Gazetteers. Dictionaries.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Geographical dictionaries with varying amounts of descriptive, geographical, historical, or statistical information.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of etymological notes, alphabetically arranged, compiled by and for George Chalmers around the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Many are in the hand of his nephew James.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.16
Scope and Contents
Much of the material in the collection was printed in book I, chapter I of his ‘Caledonia’, volume I of which was published in 1807. The leaves on which the notes are written are watermarked between 1796 and 1801 (with some blank leaves watermarked 1794), and the dated or datable references are to works published mostly between 1790 and 1802. The collection consists of:(i) etymological notes relating mainly to the Celtic languages of Great Britain (folio 1);...
Dates:
Circa 1800.
Final draft of the ‘Topographical Dictionary’ by George Chalmers, with notes, mostly etymological, on the dictionary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.3.1.1-3.1.9
Scope and Contents
The `Topographical Dictionary` was to have formed a supplement to George Chalmers` ‘Caledonia’, but was never published. In contrast with the earlier draft of the dictionary in Adv.MSS.8.1.4-8.1.6 the arrangement here is completely alphabetical. A proof of the first 4 pages only of the introduction is included in Adv.MS.3.1.1, folios iii-iv. The notes, Adv.MSS.3.1.7-3.1.9, only occur here.
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Geographical dictionary of Great Britain, written by James Balfour, with an index largely in the hand of Lord Fountainhall.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10015
Scope and Contents
Includes a note of George Paton.
Dates:
mid 17th century.
Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.8.1.4-8.1.10
Dates:
1794, or after-1822, or after.
Typescript copy of A Pearson, "Lays of Laurencekirk, Luce and Glenderon".
Item
Identifier: Acc.6843
Dates:
circa 1881-circa 1912.