Manuals. Instructional materials.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books or treatises, often compendious, containing rules or instructions needed to perform tasks, operations, processes, occupations, arts, or studies, and intended to be used as reference while the task or study is performed.
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Administrative Records of the Hillfoot Picture House, Alva
Series
Identifier: MI.5/20
Dates:
1930-1977
Charms and spells etc., including notes on witchcraft and astrology., Late 18th century, 1818.
Item
Identifier: MS.2716
Scope and Contents
A late eighteenth-century manuscript bearing the signatures 'John Blakey' (page 15) and 'Thomas Wyld' (pages 30, 72), with some additional matter (page i), dated 1818, written perhaps by the James Lomax whose signature is on page 3.
Dates:
Late 18th century, 1818.
“Instruction concernant le service de I'Infanterie légère en campagne” (Londres, 1801); copy owned by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Macleod and signed by him on the title page., 1801-[before 1813.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15382
Scope and Contents
The book contains on blank leaves bound in at the back a memorandum (folio 3) and sketches (folios 8 verso, 11 verso, 12 verso) in pencil apparently in Charles Macleod’s hand, and, in another hand in ink, written also on the flyleaves, biographical notes and extracts from printed sources referring to him.
Dates:
1801-[before 1813.]
Letters to Lieutenant-General Sir John Macleod, and an instruction-book of his son Charles.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15381-15382
Dates:
1801-1815.
Manual of mathematics, evidently for the use of a military officer, compiled by James Douglas.
Item
Identifier: MS.3939
Scope and Contents
The manual, compiled in 1698 (dates on pages 334a, 401), contains arithmetic, based on E Cocker's ‘Arithmetick’, with some rules for extracting roots by algebra and logarithms; "the doctrine of decimall fractions takne out of Mr. Coker's Decimall Arithmetick", (page 156); and 'the doctrine of plain triangles, or ... plain trigonometry' (page 334a), with rules for ascertaining heights, etc., with instruments.The words 'Heir endeth so much of the arithmetick as a souldier ought...
Dates:
1698.
Manuscript containing directions for various dances.
File
Identifier: MS.3860
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: directions for dancing quadrilles, waltzes, reels, and country dances: 'Contre-danses à Paris, 1818' (folio 1); 'Country Dances' (folio 49); 'A selection of reel steps or steps for setting, 1818'. The paper is watermarked 1820 and later. Additions dated 1849 occur on folios 10, 36-37. 'Note, 1818' (folio 12) gives an account of the introduction of the French waltz and quadrille into England after the Napoleonic War and of an incident which led to the disrepute of...
Dates:
1818-1849.
Microfilm of charms and spells etc., including notes on witchcraft and astrology.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2072
Dates:
Late 18th century, 1818.
Microfilm of manuscript containing directions for various dances.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.275
Dates:
1818-1849.
Microfilm of manuscript containing directions for various dances.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.537
Dates:
1818-1849.
Orders and rules of procedure in the Court of Exchequer.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.4
Scope and Contents
‘Orders and Rules of proceedings in the office of His Majesties Remembrancer of his Court of Exchequer at Westminster, by authority of the Barons, 1696 etc.’
Dates:
1696.
Papers of technical manuals and instructions relating to Film Production.
Fonds
Identifier: MI.4/7
Dates:
1913-1983
Printed manual of Instructions to officers of the Political Department of the Government of India., 1909.
Item
Identifier: MS.12629
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845- 1914), who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1859 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1891. He served in the army in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877, in Afghanistan, 1879, and in Egypt, 1882; from 1883 to 1886 he was Military Secretary to the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, from 1898 to 1904 he was himself Governor-General of Canada, and from 1905 to 1910 he was Viceroy of India. He was also much involved in local affairs,...
Dates:
1909.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845-1914), 4th Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to India.
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Printed summaries of the 4th Earl of Minto's administration.
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Printed summaries of the 4th Earl of Minto's administration: Home Department and related topics.