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Quotations (texts).

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Excerpts of parts of a literary composition, as into another book or writing; use also for statements of market price of one or more securities.

Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:

Articles, speeches and essays of David Young Cameron., 1932-1945, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.8950/26-29
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Papers of Sir David Young Cameron including sketches, manuscripts and typescripts of lectures and addresses, and correspondence.

Papers of Katherine Cameron Kay include sketches, notes on paintings and etchings, and correspondence.

Dates: 1932-1945, undated.

Commonplace book containing epigrams, anecdotes, and quotations from religious writers., [Circa 1635-circa 1637.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.5788
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.

Dates: [Circa 1635-circa 1637.]

Diary and travel notes of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid' made during visits to Russia and Berlin., 1950-1951.

 File
Identifier: MS.27196
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Notes, chiefly on Russian schools and universities, made in connection with Christopher Murray Grieve’s “Hugh MacDiarmid's” visit to Russia in 1950 (folio 1); (ii) Diary of the first week of the visit to Russia, 1950 (folio 10); (iii) Quotations and miscellaneous notes on pages torn from a diary for 1948 (folio 14). They include brief notes on a visit to Berlin in 1951 (folio 24 verso).

Dates: 1950-1951.

English-Gaelic dictionary from A-Combat on slips compiled by Henry Comyn Maitland: part 1., 1939-1951.

 File
Identifier: MS.14959
Scope and Contents

With list of contractions. Includes classified list of 24 words for ‘bog’ (2 folios) referred to by Henry Comyn Maitland in ‘An Gaidheal’, volume 39, page 118.

Dates: 1939-1951.

English-Gaelic dictionary from Come-For on slips compiled by Henry Comyn Maitland: part 2., 1939-1951.

 File
Identifier: MS.14960
Scope and Contents From the Series: Henry Comyn Maitland served as a magistrate and judge in Bengal 1908-1925, and practised as a barrister in London till 1939. During World War II he lived in Edinburgh, but spent several months each year at Iochdar, South Uist. The dictionary was mainly compiled between 1939 and his death. The dictionary consists of about 30,000 slips. Each slip bears a Gaelic quotation with English translation and reference. The quotations are drawn from periodicals and other printed works, chiefly...
Dates: 1939-1951.

English-Gaelic dictionary from Forage-Lewd on slips compiled by Henry Comyn Maitland: part 3., 1939-1951.

 File
Identifier: MS.14961
Scope and Contents From the Series: Henry Comyn Maitland served as a magistrate and judge in Bengal 1908-1925, and practised as a barrister in London till 1939. During World War II he lived in Edinburgh, but spent several months each year at Iochdar, South Uist. The dictionary was mainly compiled between 1939 and his death. The dictionary consists of about 30,000 slips. Each slip bears a Gaelic quotation with English translation and reference. The quotations are drawn from periodicals and other printed works, chiefly...
Dates: 1939-1951.

English-Gaelic dictionary from Liable-Pre-eminent on slips compiled by Henry Comyn Maitland: part 4., 1939-1951.

 File
Identifier: MS.14962
Scope and Contents From the Series: Henry Comyn Maitland served as a magistrate and judge in Bengal 1908-1925, and practised as a barrister in London till 1939. During World War II he lived in Edinburgh, but spent several months each year at Iochdar, South Uist. The dictionary was mainly compiled between 1939 and his death. The dictionary consists of about 30,000 slips. Each slip bears a Gaelic quotation with English translation and reference. The quotations are drawn from periodicals and other printed works, chiefly...
Dates: 1939-1951.

English-Gaelic dictionary from Prefer-Stranded on slips compiled by Henry Comyn Maitland: part 5., 1939-1951.

 File
Identifier: MS.14963
Scope and Contents From the Series: Henry Comyn Maitland served as a magistrate and judge in Bengal 1908-1925, and practised as a barrister in London till 1939. During World War II he lived in Edinburgh, but spent several months each year at Iochdar, South Uist. The dictionary was mainly compiled between 1939 and his death. The dictionary consists of about 30,000 slips. Each slip bears a Gaelic quotation with English translation and reference. The quotations are drawn from periodicals and other printed works, chiefly...
Dates: 1939-1951.

English-Gaelic dictionary from Strange-Zodiac on slips compiled by Henry Comyn Maitland: part 6., 1939-1951.

 File
Identifier: MS.14964
Scope and Contents From the Series: Henry Comyn Maitland served as a magistrate and judge in Bengal 1908-1925, and practised as a barrister in London till 1939. During World War II he lived in Edinburgh, but spent several months each year at Iochdar, South Uist. The dictionary was mainly compiled between 1939 and his death. The dictionary consists of about 30,000 slips. Each slip bears a Gaelic quotation with English translation and reference. The quotations are drawn from periodicals and other printed works, chiefly...
Dates: 1939-1951.

English-Gaelic dictionary on slips compiled by Henry Comyn Maitland (1885-1951), son of Provost Andrew Maitland of Tain.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14959-14964
Scope and Contents Henry Comyn Maitland served as a magistrate and judge in Bengal 1908-1925, and practised as a barrister in London till 1939. During World War II he lived in Edinburgh, but spent several months each year at Iochdar, South Uist. The dictionary was mainly compiled between 1939 and his death. The dictionary consists of about 30,000 slips. Each slip bears a Gaelic quotation with English translation and reference. The quotations are drawn from periodicals and other printed works, chiefly...
Dates: 1939-1951.

Five sermons on 1 Peter 4.1; 1 Peter 3.22; St John 14.16; Colossians 1.18; Acts 13.38., Late 17th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.20483
Scope and Contents

The text is written on the rectos only, with occasional additions on the versos; one of these, on folio 93 verso, is headed Whitsunday, 1680. The unknown author numbered the folios (143 is repeated), leaving 1-30 blank and unnumbered but taken into account. On folio i is a quotation from Daniel Heinsius on the necessity of knowing Greek to understand the New Testament.

Contemporary blind-stamped leather binding, with 'D' in gilt on the spine.

Dates: Late 17th century.

'Keeping your words: An Anthology from cradle to grave' (2005)., 2003-2006.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/109-113
Scope and Contents From the Series: Most, but not all, of Magnusson's published works are represented. Also included here are the translations that Magnusson undertook on the work of the Icelandic author and Nobel prize winning novelist Halldór Laxness (1902-1998). Material relating to Magnusson's book on Mastermind "I've started so I'll finish" can be found in the Mastermind section.The material includes correspondence relating to book proposals, research notes compiled by Magnusson while working on his books, and...
Dates: 2003-2006.

List of Quotations on various subjects., 2003.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/112
Scope and Contents From the Series: Most, but not all, of Magnusson's published works are represented. Also included here are the translations that Magnusson undertook on the work of the Icelandic author and Nobel prize winning novelist Halldór Laxness (1902-1998). Material relating to Magnusson's book on Mastermind "I've started so I'll finish" can be found in the Mastermind section.The material includes correspondence relating to book proposals, research notes compiled by Magnusson while working on his books, and...
Dates: 2003.

Literary and theological notes of Canon Andrew John Young., [Circa 1955]-[before 1972.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19757-19765
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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: [Circa 1955]-[before 1972.]

Miscellaneous personal papers of George Combe., 1805-1858, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.7435-7437
Scope and Contents From the Series:

MSS.7443-7445 are written in German, having been delivered on George Combe's tour in Germany in 1842.

The phrenological reports (MSS.7452-7455) comprise the phrenological measurements of many persons, both well-known and obscure, with reports and descriptions of their mental capabilities and weaknesses.

The papers of Cecilia Combe contain a selection of literary efforts, diaries of tours, and the usual memoranda and inventories kept by nineteenth-century housewives.

Dates: 1805-1858, undated.

Notebook containing philosophical and other writings of Richard B Haldane., 1st quarter of 20th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.20219
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:A chapter of a work on philosophy by Richard B Haldane (folio 1);Draft of the text of a lecture on 'The philosophical significance of humanism' (folio 9);Draft of the text of a lecture on 'The philosophy of the particular' (folio 33 verso);Quotations from various sources (folio 1 inverted);Chapters of works on philosophy (folios 3, 12 inverted);Text of a lecture on education written about 1921...
Dates: 1st quarter of 20th century.

Notebook, containing quotations and other related material, possibly for sermons., Undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10022/82
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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: Undated.

Notebook of Canon Andrew John Young containing excerpts and brief quotations from philosophical and theological works., [After 1965.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.19765
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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: [After 1965.]

Notebook of Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’, containing quotations and excerpts from works by other writers., 1934-1973, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.27143
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poetry and prose works, including books, articles, lectures and notes. Much of the material is fragmentary, and some was reworked or copied by Hugh MacDiarmid at a later date.

Dates: 1934-1973, undated.