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Registers (lists).

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Official lists of entries of any information considered sufficiently important to be exactly and formally recorded, typically maintained in numerical or chronological order in a regular manner.

Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:

Registers of proceedings of curators and keepers of the Advocates' Library, chiefly in the handwriting of Thomas Ruddiman.

 Series
Identifier: F.R.117-F.R.118
Scope and Contents

The registers contain full lists of books bought and recieved from Stationers' Hall.

Dates: 1702-1754.

Roll of Scottish troops in the Swedish service, being photographs of selected pages of a manuscript volume in the Krigsarkiv in Stockholm, entitled "Militiehuvudbok över värvade trupper, 1630".

 File
Identifier: MS.788
Scope and Contents

The photographs are of folios 51, 56-57, 71-72, 74-77, 79-87, 91, 93, 96, 98-101, 105-141, 209, and 241-250 of the original 'Militiehuvudbok ...', which is described in the catalogue of the Gustavus Adolphus Exhibition in Stockholm, 1932, as follows: ‘No. 444. A detailed list of all the enlisted troops, mainly of Scottish and German origin, who appear in the Swedish armies’.

Dates: 1630.

'The Arms of Noblemen, Knights, and others who have been Recorded in the Books of the Lyon Office at Edinburgh. [Compiled, over a period of years at the end of the seventeenth century, by] Henry Frazer, Ross Herauld & Painter'.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2564
Scope and Contents

Henry Frazer’s signature is on page 710.

There are additions throughout in various hands including that of David Deuchar, Seal Engraver, Edinburgh, who also compiled the indexes (cf. Adv.MSS.35.6.15-35.6.16). There are thirteen coats crudely emblazoned and a sketch of the seal of office of the Lyon King of Arms.

Dates: Late 17th century.