Inscriptions.
Found in 182 Collections and/or Records:
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 Edwin Muir, "First Poems" (1925) and "Chorus of the Newly Dead" (1926), the former inscribed by Muir to John and Dorothy Holms.
Both annotated by Beatrix Holms
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 parish churchyards in Lanarkshire, compiled, with introductions, photographs, lists of contents, and indexes, by John Smith, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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, dated 1800, of ‘The Historie and Life of King James the Sext’, attributed to John Colville.
An inscription by Malcolm Laing appears on folio 181, dated 15 July, 1800.
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.
Copy of ‘An essay on the war galleys of the ancients’ (Edinburgh, 1826) by John Howell, miscellaneous writer and janitor at the Edinburgh Academy., [1826, or after.]
Copy of George F R Henderson, "Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War" (1898), inscribed and marked by Douglas Haig.
Containing a letter and report, 1919, to Haig, and a few maps, undated.
Copy of 'In the Cairngorms' (Edinburgh, 1934), with a poem to Nan Shepherd, 'The Traveller' by Elspet Smith, 1919, written on the back flyleaf., 1934.
Born in Cults, Dr Anna ('Nan') Shepherd was educated in Aberdeen and became a lecturer in English at Aberdeen College of Education. She wrote poems in Scots and English and three novels as well as articles for magazines and journals.
Copy of John MacDougall Hay's poetic work ‘Their dead sons’ (London, 1918), with a presentation inscription to James McIntyre.
A covering letter to James McIntyre is inserted.
Copy of 'Los Cachorros' (Barcelona, 1967) by Mario Vargas Llosa, with an inscription to Alastair Reid by the author., [1967, or after.]
There are also numerous manuscript notes by Alastair Reid for an intended translation.
Copy of 'On the hill of Marcus' (Aberdeen, 1977), inscribed by the author Dr Anna 'Nan' Shepherd'., 1977.
Born in Cults, Dr Anna ('Nan') Shepherd was educated in Aberdeen and became a lecturer in English at Aberdeen College of Education. She wrote poems in Scots and English and three novels as well as articles for magazines and journals.
Copy of part of Stair's 'Institutions of the Law of Scotland', being Titles 1-22 with Title 19 omitted.
Contains Titles 1-22 with Title 19 omitted.
Copy of S D Clough, "Backbone", with a 12-line inscription of Sir Harry Lauder on "my success".
Copy of the first number of ‘The Pagan Review’, for August 15 1892, of which the complete contents were written by William Sharp under various pseudonyms., 1892.
The papers include a substantial amount of apparently unpublished material and some correspondence.
Copy of the inscription on the tombstone of Sir Thomas Hislop, Baronet, and his wife Emma., 1866.
Copy of "The Life and Acts of the most Victorious Conqueror Robert Bruce...", inscribed Berlin, by the Earl Marischal and James Boswell.
Copy of Thomas Stamford Raffles' 'On the Maláyu Nation, with a translation of its Maritime Institutions' (no publisher, undated), inscribed to the 1st Earl of Minto., [?1810-1814.]
Includes correspondence and papers, 1810-1814, of and concerning Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-Governor of Java.