Annotations.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Notes added as comment or explanation, such as those accompanying an entry in a bibliography, reading list, or catalogue intended to describe, explain, or evaluate the publication referred to.
Found in 173 Collections and/or Records:
Anonymous letter to Thomas Carlyle, with annotations by the recipient.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7672
Dates:
? 1866
‘Antient metaphysics’ (Edinburgh, 1779-1799), volumes 1-5, by James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, with manuscript annotations by Monboddo and an amanuensis.
Series
Identifier: MSS.25253-25257
Scope and Contents
Notes by Professor William Fraser Mitchell on the front flyleaf of MS.25253 and inside the front covers of MSS.25256-25257 state that the second hand is that of Lord Monboddo's son-in-law, Kirkpatrick Williamson Burnett.
Dates:
[1779, or after]-[1797, or after.]
Author’s annotated copies of ‘The Grants of Corrimony’ (Berwick, 1895), and ‘The county families of the Zetland Islands’ (Berwick, 1893) by Sir Francis J Grant.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10971-10972
Dates:
1893, 1895, 1906-1950.
Author's interleaved proof copy of ‘Occasional verses, translations and imitations’ by Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie; with letters and papers to Glenbervie formerly loosely inserted therein.
Series
Identifier: MSS.16493-16494
Dates:
[?1820.]
Author’s own copy of ‘The Gareloch as military port no. 1’ by Arnold Fleming (Helensburgh, [1949]); with corrections and additions throughout in manuscript, and numerous inserts.
File
Identifier: MS.16483
Scope and Contents
Pasted in at beginning and end are newspaper cuttings, typescripts, and manuscripts, consisting of reviews of the book and of articles and notes on its subject, on Clyde steamers, and on Madeleine Smith.
Dates:
[1949], [1949, or after.]
Barbara Balfour-Melville, "The Balfours of Pilrig" (1907), with interleavings annotated by Sir Graham Balfour.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9458
Scope and Contents
With photographs and letters including five, 1870, 1887-1892, of Robert L Stevenson, and two, 1859, 1869, of Florence Nightingale.
Dates:
circa 1859-1907.
Bazett Michael Haggard, "Objects of Pity" (1892), with author`s corrections and associated correspondence.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8232
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include Lloyd Osbourne, 1901, and Isobel Field, 1941.
Dates:
1892-1941.
Biographical notices of Scottish pipers, in continuation of a series published in "Piping Times".
File
Identifier: Acc.11003
Scope and Contents
Includes additions and corrections.
Dates:
circa 1984.
‘Confessio Fidei’ (Cambridge, 1659), interleaved, with manuscript annotations by Hugh MacKail.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.18
Dates:
[1659, or after.]
Copies of Constantinus Harmenopoulos, “Πρόχειρον νόμων” (Paris, 1540), with manuscript notes and annotations by various scholars.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.5.1-Adv.MS.28.5.7
Scope and Contents
Seven copies of “Πρόχειρον νόμων, sive epitome juris civilis" with marginal annotations of collation and correction by various scholars of Esusciluce whose names are noted on each.
Dates:
Mid 16th century-18th century.
Copies of Edwin Muir, "First Poems" (1925) and "Chorus of the Newly Dead" (1926), the former inscribed by Muir to John and Dorothy Holms.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9645
Scope and Contents
Both annotated by Beatrix Holms
Dates:
circa 1925-1926.
Copies of "The Works of Robert Burns..." (Liverpool, 1800), and "Reliques of Robert Burns" (London, 1808), both annotated by Alexander Fraser Tytler.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9852
Dates:
1800-1808.
Copy-book and Latin exercises written by John, Robert and William Scott of Gilmanscleuch.
File
Identifier: MS.5068
Scope and Contents
Comments on the manuscript by Sir J A H Murray are interspersed throughout the volume. Also included is his article, 'Concerning an old copy-book', in 'Leisure Hour', 1 January 1871.
Dates:
1629-1632, [1871, or before].
Copy of Alexander MacKain, "Badenoch: It`s History, Clans and Place Names", with corrections and annotations by the author.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9611
Dates:
circa 1910.
Copy of "An Early Norse Reader", edited by G N Garmonsway, with annotations of David D Murison.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7517
Dates:
1928.
Copy of "Ballads of the Bench and Bar", with manuscript annotations.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5780
Dates:
1882.
Copy of 'Critical dissertations', by John Macpherson, with annotations of Robert Forbes.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14451
Dates:
1768-1772.
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 George Cheyne, "An Essay of Health and Long Life" (London, 1724), with frequent overlinings and annotations by John Elphinstone, 4th Lord Balmerino.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9345
Dates:
1724.
Copy of James Dalrymple, "The Institutions of the Law of Scotland" (Edinburgh, 1681), with frequent overlining and annotation in two hands, one of them that of John Elphinstone.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9330
Dates:
1681.
Copy of Martin Martin, "A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland" (1716), with annotations, 1720, of John Toland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7999
Dates:
1716-1720.
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 "Pictures in the New Club" (1911), with manuscript annotations and additions.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7871
Scope and Contents
A catalogue of pictures in the New Club, Edinburgh.
Dates:
1911.
Copy of "Posting Book, with Tables for Calculating the Expense of Horses and Post-Boys" (1837), with annotations concerning journeys in Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10178
Dates:
circa 1837.
Copy of Robert Law, "Memorials" (Edinburgh, 1818), with annotations by editor Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9331
Scope and Contents
Includes letters of James Ballantyne to Sharpe concerning the printing of "Memorials".
Dates:
1818.