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 Subject
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 1667 Collections and/or Records:

Scottish chartularies transcribed, 1738-1744, for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.35.2.5-35.3.9
Scope and Contents

The wording and ornament of the title pages suggest a division into three groups:

(i) Adv.MSS.35.2.5, 35.3.6, 35.3.7, 35.39: 1738-1739.

(ii) Adv.MSS.35.3.2, 35.3.4: 1740.

(iii) Adv.MSS.35.3.3, 35.3.5, 35.3.8: 1740-1744.

The sources are mainly the original manuscripts then in the Advocates` Library, with notes taken from Richard Augustine Hay`s works. Only those documents the present location of whose originals is unknown are indexed in detail.

Dates: 13th century-1707, or after.

Seaman`s books, 1973-1985, of David Campbleton, Edinburgh.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12376
Scope and Contents

Includes papers, 1947-1973, of Alex McCorkindale, Dalkeith, relating to his service in the Merchant Navy.

Dates: 1947-1985.

'Sederunt Book of the Knights Companions of the Cape': number 1, 1764-July 1787., 1764-1787.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2004
Scope and Contents

Contains the minutes of meetings, preceded by an introduction relating the history of the club, the statutes of the club, and a roll of Knights, giving their real names and club titles. Inside the front cover is a list of Knights alive in 1841.

Dates: 1764-1787.

Sederunt book of the tutors and curators of Sir James Wemyss, 3rd Baronet, of Bogie, concerning the estate of the late Sir John Wemyss.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5723
Scope and Contents The book chiefly contains records of the tutors' transactions relating to the Bogie coal mines and salt pans, and to the debts of the estate; throughout them is scattered information concerning the education of Sir James Wemyss (folio 16). The transactions are preceded by lists of estate expenses (folio 2 verso), inventories of the estate (folio 3 verso), and reports on the Bogie coal mines (folio 12 verso); and are followed by the curators' advice to Sir James Wemyss concerning the...
Dates: 1719-1733.

'Selection of lists of Harrow School, 1770-1826' by George Butler, (Peterborough, 1849), inscribed by Henry Montagu Butler., 1849.

 File
Identifier: MS.25639
Scope and Contents From the Series: Sir Charles Dalrymple (1839-1916), formerly Fergusson, was the youngest son of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet, of Kilkerran. He succeeded to the estates of Hailes on the death of his father in 1849, when he assumed the name of Dalrymple. He was created a baronet in 1887, and a Privy Councillor in 1905. Sir Charles married in 1874, Alice Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Hunter Blair, 4th Baronet, of Blairquhan. She died in 1884. Sir Charles at first seemed destined for a legal...
Dates: 1849.

Sermones de Tempore, a homiliary written in the early 12th century for Rochester Cathedral Priory.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.4
Scope and Contents The book is in the tradition of the homiliary compiled by Paulus Diaconus at the command of Charlemagne (see ‘Homéliaires liturgiques médiévaux’, chapter XIII), with additions for the weekdays after Pentecost and the Nativity, and a few other alterations (some of these are shared with the version of Paulus printed in ‘Patrologia Latina’, 95, others with contemporary English homiliaries, cf. `Texts and their traditions in the medieval library of Rochester Cathedral Priory`, chapter IV). ...
Dates: Early 12th century.

Signet Library, "Bibliotheca Polonica", List of the Polish books presented in 1821 by Count Adam Zamoyski and others.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10990
Scope and Contents

Includes copies of minutes and letters, and some borrowing notes.

Dates: circa 1821.

Single letters and documents., 1510-19th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.2208
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letter, attributed to circa 1590, of John Gordoun to Patrick Bruce, Leith, with a modem transcript. ‘Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’, volume v, page 11. (Folio 1.)(ii) Eighteenth-century copy of Sir Thomas Wortley's inscription at Wharncliffe, 1510. (Folio 4.)(iii) Letter, 31 August 1582, signed by several of the Ruthven Raiders, to John Erskine of Dun, summoning him to Stirling. Smellie, William,...
Dates: 1510-19th century.

Single letters and papers.

 File
Identifier: MS.2521
Scope and Contents The papers include: letters, 1795, 1810, of Sir Alexander Boswell, containing original humorous verse; copy of a list, 1849, made by Cockburn, giving the authorship of articles in the 'Edinburgh Review'; contemporary copy of a speech, ?1617, delivered by James I and VI in Edinburgh (parts being given in summary); letter, 1807, of Sir James Bland Burges (afterwards Lamb) on Sir Walter Scott's literary profits; letter, 1808, of Sir James Mackintosh dealing with Indian affairs; letter, 1830,...
Dates: ?1617-1849.

Soldier`s pay-book of Edward Fraser, Sergeant, 3rd Bengal European Infantry.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10026
Scope and Contents

With two letters, 1972, concerning the pay-book and a copied extract from a muster roll of 1860.

Dates: 1855-1860.

‘Some place names of Ben Damph Forest’: copy of a list of 225 names by Captain King Noel of Ben Damph., [Before 1928.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.385
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: [Before 1928.]

Songs of David Stephen., Early 20th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.22160-22162
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Most of the compositions appear to be unpublished.

Dates: Early 20th century.

Specifications of and contracts, agreements and accounts for building works at Auldbar Castle and on the estate., 1762-1859.

 File
Identifier: MS.15436
Scope and Contents

Also included are accounts for plastering, decorating, wrightwork, etc. Folio 1 is a list of 'Rules for measuring mason work in Angus, 1762'. Folio 115 is a printed design for a villa, and folio 116 is a set of designs for lodge gates and railings.

Dates: 1762-1859.

Speeches delivered by Lord Rutherfurd, pamphlets containing obituary tributes to various friends, 1841-1859, and miscellaneous papers and pamphlets, 1746-1930, undated., 1746-1930, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.9720
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) ‘Substance of a speech delivered by the Lord Advocate at a dinner given to him by his constituents at Leith, on Friday 8th January, 1841’ (Edinburgh, 1841) (folio 1); (ii) Manuscript of a speech by Lord Rutherfurd, probably his address of congratulation on behalf of the Faculty of Advocates to David Boyle on his elevation to the Lord Presidency of the Court of Session, 1841 (folio 9); (iii) ‘Inaugural address by Andrew Rutherfurd Esq., M.P., on his...
Dates: 1746-1930, undated.