Copies. Derivative objects.
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 959 Collections and/or Records:
Copies of miscellaneous documents.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.28
Scope and Contents
(i) Papers concerning the presentation of a Jacobite Medal to the Faculty of Advocates by the Duchess of Gordon in 1711, namely:`The Faculty of Advocats Loyalty in a letter to the Queen`s Most Excellent Majesty. By one of the Dean of Faculty`s Council. Printed in the Year MDCCXI. ` No such printed work seems to be recorded. (Folio 2.)`The Double of Criminal Letters against Mr. James Dundas, Advocat, 1711.` (Folio 12.)(ii) `A Letter from Jack Straw in the...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Copies of miscellaneous documents relating to practice and procedure in the Court of Exchequer, Westminster, copied for, or given to, John Maule of Inverkeilor, Baron of the Scottish Court of Exchequer.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.28.4.2-28.4.3
Dates:
1750-1751.
Copies of miscellaneous papers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.11
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Copy, after 1688, of the `Account of the Affairs of Scotland relating to the Revolution in 1688’ by Colin, Earl of Balcarres. The text is similar to that of Ruddiman`s edition of 1754. For other copies of the work, see MSS.1911 and 3738, and Adv.MSS.33.7.12-33.7.13 and 49.7.6. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies, late 17th and early 18th century, of two Latin poems by Archibald Pitcairne, with translations: `Elegy on the Viscount of...
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Copies of musical and literary works of Robert Gordon Milne.
File
Identifier: Acc.10724
Dates:
1952-1955 and undated.
Copies of papers and correspondence concerning John Buchan`s admission to the Alpine Club.
File
Identifier: Acc.6385
Dates:
1906.
Copies of papers concerning a threatened legal action of The United Turkey Red Company against George Dallas, "Forward", and Tom Johnston.
Series
Identifier: Acc.6088/1-4
Scope and Contents
Copies, typescript and xerox, of papers, 1911, of George Dallas of the Independent Labour Party concerning a threatened legal action of the United Turkey Red Company Ltd, against him and The “Forward” printing and publishing Company and Thomas Johnston, for the publication of statements on the working conditions of women employees in the Company’s Alexandria and other Vale of Leven plants by George Dallas, published in Forward.
For statements on working conditions in the Company`s plant in...
Dates:
1911.
Copies of papers concerning Berwick-on-Tweed.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4902
Scope and Contents
Including copies of the laws of the marches and other papers concerning wardens of the marches.
Dates:
circa 1590.
Copies of papers concerning the appointment of Edwin Morgan as the "Scots Makar".
File
Identifier: Acc.12391
Dates:
2003-2004.
Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rents.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.17
Scope and Contents
On the first leaf is the inscription “Concerning the Chekker and the Kingis rent 1591”.The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.3.11.The contents are as follows:
(i) Act of Suretie for Angus McConell of Dunecraig, 1591 (folio 3);
(ii) The King’s command to the Seals anent the revocation, 1591 (folio 4);
(iii) Act of Suretie for McClane of Dowart, 1591 (folio 11);
(iv) Copies of papers by the King, Checker,...
Dates:
1546-Late 16th century.
Copies of papers entitled "Tobacco Smoke" and "Women`s Lib", by Wilfrid E J Trask.
File
Identifier: Acc.11711
Dates:
circa 1991.
Copies of papers relating to Galloway, in various hands of the 18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Retours in Kirkcudbrightshire, extracted from the Chancery records, 1542-1682; in two series (folios 1, 15).(ii) Copy of an extract (certified by Thomas Gibson, Principal Clerk of Session) of the tax-roll of Kirkcudbrightshire in 1613 (folio 44).(iii) Copy, from the Exchequer records, of the rental of the Bishopric of Galloway in 1685 (folio 46).(iv) Copy of the tax-roll of the Lordship of Galloway,...
Dates:
1542-1685, 1741.
Copies of photographs of and concerning William Soutar.
File
Identifier: Acc.10553
Scope and Contents
List of photographs:1. John Soutar (father) in the poet's room, reading book, beside portrait of WS by Finlayson.2a-c. 3 x foursomes: Soutar, Jim Finlayson, Mollie MacKenzie and Margaret Soutar (wearing hats).3. Soutar, John and Margaret Soutar out in the car, Soutar at wheel.4. Group of 6, John Soutar and five women, third and fourth from the left – Jess and Mollie MacKenzie.5. William Soutar as teenager.6. PC of...
Dates:
Circa 1916-1958, undated.
Copies of photographs of John Gibson, WS.
File
Identifier: Acc.11889
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs of the Gibson family house in George Square, Edinburgh.
Dates:
circa 1850, 1875.
Copies of photographs of the Anderson family in the Falkland Islands and Patagonia, with biographical material relating to George Anderson.
File
Identifier: Acc.9031
Scope and Contents
George Anderson (1865-1925) emigrated to the Falkland Islands in 1884 with a five-year contract to work as a shepherd. In 1891 he formed a company with four other Scottish shepherds to start a sheep farm in Patagonia, Argentina. It took George nearly eight years to find suitable land in this remote region. Eventually, in 1898 after several unsuccessful expeditions and many privations, he found a place near Cape Watchman.Although life in Patagonia was isolated and sometimes...
Dates:
1884-circa 1920, undated.
Copies of poems concerning Lanarkshire in an unidentified nineteenth-century hand.
File
Identifier: MS.20754
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) 'The Douglas bonspiel', with introduction and sequel (by Captain John Paterson; printed in J B Greenshields, ‘Annals of the Parish of Lesmahagow’ (Edinburgh, 1864), Appendix, pages 39-55) (page 1);
(ii) 'Review of the Douglas Upper Parish Rink As it Mustered In 1803-4 by One of the Rink' (page 31);
(iii) 'The Douglas party' (page 36);
(iv) 'Verses on a Dunghill' (page 37);
(v) 'To Thomas R. Scott Esq. Castlemains' (page 40);
(vi) 'Reflections on death'...
Dates:
19th century.
Copies of press cuttings and other papers and photographs of the Macarthur family, Nairn, Scotland and Manitoba, Canada.
File
Identifier: Acc.11045
Dates:
circa 1850-1890.
Copies of regulations, forms of process, etc., of the Court of Admiralty of England.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.6.6
Dates:
1639.
Copies of rentals of Roxburghshire, some imperfect.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.7
Dates:
17th century.
Copies of research materials for the history of the Parish of Beith in Ayrshire.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9894
Dates:
18th century to 19th century.
Copies of royal edicts concerning Iceland, taken from a printed book of royal edicts and mandates.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.21.3.5-21.3.7
Scope and Contents
Note by F Magnusson: `No. 19, No. 20, No. 21. Collectio variarum Regiarum Constitutionum and Mandatorum de rebus Islandicis præcipue tractantium.`
Dates:
18th century.
Copies of scripts of nine plays performed at the Royal Lyceum Theatre.
Series
Identifier: Dep.321
Dates:
1980-1984.
Copies of seven photographs of William Soutar, with his family and friends.
File
Identifier: Acc.7277
Dates:
circa 1915-1928.
Copies of single letters of Marjorie McNicol and John Mackintosh to James McNicol.
File
Identifier: Acc.7020
Dates:
1831-1833.
Copies, of Sir James Balfour of Pittendrigh, ‘Practicks’.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.24.6.3(a)-(c)
Dates:
[Circa 1579.]