chiefly of the Kirk, made about 1706., 1583-1706.

 File
Identifier: MS.2782
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) 'Exce[r]pta from the Synod Register of Glasgow and Air', 1687-1703 (folio 1);(ii) 'Excerpta from The Register of the Presbytrie of Glasgow', 1687-1706 (folio 7);(iii) 'Excerpta out of the Registers of the Sessions of Glasgow', 1583-1705 (folio 13); arranged under heads, with a contents table.(iv) 'A List of the Magistrates of the City of Glasgow from anno 1583 to this present time', 1705, the latest date (folio...
Dates: 1583-1706.

Fair copy of `Diplomatum veterum collectio`, being Richard Augustine Hay`s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh, volume 2., 1686-1689.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.10(ii)
Scope and Contents

The volume contains transcripts of the cartulary of the Abbey of St Thomas the Martyr, Arbroath (Adv.MS.34.4.2), in a different arrangement (folio 17); a Calendar of Saints` days observed in Scotland before the Reformation (folio 267), and a list of feasts formerly held in Scotland (folio 286 verso).

Dates: 1686-1689.

Family papers, including correspondence, genealogies and inventories of documents, some concerning business of George Skene in Danzig, Poland., 1597-1709.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12092/5
Scope and Contents Contains: 85. Summons at the instance of James Murray of Halzardis against his tenants of Halkernis and Toddis hauch for nonpayment of rent - Joseph Dowglas in Halkernis and Elizabeth Thomesoun his spouse, Alexander Mathy there, John Wilsoun there, James Sammell there, John Bell in Halbernis, Marioun Dicksoun, Thomas Tait in Halbernis, James Zoung in Toddishauch and Margaret Polwarth, James Wast her son and James Zoung her spouse. Edinburgh, 24 March 1597.[On an attached sheet is...
Dates: 1597-1709.

File containing lists of Scottish National Party literature from the Publications Department., 1974.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10090/154
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Some family and other papers of Robert Douglas McIntyre's father, the Reverend John Ebenezer McIntyre (1874-1961), successively minister of Hightae and Dalton, Motherwell, Manse Road, and St Mary's, Edinburgh, United Free churches, and later of Barony and St James Place Church of Scotland, Edinburgh, precede the main collection.

Dates: 1974.

Final or fair copies of compositions, 1958-1964, by Martin Dalby., 1958-1969.

 File
Identifier: MS.22142
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The compositions are preceded (MS.22142, folio ii) by a typescript list of Martin Dalby's compositions to 1968 with additions in ink to 1969.

Most of the compositions are vocal, being settings of poems or scriptural texts, with or without keyboard accompaniment.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1958-1969.

Financial file of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises Limited, containing lists of creditors., 1965.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10555/126
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of published works, including 'Ring of bright water' and 'The rocks remain', and photographs, drawings and notes, together with literary, business and personal correspondence.

With business records of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises, including correspondence and accounts.

Dates: 1965.

Financial papers and accounts concerning the affairs of Janet, Countess of Wemyss., 1731-1744.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.2.64-80.2.66
Scope and Contents From the Series: The greater part of the series concerns in detail the administration of the Dundas estate, and consists of accounts and discharges or vouchers relating to public burdens and feu-duty, annualrent, annuities, and other regular payments, and a wide variety of transactions with merchants, tradesmen, and estate tenants and servants. More personal accounts are also represented in considerable quantity, though until the 18th century they are not clearly distinguished from the estate accounts. There...
Dates: 1731-1744.

Fragments of a list of Melville papers down to 1799, giving numbers of bundles., Late 18th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.1077
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Volumes entitled 'Individuals' contain correspondence regarding patronage and other matters of personal interest (requests for employment, promotion, and pensions, complaints of unjust treatment, etc.). These papers frequently give information of a more general kind.

Dates: Late 18th century.

Freight-list for the East India Station., 1844-1847.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2425
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: 1844-1847.

Gaelic material, chiefly plays and broadcasts, of Hector MacIver., 1934-1962, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14973
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.Autograph verse by Sorley MacLean (folios 1-2):(i) “Bho mhullaichean a’ chuilthinn chràcaich”, 29 lines. From part III of ‘An Cuilthionn’ (folio 1 recto);(ii) ‘Aigich Sgitheanaich’, 8 stanzas. From the ‘Aigeach’ lyrics in part V of ‘An Cuilthionn’ (folio 2 recto);(iii) ‘Mo lamhan air lapadh’, 10 stanzas. ‘Crath dhiot an cadal’. With lines addressed to Hector MacIver beginning ‘Eachainn dhuinn an leadain dualaich’, 4...
Dates: 1934-1962, undated.

Gaelic technical terms connected with Calanas, Mod prize paper by Mrs K W Grant, Port Elizabeth., 1900.

 Item
Identifier: MS.452
Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates: 1900.

Gairdyn manuscript: a collection of songs, marches, minuets, sarabands, country dances, etc., 1710, 1729, 1735, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.3298 [Glen.37]
Scope and Contents

Of most tunes, only a few bars are given. On folio iv are verses beginning 'Than what shall be done with this traitor in grain' and 'When fierce Renegado cam first to the toun'. A short 'Inventar of household plenishing' appears on folio 42 verso. The dates 1710, 1729, and 1735 occur on folios 40, 40 verso, and 51.

Dates: 1710, 1729, 1735, undated.

Genealogical notes on Scottish families, written in several hands, probably between 1790 and 1800., [?1790-?1800.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9274-9290
Scope and Contents

The authorship of the notes has been attributed to ‘Alexander Dunlop of Jamaica, latterly residing at Fairley, near Largs in Ayrshire. Ob. circiter 1800’ (see MS.9291, folio 2).

The manuscripts are referred to by J G Dunlop as ‘the Jamaica MSS’.

As well as genealogical material, lists of dignitaries and army officers are also included.

Dates: [?1790-?1800.]

'Genealogie of the wholl Nobility of Scotland ... since ye reign of K. Orbred ye It.... By H. R. by comand of HMK’., 1685.

 File
Identifier: MS.2108
Scope and Contents 'Hugh McKy' appears as owner of the book on folios 1, 187 verso, 190 verso; 'Hu: Rose' on folio 1.The account of the nobility is followed by lists of officials in the same hand (folio 175). In another hand is a poem (folio 185), 'Lowe and honour, or the lowers fairweell to Calista being sent from see in the latte engagement agst the Duth to his mistris under the name of Armeda wt ye Ladys deploring and ingenuous ansr to a new sad air much in request or the tune of the Tirrant hes...
Dates: 1685.