Specifications.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Detailed and exact statements of particulars, especially statements prescribing materials, dimensions, and workmanship for something to be built, installed, or manufactured.
Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:
Reports and letters concerning proposed building works at the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.345/10
Dates:
1858-1863.
Series of three drawings - Specification and plans for excavating ground for houses in Royal Terrace and forming road to Leith Walk - Edinburgh, Royal Terrace - surveyed by William Playfair., 1821.
File
Identifier: MS.5849 (70)-(72)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A group of about 2500 plans, chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson. Their business was concerned chiefly with sea-works, lighthouses, harbours, canals and river courses, and the plans reflect this interest, although there are some items relating to railways and bridges.
Dates:
1821.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with Edinburgh, London Road-Ey.
Specification by Patrick Miller of Dalswinton of his invention of a flat-bottomed boat propelled by paddles worked by capstans.
Item
Identifier: Ch.2522
Dates:
1796.
Specification of American timber bought., [Circa 1818.]
Item
Identifier: MS.17220
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
[Circa 1818.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Estate papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning Saltoun estate.
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Account-books concerning Saltoun estate.
'Specification of Mr MacDougall's House, Spittal Park, Stirling, 1857', containing general conditions for contractors, and specifications for masonry and foundations., 1857.
Item
Identifier: MS.8940
Specifications and plans for mason work on Aberuthven cottage and farmhouse., 1868.
File
Identifier: MS.19598
Specifications for plan, elevation and section of mixed byre at Westfield (of Newholm). Parish of Dolphinton., Undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.27735b
Specifications of and contracts, agreements and accounts for building works at Auldbar Castle and on the estate., 1762-1859.
File
Identifier: MS.15436
Scope and Contents
Also included are accounts for plastering, decorating, wrightwork, etc. Folio 1 is a list of 'Rules for measuring mason work in Angus, 1762'. Folio 115 is a printed design for a villa, and folio 116 is a set of designs for lodge gates and railings.
Dates:
1762-1859.
Specifications of building work to be carried out on properties belonging to the Sutherland Estates., 1783-1958, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.10853/507-588
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Titles, policy papers, leases, rentals, registers of demands, specifications for building works and other papers, largely 1772-1923, of the Sutherland Estates.The papers described here form the second deposit of Sutherland Estates papers for the years 1861-1921, although there is some later material. The main series of estates papers for these years have been deposited as Acc.10225. Included here are the Rentals for the Dunrobin Management previously thought to have been lost....
Dates:
1783-1958, undated.