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Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Brief statements of a fact or experience, written down for review, or as an aid to memory, or to inform someone else; also includes short, informal letters.
Found in 1168 Collections and/or Records:
Drawings of masons' marks, made or collected by Charles S S Johnston, architect, with letters, notes, and excerpts on the subject; the whole arranged by Professor W B Stevenson..
Series
Identifier: MSS.3726-3729A
Dates:
?1897-1923, undated.
Drawings, plans and notes illustrative of Scottish architecture, by Thomas Ross, Doctor of Laws, (died 1930).
Series
Identifier: MSS.686-729
Dates:
[Late 19th century-1930.]
Duplicated typescript material consisting of genealogical studies of branches of the Forrester family.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.346- is now part of Acc.10884.
Dates:
1671-1692, 1930-1989, and undated.
"Edinburgh Almanack" (1766), with manuscript diary and notes of James Camichael.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5775
Dates:
1766.
Engraved portraits of governors of the Dutch East Indies, with historical notes.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.1
Dates:
18th century.
Essay, circa 1760, of James Buchanan, on self-love, with manuscript notes, 1782, of the 11th Earl of Buchan.
File
Identifier: Acc.6778
Dates:
circa 1760-1782.
Essay, notes, and extracts from other works, on teinds and other ecclesiastical matters.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.11
Scope and Contents
According to a pencil note on page i, `This Book is in handwriting of Commissary John Goldie [of Craigmuie]`.The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Note on reason for parsons being addressed as `Sir’. (Page i.)(ii) `Ane Essay on Teinds.’ This is basically the same text as in Adv.MS.81.1.3. (Page 1.)(iii) `Extracts from [White] Kennets Parochiall antiquitys of Ambrosden andc [Oxford, 1695]`. (Page 88.)(iv) `Extracts from a...
Dates:
18th century.
Essays and other papers of William Myrtle, author of ‘The plagiarist’, chiefly written while he was a student at Edinburgh University (1877-1880).
Series
Identifier: MSS.15919-15920
Dates:
1877-1893.
Essays, probably by Margaret Inglis, a schoolgirl in Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: MS.14274
Scope and Contents
The subjects include themes from literature and history as well as more general topics and descriptions. Also included is a copy of a letter of Margaret Inglis (page 39), and miscellaneous notes and paraphrases.
Dates:
1868-1872.
Estate accounts written on the blank leaves, now separated, of the protocol books, late 16th century, of George Abernethy and James Drummond, notaries in Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.17885-17886
Dates:
1652-1757.
‘Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language’ (Inverness, 1896) and ‘Further Gaelic words and etymologies’ (Inverness, 1899) by Alexander Macbain, with manuscript notes on Gaelic words, etc., probably by George Henderson, Lecturer in Celtic in Glasgow.
File
Identifier: MS.2556
Dates:
1896, 1899, undated.
'Evergreen', 2 volumes (Edinburgh, 1761) by Allan Ramsay with numerous manuscript corrections and variants of the Maitland manuscript throughout.
Series
Identifier: MSS.494-495
Scope and Contents
There are also critical notes (MS.494, fly-leaf) by Bishop Percy.
Dates:
1761.
Ewen MacLachlan’s ‘Leabhar Caol’, containing transcripts (with occasional notes) from nine manuscripts sent to him for examination by the Highland Society of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.5
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts were sent to Ewen MacLachlan by the Highland Society of Scotland in 1812. Dated passim. MacLachlan generally called the volume ‘An Leabhar Caol’, but on the title pages added as alternatives ‘An Diabhol Caol’, ‘The Celtic Repository’. Binding inscribed ‘Ancient Celtic Tales’, ‘The Tales of Other Times’.The contents (text) as follows.(i) Contents list. (Page ii.)(ii) Note on 8th-century learning. (Page iii.)(iii)...
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Excerpts from books and other notes of bibliographical and historical interest of John Smith Gibb titled, 'Notabilia Librorum'.
File
Identifier: MS.1023
Dates:
19th century.
Exercises in Latin translation by Patrick Anderson.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.7.4
Scope and Contents
The exercises are followed (folio 7 verso) by notes by Thomas Ruddiman on the sale of his second edition of ‘Rudiments of the Latin Tongue’, a related account, and notes of books lent out by Ruddiman.
Dates:
1709.
‘Exercitationes Physicae’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.7
Scope and Contents
The work consists of an introduction and four `exercitationes` divided into chapters. Mention is made of authors such as Gerard Vossius, Descartes and Gassendi. There are a few diagrams dealing with astronomy. The work is followed (folio 131) by theological notes in English and Latin, including part of an attack on the philosophy of Descartes.
Dates:
17th century.
Extensively amended copy of a speech of John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, in the House of Lords, 16 July 1830, in the case raised by Frederick Campbell Stewart of Ascog against Stewart Murray Fullarton of Fullarton, and others.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.16
Scope and Contents
According to an undated note signed `G Webster` (folio 1) the copy is written from shorthand notes by `Mr Gurney` (doubtless William B Gurney) and the extensive deletions and numerous alterations are in Eldon`s hand. A note in another hand at folio 1 reads `This as corrected and altered should be fair copied and the fair copy read by Lord E_ before it is printed if printing is intended’. It is not known if a fair copy was made: the speech is included in the report of the case in ‘Cases...
Dates:
1830.
Extract from Herodotus in the hand of Thomas Campbell.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14500
Scope and Contents
Extract is contained in the published volume of Campbell's "Gertrude of Wyoming" (1809).
Dates:
Circa 1809.
Extracts and copies of historical works, collected by Sir James Balfour, 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.7
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Epitome Codicis Sconensis ... ex libro M.S. Magni Mackculloche` (folio 1). Material in Latin and English, taken from the `Scotichronicon` for 1057 to 1436, with a supplement (folio 34) for 1199-1263. This was the basis of the early part of Balfour`s ‘Annales of Scotland’. ‘The Scottish historical library’, pages 92-93, refers to this manuscript.(ii) Extracts from ‘Scotorum historiae’ by Hector Boece (folio 39)....
Dates:
1440-1642.
Extracts, early 19th century, made from a copy of the Lyon Register belonging to Andrew Plummer of Middle Steed and Sunderland Hall.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.35.6.15-35.6.16
Scope and Contents
There are additions up to 1822 by the copyists David Deuchar, and his son Alexander, the seal-engravers.
The volumes are interleaved with pages engraved with blank shields, some of which have been completed in watercolours or in trick to illustrate the text.
Dates:
1672-1822.
Extracts from published sources and some notes and other writings compiled by John Young, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1786).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.5.6-31.5.9
Scope and Contents
The extracts are taken from periodical publications, especially the ‘Caledonian Mercury’ and the ‘Edinburgh Courant’, largely recording English legal cases, and from books on a wide variety of topics, especially history, medicine, law, literature, husbandry, travel, science, theology and biography.The notes and other writings relate to various topics and include a few examples of letters of and to Young.The earliest extract is dated 13 December 1794 (Adv.MS.31.5.6,...
Dates:
1794-circa 1855.
Extracts, late 17th century, from the Books of Sederunt of the Court of Session, 1532-1689.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.2.5(i)-(ii)
Dates:
1532-1689.
Facsimiles of manuscripts made for students in Falconer Madan's classes in mediaeval palaeography at Oxford, with notes and a few transcripts by Percy Stafford Allen.
File
Identifier: MS.9739
Scope and Contents
There is an inscription by Percy Allen dated 1894 (folio i) and he is known to have attended the classes that year. Photostats of letters of Robert Turberville and Pope Leo X to Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester, 1517, undated, are inserted (folio 38).
Dates:
1517, 1894, undated.
‘Fair assembly. A Poem in the Royal Stanza’ by Allan Ramsay, and in his autograph.
Item
Identifier: MS.567
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains six stanzas and a few notes additional to those published in Allan Ramsay's ‘Poems’, volume ii, page 195.
Dates:
[?1723.]
Fair copy in an unknown hand of `De Unione Regnorum Britanniae Tractatus` by Sir Thomas Craig.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.3
Scope and Contents
There are many words and passages left blank, and corrections and additions have been made in the original hand and others. Some omissions have been supplied and marginal notes added, by William Aikman of Carnie, Advocate, in 1690, from a copy then in the possession of Christopher Irvine, Doctor of Medicine, for which see folio 132 verso.Sir Thomas Craig was one of the Scottish Commissioners appointed to discuss closer political links with England following James VI`s accession...
Dates:
Circa 1604.