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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Notes added as comment or explanation, such as those accompanying an entry in a bibliography, reading list, or catalogue intended to describe, explain, or evaluate the publication referred to.

Found in 581 Collections and/or Records:

Copy of ‘Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky (London, 1733) with manuscript annotations.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.4.2
Scope and Contents The volume also contains extracts of two letters, ?circa 1690, concerning the attitude of James VII towards the Church of England (folio 1), and `Some additional Characters of the chief of the last Ministry`, 1715, signed M S (folio 3). The characters, which are apparently copied from another manuscript, are of Bolingbroke, Stafford, the Bishop of London and others. The annotations, writtenbetween 1781 and 1797, are signed `M.` and `E.M.` and are mostly copies of notes by...
Dates: Circa 1690, 1715, 1733, 1781-1797.

Copy of "Pictures in the New Club" (1911), with manuscript annotations and additions.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7871
Scope and Contents

A catalogue of pictures in the New Club, Edinburgh.

Dates: 1911.

Copy of ‘Robert Fergusson, 1750-1774: essays by various hands’, edited by Sydney Goodsir Smith (Edinburgh, 1952), with manuscript corrections and annotations., [1952, or after.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.26147
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Born in New Zealand and educated in England, Sydney Goodsir Smith's first poems were in English, but he began writing in Scots in about 1940 and published several volumes of poetry. He also wrote for the stage, radio and television, as well as editing works of Robert Burns and Robert Fergusson. All these interests are reflected in his papers, but his work as an art critic survives in only a few fragmentary items.

Dates: [1952, or after.]

Copy of Robert Law, "Memorials" (Edinburgh, 1818), with annotations by editor Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9331
Scope and Contents

Includes letters of James Ballantyne to Sharpe concerning the printing of "Memorials".

Dates: 1818.

Copy of ‘The house with the green shutters’ (London, 1902) by George Douglas, with annotations by John MacDougall Hay., [1902, or after.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.26795
Scope and Contents From the Series:

John MacDougall Hay became minister of Elderslie in 1909, but is best known for his work as a novelist and poet, particularly for his novel 'Gillespie' (London, 1914). He also wrote numerous articles for newspapers and periodicals.

Dates: [1902, or after.]

Copy of ‘The possessed’ (London, 1913) by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, with annotations by John MacDougall Hay., [1913, or after.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.26796
Scope and Contents From the Series:

John MacDougall Hay became minister of Elderslie in 1909, but is best known for his work as a novelist and poet, particularly for his novel 'Gillespie' (London, 1914). He also wrote numerous articles for newspapers and periodicals.

Dates: [1913, or after.]

Copy of the 'Report of the royal commission on Scottish affairs, 1952-19545' (HMSO, 1954), annotated by Robert Douglas McIntyre., 1954.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10090/77
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Some family and other papers of Robert Douglas McIntyre's father, the Reverend John Ebenezer McIntyre (1874-1961), successively minister of Hightae and Dalton, Motherwell, Manse Road, and St Mary's, Edinburgh, United Free churches, and later of Barony and St James Place Church of Scotland, Edinburgh, precede the main collection.

Dates: 1954.

Copy of the statutes of the Order of the Garter in English, written probably in 1558, containing the statutes of Henry VIII, and of Mary and Philip, and a further statute, dated 12th of January in the first year of Elizabeth, added in another hand.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.18
Scope and Contents The title, and the statutes of Henry VIII, are introduced by small gold initials within blue and brown parti-coloured squares. Many of the statutes of Henry VIII, and most of those of Mary and Philip have a title or a summary in red in the margin, written in the same hand as the text; several have marginal annotations in another hand of the late 16th or early 17th century. All the statutes, except that of Elizabeth, have been numbered, and at folios i-ii is a list of contents, written in a...
Dates: 1558.

Copy of "Traditions of Edinburgh" (1825), by Robert Chambers, with double pages replacing cancelled leaves and the original text (concerning Hugo Arnot) supplied in manuscript.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12417
Scope and Contents

Includes tipped in notes of Arnot`s son, and an anecdote, of Walter Scott to Robert Chambers which was incorporated into "Traditions of Edinburgh".

Dates: circa 1825.

Copy of ‘Under the Eildon tree’ (Edinburgh, 1948), by Sydney Goodsir Smith, with manuscript corrections and annotations by the author., [1948, or after.]

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Identifier: MS.26124
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Most of Sydney Goodsir Smith's poems in Scots were published in literary periodicals and in several small volumes of his poetry. His 'Collected poems, 1941-1975' (London, 1975), contains a selection of his work and not the whole corpus.

Dates: [1948, or after.]

Copy of “Πρόχειρον νόμων” (Paris, 1540) by Constantinus Harmenopoulos, with manuscript notes and annotations., 1758, undated.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.5.1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Seven copies of “Πρόχειρον νόμων, sive epitome juris civilis" with marginal annotations of collation and correction by various scholars of Esusciluce whose names are noted on each.

Dates: 1758, undated.

Copy of “Πρόχειρον νόμων” (Paris, 1540) by Constantinus Harmenopoulos, with manuscript notes and annotations., Mid 16th century-18th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.5.2
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Seven copies of “Πρόχειρον νόμων, sive epitome juris civilis" with marginal annotations of collation and correction by various scholars of Esusciluce whose names are noted on each.

Dates: Mid 16th century-18th century.

Copy of “Πρόχειρον νόμων” (Paris, 1540) by Constantinus Harmenopoulos, with manuscript notes and annotations., Mid 16th century-18th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.5.3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Seven copies of “Πρόχειρον νόμων, sive epitome juris civilis" with marginal annotations of collation and correction by various scholars of Esusciluce whose names are noted on each.

Dates: Mid 16th century-18th century.

Copy of “Πρόχειρον νόμων” (Paris, 1540) by Constantinus Harmenopoulos, with manuscript notes and annotations., 1704, undated.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.5.4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Seven copies of “Πρόχειρον νόμων, sive epitome juris civilis" with marginal annotations of collation and correction by various scholars of Esusciluce whose names are noted on each.

Dates: 1704, undated.

Copy of “Πρόχειρον νόμων” (Paris, 1540) by Constantinus Harmenopoulos, with manuscript notes and annotations., Mid 16th century-18th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.5.5
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Seven copies of “Πρόχειρον νόμων, sive epitome juris civilis" with marginal annotations of collation and correction by various scholars of Esusciluce whose names are noted on each.

Dates: Mid 16th century-18th century.

Copy of “Πρόχειρον νόμων” (Paris, 1540) by Constantinus Harmenopoulos, with manuscript notes and annotations., Mid 16th century-18th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.5.6
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Seven copies of “Πρόχειρον νόμων, sive epitome juris civilis" with marginal annotations of collation and correction by various scholars of Esusciluce whose names are noted on each.

Dates: Mid 16th century-18th century.