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:
Catalogus librorum of the Faculty of Advocates Library by Thomas Ruddiman.
Item
Identifier: F.R.220
Dates:
[Before 1757.]
Catalogus librorum of the Faculty of Advocates Library by Thomas Ruddiman.
Item
Identifier: F.R.221
Dates:
[Before 1757.]
Catalogus librorum of the Faculty of Advocates Library by Thomas Ruddiman.
Item
Identifier: F.R.222
Dates:
[Before 1757.]
Catalogus librorum of the Faculty of Advocates Library by Thomas Ruddiman.
Item
Identifier: F.R.222a
Dates:
[Before 1757.]
Catalogus librorum of the Faculty of Advocates Library by Thomas Ruddiman.
Item
Identifier: F.R.222b
Dates:
[Before 1757.]
Catalogus librorum of the Faculty of Advocates Library by Thomas Ruddiman.
Item
Identifier: F.R.223
Dates:
[Before 1757.]
Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.15
Scope and Contents
Each volume has a contents list (folios 1, 77) and the second volume has its own foliation added in an apparently later hand.The first volume (folios 1-74) consists of copies (in the same hand), made apparently in or about 1585, of the following:(i) ‘Discorso del Priore d`Inghilterra a Papa Pio V circa la Riduttione di quel Regno’ (folio 2), being an account by Sir Richard Shelley, Grand Prior of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, written apparently early in 1570,...
Dates:
1537-1606.
Copy in typescript carbon of the catalogue, compiled by Hugh Sharp, of his collection of books.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19409-19410 [H.S.1247-1248]
Scope and Contents
This is a copy of MSS.5053-5054 with the leaves arranged differently, in two separate alphabetical sequences, and was the working copy used by the donor, Campbell White, in looking after the collection before Hugh Sharp's death.
Dates:
[1938, or before.]
Copy of Arts Council exhibition catalogue, "Charles Cameron, c 1740-1812".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7942
Scope and Contents
With associated manuscript notes.
Dates:
1967.
Copy of PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, by David Mackie on "Raeburn: Life and Art".
Item
Identifier: Acc.11587
Scope and Contents
In four volumes, the first being the text and second to fourth a catalogue of works, annotated by the author.
Dates:
1993.
Copy of "Pictures in the New Club" (1911), with manuscript annotations and additions.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7871
Scope and Contents
A catalogue of pictures in the New Club, Edinburgh.
Dates:
1911.
Copy of the Faculty of Advocates Library of the Thorkelin Library catalogue.
Item
Identifier: F.R.201
Dates:
1807.
'Cornucopia manuscriptorum codicum qui reperiuntur in Anglia. Londini. MDCLXXXIV': catalogues of manuscripts, possibly in the hand of Adrian Beverland, author of ‘De stolatae virginitatis jure’, inserted at the end of 'Nova Bibliotheca MSS. Librorum’ by Philippe Labbé (Paris, 1653).
Item
Identifier: MS.6134
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'Catalogus Codicum Manuscriptorum integrioris notae et exactioris curae Viri incomparabilis Domini Isaaci Vossii ab Hadriano Beverlando conscriptus et concinnatus. In arce Vindesoriensi X Febr. MDCXXCIV'. (Folio 4.)(ii) 'Praecipui Codices Manuscripti in Eicosarchio Regis Britanniae in palatio Ducis Eboracensis vulgo S. Jacobi'. (Folio 39.) There are no entries under this heading.(iii) 'MSS Lambaethani in Sacrario...
Dates:
1684.
Correspondence and papers concerning the publication by Messrs John Smith and Son of their catalogue "Bibliotheca Scotica".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11253
Dates:
1926.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning F C B Cadell.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11224
Scope and Contents
Papers concern artistic and personal matters and include letters from Sir William Russell Flint, J Pittendrigh Macillivray and S J Peploe.
Dates:
1892-1942 and undated.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning the family of Anderson of St. Germains and their descendants, being chiefly the correspondence of Warren Hastings Anderson (died 1875), son of David Anderson of St. Germains (1751-1825).
Series
Identifier: MSS.14842-14847
Scope and Contents
Warren Hastings Anderson entered the merchant house of his uncle, Robert Anderson and Company, St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in 1813, becoming a partner in 1818. From then until the 1850s he spent most of his life in Italy and France engaged in trade, finally retiring to Bowerhouse near Dunbar. Family, personal and legal material predominates in this collection.
Dates:
1792-mid 20th century.
Correspondence and papers of Dr Hew Morrison, Gaelic scholar, including extracts from the diary of Rev. Murdo MacDonald, minister of Durness.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14317/1-34
Content Description
Correspondence and papers of Dr Hew Morrison (1850-1935), Gaelic scholar and a native Gaelic speaker from Torrisdale, Sutherland. He became the first librarian of the Edinburgh Free Public Library, now Central Library, a post which he held until his retirement in 1922. The library had been founded with the help of a gift from Andrew Carnegie, with whom Morrison remained in close friendship while acting as representative for Carnegie's library foundation scheme.The papers include:...
Dates:
1877-2003 and undated, with most of the material dated 1877-1920s.
Correspondence and papers of Dr Robert Alexander Lillie.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.316
Dates:
1907-1977.
Diary of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6260-6289
Scope and Contents
The diary entries consist of records of personal experiences, and rambling didactic essays. The topics include observations on religion, philosophy, current events, sex, education, music, art and literature; there are copies of songs and music, a complete essay on marriage, and accounts of travels, notably a journey to Glasgow, 1822 (MS.6260), and a sea-trip to the Irish coast (MS.6272).Some miscellaneous newspaper cuttings and catalogues are inserted in the diary; and there are...
Dates:
1822-1836.
Drawings and journals chiefly of John Harden, a landowner from Tipperary and an accomplished amateur water-colourist, and of his wife Jessy, the daughter of Robert Allan, the Edinburgh banker, and an assiduous diarist.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8832-8873
Scope and Contents
Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.
Dates:
1799-1853, undated.
First volume of a catalogue of the library of, apparently, David Constable, Advocate, eldest son of Archibald Constable, the Publisher.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.7
Scope and Contents
The volume, arranged alphabetically by authors, covers the letters A to G. It was made by pasting into an album slips, written in several hands, for each book. An entry on folio 151 shows that it was being compiled in 1818; the paper of the album is watermarked 1818, 1819, and 1821.About 60 of the entries give sufficient information about binding or manuscript inscriptions to enable the copy to be identified: of these 9 are certainly, and 19 others possibly, in the sale...
Dates:
Circa 1818-circa 1821.
General catalogue of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/3
Dates:
1774-1855.
'Inventar of Buikis pertaining to Walter Dalgleische this 3 November 1652', a list of some 160 books, chiefly religious and literary, written on the front flyleaves of ‘Recreations with the muses’ by William Alexander, Earl of Stirling (London, 1637).
Item
Identifier: MS.9484
Scope and Contents
Walter Dalgleish was probably factor to the Earl of Dunfermline. His ex-libris, dated 1656, appears on the first flyleaf.
Dates:
1637, 1952
Jacobite Papers.
File
Identifier: Acc.3412
Scope and Contents
Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.
Dates:
1645-1891.
Law shelf catalogue in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Item
Identifier: F.R.251
Dates:
19th century.