Handbooks. Document genres.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Portable books, treatises, or compendiums, covering one or more subjects, arranged for quick location of information and of a size such as may conveniently be held in the hand. Examples are instructional manuals and guides to museum collections.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence and papers of Douglas Young, including papers and printed material of the Scottish National Party, PEN International and other political and cultural bodies.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6419 Box 1(1)-Box 108(3)
Scope and Contents
Including manuscripts and typescripts of poems, articles, reviews and lectures.
With letters of and to various correspondents, including James Bridie, C M Grieve, Neil Gunn, Eric Linklater, Naomi Mitchison, and Edwin Muir.
And documents and correspondence concerning the SNP, PEN, the Saltire Society, and other organisations.
Dates:
1890-1973, undated.
"The Chaplain`s Vade Mecum; or The Art of Prayer and Devotion. Compos`d by [author`s name cut out, and ‘McGregor Newsmonger` added in another hand] For his own use ... Edinburgh. Given at King James`s Colledg, Anno Dom. MDCXCIII."
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.6
Scope and Contents
The publication of such a work does not seem to be recorded. A manuscript with the same title, possibly this one, was Quarto 16 in the sale of Robert Mylne’s books in 1748.
Dates:
1693.