Tables of contents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: In written or printed works, a list of the work's parts in sequence, usually with a page number or other symbol indicating where each part begins.
Found in 172 Collections and/or Records:
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Burt to Bury., 1825-1915.
File
Identifier: MS.40174
Scope and Contents
This manuscript includes letters, 1892-1898, of John Bury to John Murray IV. Some concern his work “The student’s Roman empire”.Also included are letters, 1859-1889, of Baroness Marie Blaze de Bury to John Murray III.All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Burt, John, 1852-1856: folios 1-9;Burton, Alfred, 1915: folios 10-11;Burton, Decimus, 1829-1856: folios 12-14;Burton,...
Dates:
1825-1915.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Gardyne to Garnish., 1827-1911.
File
Identifier: MS.40440
Scope and Contents
All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Gardyne, Alan David Greenhill.Letter, 1911, of Alan David Greenhill Gardyne to John Murray IV. Folios 1-2.Gardyne, David Greenhill Bruce.Letters, 1884, of David Greenhill Bruce Gardyne to John Murray III. Folios 3-6.Gargiulo & Finizio.Letter, 1869, of Raffaele Gargiulo of Gargiulo & Finizio, Naples, to John Murray III. ...
Dates:
1827-1911.
Leyden Lyra-Viol Book: a `Copy of the Tunes in Tablature in Doctor John Leyden`s Manuscript Lyra-Viol Book`, transcribed by George Farquhar Graham.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.19
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes some details of the history of the original manuscript and a list of its contents. Most of the tunes are Scottish, but composers include Henry Purcell, John Banister, James Hart, William Lawes, and Henry Aldrich.
Dates:
1st half of 19th century.
Leyden Song Book: a collection of songs, instrumental pieces, and psalms, possibly compiled by Williane Stirling, with later additions.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.14
Scope and Contents
The contents are:1. 54 songs and instrumental pieces (folios 1-25 verso), of which the following have been identified:`My love bound me`, Robert Jones, ‘Second Book of Songs’, 1601 (folio 4 verso);`Do not O do not praise`, Robert Jones, ‘Ultimum Vale’, 1608 (folio 5);`There is none, O none but you`, Thomas Campion, ‘Second Book of Airs’, 1610 (folio 6);`Vaine men whose follies`, Thomas Campion, ‘Second Book of Airs’,...
Dates:
Circa 1639.
List of contents of the lectures and sermons of the Church of Scotland in a modern hand, with a transcript in a modern hand of one of the sermons., [1822, or after.]
File
Identifier: MS.664B
Scope and Contents
The list of contents is on paper watermarked 1822.
Dates:
[1822, or after.]
List of the contents of the original volumes of the letters to Sir Walter Scott to 1830, apparently made in Scott's lifetime., [?1830.]
Item
Identifier: MS.3920
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
These letters, with those in the Abbotsford Collection (MSS.865-869), must make up almost the whole correspondence addressed to Sir Walter Scott.
Dates:
[?1830.]
'Lord Cornwall: letters to Mr. Dundas from 1786 to 1793’., 1786-1793.
File
Identifier: MS.3385
Dates:
1786-1793.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters written by Lord Cornwallis as Governor-General of India to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, 1786-1794, and copies of letters of Dundas to Cornwallis and his successors as Governor-General, 1786-1799.
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Letters of Lord Cornwallis to Henry Dundas; with an appendix containing attachments thereto.
Manuscript collection of unpublished Italian satirical poems: ‘Raccolta delle migliori satire venute alla luce in occasione di diversi conclavi. Da quello di P.P. Alesandro VIII sino à quello di PP. Benedetto XIV’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.15
Scope and Contents
The satires are directed mainly against the corruption of the (Roman Catholic) Church. The popes mentioned in the collection are: Pope Alexander VIII (Pietro Ottoboni, 1689-1691), Innocent XIII (Michelangelo dei Conti, 1721-1724), and Benedict XIV (Prospero Lambertini, 1740-1758). The manuscript contains a table of contents at the end (folio 147), and the following satires:(i) ‘II Calascione à tre corde. In occasione della morte di Papa Alessandro VIII Ottoboni’....
Dates:
18th century-early 19th century.
'Manuscript music book', 'N[o] XVIII', of the daughters of James Douglas, containing songs from various countries., Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.21788
Scope and Contents
The volume is inscribed 'N[o] XVIII' on the upper cover and the contents list is written inside the front cover. Folio 14 is blank.
Dates:
Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
'Manuscript music' book of the daughters of James Douglas containing dances and songs from various countries., Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.21792
Scope and Contents
The title is given on folio i.
The music book contains a contents list at folio i verso.
Tipped in at folios 73-78 are six leaves containing the words and music of additional songs. A fragment of a printed sheet containing the words of a song is tipped in at folio v.
Dates:
Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
Manuscript of an early draft of the contents list of ‘Thorndale, or the conflict of opinion’ by William Henry Smith., [1857, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.4871
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
In the descriptions, references to publication generally give only the earliest traceable place and date.
Dates:
[1857, or before.]
Manuscript of chapters XII-XVII of 'The anecdotes and egotisms of Henry Mackenzie'; with miscellaneous material produced in the preparation of the work., [Before 1832.]
File
Identifier: MS.6378
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Chapter XII: ‘Men of letters’ (folio 1);(ii) Chapter XIII: ‘The stage’ (folio 41);(iii) Chapter XIV: 'Painters and architects’ (folio 66);(iv) Chapter XV: ‘Soldiers, physicians, savants, travellers’ (folio 76);(v) Chapter XVI: ‘Ireland, Sweden, France’ (folio 97);(vi) Chapter XVII: ‘Miscellany’ (folio 119);(vii) Sheets with trial contents lists for chapters (folio 137);...
Dates:
[Before 1832.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and manuscripts of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’, and of his family.
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Literary manuscripts of Henry Mackenzie, and of members of his family.
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Manuscript of 'The anecdotes and egotisms of Henry Mackenzie'.
Manuscript of `La tierche partie de la noble et puissante Maison de Bourgongne` by Robert Macquéreau.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.5
Scope and Contents
Macquéreau, or Macquériau, a historian from Valenciennes, wrote a `Traicté et recueil de la maison de Bourgogne` covering the period 1500-1529 which was published in two parts under the title ‘Histoire générale de l`Europe’. The manuscript covers the period 1464-1506. Macquéreau’s manuscript for 1500-1527 is now in Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale n.a. fr. 10433.The manuscript is in two parts, each of which is preceded by a list of contents (folios ii verso, 95). Chapter headings...
Dates:
1st half of 16th century.
Manuscript of part 1 of ‘Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn., 1940-1946, 1949, 1951-1952.
File
Identifier: MS.50195
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is a composite of articles in typescript and offprint arranged in the sequence in which they were to be published in ‘Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality’. The order of each article is indicated through the addition of a sequence number at the head of each title page. Each of the articles has been amended by Fairbairn in preparation for its inclusion in ‘Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality’.Prefatory material.Typescript, [1952],...
Dates:
1940-1946, 1949, 1951-1952.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
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Lectures and articles of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn.
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Articles and lectures of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn.
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Draft manuscripts of `Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality`, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn.
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Draft manuscript of `Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality`, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn.
Manuscript of 'The anecdotes and egotisms of Henry Mackenzie'., [Before 1832.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.6376-6378
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
There is also some correspondence of the Seaforth family, Henry's son, Joshua Henry, having married Helen, daughter of Lord Seaforth.
Dates:
[Before 1832.]
Manuscript of `The Lief of the Holy Kinge St Edwarde the Confessor translated into Englishe by G.L. accordinge to the wrytten copye thereof`, being a translation of the work by Ailred of Rievaulx.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.1
Scope and Contents
The work is preceded by a note on Ailred`s life and works, and is followed (folio 67) by a table of contents. The translator has noted a number of other sources for the history, such as John Bale, William of Malmesbury, and the Polychronicon; he has also made a few remarks, mostly opposing William Lambarde`s objections to the miracles, in the latter`s ‘Perambulation of Kent’.
Inside the front cover is the name Richard Chenery in a 17th-century hand.
Dates:
17th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, statutes, burgh laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, mostly in Scots, written in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century. Sections (xxv)-(xxvii) are a slightly later addition.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.15
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Regiam Maiestatem` in 4 books of 191 continuously numbered chapters (34, 74, 26, and 57 in each book respectively) with table at the beginning (folio 1). The end of chapter 6 to the beginning of chapter 14 is lost. ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 233-277.(ii) `Quoniam attachiamenta` in 61 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 60 verso). Chapters 11-24 are lost. ‘Acts of the Parliament of...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh and guild laws, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, a few in Scots, mostly written by John Bannatyne in 1520, with some later additions.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Regiam Maiestatem` in four books of 209 continuously numbered chapters (34, 72, 34, and 69 in each book), with table at the beginning (folio 2). This is preceded (folio 1 verso) by a couplet beginning `Me legat antiquas qui vult proferre loquelas` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xxvi) and 11 verses beginning `Hoc trahit ad lumen antiqua statuta volumen` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xv). ‘Acts of...
Dates:
14th century-16th century.
Manuscript of the Regiam Maiestatem, statutes, Leges Portuum, forest laws, Quoniam attachiamenta, burgh and guild laws, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots.
Item
Identifier: MS.21246
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written by two hands in the second half of the fourteenth century, with one slighly later addition (section (i)) and fifteenth-century additions (sections (ii), (x) etc.). In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the volume had East Fife connections.The contents are as follows.
(i) Styles of writs, brieves, etc., in 107 chapters. The majority belong to the reign of Robert II. (Folio 2.)
(ii) An alphabetical index to the volume, 15th century. (Folio 17...
Dates:
2nd half of 14th century-15th century.
Manuscript on heraldry, written throughout in one hand of the late 15th or early 16th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `De insigniis et armis` by Bartolus de Saxoferrato (folio 1). The text has been printed by Sir Edward Bysshe in the notes to his edition of ‘De studio militari’ by Nicholas Upton, pages 6-17.(ii) `De studio militari` by Nicholas Upton, (folio 12). The text corresponds with that of Bysshe`s edition except for the omission of the sections `De ardea` and `De fasiano` (pages 175, 195). A passage at the beginning of book 1,...
Dates:
Late 15th century-early 16th century.
Material connected with the ‘Memoirs of Sir Robert Strange, Knt., Engraver ... and of his brother-in-law Andrew Lumisden, private secretary to the Stuart Princes’, by James Dennistoun.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2898-2902
Dates:
1836-1855, undated.
Material of Ruthven Todd probably intended for books., 1962-1976, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26856
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscripts, typescripts, photocopies and notes concerning mushrooms, 1962-1976, undated (folio 1); (ii) Notes, introduction and contents lists for a recipe book for visitors to Majorca, 1976, undated (folio 30); (iii) Notes for a book about garlic, ?1968 (folio 67); (iv) Typescript introduction and notes for a work on extinct and newly-discovered animals, undated (folio 84).
Dates:
1962-1976, undated.
Medical recipes, being a volume of prescriptions and recipes with a few additions in a later hand.
File
Identifier: MS.15916
Scope and Contents
There is a list of contents (folio 1) and some accounts for drugs, possibly from Edinburgh (folio 241).
Dates:
1708.
'Meroure of Wyssdome' by John Ireland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.8
Scope and Contents
The work was written in 1490 for the instruction of James IV, but this may not be the copy intended for presentation to the king. Written in one hand throughout. The text (folio 8) is preceded by a list of contents (folio 1). The colophon (folio 358 verso) is dated 1490 but this may be the date of composition rather than of writing. R J Lyall dated the manuscript on the basis of the watermarks as circa 1492x in `Fifteenth-century Scottish manuscripts: a revised checklist`....
Dates:
?1490.
‘Metaphysic the science of the absolute’, an essay by Richard B Haldane, in his autograph.
Item
Identifier: MS.20230
Scope and Contents
According to a note in pencil in the hand of Richard B Haldane at folio i, dated 1914, this appears to have been the essay which he wrote in 1876 whilst a student at Edinburgh University for the Bruce of Grangehill prize and Falkland medal.
The text is preceded by a list of contents (folio 1), and begins with a preface (folio 1) and an introduction (folio 4).
Dates:
[1876.]