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 24 Collections and/or Records:
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 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.
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".
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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.
‘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.
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.
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.
Microfilm of 'Four dissertations' (London, 1757) by David Hume.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.810
Dates:
1757.
Microfilm of 'Four dissertations' (London, 1757) by David Hume, with proofs of the two suppressed dissertations, 'Of suicide' and 'Of the immortality of the soul', with Hume's autograph corrections.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.918
Dates:
1757.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, relating principally to William Forbes Skene’s work in preparing his ‘Chronicles of the Picts and Scots’ and ‘Celtic Scotland’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.16
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
MSc dissertation entitled "Unmasking Ideology and the Popular Theatre: John McGrath and Bertolt Brecht", by Jonathan Osborne.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12259
Dates:
? 2000.
Original manuscript, notes, corrections and insertions, of sir James Mackintosh, "Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7405
Dates:
1830.
PhD dissertation, University of Edinburgh, of David Finkelstein, "A Study of the Works of Philip Meadows Taylor".
Item
Identifier: Acc.10188
Dates:
1990.
Printed papers of the Highland Society of Scotland chiefly relating to the poetry of Ossian, and bearing occasional notes by Sir John Sinclair.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.17
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(M 1). Prospectus (1804) of ‘The poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’. (Folio 1.)(M 2). Sir John Sinclair, ‘A scene from Ossian’ (1806). (Folio 9.)(M 3). Chapter on Ossian from Sinclair’s ‘Correspondence’ (1831). (Folio 13.)(M 4). Pages xcvii-cxii of the ‘Dissertation’ in ‘The poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’ (1807). (Folio 18.)(M 5). Sinclair’s ‘Additions to the tragedy of Fingal’. (Folio...
Dates:
1777-1831, undated.
Research notes, lecture notes, correspondence, and other academic and professional papers of Francis Ian Gregory Rawlins, physicist.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10067/1-68
Scope and Contents
Includes notebooks and scientific and personal papers.
Dates:
1916-1975.
The Scottish Library Association (SLA) and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS) Archive.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13656/1-129
Scope and Contents
The archive contains the minutes, correspondence, committee papers, working group papers and reports produced by the Scottish Library Association (SLA) from 1912-2005, before it became the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS) in 2005. Also included are photographs from various SLA conferences, video cassette tapes and CD-ROMs produced by the AV Scot Archive which is the Scottish branch of the Library Association Audio Visual Group. The...
Dates:
1912-2006.
Typescript copy of dissertation concerning Alasdair Gray, by Neil Irons.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9503
Dates:
1986.
Volume of anonymous historical dissertations.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.20
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) a history of Scotland from the legendary period to the 18th Century (page 1);(ii) historical remarks on the antiquity and anecdotes of the noble family of Buccleuch (page 111) (incomplete);(iii) historical remarks concerning the antiquity of the Macdonalds of Sleat Lords of the Isles, Thains of Argyllshire and Lochaber. (page 122);(iv) dissertation concerning the Family of Ruthven, Earls of...
Dates:
18th century.