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Notebooks.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books of blank pages, usually ruled, used for taking notes, especially by pupils and students for taking class notes or writing or drawing exercises. .

Found in 3443 Collections and/or Records:

Business and financial notebook of Sir Thomas Hislop., 1804-1817.

 Item
Identifier: MS.13112
Scope and Contents From the Series: General Sir Thomas Hislop's daughter Emma Eleanor Elizabeth married the 3rd Earl of Minto. Most of Sir Thomas Hislop's papers concern business and financial affairs, and his military career, in particular the Deccan Prize Case. But his general correspondence also includes a series of letters from the Venezuelan revolutionist, Francisco de Miranda, with whom Hislop had been connected in the West Indies. The papers of Lady Hislop contain much family material, including a substantial run of...
Dates: 1804-1817.

Cashbook and notebook of William Graham (died 1790)., 1776-1781.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.10926-10927
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates: 1776-1781.

Catalogue of the Miscellanies in the Library at Colinton., 1824.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/401
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1824.

"Charities" notebook detailing donations of food and other goods to residents of Fettercairn., 1867.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/574
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1867.

Climbing and photographic notebooks of Archibald Eneas Robertson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14606/1-10
Scope and Contents Rev. Archibald Eneas Robertson was a keen mountaineer and is credited with being the first person to complete all of the Munros. On his climbs, Robertson often took his camera and to record images of his climbs.The notebooks here fall into two series. The first are climbing notebooks that record information relating to climbs undertaken by Robertson. The second series relate to the photographs he took on climbs, being entitled either 'Photographic Exposure Record' or...
Dates: 1898-1930.

Climbing diary notebooks of Graham Brown., 1927-1954.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.4338/41-94
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Comprising correspondence and papers of T Graham Brown, concerning mountaineering.

Dates: 1927-1954.

Climbing diary notebooks of Graham Brown, relating to the Alps., 1932-1933.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.4338/42-59
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Comprising correspondence and papers of T Graham Brown, concerning mountaineering.

Dates: 1932-1933.

Climbing notebooks of Archibald Eneas Robertson., 1898-1906.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.14606/1-4
Scope and Contents

The notebooks in this series concern details relating to climbs undertaken by Robertson. The notebooks have been numbered prior to their arrival in the Library as notebooks 1 and 3-5, suggesting that there was originally a volume that is not present here numbered 2.

Dates: 1898-1906.

Collection of leaves of John Riddell, stitched together to form a notebook., Circa 1818.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.6.12
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The extracts are taken mainly from the public records of Scotland (Registers of the Great Seal and the Privy Seal, and the Acts of the Lords of Council and of Parliament), from Justiciary and Commissary Court Records, and from Burgh Records of various towns, with some from charter chests and other records in private hands, and range from the 14th to the 18th century. The contents, which in some notebooks are very miscellaneous, have not been indexed. Most of the notebooks are...
Dates: Circa 1818.

Collection of manuscript material transferred from printed theses collection, 1637-late 19th century, chiefly consisting of German academic papers, but including a small cache of Scottish legal papers, 19th century.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.3591
Scope and Contents

With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.

Dates: 14th century-19th century.

Collection of notebooks containing a copy made by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of a `Monasticon Scoticanum` compiled by John Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode (died 1793)., Circa 1784-circa 1820.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.30.5.1-30.5.7
Scope and Contents The work, which was apparently intended for publication but never published, is based upon the `Account of all the Religious Houses that were in Scotland at the time of the Reformation` by John Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, Keeper of the Advocates` Library, which was first printed as an Appendix to ‘Minor Practicks’, but it contains considerable additional matter and the order is rather different. Hutton appears to have made further additions from his own researches at the end of...
Dates: Circa 1784-circa 1820.

Collection of notebooks containing a copy made by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of a `Monasticon Scoticanum` compiled by John Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, volume 1., Circa 1784-circa 1820.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.1
Scope and Contents From the Series: The work, which was apparently intended for publication but never published, is based upon the `Account of all the Religious Houses that were in Scotland at the time of the Reformation` by John Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, Keeper of the Advocates` Library, which was first printed as an Appendix to ‘Minor Practicks’, but it contains considerable additional matter and the order is rather different. Hutton appears to have made further additions from his own researches at the end of...
Dates: Circa 1784-circa 1820.

Collection of notebooks containing a copy made by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of a `Monasticon Scoticanum` compiled by John Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, volume 2., Circa 1784-circa 1820.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.2
Scope and Contents From the Series: The work, which was apparently intended for publication but never published, is based upon the `Account of all the Religious Houses that were in Scotland at the time of the Reformation` by John Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, Keeper of the Advocates` Library, which was first printed as an Appendix to ‘Minor Practicks’, but it contains considerable additional matter and the order is rather different. Hutton appears to have made further additions from his own researches at the end of...
Dates: Circa 1784-circa 1820.

Collection of notebooks containing a copy made by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of a `Monasticon Scoticanum` compiled by John Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, volume 3., Circa 1784-circa 1820.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.3
Scope and Contents From the Series: The work, which was apparently intended for publication but never published, is based upon the `Account of all the Religious Houses that were in Scotland at the time of the Reformation` by John Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, Keeper of the Advocates` Library, which was first printed as an Appendix to ‘Minor Practicks’, but it contains considerable additional matter and the order is rather different. Hutton appears to have made further additions from his own researches at the end of...
Dates: Circa 1784-circa 1820.

Collection of notebooks containing a copy made by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of a `Monasticon Scoticanum` compiled by John Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, volume 4., Circa 1784-circa 1820.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.4
Scope and Contents From the Series: The work, which was apparently intended for publication but never published, is based upon the `Account of all the Religious Houses that were in Scotland at the time of the Reformation` by John Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, Keeper of the Advocates` Library, which was first printed as an Appendix to ‘Minor Practicks’, but it contains considerable additional matter and the order is rather different. Hutton appears to have made further additions from his own researches at the end of...
Dates: Circa 1784-circa 1820.

Collection of notebooks containing a copy made by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of a `Monasticon Scoticanum` compiled by John Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, volume 5., Circa 1784-circa 1820.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.5
Scope and Contents From the Series: The work, which was apparently intended for publication but never published, is based upon the `Account of all the Religious Houses that were in Scotland at the time of the Reformation` by John Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, Keeper of the Advocates` Library, which was first printed as an Appendix to ‘Minor Practicks’, but it contains considerable additional matter and the order is rather different. Hutton appears to have made further additions from his own researches at the end of...
Dates: Circa 1784-circa 1820.