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Notebooks.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books of blank pages, usually ruled, used for taking notes, especially by pupils and students for taking class notes or writing or drawing exercises. .

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Further Gaelic manuscripts from the Irvine-Robertson collection.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14544
Content Description

A small group of manuscripts that were formerly part of Acc.3184 (now MSS.14877-14881), to be merged with that collection in due course.

The manuscripts were brought together by the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine (1773-1824), minister of Fortingall and then Little Dunkeld, Gaelic scholar and collector of Gaelic verse. They comprise correspondence in English, sermons in Gaelic, and Gaelic poetry collected by Irvine.

Dates: ca. 1800-1823

Papers and Gaelic collections of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine, minister of Little Dunkeld.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.14877-14881
Scope and Contents

Papers of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine of Little Dunkeld (1773-1824), consisting mainly of Gaelic poetry collected in Perthshire, and partly elsewhere, between ca. 1797 and 1808.

Dates: ca. 1797-ca. 1808