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Interleaves.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Sheets of paper or tissue, usually blank, placed, adhered, or bound in between leaves of text or illustrations for protective or decorative purposes or for taking notes.

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

Interleaved copy of "Questions Addressed to Students of Natural Philosophy", (Aberdeen, 1830).

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7717
Scope and Contents

Containing answers in an unidentified hand on the interleaves.

Dates: 1830.

Interleaved presentation copy of ‘Memorabilia curliana mabenensia’ by Richard Broun (Dumfries, 1830), containing manuscript additions in verse and prose by the author's brother, William.

 File
Identifier: MS.9226
Scope and Contents

A few cuttings from the ‘Dumfries Times’ and the ‘Dumfries Journal’ are pasted in, and the annotations include a set of proposed rules for the Dumfries Curling Club, 1831 (folio 16).

Dates: 1830-1831.

'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', by Allan Cunningham, various editions, (London, 1830-1839), 6 volumes, interleaved, with original letters to the author and others (1829-1837), copies of letters (1710-1830) and notes in the autograph of his son Francis, printed cuttings, and portraits.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.826-832
Scope and Contents

This material was collected by the author, Allan Cunningham, and his son with a view to a new edition. Loose papers have been pasted into the interleaved volumes or collected in a separate volume (MS.832).

Dates: 1710-1837.

Manuscript annotations of the first half of the eighteenth century on interleaved copies of ‘Fabularum aesopicarum delectus, cum Rogeri L'Estrange, equitis, interpretatione Anglica, necnon Latina variorum, Horatii, Phaedri, Faerni, &c. In usum studiosae juventutis Academiae Edinensis’ (Edinburgi, apud Jacobum Watson, MDCCX).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.16484-16485
Scope and Contents The similarity of the annotations suggests that these volumes reflect closely the elementary teaching of Greek at Edinburgh University in that period, and possibly that students were able to buy or encouraged to have the book interleaved. The only other copy recorded by D Wyn Evans in ‘James Watson of Edinburgh: a bibliography of works from his press 1695-1722’, Edinburgh Bibliography Society Transactions, volume V, part 2, 1982, number 190, in Edinburgh Central Public Library, is not...
Dates: 1st half of 18th century

Manuscript, first page proofs, and an interleaved proof copy of J A Harvie-Brown, "The Wonderful Trout".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3467
Scope and Contents

With relevant notes and correspondence.

Dates: 1898.

Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21193-21198

‘Peninsular scenery illustrated in a series of views, taken from nature A.D. 1819. By an amateur’ (London, 1824), with manuscript descriptions by the author, George Lewis Augustus Douglas, of the engraved scenes.

 File
Identifier: MS.10341 [AB.9.204.07]
Scope and Contents This text is a condensed version of an earlier text (MS.10361), but contains all the engravings included in the earlier journal in a later, possibly a third, state. Although the engraved title page is dated 1824, the manuscript interleaves were probably written in 1836 as the paper of the text is watermarked 1835. The item is inscribed 'Presented, by the author, to his much esteemed friend Alexander Thomson, of Banchory, Esq. A.D.1836' (folio 2), and a copy of a note (folio 4) from the Duke...
Dates: 1819, [?1836].

Printed copy of the song, 'Tranent Muir' by Sir Walter Scott, interleaved with anonymous explanatory notes and annotations, with an endorsement by Scott.

 File
Identifier: MS.23056
Scope and Contents

The endorsement by Sir Walter Scott is as follows, 'Tranent Muir & Notes to be taken in page 189'.

Dates: [1791, or after.]