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Calendar of Denmilne manuscripts in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
‘Calendar of the journals of the House of Lords’.
'Canon sive regula vitæ’ by George Sibbald of Rankeillour, in the hand of, and with notes by, Sir Robert Sibbald.
‘Capitulatio…Caroli VI’ (The Hague, 1713), with manuscript notes by Johann Jacob Vitriarius.
Carbon typescript of 'The Mystery of Gorbals Terrace', a four act play by Alexander McArthur (1901-1947).
The play was originally written in 1944-1945. This typescript contains manuscript corrections by the author, Alexander McArthur and a number of notes stating that a copy sent to Unity Theatre, Glasgow, was not returned, and implying that it was used by Robert McLeish as a source for his 'Gorbals Story'.
Carefully written copy in an apparently early eighteenth-century hand of 'A S[t] Cecilia[s] song by Mr H Purcel', a setting for wind, strings, kettledrum and voices by Henry Purcell of Nicholas Brady's "An ode on St Cecilia's Day, 1692".
The copy appears to be almost complete, lacking only the latter part of the final Grand Chorus, even though many of the leaves are mutilated, the top and bottom staves (which were apparently unused) having been cut out, leading occasionally to the loss of the greater part of the leaf.
Carmichael and Gordon papers.
Cartulary of the Earls of Winton, in a seventeenth century hand.
The charters are arranged in four books dealing with the lands of Elphinstone (folio 6), Tranent (folio 49), Hartsheid (folio 176), and Kirkliston and Winchburgh (folio 184). At the end (folio 219 verso) is a humorous quatrain by the copyist.
Cash-book for Woodhouselee, Midlothian, 1827-1834, 1844-1855, containing detailed accounts of expenditure by the gardeners, with a journal, January 1827-May 1834, on inverted pages, giving brief particulars of the daily work of the two permanent gardeners.
Many of the entries in the cash-book relate to transport tolls and the employment of occasional labour. Some are concerned with minor repairs to the mansion house.
Cash-books of the Faculty of Advocates Widow’s Fund.
Cashbook, 1766-1783, of William McNeil, carpenter in Loanhead.
The cashbook gives a detailed day-by-day account of William McNeil's income from his work, and his expenditure on raw materials and on the upkeep of his family. The entries for each year are followed by an annual abstract, and throughout the volume are occasional notes on payments to employees and apprentices.
McNeil appears also to have been treasurer of the Reformed Presbyterian meeting house at Pentland, of which the accounts for 1767-1786 appear on folios 220-233 verso.
Cashbook of Dr William Eccles of Kildonan.
Catalogue and list of books of Lord George Douglas which he presented to the Faculty of Advocates.
Catalogue compiled by Hugh Sharp of the Hugh Sharp Collection of printed books.
The catalogue was compiled before the transmission of the collection to the National Library of Scotland in 1938. It contains interesting details about many of the books. A newspaper-cutting about the collection, and notes made by members of the National Library staff, found loose in the first volume, have been pasted in.
Catalogue, compiled by James Stevenson, Advocate, (Keeper 1693-1702), of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Catalogue of, and memorandum concerning imperfect books and books in the course of publication at the Faculty of Advocates Library.
"Catalogue of Baron Hume’s library", i.e. that of David Hume, nephew of the philosopher and Baron of the Exchequer of Scotland.
The catalogue was compiled by Thomas G Stevenson, bookseller, Edinburgh, 1840 (see folio 312 verso).
'Catalogue of Books belonging to James Boswell, Esq.', in Boswell's autograph.
'Catalogue of Books belonging to Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, Baronet, 1743.'
With a valuation, 1777, by John Bell, bookseller, Edinburgh, at £50 (folio vii); letters of Alexander Guthrie (presumably the Edinburgh bookseller) making the books over to Archibald Constable, and of Constable transferring the purchase to John Clerk, 1801 (folio i); and a drawing by Walter Geikie, 1825, from a portrait of Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet, 1621.
The earliest catalogue hitherto known is that printed for the sale by J G Cochrane in 1816.
Catalogue of books belonging to the Reverend Donald Sage, Minister of Kirkmichael and Cullicudden, drawn up 28 October 1823.
There are also excerpts and translations from Martial and translations of the ‘Faolan’ and ‘Song on a Jilted Lover’ of Rob Donn. Bound at the beginning and end of a volume containing ‘An Epistle address'd to a Friend’ ([Edinburgh], 1740), and 'Love of fame, the universal passion: In seven characteristical satires' (Glasgow, 1755) by Edward Young, both formerly the property of Sage.