Catalogues.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Enumerations of items, usually arranged systematically, with descriptive details; may be in book or pamphlet form, on cards, or online. (AAT) This term in the NLS published catalogues was used only for lists of books. Lists of other objects were indexed under the name of the object (e.g. pictures). General household inventories were indexed under 'Plenishing' (NLS).
Found in 485 Collections and/or Records:
'4th Earl of Minto's Minto Manuscript Catalogue' of the family papers, being a typed transcription, made by Colonel the Honourable W F Elliot in 1916, of the catalogue compiled by the 4th Earl of Minto., 1891-1895.
File
Identifier: MS.13416
Scope and Contents
The material the transcription includes is broadly that now in the National Library, but excluding the charters and the Fife and Angus estate papers.
Dates:
1891-1895.
"A Catalogue of Books Belonging to the Relict of the Deceast [sic] Dr Alexander Skene, 1707".
Item
Identifier: Acc.5715
Dates:
1707.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
A List of Books Wanting in Spottiswoode Library and a List of Books Belonging to Thomas Waldie’s Library, Spottiswoode., 1814.
Item
Identifier: Acc_13725_6
Dates:
1814.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Spottiswoode papers.
Account-book containing agricultural accounts giving details of crops sown, corn sold and wages paid on the estate of Pittrichie, Aberdeenshire.
Item
Identifier: MS.17953
Scope and Contents
Also included is a library catalogue circa 1800, possibly of the library of the Robb family of Pittrichie.
Dates:
1668-1689, [circa 1800.]
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Alphabetical catalogue of 'Libri Politici et Iuridici'., [After 1716.]
Item
Identifier: MS.17862
Scope and Contents
The catalogue was apparently compiled shortly after 1716 (cf. folios 5, 34). There are frequent additions by the text-hand and others, both in the text and on the originally blank versos. The first leaf is missing. Comparison with the relevant part of MS.17863 shows that this catalogue is of part of the library at Saltoun.
Dates:
[After 1716.]
'Alphabetical catalogue of the best german authors in prose and verse ... since the 17th century; with biographical and literary notices'., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.5764
Dates:
19th century.
'Alphabitical [sic] catalogue', containing a catalogue of books at Dalkeith Palace, with later additions, followed by other writings., [1796, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.21827
Scope and Contents
The title is written in gold capitals on each cover.Leaves are watermarked 1796.The catalogue consists of English (beginning folio 2, with some additions folio 1 verso), French (folio 25), Italian (folio 43) and Latin books (folio 49), alphabetically arranged. The other writings consist of a note apparently by the donor on the Scotts of Buccleuch (folio 85 verso); measurements of height, 1784-1818, (folio 86 verso, 92) and weights, 1777-1818, (folio 89 verso) of...
Dates:
[1796, or after.]
Anderson's catalogue of law manuscripts in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Item
Identifier: F.R.215
Dates:
1798.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Anderson's catalogue of manuscripts in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Item
Identifier: F.R.217
Dates:
1837.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Anderson's catalogue of manuscripts in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Item
Identifier: F.R.218
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Annotated catalogue to the exhibition of John Harden's work held at the Bristol City Art Gallery in 1951., 1951.
Item
Identifier: MS.8872
Scope and Contents
The corrections are by Beryl Clay, who wrote the introduction.
Dates:
1951.
Antiquarian and genealogical papers and correspondence of the Chalmers family of Auldbar., 18th century-19th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15471-15481
Dates:
18th century-19th century.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates:
?1825-1856.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Assorted information sheets, gallery guides, catalogues and press releases relating to the visual arts., 1994.
File
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 15(2)
Assorted information sheets, gallery guides, catalogues and press releases relating to the visual arts., 1994.
File
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 15(3)
'Bibliothecae ... D. Jacobi, Marchionis Annandiae &c., catalogi index, a Thoma Ruddimanno, Facultatis juridicae Edinburgenae Bibliothecario, annis 1722 & 1723 Craigiehalliae confectus'.
Item
Identifier: MS.3075
Dates:
1722-1723.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
'Bibliothecae Lothiana Catalogus': Catalogue of a library of the Kerr family, Marquesses of Lothian., [Circa 1800].
Item
Identifier: MS.5824
Scope and Contents
The catalogue is partly in the hand of Henrietta, 1st wife of the 6th Marquess of Lothian.
Dates:
[Circa 1800].
Bills, letters, catalogues and other papers., 1895-1924.
Series
Identifier: Acc.5024 Box 5(1)-(5)
Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Barons of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood (died 1838), Auditor of Excise, Scottish antiquary and biographer.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.37.2.1-37.2.11
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Bishop Robert Forbes' copy of ‘A large new historical Catalogue of the Bishops of the Several Sees within the Kingdom of Scotland Down to the Year 1688’ by Bishop Robert Keith (Edinburgh, 1755), with extensive manuscript annotations in his hand., 1755-[?1822].
Item
Identifier: MS.21196
Scope and Contents
The annotations include copies of letters, 1755, of Bishop Keith (folio 5 verso), copies of letters of and to Field-Marshal Keith, 1756 (folio 6), a contents list (folio 7), an additional "Preface first" by Bishop John Alexander (folio 11), with numerous marginal and interleaved notes, additions and corrections and an index to the bishops at the end (folio 266).Also included are 'Account of the Chapel of Roslin' by Bishop Keith, for which see ‘The Edinburgh magazine’ of January...
Dates:
1755-[?1822].
Business archive of Mainstream Publishing.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13617
Scope and Contents
The archive covers the company`s independent existence from 1978-2005 and includes some earlier related papers. In 2005 the firm entered into a business arrangement with Random House, and the later archive is now with the parent company.
Dates:
Circa 1970-2005.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Cash book, also containing a book catalogue., 1807-1812.
File
Identifier: Acc.11049/42
Dates:
1807-1812.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Personal and estate papers of the Willison family of Perthshire and Lanarkshire, including farming notebooks, private correspondence and family documents; with family history and genealogical papers compiled by Ralph Willison Simmonds.
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Estate papers of the Willison family, including leases, tacks, receipts, cashbooks, notebooks and related financial papers.
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Estate papers of the WIllison family, comprising cash books, commonplace books, account books, wages books, stock books, bank books, sheep books and related material.
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Cash books of the Willison family, with some used as commonplace books and book catalogues.
Catalogue, 1718, of the school library at Kettins, Angus.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9189
Scope and Contents
With returns, 1712-1874, concerning the endowment of the school by Alexander Geekie, surgeon in London.
Dates:
1712-1874.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Catalogue, 1819, of the Earl of Glasgow's library at Hawkhead, Renfrewshire, concerning miscellaneous material described as 'the Minor Library'., 1819, 1846.
File
Identifier: MS.14243
Dates:
1819, 1846.
Catalogue, 1819, of the Earl of Glasgow's library at Hawkhead, Renfrewshire, listing most of the library., 1819, 1846.
File
Identifier: MS.14242
Dates:
1819, 1846.