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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 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.

Catalogue of the sulphur chests of antique gems belonging to the Faculty of Advocates Library.

 Item
Identifier: F.R.261b
Scope and Contents

Alphabetical and numbered lists in French.

Dates: 18th century.

Catalogues, 1819, of the Earl of Glasgow's library at Hawkhead, Renfrewshire.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14242-14243
Scope and Contents

Each catalogue is preceded by an index and inserted lists of books missing in November 1846.

Dates: 1819, 1846.

Catalogues of four Scottish libraries.

 File
Identifier: Dep.187
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

Catalogue of the library at Rannagulzion (two volumes), circa 1869;

Catalogue of the library at Carstairs House, circa 1828;

Catalogue of the library at Thirlestane Castle, circa 1843; and,

Catalogue of the library of Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, 1724.

Dates: 1724-circa 1869.

‘Catalogus librorum in bibliotheca facultatis juridicae Edenburgi’, January 1683.

 Item
Identifier: MS.549
Scope and Contents

The first catalogue of the Library. It is in the same handwriting as another manuscript copy, also in the Library, bound with printed sale-catalogues, press-mark, H.35.d.1(5), but contains later accessions in a different hand.

Dates: 1683.