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 152 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscript of English-Gaelic vocabulary compiled by a blinded veteran of the 92nd (Gordon) Regiment, Malcolm MacPherson, at Bridge of Teith, Doune, Perthshire, and written for him by another.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.6
Dates:
1812.
Manuscript of Ossianic poems written by various anonymous hands from recitation of Archibald Fletcher (born circa 1734), Achallader, Argyll.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.24
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is watermarked 1798, and is described by John Francis Campbell (‘Leabhar na Feine’, page xvi) ‘as genuine a bit of folk lore as any in the world’.Archibald Fletcher’s affidavit, sworn before Archibald Menzies, Justice of the Peace, in Edinburgh, 1801, is printed in the Ossian Report, Appendix, page 270. It lists the tradition-bearers from whom he learned the poems. Menzies states that Fletcher could write his name, but was unable to read the manuscript, which is...
Dates:
[1798, or after.]
Manuscript of the Regiam Maiestatem, statutes, Leges Portuum, forest laws, Quoniam attachiamenta, burgh and guild laws, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots.
Item
Identifier: MS.21246
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written by two hands in the second half of the fourteenth century, with one slighly later addition (section (i)) and fifteenth-century additions (sections (ii), (x) etc.). In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the volume had East Fife connections.The contents are as follows.
(i) Styles of writs, brieves, etc., in 107 chapters. The majority belong to the reign of Robert II. (Folio 2.)
(ii) An alphabetical index to the volume, 15th century. (Folio 17...
Dates:
2nd half of 14th century-15th century.
Manuscript on botany, entitled `Manuel de botanique ou Principes pour connoitre les Plantes que la nature produit leurs Noms, Caracteres, Et Vertus. MDCCXXXVI’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.5.12
Scope and Contents
Under each plant, there is a brief note about its habitat, but most of the entry concerns its medicinal uses. The text is followed (folio 215) by an appendix, indices of names in Latin and French, and an index of diseases. Folios 272-279 contain miscellaneous medical recipes, some of which have been written on loose sheets of paper and inserted.The inscription `J.B.M. Guidi scripsit anno 1757 et 1758` occurs on folio 271 verso, and the title-page (folio 1) bears his initials and...
Dates:
1757-1758.
Manuscript volume of poems and prose pieces by Alexander Pennecuik, entitled `The Whole Works of Alexr Pennecuik Gent. Volura 2d`.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.15
Scope and Contents
The volume also includes the text of ‘Coridon and Cochrania’ (folio 65) and `The Publict and Secret History of the Malt Tax,` 1725 (folio 86).The manuscript is in several hands of the 18th century. It was originally paginated, containing pages 215-337 (folios 2-59 and 80-85) and there is an index to these sections (folio 124). Folio 85 verso contains a `List of ye persons who are furnished with my weekly papers`, 1726, and there is also a list of Pennecuik`s works (folio 126...
Dates:
Circa 1723-1726.
Material for Sir Robert Sibbald`s projected `Bibliotheca Scotica`.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.17
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) An alphabetical index of Scottish authors and their works, circa 1700 (folio 1). The beginning is probably missing (the pagination commences with page 11). Most of the entries are copied from ‘Historia ecclesiastica gentis Scotorum lib.XIX’. It is followed by an appendix (folio 137 verso) in which the entries are more detailed.(ii) `De Scriptoris Scoticis`, circa 1702 (folio 150). A bibliography of works, including...
Dates:
Circa 1700, circa 1702.
Material on Scottish history intended to be read in conjunction with ‘Abridgement or Summarie of the Scots Chronicles’ by John Monipennie.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.25
Scope and Contents
The author, who was writing between 1612 and 1625, made use of the histories by John Major, Boece and Holinshed. The later entries, from the 15th century onwards, become progressively lengthier until the text breaks off in November 1585.The text is followed by an index of the kings of Scotland, and a general index. Both contain page references to the manuscript (indicated by the letter u or by numbers above 72) and to Monipennie`s published text. The author`s own copy of the...
Dates:
1612-1625.
Medical notebook of Alexander Ochterlony, a younger son of James Ochterlony of Wester Seaton who studied medicine at the University of Paris.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.15
Scope and Contents
The contents of the notebook are as follows:(i) `Spagyricae seu Jatrochymicae Synopsios Cursus ... illustratus a doctissimo viro domino Rheo`, July 1631. Notes of lectures on chemistry given by Rhee [?Rae], a Scot teaching in Paris. (Folio 1.)(ii) `De primis Naturae principiis`. (Folio 39.)(iii) Extracts from ‘De gradibus et compositionibus receptorum et naturalium’ by Paracelsus. (Folio 45.)(iv) Prescriptions in Latin. (Folio 51.)...
Dates:
1631-1635.
Medical recipes, begun in London in 1709.
Item
Identifier: MS.3773
Scope and Contents
This manuscript has the bookplate, with the date 1708, of 'The Honble. Archibald Campbell Esqr.' - presumably the then Lord Ilay, later the 3rd Duke of Argyll. The book has the appearance of a personal compilation, though the handwriting is unlike that found in contemporary letters of the Duke.The recipes, which apply to many diseases, appear to have been derived both from professional sources and from those of traditional domestic medicine. In many cases the name of the person...
Dates:
1708-1713, 1725, 1732.
Microfilm of 15th-century manuscript containing various legal works: an index to the works of Bartolus de Saxoferrato; the 'Allegationes' of Lapo da Castiglionchio the Elder, abbreviated by Anthonius de Butrio; the 'Canonum Collectio' of Pseudo-Isidore.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.181
Dates:
15th century, after 1440.
Microfilm of 'Admiralty letters sent' during Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, with index.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1022
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
'Admiralty letters sent', 1842-1847 (MS.2415);
'Admiralty letters sent', 1847 (MS.2416);
Index to 'Admiralty letters sent', [1847, or after] (MS.2417).
Dates:
1842-[1847, or after].
Microfilm of alphabetical index, [1855], to obituary notices in “Gentleman’s Magazine”, 1791-1855.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.302
Dates:
1855.
Microfilm of assorted catalogues, minutes and other papers.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.111
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copy, 18th century, of the title-page and pages 881-889 of ‘Opus de Obligationibus Justitiae, Religionis, et Charitatis’ (Lugduni, 1608) of Fernando Rebello, containing Liber 18, `de promissionibus et donationibus`, 18th century (Adv.MS.5.1.5);Minutes of the Belles-Lettres Society of Edinburgh, 27 November 1761-7 December 1764 (Adv.MS.5.1.6);Catalogue of the library of Sir Ellis Cunliffe, Baronet, 1762 (Adv.MS.5.1.7);Catalogue...
Dates:
Late 16th century-mid 19th century.
Microfilm of 'Canonum Collectio' of Pseudo-Isidore, from a 15th-century manuscript containing various legal works.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.223
Dates:
15th century, after 1440.
Microfilm of card index to business books in the John Murray Archive.
File
Identifier: Acc.12617- is now Mf.MSS.597-608
Dates:
1944.
Microfilm of copy, 1892, in three volumes, of two manuscript volumes of piobaireachd music compiled by Angus MacKay, Piper to Queen Victoria, in 1826-1849; with index.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.480
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copy of piobaireachd music compiled by Angus MacKay, Piper to Queen Victoria: [volume I] (MS.1681);
Copy of piobaireachd music compiled by Angus MacKay, Piper to Queen Victoria: [volume II]. (MS.1682);
Copy of piobaireachd music compiled by Angus MacKay, Piper to Queen Victoria: [volume III]. (MS.1683);
"Index to Angus MacKay's MS" (MS.1684).
Dates:
1826-1849.
Microfilm of copy of piobaireachd music, with index compiled by Angus MacKay, Piper to Queen Victoria; and, MacKay’s 'Specimens of Canntaireachd'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.775
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copy of piobaireachd music, 1826-1849, compiled by Angus MacKay: [volume I] (MS.1681), 94 frames;Copy of piobaireachd music, 1826-1849, compiled by Angus MacKay: [volume II] (MS.1682), 105 frames;Copy of piobaireachd music, 1826-1849, compiled by Angus MacKay: [volume III] (MS.1683), 86 frames;"Index to Angus MacKay's MS", [1892, or after] (MS.1684);Transcript of Angus Mackay's 'Specimens of Canntaireachd', of...
Dates:
1826-[1892, or after], 1950.
Microfilm of 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.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.201
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Microfilm of letter book, titled 'Squadron letters sent', number 1, containing copies of letters sent during Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station; with index.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1051
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Letter book (MS.2466), 278 frames;
Index to letter book (MS.2467), 51 frames.
Dates:
1842-[1844, or after].
Microfilm of manuscript of the Regiam Maiestatem, statutes, Leges Portuum, forest laws, Quoniam attachiamenta, burgh and guild laws, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.902
Dates:
2nd half of 14th century-15th century.
Microfilm of miscellaneous papers, [1563-1670]; drawings, 2nd half of 17th century, by Sir Robert Sibbald; and, Indexes, [1801, or after], to the Chartularies of various Scottish religious houses, etc., by George Chalmers.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.130
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Miscellaneous papers, [1563-1670], mostly Scottish, many relating to ecclesiastical affairs. (Adv.MS.6.1.13);
Collection of original drawings, 2nd half of 17th century, by Sir Robert Sibbald, of fish, birds, plants, etc. (Adv.MS.6.1.14);
Indexes, [1801, or after], to the Chartularies of various Scottish religious houses, etc., by George Chalmers. (Adv.MS.6.1.15).
Dates:
1563-[1801, or after].
Microfilm of preaching-book of John of Grimestone, a Franciscan friar from Norfolk.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.61
Dates:
1372.
Microfilm of preaching book of John of Grimestone, a Franciscan friar from Norfolk.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.165
Dates:
1372.
Microfilm of works of Robert Mylne, Alexander Hume and William Drummond.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.196
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Index, early 18th century, to ‘Mercurius Aulicus’ for 1641-1661, in the hand of Robert Mylne, ‘as also to the large vol. of Mercurius’ (Adv.MS.13.2.1);Copies of historical works of Alexander Hume, preceded by a Latin treatise. Includes ‘De foedere Dei cum homine’ by Alexander Hume, 1653 (Adv.MS.13.2.3);Copy, 17th century, of five prose tracts of William Drummond, of Hawthornden, the poet, written between 1638 and 1642 about the time of...
Dates:
1638- early 18th century.