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Bibliographies.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Lists of books, documents, and other bibliographical items, often all related by author, topic, or another criterion. Bibliographies are arranged in some logical order giving brief information about the works, such as author, date, publisher, and place of publication.

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

Annotated and corrected copy of "A bibliography of articles in Blackwood`s Magazine", by A L Strout.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13273
Scope and Contents

Also included are off-prints of articles by, letters to and papers concerning Professor Strout.

Dates: 1959.

Bibliographical material of Sir Robert Sibbald.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.18
Scope and Contents (i) `Catalogus Scriptorura Historicorum, Geographicorum et Politicorura qui de rebus Scoticis scripsere` (folio 1). This lists both manuscript and printed material and includes Sibbald`s ‘Memoria Balfouriana’. There are 224 entries arranged on a roughly chronological basis. It is followed (folio 12 verso) by other titles, mostly of works on Scottish history.(ii) `Catalogus poetarum Scotorum qui Latine scripsere pro compositione Corporis poetarum Scotorura` (folio 21). For a...
Dates: Circa 1700.

Correspondence and papers of Cecil Hopkinson, containing bibliographies relating to Louis-Hector Berlioz and Giuseppe Verdi, and other related material.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9732/1-54
Scope and Contents

Concerning Hopkinson`s bibliographies of Berlioz and Verdi.

Dates: 1947-1975 and undated.

`De Historicis Scotis et Politicis qui vel Scoticae Gentis historiara et politiciam et res gestas vel vitas Scotorum aut aliarum Gentium historias exterorunique res gestas enarrant`, being collections of Sir Robert Sibbald, for a bibliography.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.18
Scope and Contents

The latest entries in the volume are dated 1700. It includes manuscript material, and there are annotations on the contents and history of some of the entries.

Dates: 1700, and before.

"Fifty Years a Reader: Memories of the National Library" by Donald Whyte.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11871
Scope and Contents

Includes bibliography of works written from research in the National Library of Scotland.

Dates: circa 2000.

Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton relating to historical matters.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.379
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, papers and copies of research documents assembled by Lord James Douglas-Hamilton for the publication of his books 'Motive for a Mission, the Story Behind Rudolf Hess’s Flight to Britain' (1st edition London 1971, 2nd edition Edinburgh 1979 and paperback edition, 1980); 'Air Battle for Malta: The Diaries of a Fighter Pilot', (Edinburgh 1981); and 'Roof of the World: Man’s First Flight Over Everest', (Edinburgh 1983).

Dates: 1968-1983.

Literary papers of Alexander Law.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11490
Scope and Contents

Papers mainly concern studies of Scottish schools and school books, education in Edinburgh, and the works of Allan Ramsay. Includes correspondence and papers of Burns Martin and John Walter Oliver on earlier editions of the works of Ramsay.

Dates: circa 1930-1990.

Manuscript of chapters 1-2 and 4-11 of ‘The first ascent of Mont Blanc’, and of the 'List of Ascents, etc.' and 'Bibliography', written by Professor Thomas Graham Brown.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.5167-5169
Scope and Contents

Chapter 3 was written by Sir Gavin de Beer, who also prepared and annotated the appendices, but this portion of the book is not represented in the manuscript.

Dates: [1957, or before].

Material for Sir Robert Sibbald`s projected `Bibliotheca Scotica`.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.17
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) An alphabetical index of Scottish authors and their works, circa 1700 (folio 1). The beginning is probably missing (the pagination commences with page 11). Most of the entries are copied from ‘Historia ecclesiastica gentis Scotorum lib.XIX’. It is followed by an appendix (folio 137 verso) in which the entries are more detailed.(ii) `De Scriptoris Scoticis`, circa 1702 (folio 150). A bibliography of works, including...
Dates: Circa 1700, circa 1702.

Notes for and drafts of the Lyell Lectures delivered in 1965 by Prof William Beattie.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9374
Scope and Contents

With bibliographical notes.

Dates: circa 1945-1975.

Papers collected by the Scottish Music Hall Society concerning the history of music hall.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.11446
Scope and Contents

Includes posters, programmes, photographs and scripts.

Dates: 20th century.

Papers of Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7147
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts, corrected typescripts, and proofs of poems, essays, bibliographies and other literary work.

With Duncan Glen, "Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance", and poems of, and essays concerning, Hugh Macdiarmid.

Dates: 1962-1977.

"The Bibliography of the Works of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun"

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11186
Scope and Contents

Paper forwarded to J Ramsay MacDonald by R A Scott MacFie.

Dates: 1899.

Typescript bibliography of David Masson, compiled by Eveline M Plincke.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.3863
Scope and Contents

Presented for the University of London Diploma in Librarianship.

Dates: 1952.

Typescript ‘Bibliography of William Kirk Dickson, Advocate', Keeper of the Advocates' Library and Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8875
Scope and Contents

The volume was compiled by William Dickson in 1934, and contains amendments in his hand, and, at the end, additional entries covering the years 1934 to 1939, also in his hand.

Dates: 1934-1939.