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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 on Scots Law of Baron David Hume.

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Identifier: Acc.8005
Scope and Contents

Corresponding roughly to the contents of volumes 1, 2 and chapters xiv, xv and xvi of volume 3 in Stair Society edition.

Dates: 1805.

Lectures on Scottish Natural Heritage delivered by Magnusson as chairman of the SNH., 1993-1995.

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Identifier: Acc.13542/1069
Scope and Contents From the Series: These papers relate to Magnusson's time working for Scottish Natural Heritage. The organisation was formed in 1992 following the amalgamation of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland and the Countryside Commission for Scotland. Magnusson served as the Chairman of the organisation from 1992 until 1999. The papers contain minutes from SNH meetings, papers from working groups, such as those relating to the designation of the Cairngorms as a European Heritage Area and a series of papers...
Dates: 1993-1995.

Lectures on Torsellino by Pieter Burman: `Viri eruditissimi Petri Burmanni professoris in Acad. Lugd. Batav. celeberrimi Dictata in Horatii Tursellini Historiarum Epitomen`., 1st half of 18th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.5.1.4 (1 of 3)
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Pieter Burman the elder was Professor of History, Greek, and Eloquence at Leyden from 1715 to 1741. In these lectures he seems to have used the work of Tursellinus (Orazio Torsellino, 1545-1599; the ‘Historiarum Epitome’ was first published in 1620, and frequently reprinted) as a framework for discourses on universal history. The writer of the dictates is unknown.

Dates: 1st half of 18th century.

Lectures on Torsellino by Pieter Burman: `Viri eruditissimi Petri Burmanni professoris in Acad. Lugd. Batav. celeberrimi Dictata in Horatii Tursellini Historiarum Epitomen`., 1st half of 18th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.5.1.4 (2 of 3)
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Pieter Burman the elder was Professor of History, Greek, and Eloquence at Leyden from 1715 to 1741. In these lectures he seems to have used the work of Tursellinus (Orazio Torsellino, 1545-1599; the ‘Historiarum Epitome’ was first published in 1620, and frequently reprinted) as a framework for discourses on universal history. The writer of the dictates is unknown.

Dates: 1st half of 18th century.

Lectures on Torsellino by Pieter Burman: `Viri eruditissimi Petri Burmanni professoris in Acad. Lugd. Batav. celeberrimi Dictata in Horatii Tursellini Historiarum Epitomen`., 1st half of 18th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.5.1.4 (3 of 3)
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Pieter Burman the elder was Professor of History, Greek, and Eloquence at Leyden from 1715 to 1741. In these lectures he seems to have used the work of Tursellinus (Orazio Torsellino, 1545-1599; the ‘Historiarum Epitome’ was first published in 1620, and frequently reprinted) as a framework for discourses on universal history. The writer of the dictates is unknown.

Dates: 1st half of 18th century.

Lectures on Torsellino by Pieter Burman: `Viri eruditissimi Petri Burmanni professoris in Acad. Lugd. Batav. celeberrimi Dictata in Horatii Tursellini Historiarum Epitomen`.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.1.4, ... 1-3
Scope and Contents

Pieter Burman the elder was Professor of History, Greek, and Eloquence at Leyden from 1715 to 1741. In these lectures he seems to have used the work of Tursellinus (Orazio Torsellino, 1545-1599; the ‘Historiarum Epitome’ was first published in 1620, and frequently reprinted) as a framework for discourses on universal history. The writer of the dictates is unknown.

Dates: 1st half of 18th century.

Lectures, orations and related notes., [1920s-1940s], undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13467/99-105
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The papers consist principally of his sermons, which were subsequently much worked on by his daughter, Jean Stewart, also a Church of Scotland minister. Next are papers relating to the Loan Committee of Crown Court Church, which give an insight into the financial hardship suffered by at least part of the congregation during the interwar period. There are also several correspondence files, which are illustrative of Moffett’s involvement in the community based around Crown Court Church, as...
Dates: [1920s-1940s], undated.

Lectures, reviews and session programmes of the Edinburgh Bach Society., 1922-1927, undated.

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Identifier: Acc.9770/24
Scope and Contents From the Series:

John Douglas Hamilton Dickson, WS, was president of the Edinburgh Bach Society and chairman of the Reid Symphony Orchestra, amongst other musical interests. He was the son of James Douglas Hamilton Dickson.

Dates: 1922-1927, undated.

'Lectures upon Pharmacy by Wm. Cullen M:D: Edinburgh', undated.

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Identifier: MS.3759
Scope and Contents These lectures do not appear to have been printed in the form in which they exist in this manuscript, nor is there any mention in J Thomson's ‘An account of the life, lectures, and writings, of William Cullen, M.D.’ that Cullen undertook a course of this kind. In addition it is not clear what relationship these lectures have with those which Cullen gave on Materia Medica, or with the ‘Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia’ of 1774, in whose publication Cullen took a principal part.The lectures...
Dates: Mid 18th century-late 18th century.

Letters and papers of William Edmondstoune Aytoun, which, on his death, came into the hands of John Blackwood as his executor., 1825-1869.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.4895-4934
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers consist mainly of letters written by authors to Blackwood as their publisher, and by others in search of publication, but they also include some manuscripts and proofs of works considered for publication, together with some papers of William Edmondstoune Aytoun and John Wilson ('Christopher North'). Broadly, this is the incoming correspondence of the firm during the nineteenth century. The outgoing correspondence, so far as it is represented by copies in letter-books, etc.,...
Dates: 1825-1869.