Extracts.
Found in 193 Collections and/or Records:
17th-century extracts and transcripts, in the hand of Sir James Balfour, of chartularies and other historical works.
18th-century extracts from the manuscript of Bernardino Baldi, containing chronicles of Urbino, Pesaro, etc.
A collection of formal documents relating to the lands of Skeoch, Stirlingshire.
A collection of five formal documents, 1544-1607, relating to the lands of Skeoch, Stirlingshire (Ch.8486-8490), together with an extract, 1711, of an acknowledgement of payment, 1710, by Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun (Ch.8491), and a burgess ticket of Campbeltown, 1764, granted to John Walker, botanist (Ch.8492). An inventory is available.
Account, apparently by John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, of his period of office as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with extracts from his correspondence., 1777-1780.
Account book, 'Gg', of Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton, with extracts from Columella, 'De re rustica', i.1, accounts 1746-1746, 1754-1755 and memoranda, 1755., 1746-1755.
Accounts relating to The Whim, 1743-1748, extracts from accounts for 1746-1748, and household accounts, 1762-1764., 1743-1764.
The Whim was a property (also known as Blair Cochrane or Blair Bog) in the north of Peeblesshire, purchased by Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, to provide a residence for himself near Edinburgh. See MSS.17642-17662.
Annotated copy of Archibald Stalker, "Conversation with Himself".
Comprising extracts from his diary for 1957-1969.
Annotated proofs of extracts from reports of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts.
'Antiquitates illustrium gentum, Persarum, AEgyptiorum, Atheniensium, Lacedaemoniorum, Romanorum, Gallorum ... Collecta antiquis & classicis authoribus, non dictata quidem a praeceptore sed ... viva voce collecta opera & labore studiosorum adolescentium', and extracts from various antiquities., Mid 17th century-late 17th century.
The 'Antiquitates illustrium gentum...' begins on page 1. It is followed by extracts from Martin Del Rio, ‘Disquisitiones Magicae’ (page 302), Diodorus Siculus (page 310), Herodotus (page 386), and Tacitus, ‘Annals’ (page 406); all written in the same seventeenth-century hand, after 1645 (page 267), in France, probably in a religious - perhaps Jesuit - institution, to judge from the contents, and probably in the University of Paris, to judge from the praises of that university (page 269).
Article entitled 'A summer night's dream', published in three parts in the ‘United service magazine’, 1890, bound for Lieutenant Douglas Haig of the 7th Hussars (afterwards Field-Marshal Earl Haig) whose signature dated Secunderabad, 1890 is inside the front cover, and whose book-plate (when Earl Haig) is pasted to the flyleaf.
The article was published in ‘United Service magazine’, June, July and August, 1890, pages 205-229, 357-376 and 385-402.
Article entitled 'Early Scottish history and its exponents' by Alexander Henry Rhind.
The article was originally contained in the ‘Retrospective Review’, volume i (1853), pages 273-291. It has been separately re-bound, with interleaves, and there are extensive alterations in the author's autograph on most of the printed pages and the interleaves.
Bibliographies and offprint distribution lists relating to the published papers of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn; with press cuttings, some relating to Fairbairn’s papers, others to psychoanalysis generally., 1929-1958.
Biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie.
Biographical papers relating to Jan Struther, containing notes, diaries and photocopies., 1920s-1930s, 1989.
Biography of James Bonar, compiled by his son.
Mostly comprising extracts from Bonar`s diary and correspondence.
Box of various papers, possibly for the 'Alpine journal', containing various lists, notes and other related material., 1861-1870, 1892-1898, 1939-1935, undated.
Carbon copy typescript of chapters 1-5 of a biography of Robert B Cunninghame Grahame by Herbert Faulkner West.
Collection entitled 'Glengarry notes' compiled probably in the late nineteenth century consisting chiefly of extracts from printed sources together with some transcripts of documents in the Public Record Office, illustrating the history of Glengarry and some other parts of the Highlands from early times until the mid-nineteenth century., 1st half of 19th century.
Almost all of the material is typewritten, with numerous manuscript additions and corrections.
Composite volume made up of at least two music books containing five series of piobaireachd tunes., 1850-1890.
At the front (folio v verso) are basic music instructions. A poem is written on folio 53 verso. Many of the pieces have dates, ranging from 1850 (folio 10) to 1890 (folio 52). A leaf from the ‘Army list’, 1880, containing the names of the officers of the 26th Foot, is pasted inside the front cover. Three press cuttings are pasted inside the back cover.
Contemporary or near-contemporary copies of letters and extracts, nineteenth century, from a journal, 1755, concerning the defeat of Major-General Edward Braddock at Fort Duquesne, Pennsylvania., 1755.
It was on the occasion of the defeat at Fort Duquesne that Sir Peter Halkett, Baronet, of Pitfirrane (succeeded 1746) and his son James lost their lives.
The letters are from Alexander and John Hamilton in Maryland to their brother Gavin, bookseller in Edinburgh (pages 1-22).
The selections from the journal (pages 25- 41) concern a detachment of seamen sent to assist in the expedition to the Ohio.
Copies and extracts of minutes of meetings of the Provisional Committee, afterwards the Directors, of the Caledonian Railway Company., 1844-1847.
The copies were made after 1880.
Copies of letters of John Francis Campbell to his mother from India., 1877.
The last volume records Campbell’s visits to Calcutta and Madras and his voyage home from Bombay via the Red Sea, Genoa, Turin, the Italian lakes and Mont Cenis.
Several press cuttings and printed items have been placed at the end of the journal, including a copy of Campbell`s ‘On Himalayan Glaciation’, extracted from ‘The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal’.
Copies of letters of John Francis Campbell to his mother from India., 1876-1877.
Campbell requested that these volumes be kept as his journal and for possible publication.