Inscriptions.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Lettering marked on something, especially for documentation or commemoration. On prints, the specific information lettered on the print, not usually part of a larger text. Regarding material from the ancient period, includes most preserved written matter of any length, other than papyri. For standardized symbols or notations on objects that convey official information, use ""marks (symbols)""(AAT) .
Found in 182 Collections and/or Records:
Inscribed copy of Jessie Cormack, "The Spell".
File
Identifier: Acc.9282
Scope and Contents
with additional poems in typescript.
Dates:
1961.
Inscribed copy of Stewart Conn, "Thunder in the Air: Poems" (1967).
Item
Identifier: Acc.11181
Scope and Contents
Includes letter of Conn to Alexander Reid, on literary matters.
Dates:
1967.
Inscribed copy of "The Tree" (Dunfermline, 1977), by Tom Scott.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11586
Scope and Contents
Includes three related letters of Tom Scott to John Stewart Collis, 1978.
Dates:
1977-1978.
Inscribed copy of William A Younger, "Madonna and Other Poems" (1935).
File
Identifier: Acc.8912
Scope and Contents
With two letters of Younger to Dennis and Joan Wheatley.
Dates:
1935 and undated.
Inscribed presentation copy of Graham Seton Hutchison, "Kitchener the Man" (1943), to Edmund Blunden, with accompanying letter.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6499
Dates:
1943.
Inscribed presentation copy of ‘Hints to the sick, the lame, and the lazy: or Passages in the life of a hydropathist, by a Veteran’ by Thomas Dundas, (London, 1847) with a letter from Dundas to W T Bree, 1847, tipped in.
File
Identifier: MS.9229
Dates:
1847.
Inscription, 1894, by Captain Haig (afterwards Earl Haig), with a note on the duties of instructors, in a copy of Carl von Schmidt, ‘Instructions for the training, employment and leading of cavalry’ (London, [1881]), presented by him to a Squadron Sergeant-Major of the 7th Hussars., 1894.
File
Identifier: MS.3307 [H.S.212]
Inscription, 1905, of Meredith Nicholson to Lucy J Rose, in his ‘House with the thousand candles’ (Indianapolis, 1905)., 1905.
Item
Identifier: MS.3317 [H.S.644]
Inscription of Alfred Edgar Coppard, in his ‘Adam & Eve & pinch me’ (Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1921)., [1921, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.3325 [H.S.1013]
Inscription of AW Evans to Hugh Sharp, in his translation, ‘Penguin Island’ (London, 1909)., 1931.
Item
Identifier: MS.3326 [H.S.1083]
Inscription on the headstone of the Reverend Andrew Lothian with a list of persons at his funeral., 1831.
File
Identifier: Acc.7617/27
`Inscriptiones funebres virorum doctrina, probitate, virtute, clarorum, qui hoc aevo decessere`, compiled by Sir Robert Sibbald, being a collection of funerary inscriptions and elegies of Scots, some composed by Sibbald himself, with a few other poems.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.14
Dates:
Circa 1715.
Interleaved copy of Abraham Welling ‘Repetitio Institutionem Juris Civilis’ (Trajecta ad Rhenum, 1740), with notes and cartoons by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., Mid 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.25343
Scope and Contents
The volume is inscribed 'David Dalrymple'. There are some pages missing.
Dates:
Mid 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Official legal papers of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Legal works annotated by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Interleaved copy of Hugo de Groot ‘In Questionis Redacti de Jure Belli ac Paris, Lib III', (1688), annotated by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., 1688, 1746.
Item
Identifier: MS.25331
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet of Hailes, (1726-1792), was the son of Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes, and Lady Christian Dalrymple, daughter of the 6th Earl of Haddington. Sir David was educated at Eton and entered the Inner Temple in 1742. From 1747-1748 he studied Civil Law at Utrecht, and in 1748 was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates. He was raised to the Bench as Lord Hailes in 1766 and appointed a Lord of Justiciary in 1776. In addition to his legal activities, Lord...
Dates:
1688, 1746.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Official legal papers of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Legal works annotated by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Interleaved copy of Hugo de Groot ‘In Questionis Redacti de Jure Belli ac Paris, Lib III', (1688), annotated by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Journal of a tour in the western counties of Scotland by Miss Archibald Montgomerie Williamson, later Lady Fairfax.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13028
Dates:
circa 1817.
Letter, 1931, of Percy H Muir to Hugh Sharp, on bibliographical matters, inserted in his ‘Points, 1874-1930’ (London, 1931), which contains an inscription to Sharp., 1931.
Item
Identifier: MS.3323 [H.S.973]
Letter book of General James St Clair concerning the War of the Austrian Succession., 1747.
Item
Identifier: MS.25698
Scope and Contents
The letters are written from Vienna and Turin where General St Clair served as special envoy. Inscribed at front 'Lord Hailes'.
Dates:
1747.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning General the Honourable James St Clair of Sinclair and Balblair (1688-1762).
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Military papers of and concerning General James St Clair.
Letter of Sir Hugh Walpole to William Roughead tipped into a copy of ‘The cathedral’ by Walpole (London, 1922)., 1922.
File
Identifier: MS.9762
Letters and papers pasted or inserted loose in printed books, inscriptions written in books, etc., in the Hugh Sharp Collection.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3303-3326
Dates:
1658-1933.
'Letters from Admiral Lord Nelson to Hercules Ross Esq., of Rossie' with inscription of Hercules de Lautour Ross, circa 1891.
File
Identifier: MS.50265
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Papers include copies of letters sent to Lord Nelson and letters sent by Ross during his time as a merchant at Kingston, Jamaica.
Dates:
circa 1891.
Letters, notes and poems chiefly written to Sir John Scot, Lord Scotstarvet, by Scottish and continental writers and scholars.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.9
Scope and Contents
The collection chiefly concerns Scotstarvet`s patronage of literature and learning, and political events on the continent.Symbols have been written in an unidentified hand, apparently of late 17th century provenance, in the upper left-hand corner of many of the letters; their meaning is not known. Leaves from a lost ‘album amicorum’ of Scotstarvet have been identified in folios 101-112. They contain inscriptions to him with mottoes, or classical extracts, by a number...
Dates:
1617-1668, undated.
Letters of and relating to Douglas Young. The recipient was Lord Robertson.
File
Identifier: Acc.12914
Scope and Contents
The letters mainly date from shortly after Douglas Young`s death in 1973. Correspondents include David Murison and Wilfred Taylor concerning a memorial publication. With related papers, one photograph and an inscribed copy of Young`s "Auntran Blads" (1943).
Dates:
1944-1976.
Letters of Gael Turnbull to Matthew and Ruth Mead.
File
Identifier: Acc.12476
Scope and Contents
Includes inscribed copy of "A Perception of Ferns".
Dates:
1993-2004.
Letters of Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux.
File
Identifier: Acc.8655
Scope and Contents
With letters to Lord Stuart de Rothesay, the Duc de Broglie and Marquis de Lafayette.
Dates:
1821-1830 and undated.
Letters of Jane Carlyle Aitken, four of her daughter, Mary, and others of the Carlyle family.
File
Identifier: Acc.6267
Scope and Contents
With a copy of "The Saints` Everlasting Rest (1833), inscribed by Thomas Carlyle, and an engraved portrait of him.
Dates:
1833, 1858-? 1866, and undated.