Excerpts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Portions of a larger work, such as a literary work or motion picture, reproduced or excised without further change from their original context.
Found in 686 Collections and/or Records:
Extracts from printed works., 1956-1957.
Item
Identifier: MS.15864
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the notebooks contain notes on a variety of subjects, only the more important of which are mentioned in descriptions.
Dates:
1956-1957.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
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Notebooks of John Purves containing miscellaneous material.
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Extracts from miscellaneous printed works.
Extracts from published sources and some notes and other writings compiled by John Young, volume 1., 1794-1814.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.5.6
Scope and Contents
Young`s book-label is pasted inside the front cover.
Dates:
1794-1814.
Extracts from published sources and some notes and other writings compiled by John Young, volume 2., 1814-1822.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.5.7
Scope and Contents
A letter, 1821, of John Black to Young is bound in at Adv.MS.31.5.7, folio 184.
Young`s book-label is pasted inside the front cover.
Dates:
1814-1822.
Extracts from published sources and some notes and other writings compiled by John Young, volume 3., 1822-1828.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.5.8
Scope and Contents
Young`s book-label is pasted inside the front cover.
Dates:
1822-1828.
Extracts from published sources and some notes and other writings compiled by John Young, volume 4, with later additions by Charles Baxter., 1828-circa 1833, circa 1855.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.5.9
Scope and Contents
Charles Baxter, who acquired the papers after Young’s death, added notes and extracts of his own especially from kirk session and other records (folios 49 verso-74 verso ; folios 49 verso-58 verso derive ultimately from MS.Wod.Fol.XXXII, folios 290-293), and (folios 97-146) from sections 31 and 32 (xxxvi-xxxvii) of the Auchinleck Manuscript (Adv.MS.19.2.1, folios 263-277). Baxter was responsible for having this volume bound in covers similar to those of Adv.MSS.31.5.6-31.5.8.Many...
Dates:
1828-circa 1833, circa 1855.
Extracts from published sources and some notes and other writings compiled by John Young, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1786).
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Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.5.6-31.5.9
Scope and Contents
The extracts are taken from periodical publications, especially the ‘Caledonian Mercury’ and the ‘Edinburgh Courant’, largely recording English legal cases, and from books on a wide variety of topics, especially history, medicine, law, literature, husbandry, travel, science, theology and biography.The notes and other writings relate to various topics and include a few examples of letters of and to Young.The earliest extract is dated 13 December 1794 (Adv.MS.31.5.6,...
Dates:
1794-circa 1855.
Extracts from registers in Glasgow, chiefly of the Kirk, made about 1706., 1583-1706.
File
Identifier: MS.2782
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) 'Exce[r]pta from the Synod Register of Glasgow and Air', 1687-1703 (folio 1);(ii) 'Excerpta from The Register of the Presbytrie of Glasgow', 1687-1706 (folio 7);(iii) 'Excerpta out of the Registers of the Sessions of Glasgow', 1583-1705 (folio 13); arranged under heads, with a contents table.(iv) 'A List of the Magistrates of the City of Glasgow from anno 1583 to this present time', 1705, the latest date (folio...
Dates:
1583-1706.
Extracts from the ‘Cape monthly magazine’., 1857-1860.
Item
Identifier: MS.15798
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the notebooks contain notes on a variety of subjects, only the more important of which are mentioned in descriptions.
Dates:
1857-1860.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
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Notebooks of John Purves containing material on South African literature.
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Extracts, undated, from the ‘Cape monthly magazine’, 1857-1862.
Extracts from the ‘Cape monthly magazine’., 1861-1862.
Item
Identifier: MS.15799
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the notebooks contain notes on a variety of subjects, only the more important of which are mentioned in descriptions.
Dates:
1861-1862.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
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Notebooks of John Purves containing material on South African literature.
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Extracts, undated, from the ‘Cape monthly magazine’, 1857-1862.
Extracts from the manuscript lute-book of Robert Gordon of Straloch, 1627-1629 (now lost), made by George Farquhar Graham, 1845.
File
Identifier: MS.349
Scope and Contents
Inserted is a letter of John Muir Wood, 1884 (folio 4), correcting Graham’s scale in Adv.MS. 5.2.18.
Dates:
1627-1629.
'Extracts from the papers of the late Major Charles Harrison, 53rd Regt. relative to the captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena'., 1901.
Item
Identifier: MS.10219
Extracts from the proceedings of the Althing of Iceland.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.21.7.2-21.7.4
Dates:
1631-1700.
Extracts from the proceedings of the Althing of Iceland: volume 1., 1631-1700.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.7.2
Scope and Contents
Note by F Magnusson: `No. 23. Exscripta et Extracta Actorum Islandiæ Magistratuum ac Judicum in Comitiis Insulæ [nempe Islandiæ] Generalibus (1631-1700) vol 1`.
Dates:
1631-1700.
Extracts from the proceedings of the Althing of Iceland: volume 2., 1631-1700
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.7.3
Scope and Contents
Note by F Magnusson: `No. 24. Excerpta et Extracta Actorum Islandiæ Magistratuum and Judicum in Comitiis Insulæ Generalibus. Vol 2.`
Dates:
1631-1700
Extracts from the proceedings of the Althing of Iceland: volume 3., 1631-1700.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.7.4
Scope and Contents
Note by F Magnusson: `No. 25. Excerpta et Extracta Actorum Islandiæ Magistratuum andc. Vol 3.`
Dates:
1631-1700.
Extracts from ‘Three crosses’, a novel by Federigo Tozzi., [1920, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15664
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The notes dated from the appointment of John Purves as lecturer in Italian at Edinburgh University in 1920.
Dates:
[1920, or after.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
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Notebooks of John Purves concerning Italian literature.
Extracts from ‘Worlds apart. A tour of European monasteries’ by Tudor Edwards, and notes of John Purves on the beginning of humanism in Scotland., [?1958.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15860
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the notebooks contain notes on a variety of subjects, only the more important of which are mentioned in descriptions.
Dates:
[?1958.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
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Notebooks of John Purves containing miscellaneous material.
Extracts, late seventeenth century, from the Books of Sederunt of the Court of Session, 15 January 1552-7 June 1677., 1552-1677.
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Identifier: MS.21185
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Murray papers concern chiefly their estates in Perthshire, but there is also some family correspondence, household accounts and inventories, and letters and papers of Jacobite interest. Of particular interest is the fine series of letters of General Sir George Murray written during his campaigns in the Peninsula and elsewhere.The papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal came to the Murrays of Ochtertyre following the marriage of Helen, heiress of Sir Alexander Keith of Dunnottar...
Dates:
1552-1677.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, legal, miscellaneous, and estate papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre, Baronets, and their relations by marriage the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
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Papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
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Miscellaneous papers of, and concerning, the Keith family.
Extracts made from a copy of the Lyon Register belonging to Andrew Plummer of Middle Steed and Sunderland Hall., 1672-1822.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.16
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Notes of dues for matriculation of arms, 1768, 1798, and undated (folio ii).(ii) Arms of the nobility copied, with some additions, directly from the Lyon Register. Engravings of the arms are pasted on the facing pages (folio 3).(iii) Arms of knights and baronets copied from the Sunderland Hall manuscript (folio 56).(iv) Funeral escutcheons engraved by David Deuchar, with blanks left for...
Dates:
1672-1822.
Extracts, made in the nineteenth century, from the Kirk Session Records of Stow, 12 November 1626-21 November 1708.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3034-3035
Dates:
1626-1708.
Extracts, notes, lists, etc., relating to history, religion, etc., partly in the hand of Robert Mylne., 2nd half of 17th century-1st half of 18th century.
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Identifier: MS.2090
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
These manuscripts are fragmentary and unarranged.
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century-1st half of 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Papers of or associated with Robert Mylne, writer in Edinburgh and antiquary.
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Extracts, notes, lists, etc., relating to history, religion, etc., partly in the hand of Robert Mylne and partly in that of at least one other person, who is to be found writing in the same note-book as Mylne (MS.2088).
Extracts, notes, lists, etc., relating to history, religion, etc., partly in the hand of Robert Mylne and partly in that of at least one other person, who is to be found writing in the same note-book as Mylne., 2nd half of 17th century-1st half of 18th century.
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Identifier: MS.2091
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
These manuscripts are fragmentary and unarranged.
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century-1st half of 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Papers of or associated with Robert Mylne, writer in Edinburgh and antiquary.
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Extracts, notes, lists, etc., relating to history, religion, etc., partly in the hand of Robert Mylne and partly in that of at least one other person, who is to be found writing in the same note-book as Mylne (MS.2088).
Extracts, notes, lists, etc., relating to history, religion, etc., partly in the hand of Robert Mylne and partly in that of at least one other person, who is to be found writing in the same note-book as Mylne (MS.2088)., 2nd half of 17th century-1st half of 18th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2090-2091
Scope and Contents
These manuscripts are fragmentary and unarranged.
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century-1st half of 18th century.
'Extracts of letters addressed to Deputy Governor of the British Society for extending the Fisheries, &c., in answer to the printed queries circulated by the Court of Directors of the Society'.
File
Identifier: MS.2619
Scope and Contents
The letters, which are chiefly from local landowners, deal with particular places on the West coast, with the coast in general and general topics, and (a few) with the East coast.
Dates:
1786-1787.
‘Extracts of orders given at Shroton Camp’, July-October 1756; and ‘Order of march &c. at Shroton Camp’, 31 August 1756., 1456.
File
Identifier: MS.14513
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates:
1456.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of individual members of the family of Hay of Yester.
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Papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale.
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Political and miscellaneous papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale, including material concerning Lord James Hay and Lord Charles Hay of Linplum.
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Papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale concerning Lord Charles Hay of Linplum.