Dissertations.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Written treatises, or the records of a discourse on a subject, usually prepared and presented as the final requirement for a degree or diploma and typically based on independent research and giving evidence of the candidate's mastery of the subject and of scholarly method.
Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:
‘A History of Lanark County Libraries 1921-1950’., 1973.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13656/111
Scope and Contents
Written by Helen G. Sloss.
Dissertation for the Department of Librarianship, University of Strathclyde.
Dates:
1973.
‘A private sector library initiative in outreach. The case of the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh’., 1998.
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Identifier: Acc.13656/112
Scope and Contents
Written by Euan McCulloch.
Dissertation for the Department of Information Science, University of Strathclyde.
Dates:
1998.
Bachelor of Divinity dissertation of the Reverend David Macleod, "Prophet with Honour: the Life and Times of Sir George Adam Smith", University of Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10586
Dates:
1992.
Copy of dissertation on ‘Male and Female Worlds on the Isle of Barra’ sent to Magnusson., 1981.
File
Identifier: Acc.13542/521
Copy of Stephen Holt, "The Political Science of David Hume: An Enquiry into the Polemical Intent Behind Hume`s Political Writings", dissertation, Australian National University.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11029
Dates:
1973.
Copy of typescript MA dissertation, by Frances Sterling Ellis, entitled "Unity in "The Heart of Midlothian"".
Item
Identifier: Acc.11666
Dates:
1968.
Copy of typescript PhD dissertation, by Frances Stirling Ellis, entitled "Progression as Retrogression: the Stuart Tragedy in the Waverley Novels."
Item
Identifier: Acc.11667
Dates:
1976.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘An Enquiry into the History of Scotland ...’ by John Pinkerton, 2 volumes (London, 1789), containing his signature on the verso of the title page of each volume, numerous marginalia throughout (some quite lengthy) and a number of sheets and scraps of paper tipped in (most are in the second volume) on which are further notes and other writings.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.6.3(i)-(ii)
Dates:
1789.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘An Enquiry into the History of Scotland ...’ by John Pinkerton, volume 2 (London, 1789)., 1789.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.6.3(ii)
Scope and Contents
Bound in in the latter part of the volume is a copy of ‘A dissertation on the origin and progress of the Scythians or Goths’, which also has numerous marginalia by Macpherson. None of the writings is dated, but folios 8 and 15 are written on sheets watermarked 1810 and 1811.
The additions are tipped in at pages 33, 46, 114, 197, 204, 223, 247 and before and in the tables of kings; and at page 53 of the ‘Dissertation …’.
Dates:
1789.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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David Macpherson`s copy of ‘An Enquiry into the History of Scotland ...’ by John Pinkerton, 2 volumes (London, 1789), containing his signature on the verso of the title page of each volume, numerous marginalia throughout (some quite lengthy) and a number of sheets and scraps of paper tipped in (most are in the second volume) on which are further notes and other writings.
Dissertation entitled 'Political theatre: a study of the dramatic theory and practice of John McGrath' by Kim David., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.10893/440
Dissertation entitled 'Stylistic approaches in socialist British theatre' [by Omar F Aguilera]., 1981.
File
Identifier: Acc.10893/436
Dissertation entitled 'Towards a popular theatre' by Joslin Saunders [?circa 1985], with accompanying letter, undated., [?Circa 1985], undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.10893/439
Dissertation entitled 'Trades unions and the arts' by Paul Bassett., 1980.
File
Identifier: Acc.10893/435
Dissertation entitled "Two Twelfth-Century Manuscripts [MSS.6121-6122] in the National Library of Scotland: Analysis and Problems" of E F D Roberts.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11850
Dates:
1959.
Dissertation of P McKinlay, "Burn and Destroy".
Item
Identifier: Acc.6745
Scope and Contents
Concerning Captain John Fergusone in the Wester Islands, February to August 1746.
Dates:
1976.
‘Dissertation upon Pictish buildings and antiquities in Caithness and Sutherland’ by Alexander Pope, minister of Reay, with descriptions of these.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.24
Dates:
18th century.
Dissertations and Theses held by the SLA., 1968-1998.
File
Identifier: Acc.13656/110-112
'Extract of a dissertation upon the true number, names, series ... and chronology of the first 24 Kings of the Scots ... from the begining of the regn of K. Fergus Mac-Erch to the Union of the Scotish and Pictish Kingdoms by K. Keneth Macalpin', addressed 'to Mr. Rudiman'., 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2224, folios 75-78
Dates:
18th century.
‘Genealogical and Historical Dissertation of the Present Royal Family of Great Britain and Ireland Beginning with the Milesian Colony and ending with his present Majesty and proving his lineal descent from all the Royal families that ever reigned in either nation by both Father and Mother`s side’, written by James Gordon early in the 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.15
Scope and Contents
There is a dedicatory epistle addressed to George I and signed by James Gordon at the beginning of the volume. The work is apparently unpublished.
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Genealogical notes on Scottish families: 'Letter H'., [?1790-?1800.]
File
Identifier: MS.9281
Scope and Contents
In addition to the genealogical notes the volume includes a copy of 'A dissertation on Scottish musick by Hugo Arnot Esq Advocate' (page 101).
Dates:
[?1790-?1800.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and legal, financial and other papers of the Dunlop family.
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Genealogical papers of the Dunlop family.
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Genealogical notes on Scottish families; with a selective index to the notes compiled by John Dunlop of Gairbraid, and fair copy abstracts from the notes of material concerning the Dunlop family.
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Genealogical notes on Scottish families, written in several hands, probably between 1790 and 1800.
Journal of a tour to Scotland by Clement Mansfield Ingleby.
File
Identifier: MS.8926
Scope and Contents
The journal is made up from transcripts of letters to his mother written on the journey between 26 August and 8 September 1842. Among the main places visited are Glasgow, Inveraray, Oban, Glencoe, Callander and Edinburgh. The text is ornamented with thirty-three engraved views, several dried plant specimens, and a few pencil sketches. The journal is followed by a 'Dissertation on the Gael and their language' (folio 49), dealing with regional variations in language, intonation,...
Dates:
1842.
Journal of J Ker, Surgeon in the Royal Navy.
Item
Identifier: MS.1083
Scope and Contents
The Naval log is illustrated by sketches of ships, scenery, antiquities, etc., and accompanied by several poems and a dissertation on the putrid fever of St Lucia (folio 27). The scenes and incidents described include the West Indies, 1778-1779; Denmark and Zetland, 1780; the loss of the ‘Royal George’, 1782; and the battle of Cape St Vincent.
Dates:
1778-1782.
Letters and papers, mostly concerning the Church of Scotland., 1231-1641.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.8
Scope and Contents
The subjects include the case brought by John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, against Robert Wallace; the ‘Second Book of Discipline’; the Act of Revocation; and the protests against the Service-book. Most of the papers concerning the Covenant have been published more than once, and some appeared as contemporary pamphlets.Copy of a charter, 1360, granted by David II to the Bishop of Aberdeen; in Latin (folio 1). - This was printed from Adv.MS.16.1.10 in ‘Registrum episcopatus...
Dates:
1231-1641.
MA dissertation at Edinburgh University of Robert G Preece, "The County Maps of the Lothians".
Item
Identifier: Acc.3692
Dates:
1963.
Manuscript copies of Robert MacFarlane, "A Dissertation on the Authenticity of Ossian`s Poems".
File
Identifier: Acc.10435
Dates:
circa 1800.