Lists.
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 428 Collections and/or Records:
Letter, 1875, of James Braidwood to G W Napier.
File
Identifier: Acc.7192
Scope and Contents
With a list, undated, of editions of Browne`s "Religio Medici".
Dates:
1875 and undated.
Letter-book containing official copies, in several hands, of correspondence and state papers during the Regency of the Earl of Lennox.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.12
Scope and Contents
The manuscript covers the period from the murder of the Regent Moray in January 1570 until shortly before Regent Lennox`s death early in September 1571.
Dates:
1570-1571.
Letters addressed to James Browne, Doctor of Laws, Advocate, author of ‘A history of the Highlands’, with a few written by him and others regarding him.
File
Identifier: MS.3700
Scope and Contents
Most of the correspondents are literary men, writing with reference to the ‘Caledonian Mercury’, which James Browne edited, but they include several other eminent contemporaries.
The letters have been bound and supplied with lists of the writers by James Grant, the novelist and historian, Browne's son-in-law, in 1862-1863.
Dates:
1815-1844.
Letters and copies of letters concerning the War of the Second Coalition against France, chiefly to General John Ramsay, son of the painter Allan Ramsay, some being addressed to Earl Whitworth and William Wickham.
File
Identifier: MS.731
Scope and Contents
The letters relate to the war against France, and particularly to dealings with Portugal and Russia, operations in Switzerland and the employment of Swiss troops, and the corps of the Prince of Condé. The writers include Baron Grenville, George Hammond, General Sir Robert Brownrigg, and the 1st Earl of Muzgrave.
Dates:
1796-1821.
Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son Robert, 2nd Viscount, together with some letters written by them.
File
Identifier: MS.6524
Scope and Contents
The subjects of the letters include the Peninsular War, East India Company affairs, and matters relating to many European countries.
Dates:
1780-1830.
Letters and other documents concerning Scots and the West Indies.
Collection
Identifier: MS.50277
Dates:
1742-1841
Letters of Matthew Urlwin Sears to Messrs A and C Black and Co, with a letter of Harriet Beecher Stowe, in the hand of Charles Beecher, to Messrs A and C Black and Co, inserted into a copy of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853).
File
Identifier: MS.50256
Scope and Contents
Estimate, 1852, supplied by R and R Clark, printers, for production costs for a half-crown illustrated edition of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (folio 1).Copy of a memorandum, 1852, between A and C Black and Co and Matthew Urlwin Sears concerning the production of woodcuts for the illustrated edition of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (folio 2).Letters, 1852-1853, of Matthew Urlwin Sears to A and C Black and Co concerning the production and supply of woodcuts for the illustrated editon of...
Dates:
1852-1853
Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to William E Henley, mainly concerning Stevenson`s work and discussing literary matters in general.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.8.2
Dates:
1876-1893, and undated.
Letters to and papers collected by James Greig (1861-1941), art critic of the ‘Morning Post’.
File
Identifier: MS.9809
Scope and Contents
Most of the material concerns the artists Walter Richard Sickert and James McBey. The contents are as follows:(i) Correspondence, 1910-1932, undated, chiefly concerning McBey's paintings and etchings, but including a few letters of Sickert (folio 1);(ii) Printed and manuscript articles by Sickert, 1912-1932, undated, most of which have been reprinted in ‘A free house! ... the writings of Walter Richard Sickert’, edited by Osbert Sitwell (London, 1947)...
Dates:
1910-1935, undated.
Letters to the Faculty of Advocates Library chiefly from Stationers’ Hall, enclosing monthly lists of books.
File
Identifier: F.R.344/9
Dates:
1818-1820.
Letters to the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning purchases of books, with bills and bills of lading.
File
Identifier: F.R.345/2
Dates:
1820.
Letters to the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning shipments of books and books entered in Stationers’ Hall.
File
Identifier: F.R.344/10
Dates:
1821.
Lindsay Armorial: the armorial register of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Lyon King of Arms from 1542 to 1555.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.3
Scope and Contents
In 1630 the armorial was formally recognised by the Privy Council as an official register and a note to that effect, signed by Sir James Balfour, Lord Lyon, and Thomas Drysdale, Islay Herald, is on folio 110 verso.The manuscript was shown in the Heraldic Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1891 (see ‘Memorial Catalogue’, number 663).The contents are as follows:(i) Latin verses on and a painting of the royal arms (folio 1 verso).(ii) Arms of mythical...
Dates:
16th century-17th century.
List and valuation of the library of the Rev William Shand, Lumphanan, Aberdeenshire.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12718
Dates:
1856.
List, arranged geographically, of the ministers, exhorters, and readers in Scotland, with their stipends, in 1568-1572, written by Robert Keith, Bishop of Fife.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.4
Scope and Contents
Prefixed is a copy of Adv.MS.17.1.4, folio 2 (which belonged to Keith).
Originally part (Inv. XIV) of the Rose Collection, Adv.MSS.49.7.1-49.7.20.
Dates:
Late 16th century.
List, compiled after 1611, of bonds of manrent to various Earls of Angus between 1487 and 1602.
File
Identifier: Acc.8763
Scope and Contents
With possible contents list, 16th century, of a medical work.
Dates:
circa 1500-circa 1612.
List, early 19th century, of the kings of Norway and Denmark who ruled Iceland; and list, 19th century, of royal edicts relating to Iceland, 1450-1801.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.3.1
Dates:
19th century.
List of 15th century and 16th century great seal charters.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.20
Dates:
Early 18th century.
List of appeal cases in the House of Lords.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.3
Dates:
1st half of 18th century.
List of appeal cases in the House of Lords.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.2
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.
'List of applicants for situations in the Edinburgh Academy, 1824'; with letters and testimonials of some of the applicants, addressed to Sir Walter Scott as one of the Committee of Management of the new school.
File
Identifier: MS.2519
Scope and Contents
The testimonials are supplememtary to the printed testimonials, Sir Walter Scott's copies of which are in the Department of Printed books.
Dates:
1824.
List of articles of Arthur Woodburn published in "The Labour Standard" (Edinburgh, 1927-1930).
Item
Identifier: Acc.3693
Dates:
circa 1964.
List of attained Jacobites.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14509
Scope and Contents
Includes instructions to Francis Grant and David Bruce, surveyors of the forfeited estates.
Dates:
1747.
List of bishoprics and monasteries in Scotland, with the names of their founders, 1st half of 17th century; and a copy of the Retour of the lands of the shire of Fife, 1517, in the hand of Sir James Balfour.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.12
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.7.30.
Dates:
1517, 1st half of 17th century.
List of bonds belonging to the Faculty of Advocates delivered to Mr John Frank, treasurer, with a minute of the Faculty.
File
Identifier: Ch.A.230
Dates:
1692.