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Accounts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents in which monies or goods received and paid or given out are recorded in order to permit periodic totaling. This term was not used in the published volumes of the 'Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925'. Such records were indexed under the subject terms Housekeeping or Prices.

Found in 343 Collections and/or Records:

12 Charters, 1648-1847, of Stonecroft, Queensferry.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9692
Scope and Contents

With photocopies of letters, accounts and papers, 1666-1768, of John Weir, Auchengillan.

Dates: 1648-1847.

14 letters and two discharges concerning the Scottish Church, Rotterdam, collected by Rev Dr William Steven.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13027
Scope and Contents

Includes letter, 1844, of Bell and Bradfute, to William Steven concerning his "Memoir of George Heriot" with a copy of his reply and his account with the firm, 1848-1856.

Dates: 1632-1856.

15th-century English manuscript containing three Middle English texts: 'Liber maundevyle'; the chivalric poem 'Sir Cleges'; and, 'De regimine principum' by Thomas Hoccleve.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.11
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘Liber maundevyle` (folio 1). The manuscript belongs to sub-group E of the Defective Version on which the earliest editions were based (`English manuscripts of Mandeville`s Travels`, pages 169-171). Several leaves are missing, containing the end of the prologue and beginning of chapter 1 (after folio 1), chapters 6-9 (after folio 10), and the end of chapter 32 onwards.(ii) `Sir Cleges` (folio 71). ‘The Index of Middle...
Dates: 15th century.

Accounts, 1719-1786, concerning Culross.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8981
Scope and Contents

With dictates, 1677, taken down as the University of Edinburgh by James Blaw.

Dates: 1677, 1719-1786.

Accounts and day-book kept by James Roberton, bailiff of Springwood Park, near Kelso.

 File
Identifier: MS.19251
Scope and Contents

James Roberton records the daily activities on the estate, with particular reference to the Ladyrig and Heiton steadings.

Dates: 1835-1840.

Accounts and papers relating to the Scottish Mint.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.9
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of the counter warden`s accounts of silver minted from February 1699 to November 1700; of orders for payment by the Generals and Masters of the Mint; and of receipts of various employees.

Dates: 1690-1705.

Accounts and vouchers of the Faculty of Advocates.

 Series
Identifier: F.R.339r/22(i)-(F.R.339r/22ii)

Accounts concerning Sir John and Sir Charles Gilmour.

 File
Identifier: MS.5291
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Apothecary's account for 1666-1667, presented by James Borthwick to Sir John Gilmour (folio 1);

(ii) Account of the household expenditure of Sir Charles Gilmour in 1742 (folio 7);

(iii) Account of expenditure in London during the winters of 1745-1746 and 1747-1748, kept, apparently, by a Scots official at the Board of Trade (folio 56).

Dates: 1666-1667, 1742, 1745-1748.