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Research notes.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: In any field, notes made in the course of creative, scholarly, or scientific inquiry.

Found in 551 Collections and/or Records:

Notes on the Icelandic Saga of Snorri Sturluson., 1951; 1997.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/622
Scope and Contents

File includes a pamphlet on Snorri Sturluson (1997).

Dates: Majority of material found within 1951; 1997.

Occupational songs and incantations, ca. 1953-1960

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14003/22
Scope and Contents

An essay or paper on the origins and antiquity of occupational songs, cradle songs and incantations. At the back of the volume are notes on plant names and lore, with some notes loosely inserted.

Dates: ca. 1953-1960

Other Essays, Reviews, and Meditations, relating to Rankin’s PhD thesis on Muriel Spark., 1983-1986.

 File
Identifier: MS.50602
Scope and Contents Items are arranged chronologically, as determined by marked dates and content. Manuscript of Ian Rankin, 1986, of a review of ‘Muriel Spark’ by Alan Bold (1986), with related research notes. Folios 1-10. Typescripts, 1984-1985, of an essay by Ian Rankin, ‘Crocodiles, Rocks, Chess, and Disguise: The Fiction of Muriel Spark’, an essay. Folios 11-69.Typescript, undated, of Ian Rankin, ‘Crocodiles, Rocks, Chess, and Disguise: The Fiction of Muriel Spark’,...
Dates: 1983-1986.

Papers and notes of Frank Roydon Richards, mostly concerning the decipherment of the Linear B script, with material concerning other cuneiform scripts.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9094/1-89
Scope and Contents

Frank Roydon Richards, rector of Glasgow Academy from 1932 to 1959, devoted much of his retirement to the study of Linear B and especially the methods used by Michael Ventris, to whose decipherment he took a sceptical attitude. For comparative purposes he also studied the methods used by the decipherers of Hittite and other cuneiform scripts. The bulk of the material consists of transcripts of texts and summaries of books and articles, with critical comments by Richards interspersed.

Dates: 1966-1975, undated.

Papers, including correspondence, research notes, press cuttings and printed materials, of Dr Sue Innes, mostly concerning her research into the subjects of citizenship, women and gender studies.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12633/1-45
Scope and Contents

The collection contains correspondence, manuscript and typescript research notes, annotated typescripts of research papers, newscuttings and printed materials. Most of the material is undated.

Dates: Circa 1990-2005, undated.

Papers of John Murdoch Henderson.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21669-21713
Scope and Contents The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates: 17th century-1972.

Papers of Sir Thomas Muir on mathematics.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10068/1-5
Dates: Majority of material found within 1900-1920, 1934, undated.

Papers on Magnusson’s 'Oxford Dictionary of National Biography' entry for John Williams (1792-1858) First Rector of Edinburgh Academy., 1998-2000.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/593
Scope and Contents

File includes correspondence with Oxford University Press, research notes and draft of DNB entry.

Dates: 1998-2000.

Papers on Scottish Places., 1960-2006.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/514-551
Dates: Majority of material found within 1960-2006.

Papers on the Island of Barra., 1969.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/520
Scope and Contents

File includies script entitled ‘The Disappearing Island', a newspaper cutting, and notes on Barra.

Dates: 1969.