Inscriptions.
Found in 106 Collections and/or Records:
Airs of dances, etc., inscribed 'To Mr. Cumming, from a poor devil going to push his fortune in South America. R.C., Dankeith ... 1819'., [1802, or after.], 1819.
The airs are written on paper watermarked 1802.
'Alphabetical list of all the Parishes in Scotland, shewing the Shire, Diocese, Presbytery, & Commissariot . . . and there patrons'., 1744.
The list is inscribed (folio ii): 'Edinburgh, November, 1744. This list ... drawn up by ... William Smith, Esqr., First Clerk of Chancery, was given by him . . . to Andrew Lumisden' (from the handwriting, probably Prince Charles Edward's secretary). From the mention of dioceses, the inclusion of bishops and arch-bishops among the patrons, and the character of the ecclesiastical dignities given on pages 36-37, the drafter seems to have been an Episcopalian.
Annotated and inscribed printed Harrow School lists., 1853-1860.
Antiphoner of Benedictine use, Italy, probably Lombardy., [Circa 1460.]
'Appendix ad Repetitionem Institutionem' (Trajecta ad Rhenum, 1740) by Abraham Welling, inscribed 'David Dalrymple’., Mid 18th century.
Article on romance by Sir Walter Scott for the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica'., 1824.
Includes a portrait of Sir Walter Scott.
Assorted, printed items concerning William Gifford either personally, or in his capacity as editor of the "Quarterly Review"., 1815-? 1827.
Autograph book inscribed 'Charles Dalrymple from Aunt Agnes, Sept. 25th 1856', consisting chiefly of pasted in signatures removed from letters., 1807-1887, undated.
The autograph book contains a few entire letters sewn, pasted, or loosely tipped in.
Autograph manuscript, undated, of 'Donald Morrison', a strathspey by James Scott Skinner, with a presentation inscription to an unidentified recipient., [?1870-?1924.]
Bifolium containing parts of a commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew in a version similar to the earlier Wycliffite translation., 15th century.
The leaves are not consecutive. The commentary runs from Matthew iii, 16-iv, 7, and v, 10-12.
Large initial in blue with pen-work decoration in red. Paragraph marks in red and blue.
On folio 1 is a sixteenth-century inscription relating to a survey of Swanton Abbot (Norfolk).
Book of hours according to the Use of Utrecht., 1473.
Bound volumes of official military returns, orders and correspondence concerning the War of the Austrian Succession., 1746-1748.
‘Catalogue and succession of the Kings ... of this Realme of England' ([London], 1622), by Ralph Brooke., 1622, [circa 1804].
The notes by John Borthwick include some observations by Thomas Hamilton, Lord Binning, on the claims of the Borthwicks of Crookston to the title of Lord Borthwick (folio 1 verso).
'Cokkils' (Edinburgh, 1953) by Sydney Goodsir Smith, with an inscription by the author to Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1953.
Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.
Collection of works, mainly theological, written in Germany in the early fifteenth century., Early 15th century.
Commonplace book of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, inscribed 'Begun at Utrecht, 1746'., 1746-1756.
The volume includes notes on classical and modern authors, Lord Hailes' contemporaries at Eton (folio 38), life in Holland, 1748 (folio 7), books read, 1749-1755 (folio 233), and legal cases represented to 1755 (folio 241).
Copies of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions in Carnwath Parish churchyard, Lanarkshire, compiled, with an introduction and photographs, by John Smith, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland., 1917-1918.
John Smith is the author of "Monumental inscriptions in St. Cuthbert's Churchyard, Edinburgh", edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, in 'Scottish Record Society' series (Edinburgh, 1915, 1919).
Copies of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions in Carstairs Parish churchyard, Lanarkshire, compiled, with an introduction and photographs, by John Smith, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland., 1918.
John Smith is the author of "Monumental inscriptions in St. Cuthbert's Churchyard, Edinburgh", edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, in 'Scottish Record Society' series (Edinburgh, 1915, 1919).
Copies of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions in Covington (1918), Libberton (1919), Pettinain (1918), Quothquan (1918), and Walston (1918) Parish churchyards in Lanarkshire, compiled, with introductions and photographs, by John Smith, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland., 1918-1919.
John Smith is the author of "Monumental inscriptions in St. Cuthbert's Churchyard, Edinburgh", edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, in 'Scottish Record Society' series (Edinburgh, 1915, 1919).
Copies of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions in Culter churchyard, Lanarkshire, 1916-1917, and in Kilbucho churchyard, Peeblesshire, 1915, compiled, with photographs, by John Smith, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland., 1915-1917.
John Smith is the author of "Monumental inscriptions in St. Cuthbert's Churchyard, Edinburgh", edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, in 'Scottish Record Society' series (Edinburgh, 1915, 1919).
Copies of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions in St John's Kirk burying ground, Thankerton, compiled, with photographs, by John Smith, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland., 1916.
John Smith is the author of "Monumental inscriptions in St. Cuthbert's Churchyard, Edinburgh", edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, in 'Scottish Record Society' series (Edinburgh, 1915, 1919).
Copies of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions in Symington churchyard, Lanarkshire, compiled, with photographs, by John Smith, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland., 1916.
John Smith is the author of "Monumental inscriptions in St. Cuthbert's Churchyard, Edinburgh", edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, in 'Scottish Record Society' series (Edinburgh, 1915, 1919).
Copies of monumental inscriptions in St Mary's churchyard, Biggar, compiled with an introduction and photographs, by John Smith, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland., 1916.
John Smith is the author of "Monumental inscriptions in St. Cuthbert's Churchyard, Edinburgh", edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, in 'Scottish Record Society' series (Edinburgh, 1915, 1919).
Copies, sixteenth century, of miscellaneous Italian documents concerning Italian, and especially Venetian, diplomacy., 1532-1570, undated.
The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.
Copy, early 19th century, of a manuscript tilted ‘Tractatus Theologicus de directione, usu, & necessitate sciae mediae inter vocandum providendum et praedestinandum’., ?17th century.
The manuscript is early 19th century in date and is probably a copy of a 17th century manuscript.