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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:

Exhibition catalogues, 1965-2007

 File
Identifier: MS.50733
Scope and Contents

File contains an original catalogue for Lucinda Mackay's first exhibition at the Paperback Bookshop Gallery in 1965, and a series of her curriculum vitaes.

Dates: 1965-2007

Family papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale., 1550-1764.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.7105-7113
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: 1550-1764.

File box, unlabelled, containing letters, postcards and faxes of Rob Fairley to Marshall Anderson., 1994-2011.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 38(1)-(3)
Scope and Contents

Also included is a sketch book of Rob Fairley, 'Kathmandu: being a brief history of a walk from Nag Pokhari to Pushputinath on the first night of Diwali 1997'; and a printed catalogue, 'Rob Fairley: the early works'. The box lid is covered on the outside in the remnants of a purple, synthetic waterproof jacket. The rest of the outside of the box is covered in green fabric. The box is lined with a map showing the isles of Rhum (in part) and Eigg, and part of Arisaig.

Dates: 1994-2011.

Incomplete catalogue of the library of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians., [Circa 1970.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.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 1970.]

Interleaved copy of ‘A large new Catalogue of the Bishops of the several Sees ... of Scotland, down to the year 1688’ (Edinburgh, 1755)., 1755, late 18th century-early 19th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.10
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Printed books owned by John Riddell, consisting of standard works of Scottish genealogical reference, volumes of printed session papers, collections of papers in peerage and other claims, and copies of some of Riddell`s published works.

Dates: 1755, late 18th century-early 19th century.

Inventories of the family of Erskine of Alva., 1627-1873, or before.

 File
Identifier: MS.5114
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Inventories, 1627-1801, of household plenishings, including an inventory of the furnishings in Buchan Castle, made for and signed by Marie Stewart, Countess of Mar, in 1627, and based on an earlier inventory of 1611. Also included are inventories made at various times of the furnishings of the Erskine houses in Alloa, Barjarg and Drumsheugh. (Folio 1.)(ii) Lists of portraits in the possession of Jean, Lady Erskine of Alva, at the time...
Dates: 1627-1873, or before.

'Inventory of Books at Newbattle Abbey, the Property of the most Noble, the Marquess of Lothian'., 1838.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5825
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: 1838.

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Gabbitas to Gallichan, and company names beginning with initial G., 1816-1914.

 File
Identifier: MS.40434
Scope and Contents All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.G. Beltrami & C.Letter, 1910, of Giovanni Beltrami on behalf of G Beltrami & C. to John Murray IV. Folio 1.G C Jamieson.Letters, 1891, of George Charles Jamieson on behalf of G C Jamieson to John Murray IV. Folios 2-7.Folio 2. Letter, 1891, of George Charles Jamieson to Katherine Evelyn Murray.Folio 3. Memorandum, 1891,...
Dates: 1816-1914.

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Dicken to Dickinson., 1820-1908.

 File
Identifier: MS.40332
Scope and Contents All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Dicken, Charles Rowland.Letter, 1849, of Charles Rowland Dicken to John Murray III. Folios 1-2.Dickens, Henry Fielding.Letters, 1896, of Sir Henry Fielding Dickens to John Murray IV. Folios 3-8.Dickins, Frederick Victor.Letters, 1880-1881, 1883 and 1892, of Frederick Victor Dickins to John Murray III. Folios 9-18....
Dates: 1820-1908.

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of William Knight., 1887-1890.

 File
Identifier: MS.40660
Scope and Contents Letters, 1887-1890, of William Knight to John Murray III and John Murray IV, with related letters and papers. They concern his work “Principal Shairp and his friends” published by the Murrays, and his proposals for, and the beginning of, work on the University extension manuals series, of which he was editor and a contributor. The letters are arranged in chronological order.1887: folios 1-6;1888: folios 7-45; (1)1889: folios 46-57;1890: folios...
Dates: 1887-1890.

Library catalogue for Minto., [Circa 1848.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.13312
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703. Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates: [Circa 1848.]

Library catalogue for Minto., [Circa 1858.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.13313
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703. Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates: [Circa 1858.]

Library catalogue, probably of Sir John Wedderburn, physician., 17th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6505
Scope and Contents

There are similarities of writing and of material with MS.6504 (compare MS.6504, folio 70 verso with MS.6505, folio 46 inverted). The volume indicates that the owner of the library was a man of wide interests; apart from a well-documented section on medicine (folios 9-16), other subjects, for example, theology (folios 1-6), are well represented.

There are a few eighteenth-century additions.

Dates: 17th century.

Library catalogues for Minto., Mid 19th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13312-13313
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703. Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates: Mid 19th century.

Library catalogues of the Ker family., 1784-[1812, or after].

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5456-5458
Scope and Contents

Unrelated leaves from catalogues of the same period as these have been placed with MS.5457 (folio 46).

Dates: 1784-[1812, or after].

List of Gaelic books from Morrison's collection offered to the National Library of Wales., 1922.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14317/14
Scope and Contents

Headed "List ofGaelic books offered by Dr Hew Morrison, and wanted by N.L.W." A loosely-inserted sheet that sums up the number of books wanted by the National Library of Wales is dated 1922. The list is kept in the detached covers of a former notebook, with genealogical notes on the Morrison family on the front and back paste-downs.

Dates: 1922.

Literary manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey., 17th century-19th century.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.5752-5764
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: 17th century-19th century.

Magazines, journals, catalogues and other printed material, mostly relating to Scottish culture and the Gaelic language., 1889-1933, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.7708/85-130
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Papers of Alexander MacDonald, circa 1886-1962, including manuscripts of poems and essays, and associated correspondence. Also present are the papers of his daughter Mairi A MacDonald, 1915-1977, including manuscripts of novels, plays, and articles, with associated correspondence, including letters of Gordon Daviot. The collection also includes a book of poems by Isobel MacDonald, either the sister or mother of Alexander MacDonald; as well as some magazines and journals relating to Scottish...
Dates: 1889-1933, undated.