Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Browse Resources: 151 - 175 of 950

Commonplace book of Francis Fletcher.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7693
Dates: mid 18th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

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.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Commonplace book of Hew Love.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7502
Scope and Contents

Including translations from Ovid, Virgil, and Terence.

Dates: 1667-1668.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Commonplace book of James Brown, a teacher of Latin in Monimail and Edinburgh.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.8
Scope and Contents

The volume contains poems, including a satire on James Sharp, Archbishop of St Andrews (page 54), epitaphs, acrostics, and items copied from printed works. There are also copies of Brown`s correspondence, chiefly with Sir Robert Sibbald.

Dates: 1665-1690.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Commonplace book of James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.3
Scope and Contents Composite manuscript produced in Scotland and compiled in the late 15th century, probably circa 1500, by James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane and secretary to William Scheves, Archbishop of St Andrews. The manuscript is a commonplace book and consists of a variety of religious, historical, legal, and literary material. There are several hands evident throughout the manuscript. Anderson states that folios 1r-24v are written by very similar hands, and could...
Dates: Late 15th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Commonplace book of Janet W M Stewart.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14402
Scope and Contents

Includes excerpts from the novels of Sir Walter Scott, the poetry of Lord Byron and John Milton, and the plays of Joanna Baillie. The volume also includes a number of drawings of buildings and landscapes and several illustrations of flowers.

Dates: 1820-1834.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Commonplace Book of John Ewart.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13927
Dates: 1817-1820.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Commonplace book of Maria Wyndham.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.4674
Dates: 1841.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Commonplace book of Mrs C E R Drummond-Hay, of Seggieden, containing religious verses and transcripts of letters from her son, Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel) James Adam Gordon Richardson Drummond-Hay while on active service.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8907
Scope and Contents

The thirteen letters, written between February and April 1885, are addressed by James Drummond-Hay to his parents and other members of his family, and recount in diary form his experiences as a member of the Coldstream Guards contingent both on the voyage to the Sudan and on arrival there. There is much detailed description of military activity in the Suakin region.

Dates: 1868-1885.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Commonplace book of Patrick Turner containing ‘Bolg an t-Sholair’ and other miscellaneous verse in Gaelic.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.7
Scope and Contents Commonplace-book (watermarked 1798) of Patrick Turner when he was a corporal in the Argyll Fencibles, dated Meath 1801 (folio 24 verso). The script is largely Roman, occasionally Gaelic, and the language of the text varies from Scotticised transliteration of Irish to pure Scottish Gaelic. Turner’s affidavit, Ingliston MS A.i.15 (g), states ‘that the manuscript in the Roman character and in his own hand writing, was transcribed from a manuscript in the possession of a Schoolmaster ten or...
Dates: 1801.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Commonplace book of Robina Chisholm, containing newspaper cuttings and transcripts of poems, chiefly of her brother Walter (1856-1877), a Berwickshire shepherd.

 Item
Identifier: MS.20442
Dates: 1872-1881.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Commonplace book of Sir James Balfour titled ‘Some short memories and remarkable passages for the yeires of God 1653 & 1654’.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.2.21
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is not printed in James Balfour’s historical works, as it was missing at the time when they were published.

Dates: 1653-1654.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Commonplace book of the Earl of Buchan.

 Item
Identifier: MS.963
Scope and Contents The comonplace book contains drafts of letters to the ‘Bee’, an inventory of the Earl of Buchan’s property, lists of Scottish portraits, an ode, ‘To the Shepherd of the Cot’, and notes and drafts of papers on the Scottish Peerage and other subjects. Included is a manuscript copy of ‘The New Order of Gooding and Manuring all sorts of Field Land with Common Salts’, by Archibald, afterwards 1st Lord Napier (said to have been printed by Robert Waldegrave), referring to the right to issue...
Dates: 1778-1791.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Commonplace book of William Drummond.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.5699
Dates: 1795-1817.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Commonplace book possibly kept by the Minister of Kirkliston (Charles Ritchie in 1794).

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11715
Scope and Contents

Includes lists of communicants and of the inhabitants of the parish.

Dates: 1794.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Commonplace Book probably compiled by C Shaw, York.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13514
Scope and Contents

Commonplace Book consisting largely of verse, but also with drawings of a Highland scene and pipers at Farr, botanical specimens from Farr and Edinburgh, and pasted in scraps from a visit to Scotland of 1826, and later visits to Switzerland and France.

Dates: 1826-1865, undated
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Commonplace book, probably English, mostly compiled from classical authors and church fathers.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.8
Scope and Contents

Later authors include Bishop Stillingfleet (folio 197), Thomas Hooker (folio 92) and John Paul Marana, author of ‘The Turkish Spye’ (1686) (folio 178).

The date of the volume is no earlier than 1686.

Dates: 1686-early 18th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Commonplace book, probably English, used by two different owners, the first circa 1642, the second circa 1716.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.3.1
Scope and Contents The book is thematically arranged under a system of moral headings in Latin and Greek used by the first owner, possibly an Anglican clergyman or scholar, with an interest in Patristic and Jacobean divinity. The volume was the fifth in a series of at least six volumes of this nature belonging to him. The second owner has used the blank and incompletely filled folios of the volume for his entries (folios 2-84 verso), again on moral topics, mostly taken from printed sermons, especially those of...
Dates: Circa, 1642, circa 1716.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Commonplace book, undated, compiled by James Glasford (died 1845).

 File
Identifier: MS.8493
Scope and Contents

The contents include: extracts from personal letters, biblical commentaries, poems and translations of poems.

Dates: Early 19th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Commonplace book with notes concerning Shetland.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7954
Dates: circa 1820.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Commonplace books.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.7160
Dates: circa 1820, 1892, 1909.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Commonplace books and photograph album of Gael Turnbull.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12477
Dates: circa 1953-1985.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Commonplace books, note books and song collections, partly in Gaelic, of Frances Tolmie, Rev. Alexander McDonald Cornfute Tolmie and John Tolmie.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14025
Content Description A collection of nine notebooks containing songs in English and Gaelic, newspaper cuttings especially on Highland and Gaelic subjects, poetry and notes on a variety of subjects. The collection was preserved by John Tolmie, oldest son of the Rev. John William Tolmie (1831-1886, minister of Bracadale and Contin). John Tolmie, who compiled four volumes in the collection, was a nephew of Frances Tolmie, collector of Gaelic songs. Two further volumes belonged to Frances Tolmie herself, and...
Dates: 1885-1915 and undated
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Composite volume consisting of several commonplace books of William Thoirs of Muiresk, born 1666, covering the years 1705-1724, but also containing earlier material.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.4.14
Scope and Contents The commonplace books were bound together but not in chronological order. Some are made up from old legal style books (folios 161, 197, 248, 331, 479), one (circa 1697) belonging to a James Strachan (folio 199). The contents of the volumes are predominantly Episcopalian and Jacobite in sympathies, covering a range of theology, drama, poetry, polemic and ephemera. There is a copy of Dr Archibald Pitcairne`s Anti-Presbyterian play ‘The Assembly’ (folio 162) and also several pages of elaborate...
Dates: 1705, and before-1724.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Composite volume of 15th-century manuscripts of miscellaneous works by four hands bound together, with an incunable, in the 16th-century or earlier.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.8
Scope and Contents The collection has been in one volume since the 16th century at least. The contents are as follows:[(i) A printed book: Johannes de Hildesheim, ‘Liber de gestis ac translatione trium regum’, etc., ([Cologne], 1478) = National Library of Scotland Inc.43 (B.M.Cat. IB 4236) (folio 1)]. Folio 56 blank.(ii) Baebius Italicus (?), `Ilias latina` (‘Poetae latini minores’ ii.3; this manuscript is not included in the list given by P Vollmer in ‘Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen...
Dates: 15th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Filtered By

  • Subject: Books X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Minute books. 210
Account books. 184
Letter books. 143
Microfilms. 122
Correspondence. 121
∨ more
Books 102
Letters. Correspondence. 86
Commonplace books. 84
Music books. 78
Manuscripts. 74
Poetry. 63
Notes. 59
Ledgers. Account books. 53
Accounts. 48
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 44
Diaries. 42
Photographs. 41
Lists. 37
Financial records. 35
Books of hours. 34
Notebooks. 34
Copies. Derivative objects. 31
Typescripts. 28
Administrative records. 27
Annotations. 27
Minutes. Administrative records. 27
Legal documents. 26
Songs. Musical compositions. 25
Dances. Musical compositions. 22
Visitors' books. 19
Drafts. Documents. 18
Drawings. Visual works. 18
Business records. 16
Illuminated manuscripts. 15
Photocopies. 15
Speeches. Documents. 15
Cashbooks. 14
Exercise books. 14
Reports 14
Issue books 13
Memorandums. 13
Articles. 12
Genealogies. 12
Photograph albums. 12
Printed materials. Object genre. 12
Documents. 11
Estate records. 11
Inscriptions. 11
Melodies. 11
Travel journals. 11
Excerpts. 10
Game Books. 10
Histories. 10
Indexes. Reference sources. 10
Journals. Accounts. 10
Musical compositions. 10
Prayer books. 10
Prompt books. scripts 10
Scotland. Europe - United Kingdom. Country. Longitude: -4.0000. Latitude: 57.0000. 10
Edinburgh. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.2167. Latitude: 55.9500. 9
Fragments. 9
Marches. Musical compositions. 9
Printers. 9
Rules. Instructions 9
Translations. Documents. 9
Booksellers and bookselling 8
Inventories. 8
Orderly books. Military records. 8
Postcards. 8
Publishers and publishing. 8
Registers (lists) 8
Watercolours. Paintings. 8
Albums. 7
Book industries and trade 7
Instructions. Document genre. 7
Newsletters. Serials. 7
Plays. 7
Programmes 7
Prompt books. Scripts. 7
Recipes. Instructions (document genre). 7
Transcripts 7
Address books. Reference sources. 6
Biographies. 6
Catalogues. 6
Family papers. 6
Maps. Cartographic materials. 6
Membership lists. 6
Memoirs. 6
Piobaireachd. Great Highland Bagpipe music. 6
Prayers. 6
Proofs. printed matter 6
Publications. 6
Reports. 6
Scores 6
Transcripts. 6
Abstracts. Summaries. 5
Annual reports. 5
Books. 5
Charters 5
Essays. 5
+ ∧ less
 
Language
English 576
Undetermined 337
Latin 20
Multiple languages 10
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 5
∨ more
Dutch; Flemish 4
French, Middle (ca.1400-1600) 3
Scots 2
French 1
German 1
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 1
Norwegian 1
Spanish; Castilian 1
+ ∧ less
 
Names
National Party of Scotland 4
Royal Lyceum Theatre Company Ltd, Edinburgh 4
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 3
Douglas, family, of Cavers 3
Edinburgh Booksellers' Society, 1776-1879 3
∨ more
Lumisden, Andrew, Jacobite politician, antiquary, 1720–1801 3
Perth Theatre, 1900- 3
Rutherfurd, family, of Edgerston : former owner 3
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 3
Scottish National Party 3
Associated Iron Moulders of Scotland, Edinburgh Branch 2
Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh, booksellers and publishers 2
Building and Monumental Workers' Association, Edinburgh Branch 2
Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, poet and writer, née Welsh, 1801-1866 2
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 2
Cencrastus (Scottish literary and cultural magazine) 2
Chambers, Robert (publisher and writer) 2
Clan Mackay Society 2
Constructional Engineering Union, Edinburgh Branch 2
Dundas, Henry, 1st Viscount Melville, 1742-1811 2
Edinburgh Booksellers' Society Limited, 1879- 2
Edinburgh Central Socialist Sunday School 2
Edinburgh Socialist and Ethical Sunday School 2
Erskine, David Steuart, 11th Earl of Buchan (succ 1767), 1742-1829 2
Fabian Society, Edinburgh branch, think-tank 2
Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh 2
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 2
Haldane, Richard Burdon, Viscount Haldane (Lord Chancellor) 2
James Dickson and Co, Edinburgh, wholesale stationer 2
John Grant Ltd, Edinburgh, booksellers and printers 2
Kilmarnock Liberal Association and Club 2
Kilspindie Golf Club 2
Labour Party, Edinburgh Branch 2
Labour Party, Leith Branch 2
Lawnmarket Sunday School 2
Masefield, John Edward, Poet Laureate, 1878-1967 2
Maxwell, family, of Monreith 2
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 2
National Union of Clerks, Edinburgh Branch 2
National Union of Coopers, Edinburgh Branch 2
National Union of Mine Workers, Scottish Area 2
Neill and Co Ltd, Edinburgh, printers 2
Operative Plumbers' Association of Great Britain and Ireland, Edinburgh Lodge 2
Plumbing Trades Union, Edinburgh Branch 2
Railway Clerks' Association, Edinburgh No 1 Branch 2
Robertson, Sir Lewis, Knight, administrator and industrialist, 1922-2008 2
Ross, Hercules, merchant, 1745-1816 2
Royal Scottish Society of Arts 2
Rutherfurd, family, of Edgerston 2
Scottish Liberal Club 2
Scottish Missionary Society 2
Scottish Mountaineering Club 2
Scottish Operative Plumbers Protective and Benefit Federal Union, Edinburgh Branch 2
Scottish Print Employers Federation, Employers Association, Edinburgh 2
Scottish Youth Hostels Association 2
Sinclair, Alexander, antiquary, 1794-1877 2
Southern Light Opera Company, Edinburgh 2
Sutherland Estates 2
T and T Clark, Edinburgh, publishers 2
Transport and General Workers' Union, Edinburgh Branch 2
Turnbull, Gael Lundin, poet and physician, 1928-2004 2
United Presbyterian Church, Foreign Mission Board 2
Waldensian Missions Aid Society, Scotland 2
Wilson, Gordon, jobbing printer, Edinburgh, fl 1900-1925 2
Wilson, John Dover, editor of Shakespeare, literary scholar and educationist, 1881-1969 2
7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland) 1
A and C Black Ltd, Edinburgh, publishers and booksellers 1
Abbey School, Stirling 1
Abercromby, James, 1st Baron Dunfermline, Speaker of the House of Commons, 1776-1858 1
Aberdeen Evening Express 1
Aberdeen Soup Kitchen 1
Agnew, William Lockett, art dealer, 1858-1918 1
Airlie, John McDiarmid, councillor and parliamentary candidate, 1885-1965 1
Aitken, Edward Hamilton, writer on India, 1851-1909 1
Aitkin, John, of Tarry, Minister of St Vigeans, Arbroath, 1726-1816 1
Amalgamated Engineering Union, Edinburgh Central Branch 1
Amalgamated Engineering Union, Musselburgh Branch 1
Amalgamated Slaters' Society of Scotland 1
Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, Leith Branch 1
Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, Foundry Section, 1971-1992 1
Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers, 1946-1971 1
Ancient Order of Free Gardeners, Scotland 1
Anderson, George, 1865-1925 (sheep farmer, Falkland Islands) 1
Anderson, William C, poet, 1867-1951 1
Angel Inn, Alnwick 1
Anstruther-Gray, Clayre Jessie Tennant, 1872-1958 (justice of the peace and wife of William Anstruther-Gray) 1
Anstruther-Gray, Monica Helen Lambton, 1915-1985 (justice of the peace and wife of William John St Clair Anstruther-Gray) 1
Anstruther-Gray, William John St Clair, Baron Kilmany, 1905-1985 (soldier and politician) 1
Anstruther-Gray, William, 1859-1938 (soldier and politician) 1
Ardrossan Liberal Association 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, 2nd Lothians and Border Horse Yeomanry 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Queen's Own Regiment of Dragoons 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Seaforth Highlanders 1
Arnot, Hugo, of Balcormo, advocate, formerly Pollock, 1749-1786 1
Arrow, John J, Comander, Royal Navy, fl 1821-1824 1
Associated Ironmoulders of Scotland, -1920 1
Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, son of King George III, 1773-1843 1
Balfour, Arthur James, 1st Earl of Balfour (statesman) 1
Balfour, James, Sir, 1st Baronet of Denmilne and Kinnaird (antiquary) 1
Bannerman, Helen Brodie Cowan, children's writer, née Watson, 1862-1946 1
+ ∧ less
 

Staff Interface | Visit ArchivesSpace.org | v3.4.1 | Send Feedback or Report a Problem