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Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Brief statements of a fact or experience, written down for review, or as an aid to memory, or to inform someone else; also includes short, informal letters.
Found in 1168 Collections and/or Records:
Copy of "An Essay on Ways and Means for Inclosing, Fallowing, Planting, etc. Scotland" (Edinburgh 1729), with notes on the end fly-leaf by Naomi Mitchison in connection with her book, "The Bull Calves".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9242
Dates:
1729.
Copy of Arts Council exhibition catalogue, "Charles Cameron, c 1740-1812".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7942
Scope and Contents
With associated manuscript notes.
Dates:
1967.
Copy of C M Grieve (editor), "Northern Numbers" (Edinburgh and London).
Item
Identifier: Acc.11066
Scope and Contents
With marginal notes of William Jeffrey.
Dates:
Undated.
Copy of ‘Discourse of coin and coinage’ by Rice Vaughan.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.4
Scope and Contents
The dedication by Henry Vaughan and the tables and additional material at the end of the published text are omitted.
On folio iv are two inscriptions `for the right honourable the Lord Roberts Lord Privie Seale of England`, and, in another hand, notes about waste land in Ireland with a reference to Sir William Petty.
Dates:
17th century.
Copy of "Fabularum Aesopicarum Delectus" (Edinburgh, 1710), with manuscript notes of James Maule, possibly 4th Earl of Panmure.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3933
Dates:
1710.
Copy of facsimile of "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect" (Kilmarnock, 1786), known as the Kilmarnock Burns, collated with the Edinburgh edition (1787), annotated by Prof Robert Dewar and with his notes inserted.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11010
Dates:
1927.
Copy of Henry Calderwood, "The Philosophy of the Infinite; with Special Reference to the Theories of Sir William Hamilton and M Cousin", with notes by Sir William Hamilton.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6758
Scope and Contents
With two letters of Hamilton and Calderwood, concerning the work.
Dates:
1854.
Copy of "Itinerarium Septentrionale" (1726) by Alexander Gordon, with notes by Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, 2nd bart.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12965
Dates:
1726.
Copy of John G Burns, "The Burne, Burn, or Burns Family" (1956).
Item
Identifier: Acc.9490
Scope and Contents
With additional notes, 1980 and 1986.
Dates:
1956-1986.
Copy of Justinian ‘Institutiones’, edited by Arnold Vinnius (Leyden, 1646), with manuscript notes by Alexander Cuningham.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.7.3(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
Also contains notes of Lord George Douglas, to whom Alexander Cuningham was tutor.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (W.10.2-3).
Dates:
1646.
Copy of ‘Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky (London, 1733) with manuscript annotations.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.4.2
Scope and Contents
The volume also contains extracts of two letters, ?circa 1690, concerning the attitude of James VII towards the Church of England (folio 1), and `Some additional Characters of the chief of the last Ministry`, 1715, signed M S (folio 3). The characters, which are apparently copied from another manuscript, are of Bolingbroke, Stafford, the Bishop of London and others. The annotations, writtenbetween 1781 and 1797, are signed `M.` and `E.M.` and are mostly copies of notes by...
Dates:
Circa 1690, 1715, 1733, 1781-1797.
Copy of notes on persons in Glasgow written by John Buchanan, Doctor of Law, on a copy of the 'Reprint of Jones's Directory . . .for the year 1789'.
Item
Identifier: MS.1020
Scope and Contents
The copy, which was made in 1884, is followed by excerpts from the 'Glasgow Herald' regarding local persons and buildings.
Dates:
1884.
Copy of Orlo Williams, "The Evacuation of the Dardanelles".
File
Identifier: Acc.1700
Scope and Contents
Article published in the National Review, includes letter and marginalia of Major-General Granville-Egerton.
Dates:
circa 1946.
Copy of Sir Augustus W Franks, "Notes on Bookplates" (1887) with author`s presentation note.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10641
Scope and Contents
Includes pasted in letter, 1888, of John Lane to Walter Hamilton, with other letters loosely enclosed and pasted in.
Dates:
1887-1888.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written in an unidentified hand apparently in or about 1666.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.5
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order), but the text of each title is shorter, contains fewer chapters, and is illustrated with fewer references to case decisions. An alphabetical index of subjects has been added in the same hand (folio 509). At page 307 is a signature of J or T Skene dated April 4 1678, and at folio i is an undated signature probably of John Swinton, Lord Swinton. Inside the...
Dates:
Circa 1666.
Copy of "The Endurance Diary of Harry McNeish", carpenter with Ernest Shackleton`s 1914-1916 Imperial Trans-Atlantic Expedition.
File
Identifier: Acc.12254
Scope and Contents
Transcribed by Shane Murphy from a microfilm in the National Library of Australia, Canberra. Includes copy of "The Diary of Thomas H Orde-Lees`s Imperial Trans-Atlantic Expedition, 1914-1916" being notes made by Margot Murrell, 1997.
Dates:
circa 1997.
Copy of ‘The Institutions of the Law of Scotland’ by Sir George MacKenzie, 5th edition (Edinburgh, 1719), octavo, interleaved with folio leaves, with brief marginalia and textual underlinings written on some of the printed pages and a much larger number of notes written on the interleaves, as far as folio 120, the remainder being blank.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.21
Scope and Contents
Further notes are written on folios ii-v which were found loosely enclosed at folios 15, 53 and 101 and which have been tipped in at folios 2-4. The notes, almost all of which refer to legal decisions of the later 17th century (the latest reference (folio 14 verso) is dated 1708) are written in the same hand throughout. It does not appear to be that of Alexander Hume, Lord Polwarth (later A H Campbell, 2nd Earl of Marchmont), whose bookplate is pasted to the verso of the title page, but the...
Dates:
?Late 17th century-1719.
Copy of the official report, 31 January 1725 [i.e. 1726], by Major-General (later Field-Marshal) George Wade, of his proceedings in disarming the Highlands; followed by copies of several papers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.21
Scope and Contents
The report is signed by Major General George Wade, folio 15.A copy of each of the following papers follows the official report:a list of the arms surrendered by the clans between August and October 1725 (folio 15 verso);Wade’s instructions to the Officers Commanding the Highland Companies, 22 September 1725 (folio 16 verso);letters of submission of persons attainted of high treason, written between August and October 1725 (folio 17 verso);...
Dates:
1726.
Copy of White Heather calendar, with historical notes and maps of Lachlan Dinwoodie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5489
Dates:
1972.
Copy of William Maitland, "History of Edinburgh" (Edinburgh, 1753), with additional papers bound in to the book.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9932
Scope and Contents
Additional papers include:
printed proposals for the work
printed and manuscript papers concerning alterations to the text
papers concerning defamation of James Coutts and Mrs Little of Liberton.
Dates:
1753 and undated.
Copy of ‘Περὶ μέτρων ποιητικῶν’, a Byzantine medical treatise by Isaac Monachus.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.9
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes marginal notes. The number XVIII is on the inside top board, £1-11-6 on folio i.
Dates:
1780.
'Cornucopia manuscriptorum codicum qui reperiuntur in Anglia. Londini. MDCLXXXIV': catalogues of manuscripts, possibly in the hand of Adrian Beverland, author of ‘De stolatae virginitatis jure’, inserted at the end of 'Nova Bibliotheca MSS. Librorum’ by Philippe Labbé (Paris, 1653).
Item
Identifier: MS.6134
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'Catalogus Codicum Manuscriptorum integrioris notae et exactioris curae Viri incomparabilis Domini Isaaci Vossii ab Hadriano Beverlando conscriptus et concinnatus. In arce Vindesoriensi X Febr. MDCXXCIV'. (Folio 4.)(ii) 'Praecipui Codices Manuscripti in Eicosarchio Regis Britanniae in palatio Ducis Eboracensis vulgo S. Jacobi'. (Folio 39.) There are no entries under this heading.(iii) 'MSS Lambaethani in Sacrario...
Dates:
1684.
Corrected typescript drafts and page proofs of a novel of Robert Nye, "Falstaff" (1976), with associated manuscript notes.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7076
Scope and Contents
With corrected typescript versions of the play of Robert Nye and John Abulafia, "Falstaff" (1977).
Dates:
circa 1976-circa 1977.
Corrected typescript drafts and proofs of William Wolfe, "Scotland Lives" (1973).
File
Identifier: Acc.9537
Scope and Contents
With associated notes and correspondence.
Dates:
circa 1973.
Corrected typescript drafts of `Points in time: an autobiography` by Dr William Johnstone, and related materials.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.332
Dates:
1980.