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Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Transcribed collections of numbers, names, or other text indicating tallies of concepts collocated for any particular purpose.
Found in 1665 Collections and/or Records:
Commonplace book, June-July 1701, of Thomas Ruddiman., 1701.
Item
Identifier: MS.20495
Scope and Contents
The commonplace book is labelled ‘RG’.
The manuscript contains excerpts from classical authors, philosophers, historians, and grammarians, with at the end a fragment (foliated 6) of Έρωτýματα on Greek grammar (folio 99), a list of French irregular verbs (folio 100), and the beginning of excerpts from 'De veritate inquirenda' by Malebranche dated 9 December, 1700 (folio 102).
Dates:
1701.
Commonplace book of Patrick Turner containing ‘Bolg an t-Sholair’ and other miscellaneous verse in Gaelic.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.7
Scope and Contents
Commonplace-book (watermarked 1798) of Patrick Turner when he was a corporal in the Argyll Fencibles, dated Meath 1801 (folio 24 verso). The script is largely Roman, occasionally Gaelic, and the language of the text varies from Scotticised transliteration of Irish to pure Scottish Gaelic. Turner’s affidavit, Ingliston MS A.i.15 (g), states ‘that the manuscript in the Roman character and in his own hand writing, was transcribed from a manuscript in the possession of a Schoolmaster ten or...
Dates:
1801.
Commonplace book of Robert Edward., [?1635-?1670.]
Item
Identifier: MS.9450 [Manuscript]
Scope and Contents
The book originally belonged to Robert Edward's father, Alexander, a Dundee merchant, and a business account dated 1622 is on folio 1. The volume chiefly consists of songs, psalms, notes, and instrumental items, several of which appear twice or with parts separated, scraps on the history of music, and poetical items alone. Many of the pieces are of Scottish origin but English and Continental composers appear, as well as both pre- and post-Reformation music.The...
Dates:
[?1635-?1670.]
Commonplace book of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., 1753-1765, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.25426
Scope and Contents
Included in the volume are 'Memorials concerning myself, my friends and native country, 1759' (folio 32), a copy of Lieutenant Colonel James Dalrymple's account of the capture of Quebec, a list of Lord Hailes' publications up to 1766 and notes on his literary activities, Horatio Walpole, and James MacPherson (folio 140), and 'Hints for the Public Good', undated, being suggestions for amending the legal, military, and religious establishments in Scotland (folio 169).
Dates:
1753-1765, undated.
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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Miscellaneous papers of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Notebooks and commonplace books of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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.
Commonplace-book of William Drummond of Hawthornden entitled 'Ephemeris', containing lists of books, extracts from other authors, etc., 1606-1614, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.2059
Scope and Contents
Some of the lists are dated; the dates range from 1606 to 1614 (folios 359 verso-386)
Dates:
1606-1614, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Hawthornden Manuscripts: original papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, consort of James VI.
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Manuscripts of William Drummond of Hawthornden.
Commonplace book possibly kept by the Minister of Kirkliston (Charles Ritchie in 1794).
Item
Identifier: Acc.11715
Scope and Contents
Includes lists of communicants and of the inhabitants of the parish.
Dates:
1794.
Compendium relating to kirklands, teinds, stipends, etc., and miscellaneous law notes., Late 17th century-early 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.1943
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Compendium relating to kirklands, teinds, stipends, etc., and containing abstracts, practiques, copies of decisions, and correspondence of the reign of Charles I, commencing with a list of the religious houses in Scotland, with their district, order, and founder (folio i);
(ii) Miscellaneous law-notes, citing decisions from 1666 to 1675 (page 295) with an index (page 551).
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.15
Scope and Contents
Each volume has a contents list (folios 1, 77) and the second volume has its own foliation added in an apparently later hand.The first volume (folios 1-74) consists of copies (in the same hand), made apparently in or about 1585, of the following:(i) ‘Discorso del Priore d`Inghilterra a Papa Pio V circa la Riduttione di quel Regno’ (folio 2), being an account by Sir Richard Shelley, Grand Prior of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, written apparently early in 1570,...
Dates:
1537-1606.
Composite volume made up in or about 1819 (the date of the watermark of the binder`s blanks) from five folio notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.13
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Extracts, 1797, in the hand of the chief clerk, Robert Lemon, from the `Rotuli Scotiae` kept in the Tower of London (cf. folio 282). The extracts relate to the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. The manuscripts were published, in two volumes, in 1814 and 1819. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies by Hutton of charters of Newbattle Abbey (folio 32). The source is unidentified: they are in a different order from those of the cartulary...
Dates:
?1789-?1797.
Computer-generated concordance, letters S-Z (wanting Sa, Se, and Si), of the Older Scottish Textual Archive.
File
Identifier: Acc.8734
Scope and Contents
Used in the preparation of the "Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue".
With list of texts included.
Dates:
circa 1984.
Contemporary copy of a list of articles proposed by James VI to the General Assembly held at Perth in 1597, including The Assembly`s answers., 1597.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.13(ix), folios 35-36
Contemporary copy of a list of proposed acts presented by the Earl of Arran to the Parliament of May 1584., 1584.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.13(vii), folios 31-32
Contents lists of parts of the collection., 1871- first half of the 20th century
File
Identifier: MS.14862
Scope and Contents
Contents lists of parts of the collection, written in pencil on envelopes which formerly seem to have contained lists belonging to John Francis Campbell. Some of these envelopes bear Campbell's name and are dated 1871. Also including contents lists for Acc.2152/9-11, which are now missing. A small sheet found in this folder, containing lines from a Gaelic occupational song, has been transferred to MS.15857 (folio 27a).Formerly Acc.2152/77 (part; see also...
Dates:
1871- first half of the 20th century
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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The MacNicol collection, comprising Gaelic songs and other papers collected by the Reverend Donald MacNicol, minister of Lismore, and his son Dugald MacNicol, with some added papers and listings of later owners and users of the collection.
`Continuation of Memoirs of Campaigns on the Peninsula from 1st December 1812 to 11th November 1813. By Captain James Stirling of the 42nd Regiment Royal Highlanders.`, 1812-1813.
Item
Identifier: MS.23631
Scope and Contents
The volume includes four pages of sketches depicting the native Spaniards and their dress. Also included, at the back of the volume, is a list of the places visited and cumulative totals of the distances traveled by the army during its deployment in this period.
Dates:
1812-1813.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Memoirs of Captain James Stirling, 42nd Royal Highlanders, of campaigns in Spain, 1808, Netherlands, 1809, and the Peninsular War, 1812-1813.
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Memoirs of Captain James Stirling, 42nd Royal Highlanders, of campaigns on the Peninsula.
Contribution list, arranged by branches, of the Edinburgh Typographical Society., 16 July 1938-3 April 1943.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4068/104
Dates:
16 July 1938-3 April 1943.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archives of the Edinburgh Typographical Society.
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Records of membership.
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Membership and contribution records of the Edinburgh Typographical Society.
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Index of members, and other records of membership of the Edinburgh Typographical Society.
Contribution list of the Women's section of the Edinburgh Typographical Society., 24 January 1911- 31 December 1917.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4068/101
Dates:
24 January 1911- 31 December 1917.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archives of the Edinburgh Typographical Society.
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Records of membership.
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Membership and contribution records of the Edinburgh Typographical Society.
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Index of members, and other records of membership of the Edinburgh Typographical Society.
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Contribution lists of the Women's Section of the Edinburgh Typographical Society.
Contribution list of the Women’s section of the Edinburgh Typographical Society., 14 December 1942-14 February 1949.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4068/102
Dates:
14 December 1942-14 February 1949.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archives of the Edinburgh Typographical Society.
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Records of membership.
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Membership and contribution records of the Edinburgh Typographical Society.
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Index of members, and other records of membership of the Edinburgh Typographical Society.
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Contribution lists of the Women's Section of the Edinburgh Typographical Society.
Contribution lists of the Women's Section of the Edinburgh Typographical Society., 1911-1949.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.4068/101-102
Dates:
1911-1949.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archives of the Edinburgh Typographical Society.
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Records of membership.
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Membership and contribution records of the Edinburgh Typographical Society.
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Index of members, and other records of membership of the Edinburgh Typographical Society.
Copies, 1636-1637, of documents and notes of Sir James Balfour on ecclesiastical history.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.32
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: W.4.16.The contents are as follows:
(i) Copies of commissions, 1626, passing under the great seal (page 1);
(ii) Several proclamations, 1626 (page 13);
(iii) Names of the Sheriffs, Stewards, and Bailies of Scotland, 1606 (page 24);
(iv) Articles and other documents concerning the commission anent tiends (page 28);
(v) Documents connected with the introduction of the Service Book, 1637,...
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Copies and lists of letters and documents of and relating to Mary, Queen of Scots, 1552-1571, undated, made principally by Alexander Macdonald from originals in the Register House and in other collections, circa 1846., 1552-1571, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3137
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Many of the papers are accompanied by transcripts or summaries by Alexander Macdonald.
Dates:
1552-1571, undated.
Copies and photographic and other reproductions of early maps in British and foreign collections.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3024-3027
Dates:
10th century-17th century, undated.
Copies of charters chiefly to ecclesiastical foundations at Perth, and notes, undated, on the history of the Burgh compiled by Dr Patrick Nisbet for Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., 1209-1214, late 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.25374
Scope and Contents
Includes a list of events in Perth, 1209-1214, and a table of tides there in 1210.
Dates:
1209-1214, late 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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Historical papers: Scotland and Great Britain of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Transcripts of historical documents made for Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Copies of charters chiefly to ecclesiastical foundations at Perth, and notes, undated, on the history of the Burgh compiled by Dr Patrick Nisbet for Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Copies of correspondence and other documents of James Stuart., 1782-1783.
File
Identifier: MS.8410
Scope and Contents
Many of the letters in this volume are duplicates of those in MSS.8408-8409.The papers consist of:(i) 'Index and List of the Packet Dated Negapatam, 23rd October, 1783', being the same index as in MS.8408 (folio 1);(ii) 'Copies of Letters from Mr. Cochrane to Lord Macartney, 9 February-8 August, 1783' (folio 13);(iii) 'Mr Cochrane to The Government at Madras from the 8th Septʳ. to 25th D[o]., 1783' (folio 58);(iv) 'Mr Cochrane to...
Dates:
1782-1783.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Correspondence and papers of Major-General James Stuart, younger brother of Andrew Stuart.
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Copies of correspondence, chiefly compiled for James Stuart, probably as part of his defence against accusations of inefficiency.
Copies of correspondence, and papers of and concerning Charles Grant, Vicomte de Vaux, chiefly on military subjects., 1775-1809, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.25164
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Copies of correspondence, 1775-1786, between Charles Grant and the Comte de Langeron concerning Grant's military career (folio 1); (ii) Papers, chiefly printed, concerning the Écoles Royales Militaires, 1777-1786, undated (folio 11); (iii) Miscellaneous papers on military and maritime subjects, 1779-1809, undated (folio 22).
Dates:
1775-1809, undated.