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Mimeographed extracts from the "Alexander Graham Bell Home Notes", a household journal.
File
Identifier: Acc.10726
Dates:
1916-1921.
Minute and record book of the Scottish National Library Endowment Trust, kept by its Clerk-Treasurer, K M Oliphant, Writer to the Signet.
Item
Identifier: MS.24724
Scope and Contents
The Scottish National Library Endowment Trust was established at the Instigation of Hugh P Macmillan King’s Counsel, later Lord Macmillan, its Honorary Secretary, to receive gifts from private individuals towards the establishment of a National Library on the basis of the non-legal collections of the Advocates’ Library. Its most notable receipt, £100,000 from Alexander (later Sir Alexander) Grant in June 1923, made possible the establishment of the Library in 1925.The volume...
Dates:
1923-1925.
Minute book recording the formal business of the society running an evangelical library at South Queensferry.
File
Identifier: MS.9810
Scope and Contents
The minute book also contains a list of members' names, with the numbers of the books issued to them each month. Three book-seller's accounts, giving the titles of religious works purchased for the library, are inserted.
Dates:
1825-1856.
Minute books and accounts of various political associations.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12454
Scope and Contents
Minute books of: (1) Cardross Unionist Association, 1938-1961; (2) Cunninghame District Conservative Local Government Advisory Committee, 1979-1983.
Notes and accounts of Bridge of Weir Liberal Association, 1919-1964.
Accounts of Galloway Liberal Association, 1930-1933.
Minutes of Strathclyde Liberal Regional Association, circa 1974.
Dates:
1919-1983.
Minute books and other records of the United Incorporation of Mary`s Chapel, Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.302
Dates:
1755-1949.
Minute books and papers of the Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: Dep.375
Dates:
1773 to 20th century.
Minutes, accounts, and miscellaneous papers of the Edinburgh Skating Club.
Series
Identifier: MSS.24641-24649
Scope and Contents
The Edinburgh Skating Club was clearly well-established in 1784 when the first minute book starts. Apart from a few years of inactivity the Club flourished until the early 1900's when combined figure-skating declined in popularity. It was finally dissolved in 1966. Although the Club attracted a large proportion of its members from the legal profession, the Edinburgh Skating Club was not socially exclusive and the membership lists include local noblemen, merchants, army offers and a slater....
Dates:
1784-1966, undated.
Minutes, agenda books and accounts of the Scottish Loan Training Fund (formerly the Scottish Central Bureau for the Employment of Women).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10710
Dates:
1898-1992.
Minutes and other records of the Conference of Scottish Medieval Historians.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.287
Dates:
1958-1996.
Minutes, reports and financial papers of Theatre Workshop Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13521
Dates:
c. 1970-1999.
Miscellaneous collection of items of various dates transcribed by George Paton, the antiquary, circa 1790.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.12
Scope and Contents
The principal works are:(i) Copy of ‘Genealogical Account of the Family of Maclean from its first settlement in the Island of Mull and parts adjacent’, undated (folio 2). An earlier version, dated 1716, which corresponds more or less with folios 2-10 of the present manuscript, appears among Walter Macfarlane`s ‘Genealogical Collections’, Adv.MS.35.4.8, volume I, page 175.(ii) Descriptions of several Western Isles (Lewis, Skye, Iona, Tiree etc.) by various authors,...
Dates:
1532-18th century, and undated.
Miscellaneous documents concerning Montrose and Angus, the Covenanters and other matters.
File
Identifier: MS.5407
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Miscellaneous documents, 1539-1838, relating to the burgh of Montrose and the surrounding country. They include papers relating to the Priory (folios 5-6, 11) and the town council (passim), the death-roll of the Plague, 1648 (folio 18), and fragments of the treasurers' accounts, 1676-1704 (folios 37-53); from folio 54 onwards are a number of legal papers, some fragmentary, mainly concerning lands in Angus.(ii) Miscellaneous documents,...
Dates:
1539-1838.
Miscellaneous historical and topographical tracts, copied in the 17th and early 18th centuries.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.1(i)-(xv)
Scope and Contents
There is a list of contents (folio i) in the same 19th-century hand which drew up the contents list in Adv.MS.22.2.10.
Dates:
17th century-circa 1754.
Miscellaneous items.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.12
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Abstract in English of Gerard Goris`s treatise on mercury, ‘Mercurius Triumphator’, probably made from the Leyden edition of 1717. Written in three hands of the early 18th century (folio 1).(ii) `The Dyet of Poland, A Satyr. Lib. J.H. Aug. 27. 1705.` A copy in two hands, of Daniel Defoe`s verse satire, published anonymously in London (with the false imprint `Dantzick`) in 1705 (folio 20). It is followed (folio 41) by a...
Dates:
16th century-18th century.
Miscellaneous letters and documents.
File
Identifier: MS.500
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Ordinance of the Committee of War of the Sheriffdom of Fife on the arming of heritors within the Presbytery of Cupar, 1644 (folio 1);(ii) Information for John Balfour, probably Portioner of Kinloch (died 1651), regarding the succession to certain lands of Christian Williamson, daughter of John Williamson and Helen Balfour, 1644 (folio 2);(iii) Breakfast bill of ‘Langshaw’ [? David Montgomery of Lainshaw], receipted by Thomas...
Dates:
1644-1760, undated.
Miscellaneous letters and papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/1
Dates:
1687-1738.
Miscellaneous letters, papers and accounts of the Bannatyne Club.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9356-9362
Dates:
1823-1861.
Miscellaneous manuscripts formerly in the possession of the Reverend John Stirton.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1879-1887
Dates:
1623-19th century.
Miscellaneous notes, letters and other items.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.17
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Notes of decisions of the Court of Session, 1714-1721. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies, early 18th century, of letters of and to George Buchanan, 1573-1581, and undated, with notes on others of his letters, mostly in Thomas Ruddiman`s hand; these are Epistolae XXVII, XV, XII, XXXI, XXIV, XL, XXXVII in Ruddiman`s edition of Buchanan`s Works, and Ruddiman`s introductory notes to Epistolae XI, XVI, VIII, XII, XX, XXVIII, XXXI, XXXIV,...
Dates:
17th century-1912.
Miscellaneous papers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Translation, 17th century, of Jan de Laet`s edition of ‘Lexicon Vitruvianum’. The beginning is missing; the text starts at `Abstantia` and breaks off at `Mataxa`. (Folio 1.)(ii) Article attacking the service-book, circa 1638. (Folio 51.)(iii) Manuscript, 1709, of ‘A Letter directed thus, for Mr James Lyon in Kirkwal’ by James Sands. (Folio 72.)(iv) Copy, late 17th century, of George Buchanan`s...
Dates:
?1595-18th century.
Miscellaneous papers and correspondence relating to engineering.
File
Identifier: MS.19989
Dates:
1815-1907.