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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:

‘Extracta ex variis chronicis Scotiae’, an incomplete transcript, early 18th century, taken from the original manuscript, Adv.MS.35.6.13, a collection of extracts of chronicles, late 15th century-early 16th century, mostly taken from Fordun and Boece with extensive annotations in the hand of Sir William Sinclair of Roslin.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.4.5
Scope and Contents

A number of items in the Wodrow collection are in the same hand, and the copyist appears to have worked fairly frequently for Robert Wodrow. Later additions in the original are here collected at the end (page 159) and partially in a different hand, but the copyist breaks off in mid-entry at folio 296 verso of the original. The folio numbers of the original are given in the margin, and the index, which is placed at the beginning in the original, is omitted.

Dates: Late 15th century-early 16th century.

File containing typescripts, some annotated, of the poem 'Watter', by Janet Paisley; with a draft of the script for a dramatised documentary 'Redding 1923' , by Adam Stafford, and a photocopy of the story board for the same., 2011.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14151 Box 1(8)
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This is a box list of the papers of Janet Paisley, as received by the Library. No attempt has been made currently to review the order of the papers, to date them or to otherwise interpret them. The aim of the box list is to facilitate access in advance of any fuller arrangement and description.

Dates: 2011.

First edition of Alasdair Gray's "Lanark" (1981) with annotations in the hand of the author.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14530
Scope and Contents

Manuscript annotations to the text on pages 490, 491, 538, 539 and 545 were intended by Gray to be included in new editions of the novel.

Dates: 1981; 2017-2019.

'First [Second, Third] Report from the Select Committee on Sites for Churches (Scotland)', ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 29 March [26 April, 5 July] 1847, with a few annotations., 1847.

 File
Identifier: MS.19197
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The archive of the General Treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900, with related papers including a few of slightly earlier and later date. The archive gives a complete picture of the financial basis of one of the most significant organised religious bodies in Scotland, from the Disruption to the first of the major Presbyterian reunions, dealing in great detail with the sources of finance and with its expenditure on a variety of projects.

Dates: 1847.

Five volumes of newspaper cuttings with annotations by James Logie Robertson and a letter of George Fothergill to Robertson.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.6659/1-6
Scope and Contents James Logie Robertson was born in Milnathort, Kinross-shire in 1846 and educated at Orwell Parish School and Edinburgh University. He was assistant master at Heriot's Hospital and George Watson's College before joining the staff at Edinburgh Ladies' College in 1876. His writings, some under the pen-name of 'Hugh Haliburton', include English text-books, essays and poetry. Robertson died in 1922.Five volumes of newspaper cuttings with annotations by James Logie Robertson and a...
Dates: 1896-1910, 1916-1917.

Galley proofs, circa 1958, of Ian Hamilton Finlay, "The Sea-Bed and Other Stories", with corrections by Finlay.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10351
Scope and Contents

With printed copies of two short stories, undated, of Finlay with his annotations and corrections.

Dates: circa 1958 and undated.

Geological sketchbook of John Francis Campbell for the most part containing annotated rock rubbings made on his travels in Great Britain, along with various other geological notes and sketches., 1862-1864.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.3.23
Scope and Contents The volume begins by describing several visits Campbell made to mines in Wales and the South of England while he was involved in collecting information and witnesses for the Mines` Commission, of which he was Secretary, in 1863 (folios 3-17). There are also a few watercolours made on a visit to Ireland in 1863 (folios 19 verso-30).One or two letters have been inserted in the volume, mainly from Sir Kenneth S Mackenzie of Gairloch and his gamekeeper, 1863-1864, and a few press...
Dates: 1862-1864.

Grangerised and heavily corrected copy of ‘A handful of heather’ (Aberdeen, 1893) by Charles Murray., 1893.

 File
Identifier: MS.27258
Scope and Contents

Only twelve copies were printed, some of which Charles Murray later destroyed. Some of the poems are annotated with references to magazines in which they were published. The insertions are cuttings of published poems and (page 73) extra copies of pages 37-44 of ‘A handful of heather’.

Dates: 1893.