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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:

Index of persons and places appearing within the thesis "A Study in the Structure and History of the Registers of Archbishops Prene and Mey, together with an edition of the Register of Mey and a Calendar of the Register of Prene. A thesis presented to the Queen's University of Belfast for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts by William George Henry Quigley, B.A., and Edward Frederick Denis Roberts, B.A. April 1955"; with a separate index of subjects, [1960-1970]., 1955-[1970].

 File
Identifier: Acc.11997/27

Index of place-names in Gaelic literature (‘Rob Donn’, etc.), compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson., [Before 1928.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.388B
Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates: [Before 1928.]

Index of Scottish place names, with a few historical or philological notes added., [Before 1928.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.405-406
Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates: [Before 1928.]

Index of Scottish place names, with a few historical or philological notes added., [Before 1928.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.405
Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates: [Before 1928.]

Index of Scottish place names, with a few historical or philological notes added., [Before 1928.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.406
Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates: [Before 1928.]

Index of title deeds and papers connected with the property of Edward Ellice in America., [Circa 1844.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.15136
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Ellices owned a considerable amount of land in New York State, centring around the town of Little Falls. The correspondence consists chiefly of letters of agents who administered the property, and of letters from friends of Ellice who inspected their administration. There was considerable dissatisfaction on both sides. The Ellices felt that their agents were not drawing enough profit from the estates, and the local American authorities thought that not enough money was being put into...
Dates: [Circa 1844.]

Index slips for the papers of the Oliphants of Gask, giving references to persons whom it has been decided not to include in the general index.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.9.16
Scope and Contents

The majority of those referenced are tenants of Gask and local craftsmen and tradesmen of the 2nd half of the 18th and the early 19th centuries.

Dates: 17th century-19th century.

Index to 'Admiralty Department letters' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station., [1847, or after.]

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Identifier: MS.2419
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates: [1847, or after.]

Index to 'Admiralty letters sent' during Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station., [1847, or after.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.2417
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates: [1847, or after.]

"Index to Angus MacKay's MS", undated., [1892, or after.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.1684
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This copy was formerly in the possession of Major-General C S Thomason, and supplied much of the material of his 'Ceol Mor' (London, 1900).The manuscript has been compared with the original and all the errors detected have been corrected by Archibald Campbell, Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society, who has written (MS.1681, folio iii) an account of Angus MacKay, the original manuscript, and this copy, indicating the manner in which the copy and the original...
Dates: [1892, or after.]

Index to autographs in MSS.577-594, 600, compiled by T Corson Morton, Keeper of the National Galleries of Scotland, with notes on items retained in the National Portrait Gallery, etc. ., Early 20th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.595
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of letters and documents in the autograph of literary, political, social, artistic, naval, military, and legal celebrities, chiefly covering the period from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth.

The first 2,300 items bear numbers given in the National Galleries. Certain letters, etc., have been retained for exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery; the series is therefore not continuous (see MS.595).

Dates: Early 20th century.