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Extracts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Discrete bibliographical items which though once part of a larger whole (e.g., a periodical issue) have been disbound in order that may stand alone. Distinguished from ""excerpts"" and ""offprints"" which are printed separately, in that extracts were once physically part of a larger whole.

Found in 193 Collections and/or Records:

'Extract of the collection of Custome and Excyse by James Tarbet'., 1662-1665.

 File
Identifier: MS.7039
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: MSS.7003-7022, Letters to the 1st and 2nd Marquesses of Tweeddale, with a few letters concerning them, 1661-1713, forms a separate sequence but because of the way some of the manuscripts have been bound this distinction could not be represented exactly in the hierarchy of the descriptions.Of the letters written before 1697 (the year of his death), by far the greater number are addressed to the 1st Marquess; but occasionally it is not certain whether the addressee is the 1st...
Dates: 1662-1665.

Extracts, 1556, from chartularies of the Archbishopric of Glasgow which were deposited in the Scots College in Paris; followed by a short history, in Scots, of the Hamilton family entitled 'Frier Mark Hamiltonis historie'

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.5
Scope and Contents Manuscript of transcripts of the chartularies and original charters of the Archbishopric of Glasgow which were deposited in the Scots College in Paris. The material in the manuscript covers the 12th to the 16th centuries.The work is written in one hand and contains frequent additions, erasures, and corrections. The additions to the work, both in the margins and interlineal, are partly in Latin and partly in Scots.As well as charters, the volume contains extracts of...
Dates: 1556

‘Extracts from a Journal written while on service in the Mediterranean in the years, 1828, 1829, 1830, by Captain F L Maitland RN, CB, commanding HMS Wellesley’., 1828-1830.

 Item
Identifier: Dep.353/2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection includes the fair copy (not autograph) of Maitland’s ‘Narrative of the Principal Occurrences on board HMS Bellerophon’, and journals of his naval service in South America, 1819-20, the Mediterranean 1820-1, and 1828-30, and India, 1837-9. It also includes a number of printed books relating to Napoleon, particularly to the time he spent on St Helena. Some of these were written by Barry O’Meara and dedicated by him to Maitland with whom he had served as surgeon...
Dates: 1828-1830.

'Extracts from Lord Minto's journal 1821-1822'; fair copies bound by, and in the hand of the 2nd Earl of Minto, of material recorded originally in MSS.11983-11988., 1821-1822.

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Identifier: MS.11990
Scope and Contents From the Series: Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates: 1821-1822.

Extracts from Perth burgh records., 18 July 1692.

 File
Identifier: Ch.15320-15321
Scope and Contents

Comprised of: confirmation of all acts in favour of the Hammermen Incorporation of Perth and enactment that no Hammerman`s work in Perth be given to those not freemen and burgesses of the burgh.

Dates: 18 July 1692.

Extracts from reports on negotiations with Malhar Rao., 1802-1804.

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Identifier: MS.13642
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates: 1802-1804.

Extracts from the diary concerning the Jacobite Rising of 1745-1746., ca. 1880s.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14317/30
Scope and Contents

Transcription of passages from the diary that concern the Jacobite Rising of 1745-1746, handwritten by Morrison and in a typescript version which is headed "Rebellion of '45 in Sutherlandshire". With a photocopy of the handwritten transcription.

Dates: ca. 1880s.

Extracts of office engagement diaries, 1949-1977, also containing holiday diaries of: Italy, 1955; Majorca, 1958; Cote d’Azur, 1957; and English Lakes, 1965., 1949-1977.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8699/42
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Containing correspondence, memorandums, diaries and other papers.The main interest of the collection lies in the material to the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation (ICFC), to the financing of small businesses, and in general to Kinross’s activities in the City of London from 1928 to the present day. In addition to formal business, the papers contain a significant quantity of private correspondence, and some interest diaries. All the papers carry useful and sometimes...
Dates: 1949-1977.

Five French workers' record books.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.5693
Scope and Contents Five French Workers’ record books of various communes in the département of the Loire, arrondissement of St. Êtienne, 1837, 1856, 1867, 1876, with entries up to 1894. The books contain printed extracts of the law relating to employees, and manuscript details of individual workers.Employers recorded the arrival and departure of each employee in his or her livret, and the employee had to carry and show the book to confirm his release from his previous employment; changes were...
Dates: 1837-1876

'Gaelic dialect of Arran' by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson, cut from the 'Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness', volume xxi (Inverness, 1899), with manuscript notes, and folklore notes prefixed, etc., 1899.

 File
Identifier: MS.420
Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates: 1899.

Genealogical papers on the different branches of the Bruce family collected by Major William Bruce Armstrong for his work ‘The Bruces of Airth and their cadets’.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15982-15988
Scope and Contents

Most of the material is printed, with annotations by William Brue Armstrong.

Dates: Mid 19th century-[before 1892.]