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Lectures.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Documents containing the text of expositions of a given subject delivered before an audience or class, especially for the purposes of instruction. (AAT) Use for all lecture texts and students' notes. Index also under the subject of the lecture, and under the names of the lecturer and student where known (but not under the university or other place where the lecture was delivered). (NLS) .

Found in 502 Collections and/or Records:

Lectures of George Reith on the Far East., [?1897-?1900.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.3564/52-54
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.

Dates: [?1897-?1900.]

Lectures of George Reith on the Far East., [?1897-?1900.]

 File
Identifier: Acc.3564/52
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.

Dates: [?1897-?1900.]

Lectures of George Reith on the Far East., [?1897-?1900.]

 File
Identifier: Acc.3564/53
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.

Dates: [?1897-?1900.]

Lectures of George Reith on the Far East., [?1897-?1900.]

 File
Identifier: Acc.3564/54
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.

Dates: [?1897-?1900.]

Lectures of William Edmondstoune Aytoun on language, style, and versification., [1845-1865.]

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Identifier: MS.4909
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) 'Language' (folio 1);(ii) 'Style', and a fragment on the same subject (folios 39, 80);(iii) On poetic style, incomplete (folio 82);(iv) Three lectures entitled 'Critical examination and specimens of English prose authors'. The main authors mentioned are Sir Thomas Browne, Jeremy Taylor, John Lyly, Sir Philip Sydney, Sir Thomas Urquhart, and Thomas Carlyle; the first is incomplete (folios 86, 101, 119);...
Dates: [1845-1865.]

Lectures of William Edmondstoune Aytoun on literature: 14th and 15th centuries., [1845-1865.]

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Identifier: MS.4902
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'The rise of English literature' (folio 1);

(ii)'Chaucer', incomplete (folio 23), with some fragments on the same subject (folio 34);

(iii) 'Chaucer to James 1' (folio 43);

(iv) 'Scottish poets - Henryson, Dunbar, Gavin Douglas' (folio 70);

(v) 'The invention of printing, Henry VII, Henry VIII' (folio 88).

Dates: [1845-1865.]

Lectures of William Edmondstoune Aytoun on literature: 16th century., [1845-1865.]

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Identifier: MS.4903
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'The time of Henry VIII' (folio 1);

(ii) 'Ascham and translations of scripture' (folio 26);

(iii) 'Scottish writers, James V, Mary' (folio 38);

(iv) 'Spenser' (folio 52);

(v) 'Elizabethan prose writers' (folio 73).

Dates: [1845-1865.]

Lectures of William Edmondstoune Aytoun on literature: 17th century., [1845-1865.]

 File
Identifier: MS.4905
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'James VI - minor poets' (folio 1);

(ii) 'Charles I to Commonwealth' (folio 18);

(iii) 'Milton', incomplete (folio 36);

(iv) 'Marvell and Milton' (folio 52);

(v) 'Prose writers of Charles II and James II' (folio 78);

(vi) 'Dryden and Butler' (folio 96);

(vii) On early newspapers, incomplete (folio 110).

Dates: [1845-1865.]

Lectures of William Edmondstoune Aytoun on literature: 18th century., [1845-1865.]

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Identifier: MS.4906
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'William, Anne, and George I - drama, essayists' (folio 1);

(ii) 'Pope' (folio 17);

(iii) 'Swift, Addison' (folio 40);

(iv) 'Samuel Johnson' (folio 60), and a fragment on the same subject (folio 80);

(v) Two lectures on 'Daniel Defoe' (folios 84, 104);

(vi) 'Novelist - Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, etc.' (folio 116), and a fragment on Walpole (folio 136).

Dates: [1845-1865.]

Lectures of William Edmondstoune Aytoun on literature: Ballads., [1845-1865.]

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Identifier: MS.4907
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'The ballads of Scotland' (folio 1), and two fragments on the same subject (folios 39, 51);

(ii) 'The ballads of modern Europe' (folio 57);

(iii) Four fragments on ballads (folios 79, 84, 90, 93);

(iv) 'Ballad poetry of Europe', delivered at Glasgow (folio 96);

(v) 'Oral literature', incomplete (folio 106).

Dates: [1845-1865.]

Lectures of William Edmondstoune Aytoun on literature: Early European, I., [1845-1865.]

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Identifier: MS.4900
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'The Poetry of Ossian and his times' (folio 1);

(ii) 'The dark ages' (folio 21);

(iii) 'The age of chivalry, the troubadours and the Anglo-Norman romances' (folio 39);

(iv) 'Roman de Rose, romances of King Arthur and Charlemagne, and Italian poems founded on the latter subject' (folio 59).

Dates: [1845-1865.]

Lectures of William Edmondstoune Aytoun on literature: Early European, II., [1845-1865.]

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Identifier: MS.4901
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'The Norsemen and their literature' (folio 1);

(ii) Two fragments on 'Norse history and influence' (folios 24, 25);

(iii) 'Song of the Nibelungen' (folio 43);

(iv) ‘On Anglo-Saxon literature’, incomplete (folio 66);

(v) Three lectures on 'Anglo-Saxon literature', the third incomplete (folios 76, 96, 110).

Dates: [1845-1865.]

Lectures of William Edmondstoune Aytoun on literature: Greek., [1845-1865.]

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Identifier: MS.4898
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Two lectures on the 'Age of Homer' (folios 1, 24);

(ii) Two lectures on the 'Age of Greek drama' (folios 47, 76); with a translation from the "'Agamemnon' of Aeschylus" (folio 100).

Dates: [1845-1865.]

Lectures of William Edmondstoune Aytoun on literature: Medieval and Elizabethan drama., [1845-1865.]

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Identifier: MS.4904
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Lecture on the Elizabethan period (folio 1), with a note on Elizabethan translations of the classics (folio 12);(ii) 'English drama' (folio 13);(iii) Two lectures on 'Early English drama: Peele, Green, Lodge, Marlowe'; there are two drafts of the beginning of the first lecture (folios 25, 32); the second is incomplete (folio 53);(iv) Three fragments on early drama (folios 69, 73, 75);(v) 'Shakespeare'...
Dates: [1845-1865.]

Lectures of William Edmondstoune Aytoun on literature: Roman., [1845-1865.]

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Identifier: MS.4899
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'The rise of Roman literature', incomplete (folio 1), and four fragments on the same subject (folios 21, 27, 34, 39);

(ii) 'Ennius' (folio 49);

(iii) Two lectures on 'Virgil' (folios 63, 85);

(iv) 'Ovid' (folio 109), and a fragment on the same subject (folio 103).

Dates: [1845-1865.]

Lectures of William Edmondstoune Aytoun on the principles of oratory, I., 1846-[before 1858], undated.

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Identifier: MS.4910
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'Formal rhetoric', delivered in 1851 (folio 1);

(ii) 'Divisions of a discourse' (folio 63);

(iii) 'Conduct of a discourse' (folio 83);

(iv) Three lectures on 'The structure of sentences', the first apparently written before 1858 (folios 106, 127, 148), with fragments, 1846, on the same subject (folio 173).

Dates: 1846-[before 1858], undated.

Lectures of William Edmondstoune Aytoun on the principles of oratory, II., [1845-1865.]

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Identifier: MS.4911
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'Ornaments'; the subjects dealt with include arrangement, tropes, metaphor, epithets, and hyperbole (folio 1);

(ii) 'Personification' (folio 42);

(iii) Three lectures on 'Elocution' (folios 64, 87, 104);

(iv) 'Public speaking' (folio 132);

(v) 'Eloquence' (folio 164).

Dates: [1845-1865.]

Lectures on Aristotle delivered by Robert Balfour at the College of Guyenne, Bordeaux.

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Identifier: MS.2236
Scope and Contents The lectures, which are not the same in form as Robert Balfour's printed works, were delivered 'in Gimnasio Aquitanico' (folio 307 verso), and deal with Aristotle's logic in general, and particularly with Porphyry's 'Introduction' (folio 2); 'Categories' (folio 42); 'De Interpretatione' (folio 87); 'Prior Analytics' (folio 109 verso); 'Posterior Analytics' (folio 128); 'Topics' (folio 158); 'Sophistici Elenchi' (folio 176); 'Physics', I-V (folio 185); 'De Coelo', I-II, IV (folio 245); De...
Dates: 1587-1590.

Lectures on climate given at St Andrews., 1861.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13827/218
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1861.

Lectures on criminal law delivered at Edinburgh by Alexander Bayne, Professor of Scotch law at the University of Edinburgh.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.3.12(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents

These lectures of Alexander Bayne’s are a great deal fuller than his ? of discourse ? for the use of students in his class.

Dates: 18th century.