Diplomas. School records.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Formal documents conferring some honor, degree, or privilege, especially those bearing record of graduation from or a degree conferred by an educational institution.
Found in 68 Collections and/or Records:
Addresses, honorary diplomas, speeches, etc., 1813, 1816, 1898-1910, undated.
Series
Identifier: Ch.10493-10633
Dates:
1813, 1816, 1898-1910, undated.
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 related documents received by James Johnston on completion of degree at the Royal Military College of Science., 1959-1962
File
Identifier: Acc.13818/22
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.
Collection of genealogical material on various Scottish families and items of historical interest copied by Robert Mylne, the antiquary, in the late 17th or early 18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘The Portrait of True Loyalty exposed in the Family of Gordon, without interruption to this present year 1691. With a Relationof the Castle of Edr. in the year 1689’ (folio 1), which is attributed to David Burnet, a Catholic Priest. The original manuscript, which was in Blairs College, Aberdeen (‘The House of Gordon’, page xxxvi), is at the Scottish Catholic Archives, Columba House, Edinburgh, where it has the...
Dates:
1554-1720.
Copies, 17th century, of diplomas, gifts, and other documents, 1615-1651, in favour of Sir James Carmichael, 1st Baronet, of Westraw, and 1st Lord Carmichael; and of papers, 1600-1618, concerning the vicarage and stipend of Pettinain., 1600-1651.
File
Identifier: MS.20799
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Copies, 17th century, of diplomas, gifts, and other documents in favour of Sir James Carmichael, 1st Bartonet, of Westraw, and 1st Lord Carmichael, 1615-1651. (Folio 1.) This volume is related but not apparently identical to the 'Hyndford Inventory' cited in ‘The Scots peerage’, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, volume 4 (Edinburgh, 1907) pages 584-585.
(ii) Copies, early 17th century, of papers, 1600-1618, concerning the vicarage and stipend of Pettinain....
Dates:
1600-1651.
Copies by Robert Mylne of birth-brieves and diplomas conferring titles., 1610-1696.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.3
Scope and Contents
Many of the items concern Scots who had gone abroad. The contents list (folio iii verso) and the last entry are in a different hand.
Dates:
1610-1696.
Copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas and other documents, mostly conferring titles.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.6.2-34.6.3
Dates:
16th century-18th century.
Copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas conferring titles and Baronetcies, 1554-1707, most of the material being late 17th and early 18th century. Also included (page 51) are copies of material concerning the Order of the Thistle., 1554-1707.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.2
Correspondence and papers, including sermons, lectures, diaries and photographs, of Sir George Adam Smith, Lilian Adam Smith and their family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9446/1-422
Scope and Contents
The George Adam Smith Archive, comprising correspondence and papers, 1859-1949, of the Very Rev Sir George Adam Smith (1856-1942), theologian, Moderator of the United Free Church General Assembly, 1916, and Principal of Aberdeen University, 1910-35; of his wife Lilian, née Buchanan (1866-1949) and her family; and of their family, particularly George Buchanan Smith (d.1915) and Robert Dunlop Smith (d.1917).
Dates:
1847-1982.
Correspondence and papers of the artist Alfred Edward Borthwick and his family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.10393-10491
Scope and Contents
A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...
Dates:
1815-1967, undated.
Degree and diploma certificates from the papers of C M Grieve, `Hugh MacDiarmid`.
Series
Identifier: Ch.17407-17410
Dates:
1957-1978.
Degree certificate, LL.D., Aberdeen., 1920.
Item
Identifier: Ch.17421
Degree of Doctor of Divinity conferred on Andrew Hunter of Barjarg by the University of Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Ch.8891
Dates:
1779.
Degree of Doctor of Medicine of Edinburgh University awarded to Thomas Stewart Traill., 1802.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15376
Degree of M.A. conferred on John Hill Burton by Marischal College, Aberdeen., 1829.
Item
Identifier: Ch.8495
Diploma, 1803, of the Dialectical Society and burgess ticket, 1810, of Selkirk given to John Thomson, Minister of Maxton., 1803, 1810.
File
Identifier: Ch.2156-2157
Diploma as honorary member of the Societe Francaise de Statistique Universelle in favour of General Sir George Murray., 22 November 1829.
Item
Identifier: Ch.17064
Dates:
22 November 1829.
Diploma awarded by the University of Padua to Triphon Pasquale Pima on his graduation as Doctor of Divinity., 1756.
Item
Identifier: MS.7146
Scope and Contents
The diploma is signed by Octavius Benedictus Rustici of the diocese of Siena, Rector of the University, and by Antonius Tertius, Pro-rector. The designer's name is in the bottom margin of folio 3 verso.
Written in black and gold, with margins ruled in gold.
Dates:
1756.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh; together with a list of the full collection.
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh.
Diploma awarded to John Burdon-Sanderson [later Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet] on his graduation as Doctor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15472
Dates:
1851.
Diploma certifying the award of the insignia of office as Protonotary Apostolic to Giovanni Paolo Pongelli at Camerino, 1582., [1566, or after]-[1589, or after.]
File
Identifier: MS.25247
Scope and Contents
With a copy of Giovanni Paolo Pongelli's doctoral diploma, 1582 (folio 11) and privilege of citizenship of Camerino, 1589 (folio 20). Illuminated with the arms of Pongelli and two cardinals.
Dates:
[1566, or after]-[1589, or after.]
Diploma granted by the University of Edinburgh to William Gordon on his graduation in the Faculty of Medicine.
Item
Identifier: Ch.8895
Dates:
1827.
Diploma in favour of Peter Wedderburn of Gosford of the title of Knight Baronet., 30 December 1697.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6682
Diploma in favour of Robert Menteith of Salmonet as doctor of philosophy and medicine from the University of Padua.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8427
Dates:
1635.
Diploma, invitation and photograph of Sir John Hay Athole Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh, Lord Justice Clerk.
Series
Identifier: Ch.B.1350-1352
Dates:
?1888-?1919.
Diploma of AM of Marischal College, Aberdeen University, given to George Shepherd., 1820.
Item
Identifier: Ch.2117