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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 232 Collections and/or Records:

Photocopies of transcripts, 1849-1894, of "Mundell Family Extracts from Loch Broom and Ullapool Parish Kirk Session Records"

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Identifier: Acc.10874
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With copies of related letters, 1975, of James R Matheson.

Dates: 1849-1894 and 1975.

Photocopies of typed transcripts of letters of Sir William Gordon to his sister.

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Identifier: Acc.8919
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Concerning the Crimea and India.

Dates: circa 1850-1865.

Photocopies of typed transcripts of letters of Violet Emily Cragg to her mother.

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Identifier: Acc.9555
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Written while in Nigeria.

Dates: 1924-1930.

Reel-to-reel audio-tape and transcript of a BBC television programme, "Mirror of Scotland".

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Identifier: Acc.6478/1-2
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Concerning the work of the Films of Scotland Committee.

Dates: 1975.

Reminiscences of Andrew Macgeorge.

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Identifier: Acc.8341
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Concerning his family, upbringing and social life.

With typed transcript.

Dates: 19th century.

Research papers of Robin J Adam.

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Identifier: Acc.11606
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Includes research notes, transcripts and drafts concerning the Sutherland estates and the Calendar of Fearn Abbey.

Dates: circa 1960-1980.

Sale catalogues of books and transcripts of letters of Scottish interest in the Caligula section of the Cotton Library.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.5.1.12
Scope and Contents On folio i is written `No. 14 of Mr. Matthew Crawfurd`s printed Catalogue of Manuscripts. in fol.`, which appears to be intended as a title for the volume, although it does not correspond to the contents. On the same folio the letter `B` and the signature `John Wright` appear twice. All of these are in eighteenth-century hands. Section (iii) is the earliest, and the volume must have been later adapted by the writers of sectitons (i) and (ii).Section (i): Sale-catalogue of books,...
Dates: Late 16th century-early 18th century.

Schoolbook, transcribed in the early 12th century, containing notes and glosses (in Latin and German) on authors studied in schools and other texts which could be used in teaching.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.10
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Juvenal, 'Satires': citations with commentary in alphabetical order of keyword, incipit 'Maior auaritie patuit'. (i.88). (Folio 1.)(ii) Lucan, 'Civil War': introduction and citations with and without commentary from books 1-6 and 9, incipit 'Lucanii sum(m)a utilitas e(st) i(n) topog(ra)phia'. (Folio 5 verso.)(iii) Philosophical notes, possibly connected to Porphyry's introduction to Aristotle's 'Analytica...
Dates: Early 12th century.

Scottish chartularies and other works transcribed for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist in 1742 and 1746.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.3.13
Scope and Contents The sources are mainly the original manuscripts then in the Advocates` Library. Only those documents not known from other sources are indexed in detail. The contents are as follows:(i) `Registra Coenobiorum de Melrose et Balmerino Impensis Walteri McFarlan de eodem Transcripta Anno MDCCXLII`, copied from Adv.MSS.34.4.11, late 13th century (folio 1), and 34.5.3, 14th century (folio 67), with extracts from Richard Augustine Hay on Melrose, 1700-1707, or after (folio 54; from...
Dates: Late 13th century-1707, or after.

Scottish chartularies transcribed, 1738-1744, for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist.

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Identifier: Adv.MSS.35.2.5-35.3.9
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The wording and ornament of the title pages suggest a division into three groups:

(i) Adv.MSS.35.2.5, 35.3.6, 35.3.7, 35.39: 1738-1739.

(ii) Adv.MSS.35.3.2, 35.3.4: 1740.

(iii) Adv.MSS.35.3.3, 35.3.5, 35.3.8: 1740-1744.

The sources are mainly the original manuscripts then in the Advocates` Library, with notes taken from Richard Augustine Hay`s works. Only those documents the present location of whose originals is unknown are indexed in detail.

Dates: 13th century-1707, or after.

‘Scottish Historical documents’, being transcripts and notes, in manuscript and typescript, by and for Sir Archibald C Lawrie in preparation for continuations (never published) to his ‘Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D.1153’.

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Identifier: Adv.MSS.37.3.1-37.3.15
Scope and Contents The arrangement is as follows:Volumes I-VII: Royal charters and others of the same period; these have been used by the editors of the ‘Regesta Regum Scottorum’, volumes 1-3.Volumes VIII-XIII: Religious houses; there is no discernible order.Volume XIV: Bishoprics; alphabetical.Volume XV: Burghs and miscellanies.Each volume has an identical printed title page, on whose verso is given biographical information on Lawrie.The...
Dates: 1153-1249, ?1905, or after.

Scribal copy of letter, 1643, of Oliver Cromwell to Lawrence Crawford

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Identifier: Acc.5003
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With annotated transcript and notes, circa 1840-circa 1845, of Thomas Carlyle.

Dates: 1643-circa 1845