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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 of the Books in the Library at Panmure, Taken, Anno 1734'.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6305
Scope and Contents

The catalogue is in five main sections:

'Libri Theologici' (page 1), 'Juridici’ (page 16), 'Historici' (page 30), 'Mathematici et Physici’(page 48), 'Miscellanei' (page 54).

Each section is subdivided by size, but within each subsection no rational order of the books is apparent.

Dates: 1734.

'Catalogue of the Books in the Library at Pinkie and at Delgaty 1704'. This catalogue was compiled probably a few years after 1704, as it includes books published up to 1709., 1704-1709.

 Item
Identifier: MS.7112
Scope and Contents From the Series: The collection consists largely of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century correspondence. The chief correspondents are the members of the family most active in public life, and their letters are on the whole more concerned with public than with personal affairs, though there is some discussion of family matters in the seventeenth-century letters. The most important and extensive correspondence is that of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale, which dates from 1660 to 1697, and covers most of his...
Dates: 1704-1709.

Catalogue of the books in the library of Kenmure Castle, Kirkcudbrightshire.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9758
Scope and Contents

Only thirty-one of the prepared pages have books entered on them.

Dates: 1820.

‘Catalogue of the Books Manuscripts and pamphlets Belonging to Robert Mylne wryter in Edr. 1709’.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.17
Scope and Contents

The catalogue is in two parts: books and manuscripts arranged by format (folio 2), and pamphlets (folio 115). The entries give the imprints and pressmarks. According to two declarations, 1709 and 1711, on folio 113 verso, the catalogue was largely written by Mylne`s son James, but there are numerous additions in Mylne`s hand, and also notes of loans of books, 1709-1743 (folios 232-238). Also on folio 113 verso is a note by Mylne, 1718, stating that he bequeathed his library to his sons.

Dates: 1709-1743.

‘Catalogue of the clergy of Scotland’, from the Reformation in 1560 to the Disruption in 1843.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.32.2.11-13
Scope and Contents

Contains many names not given in ‘Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanæ’ by Hew Scott.

Dates: ?19th century.

‘Catalogue of the clergy of Scotland, vol. I.', ?19th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.2.11
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Contains many names not given in ‘Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanæ’ by Hew Scott.

Dates: ?19th century.

‘Catalogue of the clergy of Scotland, vol. II.’, ?19th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.2.12
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Contains many names not given in ‘Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanæ’ by Hew Scott.

Dates: ?19th century.