Signatures. Names.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Persons' names written in their own hand.
Found in 133 Collections and/or Records:
Uncorrected page-proofs, signed by Allan Campbell McLean, of ‘The islander’., 1962.
Item
Identifier: MS.26999
Various single and small quantities of musical compositions and letters of James Scott Skinner.
Series
Identifier: MS.22078
Dates:
1870-1924, undated.
Verses by William Widdrington, whose signature occurs at intervals., 1697-1704.
File
Identifier: MS.2794
Scope and Contents
Some of the verses are addressed to W Widrington's wife Elizabeth, who died in 1672 (page 14); some to his friends, especially Samuel Burroughs, Newmarket, to whom he presented the book.
Dates:
1697-1704.
Volume begun at both ends by John Hamilton for lecture notes and later for other uses, and subsequently used to contain a catalogue of the books in the Gray Library, Haddington., 1639-1658, 1740.
File
Identifier: MS.16482
Scope and Contents
Volume begun at both ends containing lecture notes, 1639-1640, on the works of Aristotle by John Hamilton, who has used it subsequently to contain records of receipts and payments, 1656-1658, as minister (folio 24-30), a list of his books (folio 99 inverted), and an index to his sermons (folio 101 inverted). In 1740 it was used to contain a catalogue of the books in the Gray Library, Haddington (f.121 inverted), possibly for stocktaking purposes, the list being signed at the beginning and...
Dates:
1639-1658, 1740.
Volume kept by Dorothy Trotter, née Warren, wife of Philip C Trotter, containing press cuttings concerning, and signatories to a petition (unsuccessful) against, a proposal to demolish the house next to their home in Maida Vale, London., 1936.
File
Identifier: MS.20304
Scope and Contents
Also pasted in are press cuttings relating to housing development elsewhere in London.
Dates:
1936.
Volume of material concerning the 'Scots White Paper Manufacture'., 1694-1707.
Item
Identifier: MS.1913
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: copy of articles of agreement between Nicolas Dupin and Dennis Manes on the one part and members of and subscribers to the Scots White Paper Manufacture on the other, signed by Dupin and Manes, 1694 (folio 1); signed subscriptions, 1694-1699 (folio 7); 'The Register of the Actings and Proceedings of the Paper-Company of Scotland confirmed be Act of Parliament, 10th July, 1695', 1703-1707 (at end, inverted).
Dates:
1694-1707.
Volume, titled ‘Private military memoranda’, containing standing orders and other memoranda, evidently kept for Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Dawkins, Coldstream Guards, who has signed his name on the fly-leaf., 1809-1823.
Item
Identifier: MS.194
Dates:
1809-1823.
Volumes containing records of the Gray Library, Haddington., 1639-1885.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.16479-16482
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The volumes consist of manuscripts compiled by John Gray, minister of Aberlady (who bequeathed his library and a sum of money to the town of Haddington) (MSS 16446-16467), other manuscript volumes written by Gray and by others, which were certainly or possibly in his possession (MSS 16468-16478), and volumes containing records of the Gray Library 1732-1885 (MSS.16479-16482).Printed labels identifying the volumes as manuscripts were pasted to the spines of most of them apparently...
Dates:
1639-1885.