Signatures. Names.
Found in 83 Collections and/or Records:
Accounts of the Treasurer of the Faculty of Advocates concerning charges and discharges., 1696-1702.
Includes an inventory of bonds for the current Dean of Faculty and Mr John Fairholm, Treasurer. Signed by John Mackaile.
Album entitled 'Military autographs', containing fourteen photographs of British and French generals and two signatures pasted in., 19th century.
Album of John Horseman containing franks and other signatures, with a few letters., 1779-1850.
Album titled 'Autograph and Portraits', and labelled 1, of a collection apparently formed by Thomas Thompson, Liverpool., 1820-1840.
The autographs are of botanists, evangelical divines, and others, many being addressed to the Reverend Thomas Raffles, Liverpool, and to John Shepherd, Botanical Garden, Liverpool.
Album titled 'Autograph and Portraits', and labelled 3, of a collection apparently formed by Thomas Thompson, Liverpool., 1820-1840.
The autographs are of botanists, evangelical divines, and others, many being addressed to the Reverend Thomas Raffles, Liverpool, and to John Shepherd, Botanical Garden, Liverpool.
Article on romance by Sir Walter Scott for the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica'., 1824.
Includes a portrait of Sir Walter Scott.
Autograph album of Florence Marian McNeill containing signatures cut from letters and other documents., 1907-1946, undated.
Born in Orkney, Florence Marian McNeill worked in London for the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene from 1913 to 1917. She wrote and lectured on a variety of subjects, and was an active member of the Scottish National Party and the Saltire Society, but is best known for her books on Scottish cookery and folklore.
Autographs of 'Divines and Judges' collected by William Finlay Watson., 16th century-19th century.
The collection consists of letters and documents in the autograph of literary, political, social, artistic, naval, military, and legal celebrities, chiefly covering the period from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth.
The first 2,300 items bear numbers given in the National Galleries. Certain letters, etc., have been retained for exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery; the series is therefore not continuous (see MS.595).
Book containing election tickets autographed by members of the Bannatyne Club., 1826-1834.
'Book of common prayer... according to the use of the Church of England...' (Oxford, 1784), with signature of Charles Steuart, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1786)., 1784.
Booklet of facsimiles of autographs of the 'Arts Class', 1908-1912, Aberdeen University, with a few notes in the hand of Agnes Mure Mackenzie., [1912, or after.]
'Catalogue of Books', of a library of the Kerr family, Marquesses of Lothian., 1666-1671.
The catalogue is signed by the 3rd Earl of Lothian and contains some additions in his hand.
Catalogue of the Abbotsford Library, 1838, signed and docqueted by Sir Walter Scott, 2nd Baronet, 1839., 1838-1839.
Catechism, 17th century, on the contents of 'Regiam majestatem'., 17th century-1705.
Charms and spells etc., including notes on witchcraft and astrology., Late 18th century, 1818.
A late eighteenth-century manuscript bearing the signatures 'John Blakey' (page 15) and 'Thomas Wyld' (pages 30, 72), with some additional matter (page i), dated 1818, written perhaps by the James Lomax whose signature is on page 3.
Collection of autographs, made circa 1840, consisting chiefly of franked envelopes and signatures., [Before 1840.]
The Cowie manuscripts include the final version of ‘The gentle shepherd, a Scots pastorall comedy’ by Allan Ramsay (MS.15972).
Compendium containing copies of several treatises on Scots Law., 17th century.
Confessions of Margaret Duchall and others, accused of witchcraft, and their delations against other persons, with the signatures of those who heard them, Alloa., 1658.
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Copy of 'Scottish scene' (London, 1934) by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, signed by him, Hugh McDiarmid, and Helen B Cruickshank., 1935.
Copy of the chronicles of the Civil War in Scotland compiled by Henry Guthrie, Bishop of Dunkeld, subsequently printed as ‘The memoirs of Henry Guthrie’ (London, 1702)., 1697, [1702, or before.]
The copy of the chronicles is followed (folio 115) by 'Digitus Dei or Gods [[judgement]] Justice upon Treacherie and Treason & c.', a polemic against the 1st Duke of Hamilton. The signature 'W.Sanders' dated 1697 is on folio 1.
Correspondence and financial papers., 1810-1852.
Document relating to James Colville, Laird of East Wemyss (afterwards Lord Colville), Captain of 50 men-at-arms of Henry IV's ordonnance, signed, "Destveimes [d' East Wemyss]"., 1594.
Included is a note by the Reverend Henry Paton.
Inventory of the Crown jewels and plate of England, made on 20 May 1559, and subscribed by John Astley, Master of the Jewel House., 1559.
A note (folio 104) signed by Burghley, Sir Walter Mildmay, and Sir Ralph Sadleir, as commissioners of the Crown, states that a new inventory has been made on 14 March 1575, and that the present one is to be accounted as void.