Summary

Identifier

MS.108

Dates

• 1754-1759. (Creation)

Extents

• 239 Leaves (Whole)

Subjects

• Pocket books.

• Compendiums.

• Pedigrees. Genealogies (histories).

• Blazons. Instructional materials.

• Receipts. Financial records.

• Estate records.

• Recipes. Instructions (document genre).

• Antiphoners.

• Memorandums.

• Accounts.

• Poetry.

Notes

• Conditions Governing Access

  Normal access conditions apply.

• Conditions Governing Use

  Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.

• Immediate Source of Acquisition

  Bought, 1928.

• Custodial History

  The pocket-book was bought by the National Library of Scotland with the aid of the Reid Fund.

• Arrangement

  ii + 237 folios.

• Scope and Contents

  The subjects include a family pedigree with chart and blazonings, accounts of income and expenditure, estate accounts and other business, receipts from the Principality of Scotland, prices, journeys, from Edinburgh to London, politics and elections, household recipes, verses.

• Other Finding Aids

  There is a list of contents at the beginning, of which pages 1-9 are missing.

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