Prefaces.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Texts preceding the main work and containing comments about such matters as the reason for or circumstances of the author's writing the work, or comments by another about the author or the work.
Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:
Prefaces and introductions to other works written by Magnus Magnusson., 1956-2005.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/156-161
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most, but not all, of Magnusson's published works are represented. Also included here are the translations that Magnusson undertook on the work of the Icelandic author and Nobel prize winning novelist Halldór Laxness (1902-1998). Material relating to Magnusson's book on Mastermind "I've started so I'll finish" can be found in the Mastermind section.The material includes correspondence relating to book proposals, research notes compiled by Magnusson while working on his books, and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1956-2005.
Proaemium (forward) recited by John Frederick Gebbard, Ratisbon, 21 March 1629., 1629.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3591/15
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.
Dates:
1629.
‘Psyche, or, The Legend of Love’, a transcript of Mary Tighe’s poem., 1802, 1805.
Item
Identifier: MS.162
Scope and Contents
On the title-page are the words, ‘M. Tighe, London, July 20th, 1805’. The preface is dated, Rossanna, January 1802.
Dates:
1802, 1805.
Three prefaces written by John Stuart Blackie for ‘The National Choir’, with a letter of Blackie, in an exercise book., 1888-1890.
File
Identifier: MS.3664
Dates:
1888-1890.
Translation of the preface to ‘Scapigliatura italiana a Londra sotto Elisabetta e Giacomo I' by G S Gargano., [1923, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15794
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the notebooks contain notes on a variety of subjects, only the more important of which are mentioned in descriptions.
Dates:
[1923, or after.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
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Notebooks of John Purves containing material on cultural relations with Italy.
Typescripts and manuscripts of J B S Haldane for projected books., 1933-1964.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20564-20565