Indexes. Reference sources.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Lists, usually in alphabetical order, of persons and/or subjects referred to in documents, with location of references thereto.
Found in 524 Collections and/or Records:
Indexes and lists of his papers by Lord Milton., Early 18th century-mid 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.17869
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
Early 18th century-mid 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Indexes and transcripts by Robert Mylne, the antiquary.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.9
Scope and Contents
Mylne`s pagination and the size of paper show that the volume is composed of seven separate parts: section (i), section (ii), section (iii), sections (iv) and (v), section (vi), sections (vii)-(xiii), section (xiv). None are exactly dated, but (v) must be later than 1705, (xiv) later than 1700; and probably all were compiled in the early 18th century.The contents are as follows:(i) `Ane Alphabeticall Index [A-C only] To the Book of Collections of Notes of Charters...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Indexes, in one volume, to volume 1 (numbers 1-4, 1989-1990) and volume 2 (numbers 5-8, 1990-1991) of 'The Quaich: a Clan Gregor research magazine', compiled by Sheila McGregor., 1999.
File
Identifier: Acc.11713/63
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Material concerning the history and genealogy of the McGregors, including printed items and a full set of the journal "The Quaich", 1989-1997.The arrangement and description of the papers from the Clan Gregor Centre was undertaken by Sheila McGregor on behalf of the Centre. The described papers represent the activities of a small number of people who collected and compiled them over many years, combining traditional knowledge with research to both preserve and extend information...
Dates:
1999.
Indexes of members of the Edinburgh Typographical Society., 1871-1925.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.4068/87-91
Dates:
1871-1925.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archives of the Edinburgh Typographical Society.
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Records of membership.
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Membership and contribution records of the Edinburgh Typographical Society.
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Index of members, and other records of membership of the Edinburgh Typographical Society.
Indexes of retours, 1701-1823, compiled by John Riddell probably in 1823., ?1823.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.13
Scope and Contents
The entries in the first index (folio 1) are arranged chronologically within an alphabetical order of the initial letters of the names concerned; the entries in the second index (folio 88) are arranged by county within an alphabetical order of the names concerned.
Dates:
?1823.
Indexes to ledgers., N.d.
Series
Identifier: Acc.5018/42-43
Indexes to receipt books in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Series
Identifier: F.R.287-F.R.303a/2
Dates:
1765-1902.
Indexes to the chartularies of various Scottish religious houses, etc., by George Chalmers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.15
Scope and Contents
Aberdeen (contents-list, folios 13-24; index, folios 25-28); Moray (contents-list, folios 29-44; index, folios 45-48);‘my MS. Monasticon Scotiae’ (folios 49-72);Coldingham (folios 73-76);Kelso (folios 77-84);Melrose (folios 85-88); Soutra (folios 89-90); Newbattle (folios 91-96); Dryburgh (folios 97-100);Paisley (folios 101-108); Cambuskenneth (folios 109-112); ...
Dates:
1801, or after.
Indexes to the fragments of the Greek poets collected by John Callander of Craigforth., [?1750-?1755.]
File
Identifier: MS.2156
Scope and Contents
'Index poætarum quorum fragments in Spicelegia ... sunt descripta' (folio 2); 'Index poætarum quorum nomina leguntur in Anthologia Græca' (folio 21 verso).
Dates:
[?1750-?1755.]
Indexes to the minutes of rescinded Acts of Parliament, to the rescinded Acts and to ‘Memoirs’ by Bishop Henry Guthrie; in the hand of Robert Mylne, with titles in the hand of Walter Macfarlane.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.2
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Indexes to the receipt books in the Faculty of Advocates.
Series
Identifier: F.R.303b/1-F.R.303b/11
Dates:
July 1907-May 1925.
‘Institutionum Chemicarum Pars Prima`; a treatise on chemistry in two parts, including comments on other writers on the subject.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.6
Scope and Contents
Mention is made of Nicolas Lemery`s work, published in Paris, `hoc Anno 1713` (folio 10 verso). There are a few small pencil sketches of pieces of equipment, and the work is followed by an index.
Dates:
1713.
'Inventory of, and excerpts from, the Title Deeds of certain Heritors of Mearns to make appearance in a Process of Augmentation of Stipend at the instance of The Revd. Doctor McLatchie, Minister of the Parish of Mearns', Renfrewshire., 1814-1815.
File
Identifier: MS.2697
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Many of the manuscripts contain notes, indexes, etc., by George Neilson.
Dates:
1814-1815.
John Sawers` Armorial, containing the arms of the Scottish nobility, mostly painted on engraved outlines.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.4
Scope and Contents
The later entries are unfinished and some are merely pencil sketches. The manuscript was shown in the Heraldic Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1891 (see ‘Memorial Catalogue’, number 60).The armorial is preceded by a printed form of charge concerning the right to bear arms, 1675 (folio ii verso) and a list of Scottish peers (folio iv). It is followed by an index and, on inverted pages 1-47, by a copy of a list of Scottish families and their arms by Thomas Craufurd,...
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Journal of Sir James Hall of Dunglass, 4th Baronet, of the journey from Dunglass to Paris., April-May 1791.
Item
Identifier: MS.6329
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
While in Paris, Sir James Hall attended meetings of the Assemblée Nationale and of the Jacobin Club almost every day, and he gives an account of the questions discussed there and of the atmosphere of tension among the people of Paris during the early stages of the Revolution. Hall seems to have been a friend of Condorcet, and names of other statesmen of the period such as Mirabeau, Robespierre, Danton, Guizot, and Sieyès are prominent in the journal. Each volume contains a brief guide to...
Dates:
April-May 1791.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Journals kept by Sir James Hall of Dunglass, 4th Baronet, during tours in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy, 1783-1785, and in the country between Paris and Clermont, 1791.
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Journals of Sir James Hall of Dunglass, 4th Baronet, of a tour in France, chiefly in Paris, from which a journey is made to Clermont and back before the return to Dunglass.
Last seventeen pages and the index from what was once a large collection of Scottish dance tunes for fiddle., [Circa 1820.]
Item
Identifier: MS.21705
Scope and Contents
The music includes two duets (folios 4 verso-5, 6 verso-7), and on folio 5 a scale, for the oboe.
Dates:
[Circa 1820.]
Late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century copies of Records of the High Court of Justiciary.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3722-3723
Dates:
1685-1740.
Late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century copies of Records of the High Court of Justiciary., 1685-1716.
File
Identifier: MS.3722
Late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century copies of Records of the High Court of Justiciary, 1716-1740.
File
Identifier: MS.3723
Scope and Contents
Plan of the Estate of Finhaven, lying in the parish of Oathlaw, and County of Forfar. 1818. 33 x 19.5 inches. 12 Scotch chains to an inch. Robertson, George (1818), Walker, David (1840). (Folio 5.)
The other folios have not been described.
Dates:
1716-1740.
Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth.
Item
Identifier: MS.5898
Scope and Contents
Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth (folio 28), and subsequently belonging to Robert Blair, Writer in Errol (folio 176 verso).The contents are as follows.(i) Style-book of Scots Law forms based on examples collected in and around Perth (folio 5); preceded by two indices (folios 1 verso, 3).(ii) Latin verses, 1683, entitled 'Carmina auditu digna', possibly written by James Blair. (Folio 92.)(iii) Recipes for dyeing...
Dates:
1682-1683.
‘Laws and customs of Scotland in matters criminal’ (Edinburgh, 1699) by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, Lord Advocate, with manuscript notes by the author's son-in-law, Sir James Mackenzie, Lord Royston, and with further notes in another and later hand., 1699.
Item
Identifier: MS.2690
Scope and Contents
The manuscript notes are for the greatest part extensive interleavings in the printed volume. Those on the first Title of Part 1 are late copies, probably from Adv.MS.25.3.15, which is also an interleaved volume of the same work, annotated by Lord Royston, similar to this but not identical. There is a letter to Thomas Thomson, Deputy Clerk Register, pasted on the inside of the front cover; a note on the manuscript by George Neilson (folio ii verso); and an index by Neilson (folio 549). There...
Dates:
1699.
Ledger index of the Faculty of Advocates Library., 1937-1949.
Item
Identifier: F.R.504
Dates:
1937-1949.
Ledger of Sanderson and Paterson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4006
Scope and Contents
With index.
Dates:
1806-1835.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.14
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:List, 1606, of Scottish nobility (folio 1);Process of apprising of the Bishop of Orkney against Sinclair, 1572 (folio 3);Process of apprising of Sir Thomas Hamilton against Sir Blaise Belmer, 1607 (folio 13 verso);Reduction of a decreet of perambulation obtained by Lord Hay of Yester against the James Heriot of Trabroun, 1572 (folio 21 verso);Registered submission and decreet arbitral, 1614, between...
Dates:
Early 17th century.