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:
Microfilm of Kilberry book of piobaireachd, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus, numbers 148-184., [?1892-?1958.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.952
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Kilberry book of piobaireachd, numbers 148-161, [?1910-?1949] (MS.22111);
Kilberry book of piobaireachd, numbers 162-184, [?1892-?1958] (MS.22112).
Dates:
[?1892-?1958.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Microfilm of Kilberry book of piobaireachd. Papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus, numbers 148-290.
Microfilm of Kilberry book of piobaireachd, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus, numbers 185-290., [?1910-?1958.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.951
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Kilberry book of piobaireachd, numbers 185-200, [?1911-?1958] (MS.22113), 122 frames;Kilberry book of piobaireachd, numbers 201-218, [?1910-?1958] (MS.22114), 112 frames;Kilberry book of piobaireachd, numbers 219-241, [?1911-?1958] (MS.22445), 89 frames;Kilberry book of piobaireachd, numbers 242-262, [?1911-?1939] (MS.22116), 80 frames;Kilberry book of piobaireachd, numbers 263-290, [?1910-?1940] (MS.22117), 172...
Dates:
[?1910-?1958.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Microfilm of Kilberry book of piobaireachd. Papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus, numbers 148-290.
Microfilm of Kilberry book of piobaireachd. Papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus, numbers 148-290.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.951-952
Dates:
[?1892-?1958.]
Microfilm of late 12th-century manuscript, 'Panormia' of Ivo, Bishop of Chartres; with two diagrams of consanguinity, and short excerpts of Pope Alexander III.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1387
Dates:
Late 12th century.
Microfilm of manuscripts, chiefly notes and poems, of George Sibbald of Rankeillour, or in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.358
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Extracta de Cronicis Scotiæ Quæ ad Historiam civilem pertinent’, late 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century, in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald (Adv.MS.15.2.1);"Observationes collectæ ex Libro cui titulus est ‘extract ex Chronicis Scotiæ'. Hic notantur ea quæ Historiano Ecclesiasticam pertinent”, late 17th century, being notes of Sir Robert Sibbald chiefly on ecclesiastical history, from various sources. (Adv.MS.15.2.2);'Canon sive...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 18th century.
Microfilm of notes, [1839, or after-circa 1855], compiled by William B D D Turnbull; and, papers, 1558-1620, concerning Mary Queen of Scots, collected by James Anderson.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.316
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Notes, [1839, or after], of proceedings in the elections, 1790-1837, of representative peers for Scotland, compiled by William B D D Turnbull (Adv.MS.6.1.16);Biographical and genealogical notes, [circa 1855], mostly extracts or cuttings from books and newspapers, compiled by William B D D Turnbull (Adv.MS.6.1.18);Copies, 1727 or before, in various hands, of papers, 1558-1620, concerning Mary Queen of Scots and her reign, apparently...
Dates:
1558-[circa 1855].
Microfilm of "Records of the Literary Society of Glasgow, 1764-79. Transcribed from the Society's Minutes, 1830", by William James Duncan.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.232
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Laws of the Society. (Folio 1.) (ii) List of meetings for each session, with the name of the speaker and the title of his 'discourse', November 1764–January 1771 (folio 3 verso). Occasionally the elections of new members or the names of absentees are recorded. 'There is a gap in the Records for the next 5 years, and the only information we have of their Transactions during the years 1771 and 1773 is from a loose jotting, of which the following is a copy'...
Dates:
1764-1779.
Microfilm of transcript, 1811-1819, by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of excerpts from the Council, Bailie and Court Registers of Aberdeen, 1398-1550., 1398-1550.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.151
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Most of the excerpts relate to the ecclesiastical antiquities of Aberdeen. The rest relate to various religious houses elsewhere in Scotland.
Dates:
1398-1550.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Microfilm of collection of transcripts, 1st quarter of 19th century, by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of several of the surviving cartularies and other registers, and of some collections of charters and other deeds, of the medieval dioceses, churches and religious houses of Scotland, 1164-1639.
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Microfilm of transcript, 1811-1819, by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of excerpts from the Council, Bailie and Court Registers of Aberdeen, 1398-1639.
Microfilm of transcript, 1811-1819, by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of excerpts from the Council, Bailie and Court Registers of Aberdeen, 1398-1639., 1398-1639.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.151-152
Scope and Contents
Most of the excerpts relate to the ecclesiastical antiquities of Aberdeen. The rest relate to various religious houses elsewhere in Scotland.
Dates:
1398-1639.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Microfilm of collection of transcripts, 1st quarter of 19th century, by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of several of the surviving cartularies and other registers, and of some collections of charters and other deeds, of the medieval dioceses, churches and religious houses of Scotland, 1164-1639.
Microfilm of transcript, 1811-1819, by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of excerpts from the Council, Bailie and Court Registers of Aberdeen, 1551-1639., 1551-1639.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.152
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Most of the excerpts relate to the ecclesiastical antiquities of Aberdeen. The rest relate to various religious houses elsewhere in Scotland.
Dates:
1551-1639.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Microfilm of collection of transcripts, 1st quarter of 19th century, by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of several of the surviving cartularies and other registers, and of some collections of charters and other deeds, of the medieval dioceses, churches and religious houses of Scotland, 1164-1639.
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Microfilm of transcript, 1811-1819, by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of excerpts from the Council, Bailie and Court Registers of Aberdeen, 1398-1639.
Microfilm of volume containing notes, copies and excerpts from manuscripts and documents, together with a few excerpts acts from printed books, collected between about 1709 (folio 15) and about 1717 (folio 230 verso), many of the entries, which include a number of genealogies, relating to persons, families and places in Fife. Part 1., [Circa 1709-circa 1717.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.285
Dates:
[Circa 1709-circa 1717.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Microfilm of volume containing notes, copies and excerpts from manuscripts and documents, together with a few excerpts from printed books, collected between about 1709 (folio 15) and about 1717 (folio 230 verso), many of the entries, which include a number of genealogies, relating to persons, families and places in Fife.
Microfilm of volume containing notes, copies and excerpts from manuscripts and documents, together with a few excerpts from printed books, collected between about 1709 (folio 15) and about 1717 (folio 230 verso), many of the entries, which include a number of genealogies, relating to persons, families and places in Fife.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.285-286
Dates:
[Circa 1709-circa 1717.]
Microfilm of volume containing notes, copies and excerpts from manuscripts and documents, together with a few excerpts from printed books, collected between about 1709 (folio 15) and about 1717 (folio 230 verso), many of the entries, which include a number of genealogies, relating to persons, families and places in Fife. Part 2., [Circa 1709-circa 1717.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.286
Dates:
[Circa 1709-circa 1717.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Microfilm of volume containing notes, copies and excerpts from manuscripts and documents, together with a few excerpts from printed books, collected between about 1709 (folio 15) and about 1717 (folio 230 verso), many of the entries, which include a number of genealogies, relating to persons, families and places in Fife.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reel 5., 1658-1812.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1317
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Miniature portrait of Marjory Fleming, inscribed on a label on the back of the case 'Pet Marjory, from her sister Miss Fleming, 1880' (MS.1096);Diaries, [before 1812], of Marjory Fleming (MSS.1097-1099);Letters and poems of Marjory Fleming; letters of her mother, and of her cousin Isabella Keith, 1811-1812, undated (MS.1100);'Extracts from Mrs. Fielding's journal while we were abroad together in 1781', made by the Honourable...
Dates:
1658-1812.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reels 1-16 (Adam Matthew).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1312-1328
Dates:
Mid 17th century-1937.
Minutes of the African Mission Council, the African Mission Senate, and the Nyasaland Mission Council; with some associated papers. , 1919-circa 1940, and undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.9069/4
Scope and Contents
Loosely inserted into the volume are: typed excerpts from letters and a copy of a petition, circa 1940, concerning the request for the establishment of an Overseas Presbytery at Blantyre and Zomba; with a copy of the Church of Scotland 'Regulations in reference to the appointment of European missionaries, 1930: Africa and the islands'.
Dates:
1919-circa 1940, and undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Minutes, with some associated administrative papers, relating to the Church of Scotland Blantyre Mission, Malawi; and works concerning the history of the mission.
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Minutes, with some associated administrative papers, relating to the Church of Scotland Blantyre Mission, Malawi, its predecessors and committees.
Miscellaneous accounts., 1861-1905.
File
Identifier: MS.14707
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Abstracts of accounts, 1861-1878, of Peter Burns Swinton, factor (folio 1);(ii) Abstracts of accounts, 1861-1870, with Gibson Craig, Dalziel and Brodies, Writer to the Signet (folio 74);(iii) Accounts, 1861-1895, of improvement expenditure (folio 90);(iv) Farm accounts, 1868-1876 for Yester Mains, Broadwoodside, Danskine, Newhall and Bankrugg (folio 118);(v) Extracts from accounts, 1876-1877, for...
Dates:
1861-1905.
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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Personal, household and estate accounts of the Hays of Yester.
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Personal and household (Yester, Edinburgh and London) and Yester estates accounts.
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Accounts chiefly of, to or concerning the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale.
Miscellaneous 'antique papers'., 1626-1810, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1915
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Modern list of some of the papers and part of a printed sale catalogue (folio 1);(ii) Contemporary copies of the charges brought by John Selden against the Duke of Buckingham, and of the King's explanation delivered by Buckingham, 1626 (folio 5);(iii) Memorandum, circa 1635, arguing the complicity of the Marquess of Huntly, James Gordon of Letterfourie, and Lady Rothiemay (Katherine Gordon) in the harrying of the lands of...
Dates:
1626-1810, undated.
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1843-1880, undated, of Mark Napier and his son Francis Napier, and excerpts presumably made for Mark Napier, from records bearing on Oxfordshire Napiers, as well as other historical excerpts., 1843-1880, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1664
Scope and Contents
The correspondence of Francis Napier is chiefly about the publication of his father's ‘The Lanox of auld’, which was effected in 1880, after Mark Napier's death.
Dates:
1843-1880, undated.
Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of and concerning Margaret Oliphant., 1754-1921, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.23211
Scope and Contents
The contents consist of:
(i) letters of various friends and contemporaries of Margaret Oliphant, 1844-1868, undated (folio 1);
(ii) letters to Janet M Oliphant 1895-1921, undated (folio 19);
(iii) memorandum of agreement with Henry Colburn 1849 and death certificate 1897 of Mrs Oliphant (folio 46);
(iv) photographs and other depictions of Margaret Oliphant and her family and other subjects 1851, 1874, undated (folio 50);
(v) excerpts in Janet M Oliphant's hand of Margaret Oliphant's...
Dates:
1754-1921, undated.
Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto., 1811-1813.
File
Identifier: MS.11710
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Includes correspondence and papers, 1810-1814, of and concerning Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-Governor of Java.
Dates:
1811-1813.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Correspondence with and papers concerning the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, and other territories east of the Cape.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto and the Bengal Government concerning the British invasion and occupation of Java and other Dutch possessions in the East Indies.
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Miscellaneous correspondence and papers, and memoranda of David Hopkins, Bengal Medical Service.
Miscellaneous documents of Sir James Balfour.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `De Jure praelationis Nobilium Scotiae or Ane Memoriall of ye Evidents patents and rights producit be sundrie Earles and Lords Befor ye Comissioners ... anent ye precedencie and prioritie of dignities ... 1606`. In 1626 Balfour added (folio 16) notes on peers created since 1606. For other copies of this see Adv.MS.33.7.6 and MS.3171. (Folio 1.)(ii) ‘Memorialls extracted out of the imprinted Bookes of the Statuts and...
Dates:
Circa 1308-1626.
Miscellaneous formal documents., 1800-1858.
File
Identifier: MS.7513
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
George Combe was educated at Edinburgh High School and at Edinburgh University, where he studied law; he became a Writer to the Signet in 1812. At this time he began to study the phrenological works of Franz Josef Gall and Johann Kaspar Spurzheim, and soon became a fervent advocate of that science. In 1837 he gave up his legal practice to devote himself to spreading the causes of phrenology, secular education, and criminal and prison reform, travelling widely in Europe and America. His views...
Dates:
1800-1858.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, including that of William Forbes Skene.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.15
Dates:
19th century.