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CD-ROMs.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Compact discs on which a large amount of digitized read-only data can be stored.

Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:

3 CDs containing text and illustrations for 'A Gray play book', by Alasdair Gray., 2009.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13416/31
Scope and Contents

CD wallet is labelled by Alasdair Gray:

'A Gray playbook, 19 August 2009, final version text and illustrations' and, in a different hand 'plus 2 earlier versions'.

Two of the discs are labelled 10 February 2009, and one is labelled 'from Joe [Murray]'.

Dates: 2009.

4 CDs, mostly containing images and artwork for 'A Gray play book', by Alasdair Gray., 2009.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13416/30
Scope and Contents

The CD wallet is numbered 1 to 4 with the following descriptions by Alasdair Gray:

1. Disc with mug logo: block, & you rascal; raptor; reptile – in colour [for ‘Graydale’ mugs].

2. Disc with Gray Playbook cover: red tile separation and 2 versions with darker and lighter blue backgrounds.

3. A Gray Playbook, black & white images. [Disc dated 13 February 2009.]

4. Another just like number 3. [Disc dated 13 February 2009.]

Dates: 2009.

Antiquarian collections of W T Johnston.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.11781
Scope and Contents

Includes transcripts of letters and papers of eminent Scotsmen and other material relating to them. Files organised by subject.

Dates: Late 20th century.

CD containing 'A mile from a masterpiece: Alasdair Gray', a segment from series 6 of 'The one show' on BBC One., Circa 2011.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13416/63
Scope and Contents

CD case is annotated 'One o-clock TV interview with Alasdair Gray'.

The segment was filmed in Glasgow and presented by Phil Tufnell.

Dates: Circa 2011.

CD containing a poem for the slipcase of the limited edition of 'A life in pictures', by Alasdair Gray., 2012.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13416/48
Scope and Contents

Annotation on CD wallet reads "Poem for slipcase of 'Life in pictures' special limited edition, typeset by Robert Dallas Gray, 21 March 2012".

Dates: 2012.

CD containing a Powerpoint presentation for a talk on 'A life in pictures', given by Alasdair Gray in Linlithgow., [2011].

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13416/49
Scope and Contents

Annotation on CD case reads "This contains, among other pictures reproduced in 'A life in pictures', a lost [gouache] picture of 'Scylla & Charybdis'".

Dates: [2011].

CD containing draft versions of chapters 4 and 5 of 'A life in pictures', by Alasdair Gray., 2008.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13416/42
Scope and Contents

Label on CD wallet reads 'Life in pictures, chapters 4 and 5, dated 4 March 2008. Early version with Latin in text areas. Small part broken off at one side'.

Dates: 2008.

CD containing portraits by Alasdair Gray of May Hooper, Bill Skinner and two others., [2012].

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13416/58
Scope and Contents

Label on CD wallet reads 'Two black and white images of May in leather skirt, girl in leather jacket, plus 2 colour images of Edinburgh Print Workshop silkscreens of these, and 2 same size images of girl in long hair and Bill Skinner portrait of him at home'. Also written on the label is a unidentified mobile phone number.

Dates: [2012].

CD containing scans of artworks by Alasdair Gray, Bob Kitts and Carole Gibbons., Undated.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13416/39
Scope and Contents

Label on CD wallet reads 'Bob Kitts - nude in charcoal and pastel in [Life in pictures] and 3 pictures which ain't; Greenbank Book of Ruth Mural in [Life in pictures]; Gray posters, book covers, illustrations mostly in [Life in pictures]; Carole Gibbons pictures in [Life in pictures]'.

Dates: Undated.