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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 clergy of Scotland, vol. III.’, ?19th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.2.13
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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

Dates: ?19th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / ‘Catalogue of the clergy of Scotland’, from the Reformation in 1560 to the Disruption in 1843.

Catalogue of the Dennistoun manuscripts containing an extract of Dennistoun`s will and a description of the manuscripts (Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.26) which comprise the bequest., 1856.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.27
Scope and Contents From the Series: 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: 1856.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.

Catalogue of the engravings, etchings, drawings, etc., belonging to George Chalmers., Late 18th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.173
Dates: Late 18th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Lauriston Castle collection.

Catalogue of the Hugh Sharp Collection of printed books., [1938, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.5053 [H.S.1243]
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Catalogue compiled by Hugh Sharp of the Hugh Sharp Collection of printed books.

Catalogue of the Hugh Sharp Collection of printed books., [1938, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.5054 [H.S.1244]
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Catalogue compiled by Hugh Sharp of the Hugh Sharp Collection of printed books.

'Catalogue of the late Sir John Henderson's Books, 1818'., 1818-[1833, or after].

 Item
Identifier: MS.6308
Scope and Contents The main and original part of the volume is the index (folio 8) and catalogue (folios 9-124) 'of the Books, which belonged to Sir John Henderson, Bart., of Fordel, deceased', to which heading a later hand has added 'in Dalry House, Edinburgh'.The catalogue is divided into the following sections: 'History, British and Irish Antiquities, Biography, Heraldry, Voyages and Travels' (folio 9), 'Miscellaneous, including Poetry, Translations, etc.' (folio 35), 'Divinity and...
Dates: 1818-[1833, or after].
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Catalogues of the libraries of the Hendersons of Fordel.

Catalogue of the library at Bowland House., [Circa 1830.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.14053B
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates: [Circa 1830.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker. / Papers of Alexander Walker and his family concerning family and estate affairs. / Inventories of items at Bowland House.

Catalogue of the library, books and manuscripts, of John Maule of Inverkeillor, Baron of the Exchequer.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.1.9
Scope and Contents

John Maule died in 1781 and his library was sold in the following year by an Edinburgh bookseller; several items were purchased by the Advocates` Library.

Dates: Circa 1782.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Catalogue of the Library of Alexander Speirs of Elderslie.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11037
Dates: 1843.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

"Catalogue of the Library of Balgowan".

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12400
Dates: 1740.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Catalogue of the library of Carstairs House.

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Identifier: Acc.12701
Dates: 1912.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Catalogue of the library of Christian Gottlieb Haubold, Professor of Law at Leipzig.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.1.1
Scope and Contents

The catalogue was compiled in 1824 on Haubold’s death. It is divided into two parts: the first comprising 2838 volumes mostly of philology (in the German sense) and literature; the second 4856 volumes of law. The library was bought by Tsar Alexander I and presented to the University of Abo (Finland; today, Turku), where it was destroyed by fire in 1827.

Dates: 1824.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Catalogue of the library of Professor Thomas Stewart Traill., [Circa 1860.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.19402
Scope and Contents

The library was sold by auction in 1863 following Professor Thomas Stewart Traill's death in 1862.

Dates: [Circa 1860.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence, diaries, and literary papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University, and of his family. / Miscellaneous papers of and concerning Professor Thomas Stewart Traill, and his family.

Catalogue of the library of Sir Ellis Cunliffe, Baronet.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.1.7
Dates: 1762
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Catalogue of the library of the Baird family at Newbyth., [1794, or after.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.6306
Scope and Contents

The catalogue is written on paper watermarked 1794, and is in five main sections:

'Divinity' (page 1), 'History' (page 25), 'Law' (page 52), 'Classicks' (page 68), 'Miscellanies', i.e., miscellaneous literature which will not fit into the other categories (page 86).

Within each section, the books, of which the earliest were published in the 16th century, are arranged alphabetically.

Dates: [1794, or after.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Catalogues of the library of the Baird family at Newbyth.

Catalogue of the library of the Baird family at Newbyth., 1825.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6307
Scope and Contents The catalogue is of the same library as MS.6306, but with additions and modifications of arrangement.It is in six main sections:'Divinity and ecclesiastical history', with subsection 'Bibles' (page 1), 'Law' (page 19), 'Classical literature' (page 36), 'History, voyages and travels' (page 49), 'Miscellaneous literature' (page 69), 'Pamphlets' (page 97). Each section is subdivided according to size. The books are arranged in their sections and subsections...
Dates: 1825.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Catalogues of the library of the Baird family at Newbyth.

Catalogue of the library of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians., [Circa 1895.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.21621
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates: [Circa 1895.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians. / Catalogues of the library of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians.

Catalogue of the library of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians., Late 19th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.21622
Scope and Contents

Also includes (folios 45-48, reversed) a 'Catalogue of books lent by Carl D. Hamilton Esq, to the Edin. Society of Musicians', [before 1900].

Dates: Late 19th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians. / Catalogues of the library of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians.

'Catalogue of the library of the Right Honourable, the Earl of Ancram, in Berkeley Square, London, 1751'., 1751.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5820
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: 1751.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey. / Catalogues of the libraries of the Kerr family, Marquesses of Lothian, at Newbattle Abbey and in London.

Catalogue of the library of William Brodie of Brodie.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10494
Dates: 19th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Catalogue of the library probably of Rudolf Paweck, a Viennese baker., 1st quarter of 20th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10980 [Maca.531]
Scope and Contents

The books, all of which concern baking, are arranged under different headings which are listed on page 203. The latest title mentioned is 1917.

Dates: 1st quarter of 20th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscripts from the Macadam collection of books on baking and confectionery in the Department of Printed Books.

‘Catalogue of the Lords of Session’ (Edinburgh, 1798) by Lord Hailes, continued in manuscript by John Philp Wood., Early 19th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.2.11
Dates: Early 19th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / 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.

'Catalogue of the Lords of Session from the institution of the college of Justice, in the year 1532' (Edinburgh, 1767), by David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, with manuscript additions.

 Item
Identifier: F.R.32
Dates: 1767.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Catalogue of the manuscripts of James Dennistoun, Esquire of Dennistoun in the Faculty of Advocates Libary.

 Item
Identifier: F.R.208
Dates: 1856.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Catalogue of the Miscellanies in the Library at Colinton., 1824.

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Identifier: Acc.13827/401
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1824.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo. / Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families. / Forbes Family Papers. / Forbes Family Notebooks.

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