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Microfilms.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Fine-grain, high-resolution film in roll form containing images of documents, reduced in size from the original.

Found in 1088 Collections and/or Records:

Microfilm of collections of canntaireachd and piobaireachd.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.887
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: ‘Canntaireachd: articulate music’ by John Francis Campbell (Glasgow, 1880), with manuscript notes, [1880, or after], by Alexander K Cameron (MS.9614);

"Collection of piobaireachd or pipe tunes as verbally taught by the M'Crummen Pipers" by Neil MacLeod (Edinburgh, 1880), with manuscript corrections by Simon Fraser, and other notes by Alexander K Cameron, [1880, or after] (MS.9615).

Dates: 1880, [1880, or after].

Microfilm of Colonial Discourses. Series 2. Imperial Adventurers and Explorers. Part 2. Papers of James Augustus Grant (Adam Matthew, 2003).

 Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1490-1506
Scope and Contents

The microfilms in this series have been described to a basic standard only.

Dates: 1827-1892.

Microfilm of copies, 1796, of William Rose, the genealogist, of charters and other papers, 1st half of 16th century-1740; and, arms of the English and Scottish nobility, [circa 1612].

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.356
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Copies, 1796, of charters and other papers, 1st half of 16th century-1740, written for and partly by William Rose, the genealogist, in Montcoffer (Adv.MS.15.1.9);

Arms of the English and Scottish nobility, [circa 1612]. A collection, previously owned by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, of painted arms with genealogical notes on their holders, made by an Englishman (Adv.MS.15.1.10).

Dates: 1st half of 16th century-1740.

Microfilm of copies, possibly 1831-1841, of letters, 1831-1841, of Francis Jeffrey to Henry Cockburn, largely written during Jeffrey’s period of office as Lord Advocate, 1831-1834.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.141
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Copies, possibly 1831-1832, of letters, February 1831-April 1832 (Adv.MS.9.1.8); Copies, possibly 1832-1833, of letters, April 1832-May 1833 (Adv.MS.9.1.9);

Copies, possibly 1833-1841, of letters, May 1833-November 1841 (Adv.MS.9.1.10).

Dates: 1831-1841.