Inventories.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Detailed lists of things in one's view or possession, as of all goods and materials on hand, or detailed lists of all items in a given category. For documentation of examination conducted to achieve a comprehensive view, use ""surveys"". .
Found in 496 Collections and/or Records:
Business papers of James Dickson and Co.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9500
Scope and Contents
Includes letter book, stock inventories, account books and price book.
Dates:
1818-1932.
Business records of R and R Clark Ltd, printers, including six boxes of George Bernard Shaw's letters to the firm, and related printed material by Shaw.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.229
Dates:
1900-1965.
`Cartae de Cella de Coldingham, in ecclesia Dunelmensi Conservatae’. An inventory of Coldingham Priory compiled by John Smith, prebendary of Durham.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.13
Scope and Contents
Two leaves of additions have been inserted (pages 89-92) and there is a list of contents (page 93).
Dates:
1702-1703.
Catalogue, compiled by Sara Austen, of the letters of Robert Ward to Sara and to Benjamin Austen., ? 1846.
Item
Identifier: MS.42012
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Robert Plumer Ward, a politician and novelist, was a long-time friend of Benjamin and Sara Austen. Sara Austen was influential in the publication of his first novel, 'Tremaine' in 1825. This novel is credited as being one of the first of the 'silver fork' genre and had a great impact on the production of 'Vivien Grey' by Benjamin Disraeli, another good friend and protégé of Sara Austen. The letters of Ward cover many topics of interest, including information relating to his...
Dates:
? 1846.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers of and concerning Sara and Benjamin Austen.
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Letters of and to Sara and Benjamin Austen.
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Letters of various correspondents to Sarah and to Benjamin Austen.
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Letters of Robert Ward to Sara and to Benjamin Austen; with a catalogue of the letters compiled by Sara Austen.
Catalogues of libraries., 1906-1948, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.7926/33-40
‘Charter chest of the Earldom of Wigtown, 1214-1681’ edited by Francis J Grant (Scottish Record Society, 1910), being a publication of an inventory made in 1681, annotated and continued in the Scottish Record Office and the National Library of Scotland., 1681, 1910, [?1960].
File
Identifier: MS.20771
Scope and Contents
Those documents deposited in the Scottish Record Office in 1932 are identified by a red tick, those presented to the National Library of Scotland in 1960 by 'NLS' in red; all have their current references added in pencil, and some errors have been corrected and additional information given. A considerable number of the documents listed have not been located. Lists have been added in typescript of documents deposited in the Scottish Record Office in 1956 and presented to the National Library...
Dates:
1681, 1910, [?1960].
Claims, inventories, and other papers relating to the bankruptcy of Constable & Company and of Archibald Constable and Robert Cadell respectively., 1826.
File
Identifier: MS.802
Commonplace book of Alexander Fraser Tytler., ?1778-1802.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11737/5
Scope and Contents
Includes observations and anecdotes on contemporary Enlightenment figures including Dugald Stewart, James Boswell, Tobias Smollett and Lord Kames, and an inventory of Fraser Tytler’s publications up to 1793. Also included are copies of letters sent by David Dalrymple (Lord Hailes), and a number of verses by William Shenstone, Allan Ramsay, James Beattie and William Shakespeare translated into Latin by Fraser Tytler.
Dates:
?1778-1802.
Commonplace book of the Earl of Buchan.
Item
Identifier: MS.963
Scope and Contents
The comonplace book contains drafts of letters to the ‘Bee’, an inventory of the Earl of Buchan’s property, lists of Scottish portraits, an ode, ‘To the Shepherd of the Cot’, and notes and drafts of papers on the Scottish Peerage and other subjects. Included is a manuscript copy of ‘The New Order of Gooding and Manuring all sorts of Field Land with Common Salts’, by Archibald, afterwards 1st Lord Napier (said to have been printed by Robert Waldegrave), referring to the right to issue...
Dates:
1778-1791.
Copies, chiefly from printed books, of documents concerning Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.19
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Copies, made in 1734 and 1736, of an Inventory of the estate of Maria de Jonge made in 1732 by the executors (Simon Schaap, Counsel in the Court of Holland, Zeeland, and Friesland, and Frans van Limborch, Advocate before the Courts of Justice in Holland) appointed under the will of Maria de Jonge., 1732.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.4.3-81.4.4
Dates:
1732.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Accounts concerning the estate of Maria de Jonge (wife of Cornelis de Jonge of Ellemeet, Receiver-General of the United Provinces),bequeathed, in 1732 to her daughter, Maria Margaretta, Baroness North and Gray, later Lady Elibank.
Copies of inventory of the Clan Gregor Centre archive, compiled by Sheila McGregor., 1999.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11713/84-85
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Material concerning the history and genealogy of the McGregors, including printed items and a full set of the journal "The Quaich", 1989-1997.The arrangement and description of the papers from the Clan Gregor Centre was undertaken by Sheila McGregor on behalf of the Centre. The described papers represent the activities of a small number of people who collected and compiled them over many years, combining traditional knowledge with research to both preserve and extend information...
Dates:
1999.
Copies or drafts of letters and memoranda of Mary, Queen of Scots, or associated closely with her, probably written by various secretaries.
File
Identifier: MS.6135
Scope and Contents
The items are also closely associated with William Maitland of Lethington, and are chiefly concerned with the diplomatic negotiations of the period with England and France; they are apparently unpublished. Where no exact date is given on the document, the letters have been dated from internal evidence.The contents are as follows.(i) Copy letter, [end of February 1563], of William Maitland of Lethington to François, Duc de Guise, reporting the course of his...
Dates:
[1562]-1563, [1568].
Copy, 1621, of testament testamentar and inventory, 3 December 1621, of Alexander Home of Renton (d August 1619)., 3 December 1621.
Item
Identifier: Ch.14417
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
His widow, Margaret Cockburne, later married Sir William Graham of Braco and then Sir Andrew Fletcher.
Dates:
3 December 1621.
Copy, 1636, of inventory of writs, 8, 17 October 1636, of Saltoun delivered by Sir William Forbes of Craigievar to John Carstairs of Newgrange., 8, 17 October 1636.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13591
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
William Forbes of Many, afterwards of Craigievar, and his son Sir William, succeeded in acquiring all rights to Saltoun, which was ultimately sold, after being held briefly by Sir William Gray of Pittendrum and various relations of Forbes, to Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer.
Dates:
8, 17 October 1636.
Copy, 1642, of inventory of writs, 24 March 1642, of Saltoun and Glencorse in the hands of Sir John Hope, fiar of Craighall and Sir William Forbes of Craigievar., 24 March 1642.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13629
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
William Forbes of Many, afterwards of Craigievar, and his son Sir William, succeeded in acquiring all rights to Saltoun, which was ultimately sold, after being held briefly by Sir William Gray of Pittendrum and various relations of Forbes, to Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer.
Dates:
24 March 1642.
Copy, 1713-1714, of the inventory, 1615-1630, of the Trésor des Chartes, the muniments of the Crown of France.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.4.1.3-4.1.14
Scope and Contents
The original inventory was compiled between 1615 and 1630 by Pierre Dupuy and Theodore Godefroy. This copy, like the majority of the many in existence, follows the original closely and gives in the margin the pagination of the original, to which contents-lists and indexes refer. However, volume 8 (Adv.MSS.4.1.12-4.1.13) omits this pagination (it was probably thought inessential, as the index covers only volumes 1-7) and differs slightly in arrangement.According to a note in...
Dates:
1615-1630.
Copy, 1713-1714, of the inventory, 1615-1630, of the Trésor des Chartes, the muniments of the Crown of France. Volume 1: Gouvernements de Paris et d`Orléans., 1615-1630.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.4.1.3
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The original inventory was compiled between 1615 and 1630 by Pierre Dupuy and Theodore Godefroy. This copy, like the majority of the many in existence, follows the original closely and gives in the margin the pagination of the original, to which contents-lists and indexes refer. However, volume 8 (Adv.MSS.4.1.12-4.1.13) omits this pagination (it was probably thought inessential, as the index covers only volumes 1-7) and differs slightly in arrangement.According to a note in...
Dates:
1615-1630.
Copy, 1713-1714, of the inventory, 1615-1630, of the Trésor des Chartes, the muniments of the Crown of France. Volume 2: Gouvernement de Champagne., 1615-1630.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.4.1.4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The original inventory was compiled between 1615 and 1630 by Pierre Dupuy and Theodore Godefroy. This copy, like the majority of the many in existence, follows the original closely and gives in the margin the pagination of the original, to which contents-lists and indexes refer. However, volume 8 (Adv.MSS.4.1.12-4.1.13) omits this pagination (it was probably thought inessential, as the index covers only volumes 1-7) and differs slightly in arrangement.According to a note in...
Dates:
1615-1630.
Copy, 1812, presumably by John Riddell, of a transcript in the possession of Thomas Thomson of the 18th-century inventory of the charters of Coldingham Priory preserved at Durham., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.9.12
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Manuscripts, including collections of formal documents (but not single documents, for which see Ch.A245-A251), owned by Riddell, arranged as far as possible in chronological order.
Dates:
18th century.
Copy, made in 1734, of an Inventory of the estate of Maria de Jonge made in 1732 by the executors (Simon Schaap, Counsel in the Court of Holland, Zeeland, and Friesland, and Frans van Limborch, Advocate before the Courts of Justice in Holland) appointed under the will of Maria de Jonge., 1732.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.3
Dates:
1732.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Accounts concerning the estate of Maria de Jonge (wife of Cornelis de Jonge of Ellemeet, Receiver-General of the United Provinces),bequeathed, in 1732 to her daughter, Maria Margaretta, Baroness North and Gray, later Lady Elibank.
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Copies, made in 1734 and 1736, of an Inventory of the estate of Maria de Jonge made in 1732 by the executors (Simon Schaap, Counsel in the Court of Holland, Zeeland, and Friesland, and Frans van Limborch, Advocate before the Courts of Justice in Holland) appointed under the will of Maria de Jonge.
Copy, made in 1736, of an Inventory of the estate of Maria de Jonge made in 1732 by the executors (Simon Schaap, Counsel in the Court of Holland, Zeeland, and Friesland, and Frans van Limborch, Advocate before the Courts of Justice in Holland) appointed under the will of Maria de Jonge., 1732.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.4
Dates:
1732.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Accounts concerning the estate of Maria de Jonge (wife of Cornelis de Jonge of Ellemeet, Receiver-General of the United Provinces),bequeathed, in 1732 to her daughter, Maria Margaretta, Baroness North and Gray, later Lady Elibank.
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Copies, made in 1734 and 1736, of an Inventory of the estate of Maria de Jonge made in 1732 by the executors (Simon Schaap, Counsel in the Court of Holland, Zeeland, and Friesland, and Frans van Limborch, Advocate before the Courts of Justice in Holland) appointed under the will of Maria de Jonge.
Copy, mid 18th century, of 'Inventory of the Writts and Evidents of the Lands and Barrony of Lenzie, Lands of Cumbernauld and others ...', 1681; with indexes of lands mentioned and a chronology down to 1744., 1681, mid 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.20788
Scope and Contents
The indexes are of lands mentioned which (1) belonged to the Flemings in 1681 (folio 109) and (2) had been sold before 1681 (folio 117 verso). Also present is additional information about the arrangement and location of the deeds.
Dates:
1681, mid 18th century.
Copy of the inventory, 1615-1630, of the Trésor des Chartes, the muniments of the Crown of France. Volume 3: Gouvernements de Normandie, de Picardie, et de Bretagne., 1713-1714.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.4.1.5
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The original inventory was compiled between 1615 and 1630 by Pierre Dupuy and Theodore Godefroy. This copy, like the majority of the many in existence, follows the original closely and gives in the margin the pagination of the original, to which contents-lists and indexes refer. However, volume 8 (Adv.MSS.4.1.12-4.1.13) omits this pagination (it was probably thought inessential, as the index covers only volumes 1-7) and differs slightly in arrangement.According to a note in...
Dates:
1713-1714.
Copy of the inventory, 1615-1630, of the Trésor des Chartes, the muniments of the Crown of France. Volume 4: Gouvernements de Bourgogne, de Lyonnais, de Dauphine, et de Provence., 1713-1714.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.4.1.6
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The original inventory was compiled between 1615 and 1630 by Pierre Dupuy and Theodore Godefroy. This copy, like the majority of the many in existence, follows the original closely and gives in the margin the pagination of the original, to which contents-lists and indexes refer. However, volume 8 (Adv.MSS.4.1.12-4.1.13) omits this pagination (it was probably thought inessential, as the index covers only volumes 1-7) and differs slightly in arrangement.According to a note in...
Dates:
1713-1714.