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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:

"Catalogue Books Brunstane [Lord Milton's Edinburgh house, see MSS.17477-17487]", apparently a shelf-catalogue, although the presses and shelves are not indicated in any way., [Circa 1760.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.17866
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates: [Circa 1760.]

Catalogue compiled by Hugh Sharp of the Hugh Sharp Collection of printed books.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.5053-5054
Scope and Contents

The catalogue was compiled before the transmission of the collection to the National Library of Scotland in 1938. It contains interesting details about many of the books. A newspaper-cutting about the collection, and notes made by members of the National Library staff, found loose in the first volume, have been pasted in.

Dates: [1938, or before.]

Catalogue (in two volumes) and valuation of the library of Alfred Shepherd, Writer to the Signet.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10032
Scope and Contents

With a manuscript poem on the origins and early history of Britain.

Dates: 1930.

Catalogue of a library of the Kerr family, Marquesses of Lothian. , 18th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5822
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.

Dates: 18th century.

Catalogue of a library of the Kerr family, Marquesses of Lothian., 19th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5827
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.

Dates: 19th century.

‘Catalogue of all the provosts, fellowes and schollers of the Kings Colledge of the Blessed Virgin Marie and St Nicholas in the University of Cambridge’, from 1443 to 1627.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.29
Scope and Contents

The following notes appear at the front of the volume. ‘Thomas Hatchir the Author hereof viz. to y[e] year 1563’. “See some account of this Catalogue in Advertizements to Registrum Regale of Eton scholars Quarto and Walp[ole’s] Paint[er]”. “This catalogue is often cited in Fuller’s Worthies”.

Dates: 16th century-1627.

"Catalogue of Baron Hume’s library", i.e. that of David Hume, nephew of the philosopher and Baron of the Exchequer of Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: MS.348
Scope and Contents

The catalogue was compiled by Thomas G Stevenson, bookseller, Edinburgh, 1840 (see folio 312 verso).

Dates: 1840.

Catalogue of books., 1821.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11049/70
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Papers of the Willison family, who farmed in both Lanarkshire and Perthshire, covering personal and business matters. The collection includes a detailed family history and genealogy composed by Ralph Willison Simmonds (Edinburgh 1989), detailed transcripts and a booklet with historical notes: The Willisons of South Lanarkshire (Edinburgh, 1994), also by Mr Willison - see Acc.11049/1 and Acc.11049/76.

Dates: 1821.

Catalogue of books belonging to the Reverend Donald Sage, Minister of Kirkmichael and Cullicudden, drawn up 28 October 1823.

 File
Identifier: MS.1537
Scope and Contents

There are also excerpts and translations from Martial and translations of the ‘Faolan’ and ‘Song on a Jilted Lover’ of Rob Donn. Bound at the beginning and end of a volume containing ‘An Epistle address'd to a Friend’ ([Edinburgh], 1740), and 'Love of fame, the universal passion: In seven characteristical satires' (Glasgow, 1755) by Edward Young, both formerly the property of Sage.

Dates: 1740, 1755, 1823.

'Catalogue of Books belonging to the Right Honourable William Marquis of Lothian, Newbattle, October 12th 1709'., 1709.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5819
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.

Dates: 1709.

'Catalogue of books in Fore Cabin'., Late 18th century-Mid 19th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2460
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates: Late 18th century-Mid 19th century.

'Catalogue of Books in the Earl of Ancram's dressing room in Berkeley Square, London, 1759'., 1759.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5821
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.

Dates: 1759.