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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 511 Collections and/or Records:

Notebook on navigation and nautical science.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13897
Content Description

A notebook containing definitions and notes on trigonometry, navigation, celestial observation, copies of ships' journals dated 1817, and some illustrations. Written by James Cook, South Ferry-Port on Craig (Tayport), in 1817. The writer was born in Ferry-Port on Craig on 17 July 1797. He married Catherine Jack in 1819, and three of their children (Thomas, b. 1822, Jean (b. and d. 1825) and Catharine (b. 1825) are listed at the back.

Dates: 1817

Notebook, presumably of the late nineteenth century, containing an epic poem in Gaelic, and related material.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3280
Scope and Contents The notebook contains:(i) 'Craobh sgaoilidh nan Gaedheal' (The expansions of the Gaels), being five parts and the argument of a sixth part of an epic, which begins with the migration of the Celts from Asia to Europe (folio 1);(ii) Material, mainly biographical and genealogical, copied from printed sources, especially from Alexander Cameron's ‘The history and traditions of the Isle of Skye’ (folio 50).On folio 1 verso is a note, 'The following are original...
Dates: Late 19th century.

Notebook signed Ernest Marchand on the upper cover, containing detailed stage directions for French productions of plays by Bellini, Verdi and Halévy.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21854
Scope and Contents

The stage directions are for the following French productions: ‘Norma’ by Bellini (folio 1); ‘Ernani’ by Verdi (folio 4); ‘Charles VI’ by Halévy (folio 12 verso).

Dates: ?Late 19th century.

Notebook signed 'John Halkerston', kept, apparently, by Lord Colvill of Ochiltree's factor.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5290
Scope and Contents

The notebook contains notes of financial transactions, 1709-1719, and a separate account of 1768.

Dates: 1709-1719, 1768.

Notebook with some correspondence of the Reverend Archibald Robertson.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8501
Scope and Contents

Concerning his work for the Scottish Mountaineering Club, and the Scottish Rights of Way Society.

Dates: circa 1940-1953.

Notebook written in William Forbes Skene’s hand.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.20
Dates: Mid 19th century-late 19th century.

Notebooks and diaries of Alexander Reid.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8541
Dates: 1935-1972 and undated.

Notebooks and literary papers of Harvey Holton.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13584
Scope and Contents Literary papers, circa 1967-2009, of Harvey Holton (1949-2010).Harvey Holton was born in Galashiels, to where the family returned in 1963 after spells in Nigeria, Edinburgh and Falkirk. Holton began writing poetry while still at school, and by the early 1970s his fascination with language and poetry as a means of expression convinced him that he had found his vocation. After moving to Fife he studied English literature at the University of Dundee, and in the mid-1970s started...
Dates: circa 1967-2009.

Notebooks and manuscripts of Willa Muir, Edwin Muir's wife.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.19675-19702
Dates: 1959-[1968, or before], undated.

Notebooks and papers of Canon Andrew John Young, the poet and naturalist (1885-1971).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.19740-19767
Scope and Contents

Much of the material consists of notes made by Canon Andrew John Young of his reading. Some of the notebooks include page references to other volumes of notes which are not in this collection.

Dates: 1937-1971.

Notebooks and papers, some in Gaelic, of the Reverend Dr John MacInnes.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10022/1-161
Scope and Contents

Papers mostly containing historical research notes, lectures, articles and or broadcasts, some in Gaelic, of the Reverend Dr John MacInnes, minister of Halkirk (1934-1955) and of Hopeman (1955-1966) and historian of Highland evangelicalism. The collection consists mostly of notebooks, many very miscellaneous in content: only in principal content of each notebook or file is noted.

Dates: 1893-1976.

Notebooks and sample patterns of Adèle Stewart.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9302
Scope and Contents

Concerning studies at the Edinburgh College of Domestic Science, Atholl Crescent.

Dates: 1942.

Notebooks and sketchbooks compiled by, and architectural plans and drawings made by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton in his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.30.5.1-30.5.28
Scope and Contents

The notes and extracts appear to have been made between about 1784 and about 1820, but most are undated.

Dates: Circa 1784-circa 1820.

Notebooks compiled by J Murdoch Henderson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6093
Scope and Contents

Containing detailed indexes to published collections of music, mainly Scottish.

Dates: 1931 and undated.