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 63 Collections and/or Records:
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
Formal documents from the papers of the Hon Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot, politican.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15393-15396
Dates:
1884-1888.
Fragment of an extract of a charter concerning the subjects in Kincardineshire previously belonging to the Carmelite Friars of Inverbervie
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.236
Dates:
18th century.
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.]
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.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22098-22117
Scope and Contents
Archibald Campbell, who entered the Indian Civil Service and retired as Judge of the High Court of Lahore, was the youngest son of John Campbell of Kilberry, and Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society. The material is arranged tune by tune, approximately in the order of appearance in ‘Ceol mor’ by C S Thomason, and consists of copies of the text of each piobaireachd from all authoritative sources, both printed (including some proof sheets) and manuscript....
Dates:
1892-1963, undated.
Letters and papers of, and concerning, Sir Patrick Geddes and Dr Arthur Geddes.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21204-21205
Dates:
1913-1977, undated.
'List of books and pamphlets relating to Orkney and Shetland' by James W Cursiter (Kirkwall, 1894), interleaved, with manuscript and printed addenda by James Shand.
File
Identifier: MS.9159
Scope and Contents
The very extensive notes include extracts from printed catalogues, and inserted at the end of the volume (folio 40) is a letter from James Cursiter to James Shand, 1921, acknowledging receipt of bibliographical notes by [Gilbert] Goudie.
Dates:
1894-early 20th century.
Manuscript containing a 15th-century list of benefactors, prayers, obituaries, and rental of the Hospital of St Anthony, Leith; with a 16th-century extract from a rental of Newhaven.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.5
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in Scotland containing Church offices; a calendar; obituaries of benefactors; a rental of the hospital of St Anthony, Leith; and a rental of Newhaven.The manuscript appears to be the work of two separate hands executed at different times. The earlier part of the work is of the 15th century. From folio 19r onwards the hand can be attributed to the mid-16th century.The contents are as follows:Flyleaves with shelfmark inscriptions. Folios...
Dates:
15th century-1st half of 16th century.
Manuscript extract of Ivor Brown, "Summer in Scotland".
Item
Identifier: Acc.4587
Dates:
circa 1968.
Manuscript music-book, containing ballads, dances, and pianoforte pieces, hymns, and vocal exercises and scales.
File
Identifier: MS.3282
Scope and Contents
The music-book is made up of pages watermarked 1794.
The volume contains ballads, dances, and pianoforte pieces from Scotland and various European countries (passim), hymns (folios 22 verso-31), and vocal exercises and scales (folios 22, 32 verso-33 verso, 70-71 verso). Among the more extended pieces are extracts for pianoforte from Méhul's 'Jeune Henri' of 1797 (folio 67 verso), and from an opera 'Paul and Virginia', possibly that produced in London in 1800; and 'Favourite dances at...
Dates:
?1794-1813.
Manuscript of the first part of 'The howdie', an unfinished story by John Galt.
File
Identifier: MS.5207
Scope and Contents
With the manuscript are the pages of "Tait's Edinburgh Magazine" containing the first part of the story, a typescript of the second part, and a memorandum on the history of the manuscript by Sir Robert Simpson, the latter reprinted and supplemented by William Roughead in his edition.
Dates:
[Circa 1831.]
Manuscripts collected by William Lee Ferguson, Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5170-5177
Dates:
1537-1934.
Microfilm of 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.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1024-1025
Dates:
Late 19th century-?1956.
Mimeographed extracts from the "Alexander Graham Bell Home Notes", a household journal.
File
Identifier: Acc.10726
Dates:
1916-1921.
Miscellaneous formal documents relating to the Urquhart family of Burdsyards.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.8437-8442
Scope and Contents
An inventory is available.
Dates:
1666-1827.
Miscellaneous papers which belonged to Sir William Fraser, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.
File
Identifier: MS.90
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i-iv) Four printed proclamations, etc., 1708, 1710, 1714 (folio 1);(v) Obligation by Patrick Hamilton and other inhabitants of Arran to provide levies, etc., for the defence of the religion, laws, and liberties of the Kirk and Kingdom whenever desired by the Earl of Argyll, 1639 (folio 6);(vi) Extract registered bond by Sir Alexander Irvine of Drum to the Committee of Estates to observe the National Covenant, 1641 (folio 8);...
Dates:
1590-1838.
Notebooks of John Duncan, containing notes and extracts from published works on artists, art techniques and related subjects.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6866/1-13
Dates:
Circa 1890-1943, undated.
Notes and correspondence of James R Anderson, concerning a bibliography of Philip Doddridge's ‘Life of Colonel Gardiner’.
File
Identifier: MS.6156
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript of a lecture by James R Anderson, possibly given to Glasgow Bibliographical Society, apparently unprinted (folio 1);(ii) Extracts from an article and subsequent correspondence in the 'Scotsman', September-October 1918, relating to the Battle of Prestonpans and to Colonel Gardiner (folio 22);(iii) Notes, etc., relating to the compilation of the bibliography (folio 28);(iv) Letters, 1918-19, 1925, to...
Dates:
1918-1919, undated.
Papers concerning Peebleshire.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4300
Scope and Contents
Including typescript extracts from a diary, and church records.
Dates:
19th century.
Papers concerning the families of Gardiner, Milne, and Gregor, Banffshire.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7798
Dates:
1721-circa 1944.
Papers of and concerning the Horsburgh family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4290
Scope and Contents
Comprising:
1. pedigree, 19th century, of the Horsburgh family
2. transcripts of, and extracts from, charters and letters concerning members of the Horsburgh family
3. presentation, 1836, of the Reverend David Gairdner to the Church and Parish of Skirling
4. presentation, 1831, of the Reverend Dr George Burns to the Church and Parish of Tweedsmuir.
Dates:
19th century.
Papers of Ramsay family, of Ochtertyre.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.5386
Scope and Contents
1. three documents, 1723-1748, concerning James Ramsay of Ochtertyre
2. extract of letter, 1762, of Joseph Macdonald (possibly the piper)
3. journal, 1776, of the first part of a journey from Edinburgh to London
4. 18 poems in Latin and three in English, 18th century, many in the hand of John Ramsay of Ochtertyre.
Dates:
1723-circa 1799.
Photocopies of extracts from notebooks of Alexander MacCallum Scott.
File
Identifier: Acc.6351
Scope and Contents
Concerning John Buchan`s years as a student at Glasgow University.
Dates:
circa 1928.