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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 508 Collections and/or Records:

Microfilm of the notebook of the storekeeper on David Livingston’s Zambesi Expedition.

 Item
Identifier: MS.20321
Scope and Contents

The notebook was chiefly kept by Thomas Baines and contains accounts of stores taken, notes on their issue, and records of provisions. Baines, better known as an artist, was dismissed by David Livingstone for alleged irregularities in the use of the stores, and an account of the enquiry is included.

Dates: 1858-1859.

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 notebooks of Christina Struthers, wife of Sir John Struthers, the anatomist.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1683
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Notebook, 1861-1871, of Christina Struthers entitled 'Records of the Children', discussing the appearance, character, and development of her several children (MS.8900);

Notebook, 1864-1875, of Christina Struthers entitled 'Household Inventories and Commonplace Book' (MS.8901).

Dates: 1861-1875.

Miscellaneous notebook of H G Aldis, the bibliographer.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8917
Scope and Contents

The earlier entries consist of bibliographical, antiquarian, and ecclesiological notes'. The later entries are chiefly concerned with early printing, and liturgies. There are a few collations of individual volumes, together with some notes on Scottish libraries.

Dates: 1884-1911.

Music book, 1800, of James Wallace of Thornhill.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11739
Scope and Contents

Includes five other music items, late 18th century to early 19th century.

Dates: Late 18th century to early 19th century

Note-books of Thomas Wilkie.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.121-123
Scope and Contents

Thomas Wilkie was a collector of Border lore, and communicated much information to Walter Scott.

Dates: 1814-1815, undated.

Notebook and letters of Robert Louis Stevenson.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.19637-19641

Notebook and parochial roll of Samuel Cameron, Minister of Logierait.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20401-20402
Scope and Contents

Samuel Cameron was Minister of Logierait from 1842 until his death in 1872. These volumes are a useful source both for his lifestyle as a country minister in the mid-19th century and for the history of Logierait.

Dates: 1837-1861.

Notebook belonging to William Rankin, James Rankin, and, finally, to Gabriel Rankin of Orchardhead.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6159
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Memoranda relating to financial and other transactions of Rankin of Orchardhead, 1605 (folio 1); 1605-1609 (folio 2 inverted);(ii) Miscellaneous material, mid-seventeenth century: 'Lactari cordato et greca lingua studioso' (folio 4); latin verses (folio 12 inverted); sermons and historical notes (folio 13 inverted);(iii) Material relating to Alexander Mure, portioner of Grange of Bothkennar: 'Rentall of the Bacraw', 1639,...
Dates: 1605-1725.

Notebook, circa 1620, containing part of the Aberdeen Confession of Faith, 1616.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.4867
Scope and Contents

With a poem concerning the Gunpowder Plot, seven sonnets, and a didactic poem, "Of Wisdome".

Dates: 1616-circa 1620.

Notebook, compiled by a student at Glasgow United Free Church Training College.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.4919
Scope and Contents

Containing drawings and notes on nature study, architecture, and other subjects.

Dates: 1904-1906.

Notebook containing a record of the campaigns of the 1st Battalion, Scots Fusilier Guards in the Crimea.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9319
Scope and Contents

The contents are compiled from official and other documents, and consist of: rolls of service of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men who went to the Crimea; rolls of promotions, honours, and awards; detailed returns of the state and strength of the battalion, including medical reports; a journal of the campaigns and battles in which the battalion took part.

The notebook is illustrated with occasional sketches, ink and watercolour, and with two military poems.

Dates: 1854-1856.

Notebook containing historical notices of Leith.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.2.28
Scope and Contents The notebook was begun probably in 1817, the date of the watermark of the sheets, and continued probably until 1821, the latest date quoted (folio 82 verso: the visit of George IV to Scotland in 1822 does not appear to be mentioned). The compiler, who has not been identified, appears to have derived much of his information from printed sources, especially the histories of Edinburgh by William Maitland (published 1753), Hugo Arnot (first published 1779) and Alexander Kincaid (published 1787)....
Dates: ?1817-?1821.