Commonplace books.
Found in 84 Collections and/or Records:
"An Account of Collections and Distributions of Money for the Benefit of the Indigent Episcopal Clergy in Scotland and their Widows. Begun by Messrs William Bell and Abernethy...", 1758-1779.
With commonplace book, 1729-circa 1750, compiled probably by William Bell.
Autobiographical notes, transcribed diary and anecdote of James Wardrop.
With diary, 1841-1861, of his daughter, Shirley.
Calligraphic album and commonplace book of Andrew Kippen, Edinburgh, entitled "Cabinet of Music, Poetry and Drawing."
Common-place book containing a collection of verse transcripts and reminiscences relating chiefly to Frasers and Roses, with some of the writings or compositions of Forbes and Culloden and John Roy Stewart, written by Peter Rose.
Common-place book of medical, chemical and alchemical recipes and experiments.
Commonplace book.
Commonplace book, 1863-1896, of Robert Dickson Glover, a merchant at Roslin and later in Portobello.
The book contains verses, historical and literary material, notes of events in Roslin, 1869-1873, and fragments of a diary for 1895-1896. A later hand has added copies of poems and of the will, May 1927, of John Glover who died in 1933 (folio 96).
Commonplace Book compiled by Reverend John Fairley.
Contains extensive notes on "Popery" in Scotland, the Scottish Covenanters and Cameronians, temperance and abstinence, proverbs and quotations, and observations on the rules of composition.
Commonplace book containing an anonymous account in verse of "A Tour of the Highlands in 1792".
Commonplace book containing poems, household and medical recipes, riddles and notes, written in several hands.
Folios 1-20 contain a collection of verses, most of which are dated 1789.
Commonplace book in verse and prose.
701 pages, with Aberdeen connections, bookplate of Charles Gordon of Beldornie and Wardhouse, and ownership inscription of Thomas Mercer.
Commonplace book of Donald Mackay, 1848, containing miscelleanous texts including medical prescriptions, texts of religious instruction, songs partly with music, and Gaelic songs, partly composed by Mackay himself.
Commonplace book of Donald McDugald.
Contains a digest of largely religious and theological remarks.
Commonplace book of Fife provenance, containing household and medical recipes, verse, and proverbs.
Commonplace book of George Anderson, Glasgow.
As well as poetry, recipes and miscellaneous notes, the book includes instructions for road-making (page 3) and designs for a pump and a building for making lamp-black (pages 37, 66).
Commonplace book of Hew Love.
Including translations from Ovid, Virgil, and Terence.
Commonplace book of James Brown, a teacher of Latin in Monimail and Edinburgh.
The volume contains poems, including a satire on James Sharp, Archbishop of St Andrews (page 54), epitaphs, acrostics, and items copied from printed works. There are also copies of Brown`s correspondence, chiefly with Sir Robert Sibbald.
Commonplace book of James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane.
Commonplace book of Janet W M Stewart.
Includes excerpts from the novels of Sir Walter Scott, the poetry of Lord Byron and John Milton, and the plays of Joanna Baillie. The volume also includes a number of drawings of buildings and landscapes and several illustrations of flowers.