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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:

Notebook of Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.17
Scope and Contents (i) Note of decisions (folio 1).(ii) Note of expenses (folio 1 verso).(iii) Note of expenses in London, 1667 (Crawford, page 180) (folio 2).(iv) Note of expenses (folio 3).(v) Journal of travels in England and Scotland, 1667-1670 (Crawford, pages 167-204, omitting folios 39-40) (folios 4-46).(vi) Observations on Public Affairs, 1669-1670 (Crawford, pages 228-236) (folios 46-34).(vii) Accounts, 1670-1671 (Crawford, pages...
Dates: 1667-1676.

Notebook of Sir Robert Sibbald containing geological and topographical material.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.8
Scope and Contents

(i) `A Catalogue of Mineralls and figur`d stones found in Scotland in M.R.W. cabinet` (page 4). An abridged copy by Robert Sibbald of the catalogue of material owned by Robert Wodrow in 1703.

(ii) Copies, not in Sibbald`s hand, of descriptions of Shetland and the Hebrides written in the second half of the 17th century (inverted page 1).

Dates: 2nd half of 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century.

Old manuscript catalogues of the Faculty of Advocates Library.

 Series
Identifier: F.R.224-F.R.224e
Dates: 17th century-18th century.

Papers concerning Joan Eardley.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.8998
Scope and Contents

Includes annotated exhibition catalogues and periodicals, photographs and pres cuttings.

Dates: 1950-1975.

Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21193-21198

Papers of and concerning Charles McCall.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11494
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, art exhibition catalogues, press cuttings and photograph albums.

Dates: circa 1936-1995.

Papers of and concerning the Library of the Kirk of Saltoun.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9270/1-42
Scope and Contents

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.

Papers of Bernat Klein, textile designer.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11216
Dates: circa 1965-1994 and undated.

Papers of Bet Low, artist.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12177
Scope and Contents

Papers concern Low`s role in the establishment of the Charing Cross Gallery, Glasgow.

Dates: 1948-1984.

Papers of John Grant, bookseller.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9751

Papers of the Gordon family of Halmyre and Gordonstoun.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.115- is now Acc.4642.
Dates: Late 18th century-19th century.

Photocopies of a letter, 1870, of R W Emerson to the President of Harvard.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7928
Scope and Contents

Concerning Thomas Carlyle`s intended bequest of books to Harvard College.

With a catalogue, undated, of the library in the Land of Mary Aitken.

Dates: 1870 and undated.

Photocopies of papers concerning Scots and the West Indies.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.50273-50276
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of correspondence of and concerning Scots in Jamaica, including letters of the Earl of Balcarres, the Fyffe family and other Scots in Jamaica.

Typewritten lists concenring materials of Scottish interest in the National Library of Jamaica, formerly the West India Reference Library.

Typewritten list of Scottish place names in Jamaica.

Dates: 1699; 1735-1846.

Photographs and typescript copies of letters of Sir Walter Scott, collected by Sir Herbert Grierson for the centenary edition of Scott's letters.

 File
Identifier: MS.1846
Scope and Contents

Some of the letters have not been printed.

At the end are catalogues of letters of Sir Walter Scott to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe and other correspondents, 1927, and to his brother Thomas and the latter's wife, undated.

Dates: 1796-1828, 1927, undated.