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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 311 Collections and/or Records:

Catalogue, with entries from A-L, of law books in the Faculty of Advocates Library., 19th century.

 Item
Identifier: F.R.225
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The catalogue is chiefly manuscript with printed entries from the 1839 supplement to the catalogue of law books in the Advocates Library pasted in. Manuscript entries up to 1860 approximately.

Dates: 19th century.

Catalogue, with entries from M-Z, of law books in the Faculty of Advocates Library., 19th century.

 Item
Identifier: F.R.226
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The catalogue is chiefly manuscript with printed entries from the 1839 supplement to the catalogue of law books in the Advocates Library pasted in. Manuscript entries up to 1860 approximately.

Dates: 19th century.

Catalogues and lists of books of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun., 17th century-19th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17861-17866
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: 17th century-19th century.

Catalogues of books (unofficial)., Late 18th century-Mid 19th century..

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2458-2459
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..

Catalogues of photographic plates and slides., Undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.10590/1-10
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Some of the slides are accompanied by scripts and where this is the case the information is recorded in the relevant record.

Dates: Undated.

Catalogues of the libraries of the Kerr family, Marquesses of Lothian, at Newbattle Abbey and in London., 1666-19th century.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.5818-5827
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: 1666-19th century.

Catalogues of the library of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians., [Circa 1895-circa 1970.]

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21621-21623
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-circa 1970.]

Catalogues of the Library of the Kirk of Saltoun, including minutes and cash book., 17th century to 20th century.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.9270/19-22
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes:

18 volumes of sermons

three volumes of library catalogue

papers concerning the management of the Library and of the affairs of the parish.

Dates: 17th century to 20th century.

'Catalouge of Books belonging to Thomas Crawfurd of Crawfurdsburne', [2nd of Cartsburn]., Late 17th century-early 18th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2822
Scope and Contents

A list, chiefly of religious and historical works, dating from the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century (folios 2-13), with, in the same hand, a list of books lent (folios 16-27) and 'ane additional Catalouge of my Books begunn on January 4th 1728' (folios 28-51). There are some additions throughout in a later hand, and also, in both hands, further notes of books lent at various dates from 1708-1775.

Dates: Late 17th century-early 18th century.

'Copy for trustees of the Free Church. Longforgan Free Church Ministers Library Catalogue (printed) and deed of gift', 1875, with papers concerning it, 1876-1888, undated., 1875-1888, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.18079
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The archive of the General Treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900, with related papers including a few of slightly earlier and later date. The archive gives a complete picture of the financial basis of one of the most significant organised religious bodies in Scotland, from the Disruption to the first of the major Presbyterian reunions, dealing in great detail with the sources of finance and with its expenditure on a variety of projects.

Dates: 1875-1888, undated.

Copy of original catalogue supplied by Robert Maxtone Graham, also containing his index to 'The real Mrs Miniver', and bibliography of Jan Struther., Undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13220/49
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Articles and poems published in newspapers and magazines are all faithfully preserved in 16 large albums of press cuttings.She was a keen supporter of the Democratic Party and the correspondence files contain some letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson. The papers include several travel journals, and manuscripts and typescripts of many articles, verses, songs and hymns - which she had a gift for writing, despite her own agnosticism. Also significant are the manuscripts...
Dates: Undated.

Correspondence and papers of Alexander Carlyle's trustees and later relations., 1806-1944, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.23927-23930
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Alexander Carlyle's papers consist chiefly of journals, sermons, lectures, autobiographical writings, writings on various topics, poetry and papers on church and other affairs. The later papers (MSS.23927-23930) consist of a list of his books, excerpts from his writings and excerpts of proceedings in the action against him by the Presbytery of Dalkeith.

Dates: 1806-1944, undated.

Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto., 1799-1803.

 File
Identifier: MS.11271
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence of the 1st Earl with the Foreign Secretary concerning his emoluments, 1800-1803 (folio l); (ii) Personal financial papers of the 1st Earl concerning his Vienna Embassy 1799-1801 (folio 49); (iii) Letters of Innocenzo della Lena and the Abbé della Lena, 1802, concerning paintings bought by the 1st Earl in Vienna (folio 138); (iv) "Catalogue of Lord Minto's Books at Vienna, sent to England 1801" (folio 156).

Dates: 1799-1803.

Correspondence and papers relating to membership of Janet Adam Smith and involvement in the Alpine Club., 1957-1999.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13861/133
Scope and Contents

Containing:

Notes on articles and obituaries written by Janet Adam Smith about climbers - Christine Bicknell, and husband and wife team - Alison Chadwick and Janusz Onysckiewicz.

Minutes of meetings, rules and regulations of the Club and Library.

Club exhibition catalogues.

Dates: 1957-1999.

Diary, XXVI, of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh., July-September 1832.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6277
Scope and Contents

There is a catalogue of the "Religious Tract Society" inserted at the beginning of the diary.

Dates: July-September 1832.