Indexes. Reference sources.
Found in 152 Collections and/or Records:
Copy of the appendix to John MacGregor "The Rob Roy on the Jordan, Red Sea, and Gennesareth".
Correspondence and genealogical papers concerning the Forrester family.
Correspondence and other papers relating to the ‘Scottish Review’, which was published by Alexander Gardner, Paisley and London, 1882-1900, and edited by the Reverend William M Metcalfe, Minister of Paisley South Parish.
Correspondence and papers of Sir George Taylor, botanist, including diaries and photographs relating to botanical expeditions to Africa and the Himalayas.
Correspondence, diaries, speeches, library and music inventories, and electronic database of Sir Lewis Robertson.
Correspondence of Professor Alastair David Shaw Fowler.
This accession is one of several in the National Library of Scotland covering mainly incoming correspondence, but also containing copies of some outgoing letters and other literary material.
Acc.12377/49 is an A-Z person index to the collection, and gives biographical details of many of the figures involved.
Cowie collection of manuscripts of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Allan Ramsay and others, made by Charles R Cowie of Glasgow.
The Cowie manuscripts include the final version of ‘The gentle shepherd, a Scots pastorall comedy’ by Allan Ramsay (MS.15972).
'Divine aenigms and pious problems', poems by John Donne, son of Dr John Donne, Dean of St Paul's.
The poems are dedicated to Francis, Baron Newport, afterwards Earl of Bradford. There are three illustrative diagrams, the ‘ensignes’ of the twelve Patriarchs, and ‘an index of most remarkable matters’.
Duplicated typescript material consisting of genealogical studies of branches of the Forrester family.
Ernest Pearson, "Polyglot Comparative Vocabularies", with index.
‘Extracta ex variis chronicis Scotiae’, a transcript made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane, 1738, taken from the original manuscript, Adv.MS.35.6.13, a collection of extracts of chronicles, late 15th century-early 16th century, mostly taken from Fordun and Boece with extensive annotations in the hand of Sir William Sinclair of Roslin.
Later additions in the original are here collected at the end (pages 249). The folio numbers of the original are given in the margin, and the index which is placed at the beginning in the original, is here transferred to the end (page 263).
‘Extracta ex variis chronicis Scotiae’, an incomplete transcript, early 18th century, taken from the original manuscript, Adv.MS.35.6.13, a collection of extracts of chronicles, late 15th century-early 16th century, mostly taken from Fordun and Boece with extensive annotations in the hand of Sir William Sinclair of Roslin.
A number of items in the Wodrow collection are in the same hand, and the copyist appears to have worked fairly frequently for Robert Wodrow. Later additions in the original are here collected at the end (page 159) and partially in a different hand, but the copyist breaks off in mid-entry at folio 296 verso of the original. The folio numbers of the original are given in the margin, and the index, which is placed at the beginning in the original, is omitted.
Genealogies of Scottish families, copied by Robert Mylne.
Geographical dictionary of Great Britain, written by James Balfour, with an index largely in the hand of Lord Fountainhall.
Includes a note of George Paton.
'Geschlecht Buch dess Heiligen Reichs Stat Nürnberg Darinen alle alte und neue Adeliche Geschlecht daraus der Rath von 300 Jaren hero erwöhlth wordn Hierin zusamgebracht Anno 1610’, being histories, in different hands, of Nürnberg families.
Each history is preceded by an engraving of a figure with the arms of the family.
Index by John Walker to theological works.
Volume titled ‘Chronological M.S. vol I’, with inscription on the fly leaf, ‘Inchoatus est hic inven anno Dom. millesimo septingentesimo et nono, die Januar. Vicesimo sento. Jo Walker’.
Index by the Reverend Mr Inglis to ‘History of the Church of Scotland’ by David Calderwood.
Index, early 18th century, to ‘Mercurius Aulicus’ for 1641-1661, in the hand of Robert Mylne, “as also to the large vol. of Mercurius”.
The author has arranged the contents as five volumes in one.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.v.8.9.
Index, in Thomas Ruddiman`s hand, to the first volume of his ‘Grammaticae Latinae Institutiones’ (Edinburgh, 1725).
The index is to Liber I and II only.
Index of books, undated, at the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Alphabetical index of books alongside members name.
Index of family names mentioned chiefly in Scottish chartularies, titled, 'Genealogical notices'.
Index of law books in the Faculty of Advocates Library by Thomas Ruddiman.
Index of law books as was brought into the Advocates Library before January 1697, continued to the 1st January 1702.