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Cash book of the Society for the Relief of the Destitute Sick, Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3622
Dates:
1827-1831.
Cashbook of a Scotsman, probably John Webster, resident in London.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9109
Dates:
1781-1799.
Catalogues, inventories, order books, correspondence and other business records of William Brown, booksellers, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7926/1-61
Dates:
1581-1961.
Coal accounts of Niddrie Mill, including accounts of money advanced by Lord Niddrie to erect the mill, production figures, expenses and profits.
Item
Identifier: MS.17952
Scope and Contents
At the back of the volume there are minutes and accounts of tacksmen of customs, 1686-1692.
Dates:
1686-1700.
Collection of pipe music (78 piobaireachd), compiled by William Ross, Piper to Queen Victoria.
File
Identifier: MS.3040
Dates:
19th century.
'Collection of Scots Tunes, with Variations, for the Violin. 1775.'
Item
Identifier: MS.21840
Scope and Contents
The title is taken from folio i. 'Scots music, Vol.I' appears on the front cover.The tunes, some of which are copied from ‘A curious collection of Scots tunes. With variations, for the violin (etc.)’, first published by Robert Bremner in 1759, are written in simple treble notation and are preceded by an index arranged alphabetically by title at folio i verso, written, like the rest of the volume, in a calligraphic hand.The leaves appear to consist of sheets stuck...
Dates:
18th century.
Collections of music for fiddle.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21714-21732
Dates:
[Circa 1705-before 1977], undated.
Collections of music for flute and fife.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21733-21744
Dates:
[Circa 1795]-1835, undated.
Common-place book containing a collection of verse transcripts and reminiscences relating chiefly to Frasers and Roses, with some of the writings or compositions of Forbes and Culloden and John Roy Stewart, written by Peter Rose.
Item
Identifier: MS.14898
Scope and Contents
The manuscript, watermarked 1827, was written by Peter Rose who lived circa 1764-1841, a cadet of a family which had a lease of Ardachy, Abertarff, 1726-1770. He spent his working life in the West Indies, retiring to Scotland 1824 or 1825. A cloth label on the inside front cover is inscribed ‘P. ROSE OF ROSE HALL’, and pencilled note on the flyleaf reads “Bd. At B’pool 1 Sep /36” (i.e. 1836?). The contents are as follows.(i) Contents list (folio ii);(ii)...
Dates:
[1827 or after.]
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.
Item
Identifier: MS.10700
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'Some hints of ye occasion and manner of Lady Anna Elcho her Death.' This is substantially the same as "A short account of Lady Anne Elcho's death" (no publisher, 1741), attributed to Thomas Halyburton, who is mentioned in the text and later became Professor of Divinity at St Andrews University. Her epitaph by Halyburton follows the text. (Folio 1.)(ii) Brief biographical notes on some ministers, most of whom lived in the 16th century....
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Commonplace book, 1863-1896, of Robert Dickson Glover, a merchant at Roslin and later in Portobello.
Item
Identifier: MS.14277
Scope and Contents
The book contains verses, historical and literary material, notes of events in Roslin, 1869-1873, and fragments of a diary for 1895-1896. A later hand has added copies of poems and of the will, May 1927, of John Glover who died in 1933 (folio 96).
Dates:
1863-1896, 1927, undated.
Commonplace Book compiled by Reverend John Fairley.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14554
Scope and Contents
Contains extensive notes on "Popery" in Scotland, the Scottish Covenanters and Cameronians, temperance and abstinence, proverbs and quotations, and observations on the rules of composition.
Dates:
Circa 1837.
Commonplace book containing an anonymous account in verse of "A Tour of the Highlands in 1792".
Item
Identifier: Acc.12306
Dates:
circa 1792-1832.
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 in verse and prose.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6824
Scope and Contents
701 pages, with Aberdeen connections, bookplate of Charles Gordon of Beldornie and Wardhouse, and ownership inscription of Thomas Mercer.
Dates:
late 17th century.
Commonplace book of Donald Mackay, 1848, containing miscelleanous texts including medical prescriptions, texts of religious instruction, songs partly with music, and Gaelic songs, partly composed by Mackay himself.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14338
Content Description
Commonplace book dated 1848, paginated by the scribe 1-732, 781-790, blank after page 727. A leather label pasted onto the front paste-down reads "Donald McKay 1848". The scribe was possibly the Rev. Donald Mackay (1829-1910), a native of Creich, Sutherland, minister of various parishes including Paisley and Nova Scotia. From 1848-1853, around the time of writing of the commonplace book, he was schoolmaster in Ullapool. If Mackay's identity could be confirmed, this time scale might explain...
Dates:
1848.
Commonplace book of Donald McDugald.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11971
Scope and Contents
Contains a digest of largely religious and theological remarks.
Dates:
1772.
Commonplace book of Fife provenance, containing household and medical recipes, verse, and proverbs.
Item
Identifier: MS.24779
Dates:
1840-1854.