Publications.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents distributed to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending.
Found in 810 Collections and/or Records:
‘Drill and Rifle Instruction for the Corps of Rifle Volunteers, By Authority of the Secretary of State for War’, 7th edition (London, 1860)., 1860.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.2.34
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Company, recruited mainly from the Faculty of Advocates, was raised in 1859, as part of the general Volunteer mobilisation in that year. The majority of the papers belong to that and the immediately following years.
Dates:
1860.
'Early Scottish melodies’ (Edinburgh, 1900) by John Glen, with additions and corrections in the form of notes, marginal and inserted., 1900.
File
Identifier: MS.3132
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Many of the notes are in the autographs of Frank Kidson and Thomas Davidson Cook. They are mainly textual, dealing with sources, language, spelling, etc., but some scores of tunes are given.
Dates:
1900.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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‘Songs of Robert Burns’, edited by J C Dick, and ‘Early Scottish melodies’ by John Glen, with additions and corrections in the form of notes, marginal and inserted, in the printed volumes.
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‘Early Scottish melodies’ (Edinburgh, 1900) by John Glen, with additions and corrections in the form of notes, marginal and inserted; with variants of the words and music of ‘Over the Water to Charlie’.
‘Early Scottish melodies’ (Edinburgh, 1900) by John Glen, with additions and corrections in the form of notes, marginal and inserted; with variants of the words and music of ‘Over the Water to Charlie’., 1900.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3132-3133
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Many of the notes are in the autographs of Frank Kidson and Thomas Davidson Cook. They are mainly textual, dealing with sources, language, spelling, etc., but some scores of tunes are given.
Dates:
1900.
“Edinburgh Philosophical Journal” (c.1830)., Circa 1830
Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/1076
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
Circa 1830
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Printed Works of, or belonging to, the Forbes, Stuart Forbes, and Trefusis Families.
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Miscellaneous publications belonging to the Forbes family.
Educational, literary, cultural and miscellaneous papers of the Chalmers family of Auldbar., 1637, 1675-1694, 1714-1867.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15508-15518
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Auldbar was bought in 1753 by William Chalmers, a Gibraltar merchant whose family had owned land in Aberdeenshire, at Federate and Hazlehead. His father and brother were physicians in Aberdeen, and the papers as arranged below begin with medical records of these men. An important section concerns the trade and administration of Gibraltar in the second quarter of the 18th century, and there is also much mercantile correspondence of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As with the rest of this...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1637, 1675-1694, 1714-1867.
Edward Jackson, "Our work and our ability to do the work" (London: F. and J. Rivington, 1853)., 1853.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/1010
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
1853.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Printed Works of, or belonging to, the Forbes, Stuart Forbes, and Trefusis Families.
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General printed works belonging to the Forbes family.
'Elegies for the dead in Cyrenaica' (London, 1948) by Hamish Henderson, with an inscription and postcard of the author to Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1948.
Item
Identifier: MS.26633
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.
Dates:
1948.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland, and his father.
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Work by other writers collected by Robert Garioch Sutherland.
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Inscribed copies of printed books of Robert Garioch Sutherland, some with annotations by Sutherland.
"Elementa linguae Graece pars prima…" (1818) with handwritten contents list., 1818.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/405
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
1818.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families.
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Forbes Family Papers.
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Printed Books owned by the Forbes Family.
"English-German dictionary” (Hugo’s Language Institute: London)., 1st quarter of 20th century.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/1090
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Printed Works of, or belonging to, the Forbes, Stuart Forbes, and Trefusis Families.
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Miscellaneous publications belonging to the Forbes family.
"Estates of the Trustee of the Earl of Kintore"., 1914.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/966
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
1914.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Estate Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis Families.
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Estate Management Papers.
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Printed items relating to the Fettercairn Estate.
'Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language', (Stirling, 1911) by Alexander Macbain, with numerous manuscript additions and corrections., 1911.
Item
Identifier: MS.456
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
“An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates:
1911.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers concerning Gaelic philology and Highland topography, folk-lore, etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson (died 1927), Minister of the United Free Church, Kilchoman, Islay.
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Vocabularies, glossaries, and other material compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
'Evergreen', volume 1 (Edinburgh, 1761) by Allan Ramsay with numerous manuscript corrections and variants of the Maitland manuscript throughout., 1761.
Item
Identifier: MS.494
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
There are also critical notes (MS.494, fly-leaf) by Bishop Percy.
Dates:
1761.
'Evergreen', volume 2 (Edinburgh, 1761) by Allan Ramsay with numerous manuscript corrections and variants of the Maitland manuscript throughout., 1761.
Item
Identifier: MS.495
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
There are also critical notes (MS.494, fly-leaf) by Bishop Percy.
Dates:
1761.
Excerpts from printed works concerning history and genealogy, compiled by Andrew Stuart and his brother James Stuart., 1787-1795.
File
Identifier: MS.8304
Scope and Contents
The excerpts are from the following:(i) Scottish sources, including ‘System of heraldry, speculative and practical’ by Alexander Nisbet (Edinburgh, 1722-1742), ‘Annals of Scotland’ by David Dalrymple (Edinburgh, 1776-1779), and ’History of the House of Douglas’ by David Hume of Godscroft (Edinburgh, 1643) (folio 1);(ii) English sources, including ‘Holinshed’s Chronicles’ (London, 1577) and ’Foedera’ by Thomas Rymer (London, 1704-1713), with a biography of Arabella...
Dates:
1787-1795.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, Writer to the Signet, of Craigthorn and Castlemilk, second son of Archibald Stuart of Torrance.
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Genealogical papers of Andrew Stuart.
Family bible of the Murrays of Woodend, consisting of ‘The Holy Bible’ (London, 1616) and an unidentified copy of the Psalms (circa 1620; wanting title page, pages 1-2, and 79 onward), which went with Janet Murray on her marriage to James Oliphant; with manuscript additions., 1616, circa 1620.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.9.12
Scope and Contents
The manuscript additions consist of: (1) notes on the book by T L Kington Oliphant, 1889 (front flyleaf); (2) notes of births and deaths in the Murray family and of some other events, 1614-1633 (verso of title page); (3) notes of births and deaths in the Murray family, 1668-1672, and in the Oliphant family, 1690-1774 (blank leaf between the Apocrypha and the New Testament).
Dates:
1616, circa 1620.
“Field Exercise and Evolutions of Infantry as revised by her Majesty`s Command, 1859” (London, 1859)., 1859.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.2.30
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Company, recruited mainly from the Faculty of Advocates, was raised in 1859, as part of the general Volunteer mobilisation in that year. The majority of the papers belong to that and the immediately following years.
Dates:
1859.
"Field Exercise and Evolutions of Infantry, as revised by Her Majesty`s Command, 1861", pocket edition (London, 1862)., 1862.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.2.36
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Company, recruited mainly from the Faculty of Advocates, was raised in 1859, as part of the general Volunteer mobilisation in that year. The majority of the papers belong to that and the immediately following years.
Dates:
1862.
Financial papers of the Saltire Society on publication sales., 1978-1989.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10030/6-22
Foreign mission records of the Free Church of Scotland., 1826-1875, 1912, undated.
Sub-Group
Identifier: MSS.8954-8976
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1826-1875, 1912, undated.
Foreign mission records of the Free Church of Scotland (after 1900, the United Free Church of Scotland)., 1856-1930.
Sub-Group
Identifier: MSS.7745-8011
Scope and Contents
At the Disruption of 1843, the missionaries in India of the Church of Scotland and in Kaffraria of the Glasgow Missionary Society adhered, almost without exception, to the Free Church. New missions were later founded in Nagpur (1845), Jaina (1855), Santalia (1871), Livingstonia (1875), and Aden (1886). The union in 1876 with the Reformed Presbyterian Church brought with it the New Hebrides mission.
Dates:
1856-1930.
Foreign Mission records of the United Presbyterian Church., 1841-1893.
Sub-Group
Identifier: MSS.8943-8953
Dates:
1841-1893.
‘Fortunes of Falstaff’ by John Dover Wilson (Cambridge, 1943), with annotations by the author., 1943.
Item
Identifier: MS.14376
Dates:
1943.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers and correspondence of Professor John Dover Wilson (1881-1969), the Shakespearean scholar.
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Papers concerning the literary and scholarly activities and interests of John Dover Wilson.
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Publications, chiefly written or edited by John Dover Wilson, with manuscript additions chiefly by Dover Wilson.
Four pages probably from a Dutch catechism., ?Early 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.8170A
Fragments of printed works, with extracts and notes of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton., 1717, 1734, 1784.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.27
Scope and Contents
The volume consists of pages i-xxiv, 1-38 of ‘A Summary of all the Religious Houses in England and Wales’ (folio 1) bearing Lieutenant-General G H Hutton`s signature on the title page, but no other marks, together with page 411, and what follows, of ‘Minor Practicks’ containing, as Appendix I, the `Account of all the Religious Houses that were in Scotland at the time of the Reformation` by John Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, Keeper of the Advocates` Library (folio 32). Interspersed with these...
Dates:
1717, 1734, 1784.