Accounts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents in which monies or goods received and paid or given out are recorded in order to permit periodic totaling. This term was not used in the published volumes of the 'Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925'. Such records were indexed under the subject terms Housekeeping or Prices.
Found in 343 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.5730-5841
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.
Dates:
15th century-?1935.
Medical Journal of Dr Normand Morison.
File
Identifier: MS.50263
Scope and Contents
A recipe for gunpowder (folio i).Case notes, 1729-1730, possibly written at Glasgow Infirmary (folios 1-19).Sketch financial accounts and copy letters, 1740s, of Normand Morison to Normand MacLeod, Daniel MacLeod and John Nicolson concerning the export of linen and import of tobacco, sugar and rum between New England, Glasgow and the Western Isles (folios 20-28).Copy letters, 1740s, of Normand Morison to unnamed relatives concerning emigration from the...
Dates:
1729-1759.
Medical recipes, being a volume of prescriptions and recipes with a few additions in a later hand.
File
Identifier: MS.15916
Scope and Contents
There is a list of contents (folio 1) and some accounts for drugs, possibly from Edinburgh (folio 241).
Dates:
1708.
Memoranda and accounts of Archibald Campbell Colquhoun, Lord Clerk Register, concerning the estates of Clathick, Ryding, Garscadden and Killermont.
File
Identifier: MS.10685
Scope and Contents
Most of the entries concern building and farming operations and agreements with tenants. There are also references to coal-mining on the Ryding estate, and records of crops at Killermont.
Dates:
1799-1820.
Microfilm of assorted manuscript material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.67
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Receipt, 1575, of Archebault Betun (Archibald Bethune), an archer of the French King`s Scots Guard (Ch.872);Account, 17 February 1552, of the provisions supplied to the Royal Household at Amboise. Includes a translation (Ch.2059); Bill, 1553, concerning expenses of the French royal household (Ch.2593);Holograph poems, [1931, or before]; and, 'The secret of the heather ale', a tale, 1892, by Neil Munro. (MS.816);...
Dates:
1552-[1931, or before].
Microfilm of Balcarres papers, consisting of papers and accounts concerning the University of Saint Andrews.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1837
Dates:
1438-1630.
Microfilm of Church of Scotland Missionary Archive. Part 1. Missions to India and China 1829-1933. Reels 1-7 (Adam Matthew).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1717-1723
Dates:
1829-1933.
Microfilm of correspondence and other papers of, or associated with, Robert Burns.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1171
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Correspondence and poems, [?1787-?1795], of Robert Burns (MS.15951); Fragments of the autobiographical letter, 1787, of Robert Burn to Dr John Moore (MS.15952);Letters, poems, accounts, etc., 1783-1796, undated, of Robert Burns, collected by William Finlay Watson, mounted in an album titled 'Burns MSS' (MS.586);
Letters, etc., late 18th century-early 19th century, associated with Robert Burns, collected by William Finlay Watson....
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Microfilm of diary of visits to patients of Dr George Chalmers, together with medical accounts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.980
Dates:
1717-1745.
Microfilm of family papers of the Grahams of Airth, notably of and concerning Charles Stirling, the estate of Ardoch Penn and Jamaica.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2079-2081
Dates:
1775-1835.
Microfilm of manuscripts of three Middle-English texts: 'Liber maundevyle'; the poem 'Sir Cleges'; and, 'De regimine principum' by Thomas Hoccleve.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.238
Dates:
15th century.
Microfilm of miscellaneous papers of the Scots and Irish Colleges, Paris, and English College, Douai, chiefly concerning the Scots College's defence of their property during the French Revolution.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1452
Dates:
1770-1824.
Microfilm of papers of William and James Chisholme concerning the Trout Hall and other sugar plantations in Jamaica, consisting chiefly of accounts for provisions sent to Jamaica and for sugar from the plantation sold in England.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.907
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Papers, 1747-1798 (MS.5464);
Papers, 1799-1804 (MS.5465);
Papers, [?1747-?1812] (MS.5466).
Dates:
[?1747-?1812].
Microfilm of ‘The Papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (Darien Company) from the National Library of Scotland (1694-1709)’ (Wakefield: Microform Academic Publishers, 2007).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1743-1760
Dates:
1694-1709.
Microfilm of various notebooks of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Item
Identifier: MS.17887 [Mf.MSS.184]
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) MS.E 111. Accounts of General Henry Fletcher as colonel of the 35th Regiment with his agents Gray and Ogilvie (later Ross and Ogilvie), 1775-1794 and 1794-1798;(ii) MS.B 83. Labourers' wages, 1750-1765;(iii) MS.C 203. Cottars' book, 1780-1802, detailing rents and repairs;(iv) MS.C 204. List of letters received by Andrew Fletcher, auditor of exchequer, November 1755-April 1764, with (inverted) a list of prints;...
Dates:
1750-1802.
Microfilms of correspondence and accounts relating to Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s West Indian affairs and estate, and to the settlement of the Honourable Basil Cochrane's residuary estate, principally the Madras canals.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1576
Dates:
1823-1853.
Minute and record book of the Scottish National Library Endowment Trust, kept by its Clerk-Treasurer, K M Oliphant, Writer to the Signet.
Item
Identifier: MS.24724
Scope and Contents
The Scottish National Library Endowment Trust was established at the Instigation of Hugh P Macmillan King’s Counsel, later Lord Macmillan, its Honorary Secretary, to receive gifts from private individuals towards the establishment of a National Library on the basis of the non-legal collections of the Advocates’ Library. Its most notable receipt, £100,000 from Alexander (later Sir Alexander) Grant in June 1923, made possible the establishment of the Library in 1925.The volume...
Dates:
1923-1925.
Minute book recording the formal business of the society running an evangelical library at South Queensferry.
File
Identifier: MS.9810
Scope and Contents
The minute book also contains a list of members' names, with the numbers of the books issued to them each month. Three book-seller's accounts, giving the titles of religious works purchased for the library, are inserted.
Dates:
1825-1856.
Minute books and accounts of various political associations.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12454
Scope and Contents
Minute books of: (1) Cardross Unionist Association, 1938-1961; (2) Cunninghame District Conservative Local Government Advisory Committee, 1979-1983.
Notes and accounts of Bridge of Weir Liberal Association, 1919-1964.
Accounts of Galloway Liberal Association, 1930-1933.
Minutes of Strathclyde Liberal Regional Association, circa 1974.
Dates:
1919-1983.
Minute books and other records of the United Incorporation of Mary`s Chapel, Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.302
Dates:
1755-1949.
Minute books and papers of the Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: Dep.375
Dates:
1773 to 20th century.
Minutes, accounts, and miscellaneous papers of the Edinburgh Skating Club.
Series
Identifier: MSS.24641-24649
Scope and Contents
The Edinburgh Skating Club was clearly well-established in 1784 when the first minute book starts. Apart from a few years of inactivity the Club flourished until the early 1900's when combined figure-skating declined in popularity. It was finally dissolved in 1966. Although the Club attracted a large proportion of its members from the legal profession, the Edinburgh Skating Club was not socially exclusive and the membership lists include local noblemen, merchants, army offers and a slater....
Dates:
1784-1966, undated.
Minutes, agenda books and accounts of the Scottish Loan Training Fund (formerly the Scottish Central Bureau for the Employment of Women).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10710
Dates:
1898-1992.
Minutes and other records of the Conference of Scottish Medieval Historians.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.287
Dates:
1958-1996.