Certificates.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents giving authoritative recognition of a fact, qualification, or promise.
Found in 128 Collections and/or Records:
Accounts and miscellaneous papers concerning the ‘Royal Charlotte’., 1797-1826.
File
Identifier: MS.9645
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Pay-bills, 1816, 1818-1820. Those for 1816 are for Thomas Robertson's salary only. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Boatswain's, carpenter's, and gunner's demands and accounts, 1816-1820. (Folio 21.)
(iii) Lists of defects to be made good, 1817-1819 (Folio 62.)
(iv) Certificates of pilotage, 1817-1820. (Folio 74.)
(v) Miscellaneous accounts and papers, 1804, 1815-1820, including a leaf from a log-book, a record of ships boarded, and abstracts of wages and beer-money. (Folio...
Dates:
1797-1826.
Accounts, letters and certificates., 1854-1855.
File
Identifier: Acc.3521/50
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Including legal and financial papers.
Dates:
1854-1855.
Album of original letters, compiled by Sir Hew Dalrymple., 1637-1904.
File
Identifier: MS.3420
Dates:
1637-1904.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts compiled and collected by the Honourable Sir Hew Dalrymple, Knight Commander of the Victorian Order, and a Member of the Board of Trustees of the National Library.
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Four albums of letters and documents, largely of Scottish interest, compiled by Sir Hew Dalrymple.
Assorted other papers of and concerning Patrick Leigh Fermor., 1913-2011, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13338/540-549
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...
Dates:
1913-2011, undated.
Author's certificate of admission to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland., 10 April 1950.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4752/9
Certificate honouring Muriel Spark for her outstanding contribution to literature, The Watt Club, Heriot-Watt University., 7 October 2005.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13071/8
Certificate of registration, James Thin, 24 September 1970, also containing memorandum and articles of association, James Thin Limited, 5 March 1973, and correspondence relating to amendment to articles of association, 1970-1989., 1970-1989.
File
Identifier: Acc.12384/7
Scope and Contents
Containing seven items.
Dates:
1970-1989.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of James Thin, bookseller, containing business papers and correspondence, with some personal papers.
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Business papers and correspondence of James Thin, bookseller.
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Legal and property papers of James Thin, bookseller.
Certificate of the Elders of the Associate Congregation., 20 April 1747.
File
Identifier: Acc.12384/248
Dates:
20 April 1747.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of James Thin, bookseller, containing business papers and correspondence, with some personal papers.
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Minutes, membership list, accounts, notes and legal papers of the Associate Congregation of Edinburgh, Seceders Meeting House or New Church, Bristo Street, Edinburgh, Adam Gib, Antiburgher minister.
Certificate titled 'Colleguim Sancti Salvatoris in Universitate Andreana".
Item
Identifier: F.R.365
Dates:
1949.
Certificates and diplomas awarded to A E Borthwick, 1912-1952, with one diploma of his wife as Associate in Arts, University of Oxford, 1895., 1895, 1912-1952.
File
Identifier: MS.10489
Scope and Contents
There is also a design by John Y Thomson, sculptor, for a wall tablet in memory of several members of A E Borthwick's family.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1895, 1912-1952.
Certificates and formal documents of Emile Joseph Dillon., 1874-1878, 1913-1914, 1932
Series
Identifier: Acc.12382/29-31
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
These papers were given to Father Ernest Eugene Laws by Dillon's widow, as research material for a proposed biography of Dillon. Laws transcribed and translated many of the letters and annotated some of the originals.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1874-1878, 1913-1914, 1932
Certificates and related documents received by James Johnston on completion of degree at the Royal Military College of Science., 1959-1962
File
Identifier: Acc.13818/22
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Major-General James Johnston was born in Edinburgh in August 1939. He was educated at George’s Watson’s College, Welbeck College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned in July 1959 into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He underwent postgraduate training at the Royal Military Academy of science and REME Officers School.
His training was completed by 1965 and he served several appointments as commanding officer within Germany and the United...
Dates:
1959-1962
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Major-General James Johnston
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Papers relating to the military career of James Johnston.
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Papers relating to the military and technical training, and subsequent regimental service, of James Johnston.
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Papers relating to James Johnston as a student at the Royal Military College of Science.
Certificates, letters of appointment and other official documents of Charles Murray., 1873-1941.
File
Identifier: MS.27271
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Born in Aberdeenshire, Charles Murray went to South Africa in 1888, where he rose to be Deputy-Inspector of Mines for the Transvaal (1901) and Secretary for Public Works in the Union of South Africa (1910). He never lost touch with Scotland, and many of his poems are in the dialect of the north east.
Dates:
1873-1941.
Certificates of Sir John Richmond., 1884-1889, 1918, 1945.
Series
Identifier: Acc.8921/14-16
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Concerning Richmond`s poetry and literary work, his connection with Glasgow artists and the art world in general.
Includes letters of Neil Munro, Arnold Bennett and Hilair Belloc.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1884-1889, 1918, 1945.
Charters collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne., 12th century-1553.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.18 (2 of 2)
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Confirmation by William I of gift by Hugh and William Giffard to the church of St. Andrews of the church of Tealing. Kincardine, 1189x1195. (Hugh de Roxburgh, chancellor; no date). Printed in ‘Regesta regum Scotorum’, volume ii, number 358.(ii) Confirmation, [1173-1178], by William I of gift by Walter, son of Philip to the church of St. Andrews of the land of Adhebrecces. Kinghorn, 1173x1178. (D.G.: Richard, Bishop of Dunkeld). Printed...
Dates:
12th century-1553.
Colloquial German certificate awarded to James Johnston., 1980
File
Identifier: Acc.13818/141
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Major-General James Johnston was born in Edinburgh in August 1939. He was educated at George’s Watson’s College, Welbeck College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned in July 1959 into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He underwent postgraduate training at the Royal Military Academy of science and REME Officers School.
His training was completed by 1965 and he served several appointments as commanding officer within Germany and the United...
Dates:
1980
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Major-General James Johnston
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Papers relating to the military career of James Johnston.
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Papers relating to James Johnston as a staff officer and in higher command.
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Papers relating to James Johnston on his posting as Commander of the REME 3rd armoured division, British Army of the Rhine.
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Miscellaneous personal documents retained by James Johnston during his REME, 3rd armoured division posting.
Copies of some papers of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville, contained in MSS.1041-1078., 1787-1825.
File
Identifier: MS.1079
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Volumes entitled 'Individuals' contain correspondence regarding patronage and other matters of personal interest (requests for employment, promotion, and pensions, complaints of unjust treatment, etc.). These papers frequently give information of a more general kind.
Dates:
1787-1825.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount.
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Lists and copies of papers received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville.
Correspondence, 1858-1898, and papers, 1748-1914, relating to game and horses., 1748-1914.
File
Identifier: MS.13328
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The estate papers for the Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus possessions of the Elliots of Minto provide a very full account of the history of these lands from the middle of the eighteenth century until the First World War. In particular the correspondence of the successive heads of the family with their factors and Edinburgh lawyers covers every aspect of estate management.The papers relating to Minto contain little material from before 1696, the year in which Sir Gilbert Elliot,...
Dates:
1748-1914.
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Joe Corrie., 1923-1968, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26551
Scope and Contents
The papers include Joe Corrie's pedlar's certificate, appreciations and obituaries, and photographs.
Dates:
1923-1968, undated.
Correspondence and papers, 1821-1896, undated, of the Honourable George Henry Douglas, Admiral, nephew of Lord Strathnairn., 18th century, 1821-1896, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3800
Scope and Contents
A few papers, eighteenth century, whose connection with the Rose family is not apparent, have been placed at the end of this volume (folio 91).
Dates:
18th century, 1821-1896, undated.
Correspondence and papers, concerning the administration of the College at Fort William., 1808-1813.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11637-11638
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates:
1808-1813.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Miscellaneous papers of the Bengal Government.
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Papers on coinage concerning the Bengal Government, and correspondence and papers concerning the administration of the Cadet College, Barasat, and the College at Fort William.
Correspondence and papers concerning the insanity of Colonel Alexander Ranaldson Macdonnell of Glengarry in Vienna., 1800-1801.
File
Identifier: MS.11263
Scope and Contents
These include letters of Colonel Macdonnell, his relatives, and his physicians, medical opinions and certificates, and accounts.
Dates:
1800-1801.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Diplomatic correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning the 1st Earl of Minto relating to Vienna.
Correspondence and papers of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, his wife Susan Buchan, Lady Tweedsmuir, his brother James Walter Buchan, and sister, Anna Buchan.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11627/1-120
Dates:
1863-1978.
Correspondence and papers of Salis Daiches, including some of his wife Flora, son Lionel, and other members of the Daiches family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12278/1-61
Dates:
Circa 1880-?2003.