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Microfilms of indexes, compiled by Dr S W Carruthers, concerning the Westminster Assembly.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15529-15531 [Mf.MSS.44-45, 47]
Dates:
[1643-1653.]
Microfilms of papers from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane’s service in the East India Station.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1036-1038
Dates:
1842-1847.
Minutes and other administrative papers of the curators of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Series
Identifier: F.R.119-F.R.126f
Dates:
1793-1910.
Miscellaneous law tracts.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.3.4
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows.(i) Copies of various Royal patents, gifts, and commissions, 1642-1669 (the majority from the early 1660s). Most are in a 17th-century hand; an early 18th-century hand has added two, on pages 125 and 532. A detailed list is given on pages 536-540, and they have been fully indexed. (Page 1.)(ii)-(xiii) are copies, in an 18th-century hand, of sections of Adv.MS.6.2.2.(ii) = Adv. MS. 6.2.2(xii): `The Retour ... of the...
Dates:
16th century-17th century.
Miscellaneous papers consisting mostly of indexes to works of genealogical interest in the possession of Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane (folio 2), indexes to his copies of cartularies and other registers of mediaeval Scottish religious houses (folio 30), followed by some rentals of church lands and church appointments in the north of Scotland (folio 94) written, from information at folio 95 verso, about 1593.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.1.14
Dates:
Circa 1593, 18th century.
Notebooks compiled by J Murdoch Henderson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6093
Scope and Contents
Containing detailed indexes to published collections of music, mainly Scottish.
Dates:
1931 and undated.
‘Notes for Scots Law in Waverley Novels, etc.’, compiled by Sir John Rankine, King's Counsel, Doctor of Laws, Professor of Scots Law, University of Edinburgh, for a projected book on the subject.
File
Identifier: MS.133
Scope and Contents
The notes include a subject-index of Scots Law in Walter Scott’s works and a bibliography.
Dates:
[1814, or after.]
Notes, transcripts and extracts compiled by and for Lieutenant-General George Henry Hutton relating to Aberdeen and its ecclesiastical antiquities.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.22
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows: (i) Extracts in Hutton`s hand from the index to the Records of the City of Aberdeen by William Kennedy, advocate,Aberdeen, 1814. The entries, which are alphabetically arranged by subject, range in date between 1401 and 1799. (Folio 1.)(ii) Translations in another, unidentified hand of formal documents relating to the Dominicans of Aberdeen ranging in date between 1392 and 1585. According to a note in Hutton`s...
Dates:
Late 12th century-1799.
Original draft of an index of the Celtic elements in W J Watson, "History of the Celtic Placenames of Scotland", compiled by E B Basden.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7358
Dates:
1978.
Original drafts of indexes to three works of Duncan Campbell, "The Book of Carth and Fortingall", "The Lairds of Glenlyon", and "Reminiscences and Reflections of an Octogenarian Highlander", drawn up by E B Basden.
File
Identifier: Acc.7393
Dates:
1977-1978.
Papers concerning estate management in the highlands.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.5639
Scope and Contents
Comprising:
1. letter book, 1806-1824, concerning the Glenlyon Estate
2. accounts and papers, 1896-1914, concerning Barcaldine
3. ledger, 1848-1854, of Sir Alexander Campbell
4. index, 18th century.
Dates:
circa 1700-1914.
Papers concerning Zimbabwe.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9280
Scope and Contents
With papers, 1979-1980, on the security situation in Zimbabwe
Six albums of newspaper cuttings on Zimbabwe, with an index
typescrip of "Go Forth", a history of the Minsitry of Internal Affairs in Rhodesia.
Dates:
1979-1980 and undated.
Papers from and relating to the Scottish Foreign Mission records.
Series
Identifier: MS.8990(A)-(C)
Dates:
19th century-20th century.
Papers of and concerning the Reverend George Murray Reith.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3564
Scope and Contents
Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.
Dates:
[?1885]-?1st half of 19th century.
Papers of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton as Director-General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics of India.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.85.1.1-85.1.14
Scope and Contents
Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.
Dates:
1907-1913.
Papers of John Murdoch Henderson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21669-21713
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
17th century-1972.
Papers of the Scottish National Dictionary Association.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10873
Dates:
1929-1990.
Photocopy of a card index concerning Lewis Grassic Gibbon and his work, compiled by Ian Campbell.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9504
Dates:
1986.
Photocopy of an author index to the "Saltire Review" and "New Saltire", compiled by W R Aitken.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8635
Dates:
1983.
Photocopy of R Magnus Trail, "A Short Account of the Family of Trail of Blebo and their Descendents Copied from Authentic Family Documents". (1950)
Item
Identifier: Acc.7984
Scope and Contents
With an index compiled by Rosalie Trail Fuller.
Dates:
1950-1981.
’Practiques observed befor the Lords of Session from 1626 till 1638. Collected Alphabetically By S[ir] G[eorge] Au[chinleck, Lord Balmanno] With ane perfect index wher in what page each practique is to be found. Written in anno 1661 By A.G.`
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.19
Scope and Contents
The writer was possibly Archibald Gibson, admitted Writer to the Signet in 1661. For this work and the manuscripts of it see the catalogue entry for Adv.MS.6.1.7.
Dates:
1626-1638.
Preaching-book of John of Grimestone, a Franciscan friar from Norfolk.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.21
Scope and Contents
The sermon topics are arranged alphabetically, with an index at the beginning (folios 7-9); the heading and number of each is repeated at the top of each page. The last three in the index (numbers 141-143, De Vsura, De Vita, De Veste) are missing from the text. The topics are predominantly in Latin, a very few in French, and consist of quotations (from the Bible, classical authors, especially Cicero and Seneca, the Fathers, and medieval authors) and moral tales and happenings. Interspersed...
Dates:
1372.
Publishers receipt book of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Item
Identifier: F.R.304
Scope and Contents
The publishers' receipt book contains list of books, including date, title of book and publisher.
Dates:
1855-1867.