Notes.
Found in 5131 Collections and/or Records:
Cashbook used for musketry notes by J B S Haldane, probably when he was undergoing training early in the First World War., [?1914, or after.]
Some of the blank leaves were used by J B S Haldane for poems inspired by his experiences (folios 42-46, 53-55).
Later the volume was used to record notes of examinations 1921-1922 (folios 1 verso-10 verso inverted).
‘Catalogue and succession of the Kings ... of this Realme of England' ([London], 1622), by Ralph Brooke., 1622, [circa 1804].
The notes by John Borthwick include some observations by Thomas Hamilton, Lord Binning, on the claims of the Borthwicks of Crookston to the title of Lord Borthwick (folio 1 verso).
Catalogue compiled by Hugh Sharp of the Hugh Sharp Collection of printed books.
The catalogue was compiled before the transmission of the collection to the National Library of Scotland in 1938. It contains interesting details about many of the books. A newspaper-cutting about the collection, and notes made by members of the National Library staff, found loose in the first volume, have been pasted in.
'Catalogue of British family histories’ (London, 1935) by Theodore Radford Thomson, interleaved, with corrections and additions by the author.
‘Catalogue of the Books Manuscripts and pamphlets Belonging to Robert Mylne wryter in Edr. 1709’.
The catalogue is in two parts: books and manuscripts arranged by format (folio 2), and pamphlets (folio 115). The entries give the imprints and pressmarks. According to two declarations, 1709 and 1711, on folio 113 verso, the catalogue was largely written by Mylne`s son James, but there are numerous additions in Mylne`s hand, and also notes of loans of books, 1709-1743 (folios 232-238). Also on folio 113 verso is a note by Mylne, 1718, stating that he bequeathed his library to his sons.
Catalogue of the Hugh Sharp Collection of printed books., [1938, or before.]
The catalogue was compiled before the transmission of the collection to the National Library of Scotland in 1938. It contains interesting details about many of the books. A newspaper-cutting about the collection, and notes made by members of the National Library staff, found loose in the first volume, have been pasted in.
'Catalogue of the late Sir John Henderson's Books, 1818'., 1818-[1833, or after].
Catalogues, cards, photographs and notes from and of Anne Raeburn, painter., Undated.
'Catalouge of Books belonging to Thomas Crawfurd of Crawfurdsburne', [2nd of Cartsburn]., Late 17th century-early 18th century.
A list, chiefly of religious and historical works, dating from the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century (folios 2-13), with, in the same hand, a list of books lent (folios 16-27) and 'ane additional Catalouge of my Books begunn on January 4th 1728' (folios 28-51). There are some additions throughout in a later hand, and also, in both hands, further notes of books lent at various dates from 1708-1775.
‘Ceol Mor Legends', containing notes, in several hands and in typescript, on the occasions commemorated by various piobaireachd., [?1900, or before.]
Certified copy, dated 1712, of an account of the court-martial held on John, Master of Sinclair, for the murder of Ensign Hugh Schaw and Captain Alexander Schaw, 1708., 1708, 1710, 1823.
Included are copies of the relevant correspondence of Sir John Schaw of Greenock, 1708, 1710.
This is the manuscript edited by Sir Walter Scott for the Roxburghe Club in 1828 and described by him in that edition. It contains a note by Scott, different from his published preface (folio 2), an unsigned note of 1823, and one of R Scott Moncrieff (folio 41).
'Chaṇḍī pāt sat saī', or ‘The catechism of the reading (or worship) of Chaṇḍī’.
According to a note, 1899, of the Reverend John Cameron, Chaplain, 93rd Highlanders, enclosed in the manuscript, it consists of a paraphrase and interpretation, composed by the ṛishis in recent times, of a few verses of the Ṛigveda, which are in this way adapted for the comparatively modern worship of the goddess Chaṇḍī (Devī); the pundit who gave him the manuscript said that it was about 200 years old, and had been in his family for that time.
Charms and spells etc., including notes on witchcraft and astrology., Late 18th century, 1818.
A late eighteenth-century manuscript bearing the signatures 'John Blakey' (page 15) and 'Thomas Wyld' (pages 30, 72), with some additional matter (page i), dated 1818, written perhaps by the James Lomax whose signature is on page 3.
Charters collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne.
Cheque books of Thomas Carlyle., 1856-1883.
Nine cheque books, 1856-1880 (the last unfinished), are for Thomas Carlyle’s account with the British Linen Company's bank at Dumfries (numbers 1-9). Ten cheque books, 1857-1883, are for Carlyle’s account with the London Joint Stock Bank (numbers 10-19).
In addition to details of the cheques issued there are occasional other financial notes.
Chronicle of Popes and Emperors by Martinus Polonus., Circa 1277.
The manuscript is of the later recension, which includes the passage on Pope Joan (folio 22 verso), and ends with the death of Pope John XXI. The entries for the Popes are on the versos and for the Emperors on the rectos of the leaves. There are some glosses and marginal notes in other hands.
Initials in red and blue with decorative penwork, and rubrics in red.
Chronicon Angliæ, 400-1327, being a nineteenth century transcript of Barberini MS.2689, which was written at Sempryngham in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries., 13th century-14th century.
According to a note (folio iv), dated 1823, by Luigi Maria Rezzi, Librarian of the Barberini Library, the transcript was made by him for Benjamin Heywood Bright.
"Cinquant [sic] Octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, dediez a tresillustre seigneur le conte de Shrewsbury, pour ses estrennes l'an 1607", being a calligraphic copy of the verses by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu, first published anonymously in ‘Les Cantigues du Seigneur de Maisonfleur’.
Circa 36 letters to Jean Wauchope.
With a few notes in her hand of visits and conversations.
Circular letter, signed and with postcript in the hand of Captain R F Scott.
Acknowledging a subscription to the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910.
Coats of arms of the Nine Worthies, British and foreign royal houses, Kings of Scotland and their consorts from John Baliol to James VI, and the Scottish nobility and gentry.
At the beginning, on different paper, is a treatise, 'Scotica Nobilitas. Per Archibaldum Harbartum. Scotum. 1602' dedicated to the Bishop of Norwich.
The volume also contains lists of nobles and notes.