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 372 Collections and/or Records:
List of Scottish Baronetcies, compiled by John Philp Wood., 1818-1829.
File
Identifier: MS.1877
Scope and Contents
The list begins on folio 1. The volume also contains copies of correspondence on the Pretyman Baronetage, 1818 (folio 103), the Nicolson Baronetage, 1828-1829 (folio 116), and the succession to the attainted Viscount Galway, 1828 (folio 118).
The paper is watermarked 1826.
Dates:
1818-1829.
List of the place-names of Islay compiled from the Book of Islay and other sources by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson., [Before 1928.]
Item
Identifier: MS.386B
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.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers concerning Gaelic philology and Highland topography, folk-lore, etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson (died 1927), Minister of the United Free Church, Kilchoman, Islay.
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Papers concerning Gaelic place names and personal names compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
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Lists of the place-names of Islay compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
Lists of ballads, broadsheets and chapbooks, copied, circa 1818, from Joseph Ritson’s transcript of ‘a large sheet in ye folio of Old Balads belonging to the British Museum’, and from other sources., [Circa 1818.]
File
Identifier: MS.178
Scope and Contents
At the beginning is, ‘An index to the Miscellany Collection of a great number of ... (mostly Scots) Ballads & songs with other verses & poems both pious historical & jococe. The whole composed by diverse Scots & English poets’, in an early 18th century hand.
At the end is a printed list of juvenile works published by J Harris, St Paul’s Churchyard, 1817.
Dates:
[Circa 1818.]
Lists or indexes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson, with lectures by Henderson on musical subjects and other miscellaneous material., Mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.21710
Scope and Contents
The lists or indexes are of the following material:(i) Sheet music of Scottish interest (folio 1);(ii) Printed compositions, 1930, by James Scott Skinner (folio 62);(iii) The collections, 1931, printed by the Gow family (folio 69);(iv) Scottish Country dances with tunes and alternatives found in various collections published from 1924 onwards (folio 78);(v) Tutors and collections of bagpipe music, 1948 (folio 83);(vi)...
Dates:
Mid 20th century.
'Lord Cornwall: letters to Mr. Dundas from 1786 to 1793’., 1786-1793.
File
Identifier: MS.3385
Dates:
1786-1793.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters written by Lord Cornwallis as Governor-General of India to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, 1786-1794, and copies of letters of Dundas to Cornwallis and his successors as Governor-General, 1786-1799.
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Letters of Lord Cornwallis to Henry Dundas; with an appendix containing attachments thereto.
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers; an index to the papers by Sir Henry Stewart of Allanton, with a letter, 1883, of Charles Chambers, the publisher, to J T Clark, Librarian of the Advocates` Library., 1746-1775.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.26
Manuscript index to (MS.27297), the typescript, undated, titled 'Chronological history of Edward Irving' and notes, undated, on the characters extracted from published sources of Nancy Brysson Morrison., [1947-1948.]
Item
Identifier: MS.27298
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Notes for and some manuscripts of Nancy Brysson Morrison's books and shorter works.
Dates:
[1947-1948.]
Manuscript of ‘Decisions of the Court of Session MDCCLXXXI-MDCCCXXII, in the Form of a Dictionary’ by David Hume; cases 651-699, ‘Tailzie’-‘Writ’, pages 869-926., 1781-1822.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.7.19
Scope and Contents
The volume also contains a fragment of an index (folio 207), and notes on Baxter versus Balleny, 22 January 1805 etc., and Pearson Thomson`s trustees versus Balfour etc., 21 December 1805 (not in the published work) (folio 210).
Dates:
1781-1822.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript of ‘Decisions of the Court of Session MDCCLXXXI-MDCCCXXII, in the Form of a Dictionary’, collected by David Hume when he was Professor of Scots Law at Edinburgh, arranged and prepared for publication when he was Baron of the Exchequer, and finally published posthumously in 1839.
Manuscript of ‘Frost and Fire’ by John Francis Campbell, being a collection mainly of his geological observations while on his travels from July 1862 to November 1863, including extracts from earlier journals., 1862-1865.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.5.13-50.6.1
Scope and Contents
On the whole the manuscript and printed versions correspond.
Dates:
1862-1865.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography.
Manuscript of ‘Frost and Fire’ by John Francis Campbell, chapters 43-58., 1862-1865.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.6.1
Scope and Contents
The volume also contains the preface to the first volume (folio 465) and additional material at the end which appears not to have been published. Rough diagrams illustrate the text and there are copies of Campbell`s ‘On a New Self-Registering Sun-Dial’ (folio 396) and ‘A Method of Converting Collodion Negatives into Positives by Heat’ (folio 401), together with proofs of the index and a list of illustrations to ‘Frost and Fire’ inserted at the back of the manuscript.There is also...
Dates:
1862-1865.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography.
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Manuscript of ‘Frost and Fire’ by John Francis Campbell, being a collection mainly of his geological observations while on his travels from July 1862 to November 1863, including extracts from earlier journals.
Manuscript of parts 2 and 3 of ‘Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn., 1927-1943, 1951-1952.
File
Identifier: MS.50196
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is a composite of articles in typescript and offprint arranged in the sequence in which they were to be published in ‘Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. The order of each article within each part is indicated through the addition of a sequence number at the head of each title page. Each of the articles has been amended by Fairbairn in preparation for its inclusion in ‘Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality’....
Dates:
1927-1943, 1951-1952.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
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Lectures and articles of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn.
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Articles and lectures of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn.
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Draft manuscripts of `Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality`, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn.
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Draft manuscript of `Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality`, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn.
Manuscript of the treatise 'Illustrations of Popular Delusion in the Superstitions of the Werwolf, the Sabbaths of the Serfs, and the Séances of Spirituology. London, 1871', by John Sobieski Stuart; with related material., 1871, [1871, or before].
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2173-2174
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Dates:
1871, [1871, or before].
Material collected by Robert Bruce Armstrong in the course of his antiquarian studies; with index., Late 15th century-19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.6114A-6119
Dates:
Late 15th century-19th century.
Material of Nancy Brysson Morrison for a play on Edward Irving., 1947-1948, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27296-27298
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Notes for and some manuscripts of Nancy Brysson Morrison's books and shorter works.
Dates:
1947-1948, undated.
Members number index of the Faculty of Advocates Library., ?19th century-?20th century.
Item
Identifier: F.R.509
Dates:
?19th century-?20th century.
'Memoriall with respect to the Process of Division, Matthew Sharp of Hoddam against Charles, Duke of Queensberry and Dover, and others having interest in the Commonity of Ecclefechan'., 1712-1743.
Item
Identifier: MS.3084
Scope and Contents
This document covers the case up to the depositions of 1743 copied in MS.3085. At the beginning is a brief modern history of the case.
Dates:
1712-1743.
Microfilm of 'Admiralty Department letters' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, with index., 1842-[?1847, or after].
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1036
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
'Admiralty Department letters', 1842-1847 (MS.2418);
Index to 'Admiralty Department letters’, [?1847, or after] (MS.2419).
Dates:
1842-[?1847, or after].
Microfilm of index to 'Admiralty letters' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station., [1847, or after.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1018
Microfilm of indexes of candidates examined by the Westminster Assembly and their places of origin, compiled by Dr S W Carruthers., [1643-1653.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15529 [Mf.MSS.44]
Microfilm of indexes of Lightfoot’s journal of the Westminster Assembley, compiled by Dr S W Carruthers., [1643-1653.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15531 [Mf.MSS.47]
Microfilm of indexes to Westminster Assembly minutes, compiled by Dr S W Carruthers., [1643-1653.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15530 [Mf.MSS.45]
Scope and Contents
The indexes are for subjects, A-Ca being at the end; persons; and places, W-Z being before the subjects
Dates:
[1643-1653.]
Microfilm of papers from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane’s service at the East India Station., 1842-[?1847, or after].
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1037
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
'Letters to India Governments', 1842-1847 (MS.2420), 282 frames;
Index, [1847, or after], to 'Letters to India Governments' (MS.2421), 81 frames;
Notebook, 1844-1847, concerning purchases, containing lists, notes, and copies of correspondence (MS.2422), 32 frames;
Dinner-lists, 1845-March 1846 (MS.2423), 41 frames;
Dinner-lists, April 1846-July 1847 (MS.2424), 88 frames.
Dates:
1842-[?1847, or after].
Microfilm ‘The Papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (Darien Company) from the National Library of Scotland (1694-1709)’. Reel 9., [?1694-?1709.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1751
Minute book of the Faculty of Advocates Widow’s Fund: volume 4., 5 May 1855-7 June 1867.
Item
Identifier: F.R.370
Dates:
5 May 1855-7 June 1867.
Minute book of the Faculty of Advocates Widow’s Fund: volume 5., 12 June 1867-19 June 1877.
Item
Identifier: F.R.371
Dates:
12 June 1867-19 June 1877.