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 196 Collections and/or Records:
Personal and political papers of Rosemary Hall.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13491
Scope and Contents
Rosemary Hall was born on 22nd April 1925 in Aberdeen. She spent her early life in Montrose where her father and uncle ran the family salmon fishing business. Hall began her schooling in Montrose. However, the outbreak of the war caused interruption and her school was evacuated to Speyside. She began her working life as a PA to a partner in a firm of accountants in Edinburgh. Although Hall gave up her job after marriage, she did not stop working; she was against nuclear power in all forms...
Dates:
1947-2010
‘Pharmacopœia Pauperum, in usum Nosocomii Regii Edinburgensis’ (Edinburgh, 1752), interleaved with further recipes and notes, apparently the work of a student, Charles Wilson, whose signature appears on the end-paper.
File
Identifier: MS.9757
Dates:
1752, undated.
'Pirate' by Sir Walter Scott, first edition (Edinburgh, 1822), with anonymous manuscript 'Remarks', 1822, assigning the authorship to Scott, and related material inserted.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5023-5024
Dates:
1822.
Playscripts of Charles Gairdner and Ada F Kay.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11617
Scope and Contents
Includes related papers.
Dates:
1955-1962.
‘Poems’ by Allan Ramsay, 2 volumes (Edinburgh, 1721, 1728), with manuscript additions.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9749-9750
Dates:
1721, 1728, undated.
'Principles of the law of Scotland', 2nd edition (Edinburgh, 1757) by John Erskine, with marginal notes, undated, made by James Boswell.
Item
Identifier: MS.736
Dates:
1757.
Printed and manuscript material concerning mathematics, compiled circa 1785 by Thomas White, schoolmaster in Dumfries.
File
Identifier: MS.15520
Scope and Contents
The volume consists of Bernard de Fontenelle, ‘The life of Sir Isaac Newton’ (folio 3); John Lawson, ‘A synopsis of all the data for the construction of triangles’ (folio 17); and John Landen, ‘Observations on converging series’ (folio 29).The remaining material is in manuscript: 'An investigation of the theorem on which the foregoing operations [i.e. Landen's article] are grounded' (folio 45); 'Geometrical analysis' a general criticism of the work of Thomas Simpson (folio 63);...
Dates:
1691-1781.
Printed items with notes and other bibliographical material inserted by Robert Dickson, the surgeon and bibliographer.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9989-9990
Dates:
4th quarter of 18th century-4th quarter of 19th century.
Printed papers and manuscripts concerning the troubles in Geneva.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.6.7
Dates:
1734-1737.
‘Ratio emendandi leges’ (Utrecht, 1707) by Gulielmus Best, with manuscript notes by Alexander Cuningham.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.7.4
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (W.10.4).
Dates:
1st half of 18th century.
Records of the Saltire Society.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13517
Scope and Contents
The Society was founded in 1936 and its aims are to preserve all that is best in Scottish tradition and to encourage every new development, which can strengthen and enrich Scottish cultural life.
Dates:
1953-2012
‘‘Rerum Scoticarum historia’ by George Buchanan (Elzevir, 1668), interleaved and annotated in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.5.21-33.5.22
Dates:
1668.
Research papers and indexes relating to organs and organ music in Scotland and elsewhere, compiled by Colonel Godfrey I B Winn.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.361
Dates:
20th century.
Review copy of T A Robertson, 'Mair laeves fae Vagaland' (Lerwick, 1965), with annotations by George Campbell Hay.
Item
Identifier: MS.26798
Dates:
[1965, or after.]
Scottish chartularies and other works transcribed for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist in 1742 and 1746.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.3.13
Scope and Contents
The sources are mainly the original manuscripts then in the Advocates` Library. Only those documents not known from other sources are indexed in detail. The contents are as follows:(i) `Registra Coenobiorum de Melrose et Balmerino Impensis Walteri McFarlan de eodem Transcripta Anno MDCCXLII`, copied from Adv.MSS.34.4.11, late 13th century (folio 1), and 34.5.3, 14th century (folio 67), with extracts from Richard Augustine Hay on Melrose, 1700-1707, or after (folio 54; from...
Dates:
Late 13th century-1707, or after.
‘Scottish poems, reprinted from scarce editions’ (London, 1792) by John Pinkerton, with marginal additions and corrections by David Laing, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.748-750
Dates:
1792, undated.
Seven volumes of photographs, 1903-1922, and undated, of Himalayan and Alpine subjects, many concerning the 1922 Everest expedition, compiled by Professor George Ingle Finch; and the typescript, 1942-1945, with illustrations by Ronald Searle, of `Mountain Prospect` by R Scott Russell, written in Chargi Jail.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.345
Scope and Contents
Also included is the printed book `Mountain prospect` (London, 1946), by R Scott Russell.
Dates:
1903-1922, 1942-1946, and undated.
Seven volumes of ‘Tales of my grandfather’ by Sir Walter Scott.
Series
Identifier: MSS.23119-23125
Dates:
1828-1830.
Short book of verses and caricatures by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepdaughter, Mrs Strong.
Item
Identifier: MS.8791
Scope and Contents
The book describes Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepdaughter's famous visit, paid in company with the Countess of Jersey, to the rebel king Mataafa at Malie (see ‘The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson’, volume iv, pages 223-234). Three letters, 1892, of Stevenson are also included. One, apparently unpublished, is addressed to Mataafa and the other two (see ‘The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson’, volume iv, pages 216-217) to 'Amelia Balfour', a pseudonym for Lady Jersey. All these items...
Dates:
1892.
‘Some account of the family of Smollett...arranged by J. Irving' (Dumbarton, 1859) by Tobias Smollett; with marginal comments and corrections by Thomas Carlyle.
Item
Identifier: MS.3786
Dates:
1859.
‘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.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3131-3133
Scope and Contents
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, 1903, undated.
'Tales of a grandfather' by Sir Walter Scott, being the second edition (Edinburgh, 1828), of the first series, which brings the history of Scotland up to 1603, with marginal corrections by Scott.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3571-3573
Scope and Contents
The corrections seem, with few exceptions, to have been incorporated in later editions.
Dates:
1828.