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:
Sketchbook of pieces of music composed by David Johnson.
Item
Identifier: MS.22079
Scope and Contents
A leaf is torn out after folio 46.
Dates:
1966-1969.
Small miscellany of legal papers, arranged as far as possible in a single chronological sequence., 16th century-17th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.9.7(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
A contents list has been placed at the beginning of Adv.MS.25.9.7(i) (folio i).
Dates:
16th century-17th century.
Synopses, contents lists, and preliminary pages of intended publications of Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’., ?1935-[circa 1975], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27082
Scope and Contents
While some of these are complete and take the form in which they were submitted to publishers, many are merely brief notes of ideas for books, and possibly for material to be used in talks and articles.
Dates:
?1935-[circa 1975], undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Literary papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Prose works of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Broadcasts and speeches of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Editorial work of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
Topographical and other works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.22
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Scotia illustrata sive Theatrum Urbium, Arcium, Monasteriorum et aedium quarundam illustrium in Scotia`, circa 1692. The Latin text by Sibbald intended for John Slezer`s ‘Theatrum Scotiae’. It is very different from the published text which Slezer had had translated without Sibbald`s authority. The preface is in Slezer`s hand, and each entry is signed by both Sibbald and Slezer. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copy of William Harvey`s...
Dates:
Circa 1692-1709, and undated.
Transcripts by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1790-circa 1807, of extracts from the cartulary of the Dominican priory of St Andrews, 13th century-14th century, and of a charter, 1594, from, and a table of contents of the register of, the parish church of St Nicholas, Aberdeen, 14th century-16th century., 13th century-16th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.9A.1.20
Scope and Contents
The contents of the file are as follows:
extracts in the hand of John Stuart, circa 1807, from the cartulary of the Dominican priory of St Andrews, (folios 1-2);
a copy by Hutton 1796 of a charter, 1594 from, and a copy in an unidentified hand, 1790, of a table of contents of the register of, the parish church of St Nicholas, Aberdeen (folio 3-11).
Dates:
13th century-16th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of quarto volumes of transcripts by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1st quarter of 19th century, of several of the surviving cartularies and other registers, and of some collections of charters and other deeds, of the medieval dioceses, churches and religious houses of Scotland, 1164-1639.
Transcripts written for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of documents extracted from the Glasgow cartularies and of some other writings.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.5.3
Scope and Contents
These transcripts were written, on sheets watermarked 1796, for Hutton, whose signature dated 1797 is at folio ii (torn), and are followed (folio 95) by the contents list (described as an index) compiled by the copyist of British [Museum] Library Harl.MS.4631.
Dates:
13th century-15th century.
Two English medical manuscripts of the 12th century (each with later additions), bound together probably in the medieval period; the second at least belonged to a monk of Peterborough.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.16
Scope and Contents
A. (i) 'Macer Floridus, de viribus [so in title, 'virtutibus' in explicit] herbarum' by Odo of Meung(?). There are marginal headings throughout and two glosses on folio 1. A slightly later hand has added English equivalents of the plant-names (and also started to list them on folio 93 verso). A contents-list in a court-hand of the 13th century is on folio 39 verso. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Liber de virtutibus lapidum’, i.e. 'De lapidibus' by Marbod. (Folio 40.)(iii) Medical...
Dates:
12th century.
Two volumes on secular antiquities, being the second and third parts of a work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical and secular antiquities of Scotland., 1700-1707, or after.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.9(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
The two volumes, known and frequently cited as `Hay`s Memoirs`, contain accounts of varying lengths and detail of titled, landed and other Scottish families, preceded by contents lists, and followed by indexes of names and, in 34.1.9(i), lists of books relating to the subject by Scottish writers (folio 347 verso), Irish writers (folio 360), and English writers (folio 361 verso), and by accounts of Scotsmen who died abroad (folio 365). In addition to four architectural drawings of (the...
Dates:
1700-1707, or after.
Typescript contents list of the 'Papers and drawings of Mr Chas. S. S. Johnston, as deposited in the National Library of Scotland'., [1946, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.3729A
Typescript copy of table of contents, with an introductory chapter of Alice G. Vines` book `The MacDonald Women: Margaret and Ishbel`., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.13629/8
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Research notes of Dr Alice G. Vines for her book `The MacDonald Women: Margaret and Ishbel`.
Dates:
Undated.
Typescript, with manuscript additions and corrections of an account of the ancestry and early history of the family of Seton, by Colonel R S Marshall., Early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3249
Dates:
Early 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Material regarding the Setons and other families, compiled by Colonel R S Marshall.
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Typescripts, with manuscript additions and corrections of an account of the ancestry and early history of the family of Seton, with information regarding the allied families of Fleming, de Morville, de Quincy, etc., by Colonel R S Marshall.
Typescript, with manuscript additions and corrections of an account of the ancestry and early history of the family of Seton, by Colonel R S Marshall., Early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3250
Dates:
Early 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Material regarding the Setons and other families, compiled by Colonel R S Marshall.
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Typescripts, with manuscript additions and corrections of an account of the ancestry and early history of the family of Seton, with information regarding the allied families of Fleming, de Morville, de Quincy, etc., by Colonel R S Marshall.
Volume containing 9 printed papers in claims to the Earldom of Sutherland., 1769-1770, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.21
Scope and Contents
A few brief notes and some unimportant marks have been written in the margins in different hands. A contents list has been written on the flyleaf in an apparently contemporary hand.
Dates:
1769-1770, and undated.
Volume containing a collection of 15 printed legal papers, numbers 2-14 of which are concerned with the process between Sir Alexander Cockburn of Langtoun, Baronet, and Sir William Cockburn of that Ilk, 1743-1745., 1743-1745.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.19
Scope and Contents
A contents list is written in an unidentified 18th-century hand on the flyleaf.
Dates:
1743-1745.
Volume entitled (folio 2) `Memoirs of the Family of Rose of Kilravok`, being the epitome by Lachlan Shaw, minister of Elgin, of `A Genealogical Deduction of the Family of Rose of Kilravock`, by Hugh Rose, minister of Nairn.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.7
Scope and Contents
Rose`s work was first written in 1683-1684: Shaw`s epitome records also later members of the family until about 1756 (folio 69 verso), with a supplement until about 1772 (folio 83 verso). This copy appears to have been written for the antiquary William Rose in Montcoffer in the same hand as Adv.MS.32.6.8, and has a note inside the front cover, a contents list at folio 1 and a few textual additions in his hand.
Dates:
3rd quarter of 18th century.
Volume entitled (folio i) `Miscellania [sic] Scotica Curiosa Or A Collection of Curious, rare, and valuable Paper`s: Relating to Scotland, and Scots Affaires. Collected and Coppied, from the Originalls. by C:R:S:` containing transcripts of Scottish historical documents, extracts of manuscripts and copies of correspondence, from various sources, 1419-1731, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.18
Scope and Contents
The collection was compiled by Captain Robert Seton, Judge Advocate for Scotland, and consists of:(i) Copies of correspondence, 1566-1567, of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (folio 1) including two letters of Mary, Queen of Scots not recorded in Labanoff`s collection. The letters are similar to, but not the same as many of the letters in MS Calig CI from the Cottonian Library in the British Library: they may have been copied from the portion of the collection that was destroyed in the...
Dates:
1419-1731.
Volume entitled `Statuti della Mercanzia` (folio 1) containing a copy in a 17th-century hand of the statutes on trade enacted under Francesco de` Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, shortly after his accession in 1574.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.2.9
Scope and Contents
The text of the work, which is in three books, is preceded by an engraved title page (folio 1), lists of contents (folio 3) and an index of the most frequently occurring topics (folio 7), and is followed by additional statutes dated 1522-1523, 1526, 1528, 1613, and other material (folio 184).
Dates:
1522-1613.
Volume on secular antiquities, being the second part of a work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical and secular antiquities of Scotland., 1700-1707, or after.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.9(i)
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The two volumes, known and frequently cited as `Hay`s Memoirs`, contain accounts of varying lengths and detail of titled, landed and other Scottish families, preceded by contents lists, and followed by indexes of names and, in 34.1.9(i), lists of books relating to the subject by Scottish writers (folio 347 verso), Irish writers (folio 360), and English writers (folio 361 verso), and by accounts of Scotsmen who died abroad (folio 365). In addition to four architectural drawings of (the...
Dates:
1700-1707, or after.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical (Adv.MS.34.1.8) and secular (Adv.MSS.34.1.9(i)-34.1.9(ii)) antiquities of Scotland.
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Two volumes on secular antiquities, being the second and third parts of a work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical and secular antiquities of Scotland.
Volume on secular antiquities, being the third part of a work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical and secular antiquities of Scotland., 1700-1707, or after.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.9(ii)
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The two volumes, known and frequently cited as `Hay`s Memoirs`, contain accounts of varying lengths and detail of titled, landed and other Scottish families, preceded by contents lists, and followed by indexes of names and, in 34.1.9(i), lists of books relating to the subject by Scottish writers (folio 347 verso), Irish writers (folio 360), and English writers (folio 361 verso), and by accounts of Scotsmen who died abroad (folio 365). In addition to four architectural drawings of (the...
Dates:
1700-1707, or after.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical (Adv.MS.34.1.8) and secular (Adv.MSS.34.1.9(i)-34.1.9(ii)) antiquities of Scotland.
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Two volumes on secular antiquities, being the second and third parts of a work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical and secular antiquities of Scotland.
Work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical (Adv.MS.34.1.8) and secular (Adv.MSS.34.1.9(i)-34.1.9(ii)) antiquities of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.1.8-34.1.9
Scope and Contents
The work is in the same hand as, and was begun probably as the consequence to, Hay’s ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio` (Adv.MS.34.1.10) in 1700 (the date quoted on each title page) and completed in 1707 or later (Adv.MS.34.1.9(ii), folio 62).
Dates:
1700-1707, or after.
Writings of Anna Seward, copied in her autograph and bequeathed by her to Sir Walter Scott., 1762-1768, 1804.
File
Identifier: MS.879
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Juvenile Letters, 1762-1768 (folio 1);
The remains of two volumes which originally contained Anna Seward's poems (folio 86), from which only the lists of contents (folios 86, 114) and copies of poems addressed to her by literary friends (folio 94) survive;
‘Last Lay of the Lichfield Minstrel’, 1804 (folio 117).
Dates:
1762-1768, 1804.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Materials for works written or edited by Sir Walter Scott.
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Writings of Anna Seward, copied in her autograph and bequeathed by her to Sir Walter Scott.