Signatures. Names.
Found in 133 Collections and/or Records:
Notebook containing 'Selectae Disputationes Logice', probably dictates or lecture notes, begun 23 March 1678; and accounts, 1681-1691, of the West Nisbet estate, in the hand of John Carre of Cavers and Nisbet., 1678, 1681-1691.
The Nisbet papers fall into four groups, belonging respectively to the Nisbets of that Ilk, the original owners of the estate; the Kers (later Carres) of Cavers and West Nisbet; who acquired the estate in 1649; the Chisholmes of that Ilk, connected by marriage to Charles St Clair, 15th Lord Sinclair, who succeeded to the estate some time before 1813; and William Molleson, probably related to the sister of Charles St Clair, de jure 13th Lord Sinclair.
Original manuscript of 'Mackenzie Fraser', a reel by James Scott Skinner, and a scrap of paper containing his undated signature., 1905, undated.
Papers dealing with signals, diagrams for battle, and other matters., 1793-1808.
Includes a diagram signed by Nelson.
Papers of John Rennie concerning lighthouses., 1798-1821.
Papers relating to the Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh, many of which appear to have been cut from the prison register., 1662-1794.
Part of a letter of John Leyden, regarding the Academy of Physics, Edinburgh, 1798, with the signed end of a letter, and verses in his autograph, undated., 1798, undated.
Perth Psalter, containing calendar, psalter, canticles, and litany.
Petition presented by pensioners and discharged soldiers of the County of Lanark to the House of Lords.
The petitioners claim exemption from the payment of Road Money, a tax levied for the repair of roads, etc., in lieu of Highway Duty, in virtue of an Act exempting ex-soldiers from the latter. The document, which bears 86 signatures, is accompanied by a letter to the 2nd Viscount Melville, 1823.
Photocopies of miscellaneous papers of and concerning David Livingstone., 1825-1858.
Photographs of the leaves of the Glenquoich visitors' book containing the names of friends and relatives who visited the Ellices' estates at Invergarry during the late summer and autumn of each year from 1846 to 1863.
Photostats of a letter of Alexander Nasmyth, the artist, concerning Robert Burns, 1829, and of excise returns for Dumfries, 1793, with Burns' signatures., 1793, 1829.
Poems of George Lauder, transcribed, 17th century, chiefly from printed copies indicated in the manuscript.
Political tract titled "Non Nobis Domine. My Help is onelie in God. My heart trusted & I am helped. A Conference betwixt Orthodoxus and Sophronus, concerning the contents of Buchanan's tractate entituled de jure Regni apud Scotos, and that other entitled Vindiciae contra Tyrannos".
The work, apparently not known in print, is in a hand of the early eighteenth century, with a dedication to the Marquess of Huntly and a preface, both signed 'Aretophilus'.
Portrait sketches by Sir David Wilkie on the fly-leaves of his Bible, with his signature, dated 11 November 1799.
Presentation inscription, December 1942, by Joyce Cary to Professor John Dover Wilson, in Cary's 'To be a pilgrim' (London, 1942).
A watercolour by Joyce Cary depicting the scene described on page 306 is pasted inside the front cover. The title page is also signed by him.
Printed ‘Instructions to be observed by the Persons appointed to take care of the Rebel Prisoners, etc., in Great Britain’., 1745.
Included are the signatures of Charles Allen and T Cayley, Commissioners for taking care of sick and wounded seamen and for exchanging prisoners of war, and specimen schedules for prisoner returns, as in MS.288.
This copy was used by George Fraser, Auditor of Excise, who had charge of the payment of the prisoners in Scotland.
Printed letter signed by Thomas Scott, brother of Sir Walter, advertising his appointment as Extractor of the Court of Session., 1808.
Proceedings, lists and other papers relating to the Lords of Session, Baron of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood., Early 19th century.
Proceedings of the Commissioners of Supply for Dumfriesshire, signed, with signed oaths of allegiance., 1693-1711.
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.
Proposals for raising a subscription among Judges and Members of the Faculty of Advocates, former pupils of David Hume as Professor of Scots Law, with a view to procuring a memorial to him on his retirement from that office.
The proposal is signed by fifty-two subscribers, including Sir Walter Scott. Chantrey was asked to execute a bust of Hume, but was unable to undertake the commission (see Scott's letter to Chantrey of 7 September 1822, and note, in the Centenary Edition of his letters).
‘Rerum Scoticarum historia’ by George Buchanan, with the ‘De jure regni apud Scotos’ (Edinburgh, 1583), with marginal notes in manuscript by George Buchanan., 1583.
The volume is incomplete, and there are added, in manuscript, the end of the ‘De jure regni apud Scotos’ with the verses contained in the printed editions (folio 1); a copy of the 'Locorum, nominum propriorum gentilitium, rerumque difficiliorum ... explicatio vernacula' by Thomas Craufurd and Christopher lrvine (folio 4 verso); and some genealogical notes on the Bruces (folio 18).
Robert Mylne's copy of ‘An index or abridgement of the Acts of Parliament' by Sir Thomas Murray, 1st Baronet, Lord Glendoick (Edinburgh, 1685)., 1685.
The volume contains extensive marginal notes by Robert Mylne on many of the pages of the text, and a list, arranged in alphabetical order of subject, of decisions of the parliaments of James II, 1685 and 1686, written on extra leaves bound in at the end of the volume.
'Royal Letters, etc’, being letters and signatures of royal and other personages, ranging from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century., 16th century-19th century.
Many of the papers are accompanied by transcripts or summaries by Alexander Macdonald.
Rules of the Reale Accademia di Musica e Ballo in Naples, 1834, followed by signatures of members of the Neapolitan royal family and names of subscribers., 1793-1839.
A few letters and orders, 1793-1839, have been inserted.