Measurements.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Dimensions or size ascertained by measuring; a magnitude, quantity, or extent calculated by the application of an instrument or device marked in standard units.
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Contracts, schemes, and other papers concerning the estate of Ladykirk, Berwickshire., 1771-1775, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.999
Dates:
1771-1775, undated.
Correspondence, papers, and diagrams of John Rennie concerning mills, chiefly for sugar, for Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and Demerara (Guyana)., 1814-1821.
File
Identifier: MS.19819
Dates:
1814-1821.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of John Rennie (1761-1821), engineer.
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Papers of John Rennie concerning overseas operations.
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Correspondence, papers, and diagrams of John Rennie concerning mills, chiefly for sugar, for Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and Demerara (Guyana).
Day-book of William Scott of Raeburn., 1848-1850.
Item
Identifier: MS.6314
Scope and Contents
The contents include measurements of land bought by William Scott in 1831 (folio 1).
Dates:
1848-1850.
Drawing, plans and measures of and for buildings on the Minto estate., Late 18th century-1875, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.13233
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Miscellaneous architectural drawings of Minto House, with a number of sketches for internal architectural details and finishing’s, circa 1797, circa 1875. Further drawings are in MSS.13456-13457, 13462-13464, 13468-13469 (folio 1);
(ii) Measures of rooms at Minto, circa 1770, undated (folio 56);
(iii) Drawings for the stables at Minto, late 18th century. See also MS.13469
(iv) Miscellaneous drawings, including several for a bridge and waterfall at...
Dates:
Late 18th century-1875, undated.
Drawing, undated - River with measurement of quantity of sand scoured and dredged - Lune, River., ?19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.5875 (60)
Dates:
?19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in England and overseas.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in England and overseas beginning with L.
Manual of mathematics, evidently for the use of a military officer, compiled by James Douglas.
Item
Identifier: MS.3939
Scope and Contents
The manual, compiled in 1698 (dates on pages 334a, 401), contains arithmetic, based on E Cocker's ‘Arithmetick’, with some rules for extracting roots by algebra and logarithms; "the doctrine of decimall fractions takne out of Mr. Coker's Decimall Arithmetick", (page 156); and 'the doctrine of plain triangles, or ... plain trigonometry' (page 334a), with rules for ascertaining heights, etc., with instruments.The words 'Heir endeth so much of the arithmetick as a souldier ought...
Dates:
1698.
Measurement of the Errol estate., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.20797
Miscellaneous reports, maps and other papers concerning various estates and lands in Scotland., 1781-1864.
File
Identifier: MS.3273
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Report, 1813, by George Brown on damage caused to the lands of Easter and Wester Bonar by the construction of the Bonar bridge and road;(ii) Papers relating to the sale or lease of estates of Letterfourie, Corriedown, and Walkerdales, Banffshire, 1781;(iii) Plan, 1795, of ground in Muirtown, Elgin, leased to the New Thread Company;(iv) Particulars of sale, and abstract of the contents and rental of the lands of...
Dates:
1781-1864.
Notebook containing measurements of Lochgelly estate., 1862.
Item
Identifier: MS.13298
Notebook of Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford: volume XXIII., 2nd half of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.8.1
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Notebook of Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford: volume XXIV., 2nd half of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.8.2
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Notebook of John Rennie containing a table of measures for canal cutting by Samuel Hodgkinson, with a covering letter by Hodgkinson to Rennie., 1817.
Item
Identifier: MS.19928
Papers of John Rennie relating to various mills., 1787-1831, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19816
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Barclay and Perkins Brewery, estimates and valuations, 1805-1807, 1809, 1813-1816, with a note of all payments made by the brewery to John Ronnie and Sons, from 1794 to 1831 (folio 1);
(ii) Billinge's Silk Mill, Twyford, drawings and notes, 1799 (folio 25);
(iii) The Earl of Bridgewater's threshing machine at Home Farm, Ashridge, 1811-1813 (folio 31);
(iv) Cement mill at Loftus, Yorkshire, letters, 1811 (folio 58);
(v) Claverton Mill, plan of water levels,...
Dates:
1787-1831, undated.
Phrenological reports of George Combe., 1819-1823.
File
Identifier: MS.7452
Dates:
1819-1823.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of George Combe (1788-1858), lawyer, phrenologist and educationist, and his household.
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Miscellaneous personal papers, lecture notes and phrenological reports of George Combe; and papers of Cecilia Combe.
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Lecture notes and phrenological reports of George Combe.
Phrenological reports of George Combe., 1837-1858.
File
Identifier: MS.7454
Dates:
1837-1858.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of George Combe (1788-1858), lawyer, phrenologist and educationist, and his household.
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Miscellaneous personal papers, lecture notes and phrenological reports of George Combe; and papers of Cecilia Combe.
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Phrenological reports of George Combe, together with fictitious dialogue of Cecilia Combe illustrating the facets of phrenology.
Phrenological reports of George Combe, together with fictitious dialogue of Cecilia Combe illustrating the facets of phrenology., 1837-1858, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.7454-7456
Dates:
1837-1858, undated.
Phrenological reports, undated, of George Combe., [1819-1858.]
File
Identifier: MS.7455
Dates:
[1819-1858.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of George Combe (1788-1858), lawyer, phrenologist and educationist, and his household.
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Miscellaneous personal papers, lecture notes and phrenological reports of George Combe; and papers of Cecilia Combe.
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Phrenological reports of George Combe, together with fictitious dialogue of Cecilia Combe illustrating the facets of phrenology.
Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in England and overseas beginning with L., 1743-1916, undated.
Series
Identifier: MS.5875
Schedule of Measurement of William Sim's portion of gable mutual with Mr James Cunningham at Brown's Entry, Leith Walk., 1870.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4496/11