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Common-place book of medical, chemical and alchemical recipes and experiments.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.10
Scope and Contents At the end of the manuscript are numerous prescriptions by a physician in high practice in Scotland in the beginning of the 17th century. One commences ‘Dedi Alexandro comiti Eglintonis uxoris meae confebr[...]ino… 30 Octob.1625’.On a fly leaf is written ‘I wagered with the young laird of Darfie that his wyff was with a sone (deprehenso pulsu brachii dextri maiore) a paire of stage ledder gloves the last of Januar 1634’.The description of the manuscript in the folio...
Dates: Early 17th century.

Commonplace book containing poems, household and medical recipes, riddles and notes, written in several hands.

 Item
Identifier: MS.14275
Scope and Contents

Folios 1-20 contain a collection of verses, most of which are dated 1789.

Dates: 1783-1828.

Commonplace book of George Anderson, Glasgow.

 Item
Identifier: MS.14276
Scope and Contents

As well as poetry, recipes and miscellaneous notes, the book includes instructions for road-making (page 3) and designs for a pump and a building for making lamp-black (pages 37, 66).

Dates: 1818-1827.

Papers, including recipe, cash books, and notebooks of Charles Macnab.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8633
Scope and Contents

With eight cashbooks and diaries, 1889-1929.

Dates: 1880-1929.

Photocopy of the cashbook, 1856-1858, of John Moffat.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8862
Scope and Contents

With commonplace book, 18th to 19th century, containing recipes, scientific and professional data, and genealogical material.

Dates: 18th century to 19th century.

Pocket-book of Sir John Gordon of Invergordon, containing a digest of ten pocket-books of memoranda.

 Item
Identifier: MS.108
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.

Dates: 1754-1759.

Recipe books of the Malcolm of Burnfoot family

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.10708
Scope and Contents

Includes recipes of Stephana Malcolm and Lady Clementina Malcolm. With an incomplete account book, 1880, of Mary Malcolm Douglas.

Dates: 1782-1892 and undated.