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Catalogues relating to Chinese calligraphy and art, with two mounted fan prints.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14052
Dates:
Circa 1900-1910.
‘Catalogus Librorum Bibliothecæ Domini Andreæ Hume de Kimmergham, unius ex Senatoribus Collegiæ Iustitiæ, digestus a Patricio Hume filio suo natu maximo'.
Item
Identifier: MS.3552
Dates:
1723.
'Catalogus Librorum D. Dni. Caroli Areskine de Barjarg, Regiarum Causarum Procuratoris' (Charles Erskine, later Lord Tinwald).
Item
Identifier: MS.3283
Dates:
1731.
‘Catalogus librorum in bibliotheca facultatis juridicae Edenburgi’, January 1683.
Item
Identifier: MS.549
Scope and Contents
The first catalogue of the Library. It is in the same handwriting as another manuscript copy, also in the Library, bound with printed sale-catalogues, press-mark, H.35.d.1(5), but contains later accessions in a different hand.
Dates:
1683.
Catalogus librorum of the Faculty of Advocates Library by Thomas Ruddiman.
Item
Identifier: F.R.220
Dates:
[Before 1757.]
Catalogus librorum of the Faculty of Advocates Library by Thomas Ruddiman.
Item
Identifier: F.R.221
Dates:
[Before 1757.]
Catalogus librorum of the Faculty of Advocates Library by Thomas Ruddiman.
Item
Identifier: F.R.222
Dates:
[Before 1757.]
Catalogus librorum of the Faculty of Advocates Library by Thomas Ruddiman.
Item
Identifier: F.R.222a
Dates:
[Before 1757.]
Catalogus librorum of the Faculty of Advocates Library by Thomas Ruddiman.
Item
Identifier: F.R.222b
Dates:
[Before 1757.]
Catalogus librorum of the Faculty of Advocates Library by Thomas Ruddiman.
Item
Identifier: F.R.223
Dates:
[Before 1757.]
Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.15
Scope and Contents
Each volume has a contents list (folios 1, 77) and the second volume has its own foliation added in an apparently later hand.The first volume (folios 1-74) consists of copies (in the same hand), made apparently in or about 1585, of the following:(i) ‘Discorso del Priore d`Inghilterra a Papa Pio V circa la Riduttione di quel Regno’ (folio 2), being an account by Sir Richard Shelley, Grand Prior of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, written apparently early in 1570,...
Dates:
1537-1606.
Copy in typescript carbon of the catalogue, compiled by Hugh Sharp, of his collection of books.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19409-19410 [H.S.1247-1248]
Scope and Contents
This is a copy of MSS.5053-5054 with the leaves arranged differently, in two separate alphabetical sequences, and was the working copy used by the donor, Campbell White, in looking after the collection before Hugh Sharp's death.
Dates:
[1938, or before.]
Copy of Arts Council exhibition catalogue, "Charles Cameron, c 1740-1812".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7942
Scope and Contents
With associated manuscript notes.
Dates:
1967.
Copy of PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, by David Mackie on "Raeburn: Life and Art".
Item
Identifier: Acc.11587
Scope and Contents
In four volumes, the first being the text and second to fourth a catalogue of works, annotated by the author.
Dates:
1993.
Copy of "Pictures in the New Club" (1911), with manuscript annotations and additions.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7871
Scope and Contents
A catalogue of pictures in the New Club, Edinburgh.
Dates:
1911.
Copy of the Faculty of Advocates Library of the Thorkelin Library catalogue.
Item
Identifier: F.R.201
Dates:
1807.
'Cornucopia manuscriptorum codicum qui reperiuntur in Anglia. Londini. MDCLXXXIV': catalogues of manuscripts, possibly in the hand of Adrian Beverland, author of ‘De stolatae virginitatis jure’, inserted at the end of 'Nova Bibliotheca MSS. Librorum’ by Philippe Labbé (Paris, 1653).
Item
Identifier: MS.6134
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'Catalogus Codicum Manuscriptorum integrioris notae et exactioris curae Viri incomparabilis Domini Isaaci Vossii ab Hadriano Beverlando conscriptus et concinnatus. In arce Vindesoriensi X Febr. MDCXXCIV'. (Folio 4.)(ii) 'Praecipui Codices Manuscripti in Eicosarchio Regis Britanniae in palatio Ducis Eboracensis vulgo S. Jacobi'. (Folio 39.) There are no entries under this heading.(iii) 'MSS Lambaethani in Sacrario...
Dates:
1684.
Correspondence and papers concerning the publication by Messrs John Smith and Son of their catalogue "Bibliotheca Scotica".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11253
Dates:
1926.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning F C B Cadell.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11224
Scope and Contents
Papers concern artistic and personal matters and include letters from Sir William Russell Flint, J Pittendrigh Macillivray and S J Peploe.
Dates:
1892-1942 and undated.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Wilkie, Member of the Royal Academy of Arts, together with some sketches and engravings from his paintings.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9835-9840
Dates:
1804-1862.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning the family of Anderson of St. Germains and their descendants, being chiefly the correspondence of Warren Hastings Anderson (died 1875), son of David Anderson of St. Germains (1751-1825).
Series
Identifier: MSS.14842-14847
Scope and Contents
Warren Hastings Anderson entered the merchant house of his uncle, Robert Anderson and Company, St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in 1813, becoming a partner in 1818. From then until the 1850s he spent most of his life in Italy and France engaged in trade, finally retiring to Bowerhouse near Dunbar. Family, personal and legal material predominates in this collection.
Dates:
1792-mid 20th century.
Correspondence and papers of Dr Hew Morrison, Gaelic scholar, including extracts from the diary of Rev. Murdo MacDonald, minister of Durness.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14317/1-34
Content Description
Correspondence and papers of Dr Hew Morrison (1850-1935), Gaelic scholar and a native Gaelic speaker from Torrisdale, Sutherland. He became the first librarian of the Edinburgh Free Public Library, now Central Library, a post which he held until his retirement in 1922. The library had been founded with the help of a gift from Andrew Carnegie, with whom Morrison remained in close friendship while acting as representative for Carnegie's library foundation scheme.The papers include:...
Dates:
1877-2003 and undated, with most of the material dated 1877-1920s.
Correspondence and papers of Dr Robert Alexander Lillie.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.316
Dates:
1907-1977.
Correspondence on the Forbes family art collections.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13915/1-2
Dates:
1827-1955.