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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 174 Collections and/or Records:

Catalogue of English law books in the Faculty of Advocates Library.

 Item
Identifier: F.R.227
Scope and Contents

A list of abbreviations used in law tipped in at rear of volume.

Dates: 1817.

Catalogue of law books in the Faculty of Advocates Library.

 Series
Identifier: F.R.225-F.R.226
Scope and Contents

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: 1839-[circa 1860.]

Catalogue of legal books in the Faculty of Advocates Library.

 Item
Identifier: F.R.249a
Scope and Contents

Alphabetical list of books with division and shelf noted.

Dates: 19th century.

'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 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 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.