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Signatures. Names.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Persons' names written in their own hand.

Found in 133 Collections and/or Records:

Accounts of the Treasurer of the Faculty of Advocates concerning charges and discharges., 1696-1702.

 File
Identifier: F.R.41
Scope and Contents

Includes an inventory of bonds for the current Dean of Faculty and Mr John Fairholm, Treasurer. Signed by John Mackaile.

Dates: 1696-1702.

‘Act of the Associate Presbytery for Renewing the National Covenant’ (Edinburgh, 1748), bound with blank pages for subscriptions, issued to the Congregation at Muckhart.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3923
Scope and Contents The blank pages are filled with: (i) copies, made in 1763, of the sets of signatures for seven years from 1745 to 1758; (ii) original signatures, and the names of those who could not write, for 1769, 1776, and 1781. A Communion Roll of the United Presbyterian Congregation at Muckhart, 1886, is inserted at folio 29.There are on the fly-leaf a modern inscription in shorthand, with the name James Duncan (possibly a relative of the United Presbyterian Church Presbytery Clerk whose...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1745-1781, 1886.

Autograph of Queen Mary on the fly-leaf of 'Buckingham Palace: its furniture, decoration and history (London, 1930), by Harold Clifford Smith.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1094
Scope and Contents

This copy of the book was made specially for Their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary.

Dates: 1931.

Book of autographs begun by Catherine E Moir, wife of David Macbeth Moir, 1829, and continued by her daughter Anne Mary Milligan, 1853, and her grandson, George Milligan, biblical scholar, 1872.

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Identifier: MS.10256
Scope and Contents The album for the most part contains cut-out signatures of well-known nineteenth-century figures but there are also several letters notably of Charles Dickens, Fanny Kemble, Henry Siddons, Samuel Warren and Baroness Wentworth. Also included are autograph poems by Thomas Campbell and James Hogg. The poems of Hogg (folios 64-66) are "Lenochan's farewell", 'The Stuarts of Appin' and 'The poor man', all published in ‘The works of the Ettrick Shepherd' (London, 1873). The verses of Thomas...
Dates: 1829-1872.

Catechism, 17th century, on the contents of 'Regiam majestatem'., 17th century-1705.

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Identifier: MS.1949
Scope and Contents The work is in the handwriting of J Skene (apparently Sir James Skene, Lord President Curriehill), whose signature occurs on folio 6.It is preceded by an extract from ‘An historical essay showing that the crown and kingdom of Scotland is imperial and independent' (Edinburgh, 1705) by James Anderson, Writer to the Signet, in a hand of the eighteenth century (folio i); and short biographies of Scottish authors of the sixteenth century, partly taken from Thomas Dempster's 'Historia...
Dates: 17th century-1705.

Charms and spells etc., including notes on witchcraft and astrology., Late 18th century, 1818.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2716
Scope and Contents

A late eighteenth-century manuscript bearing the signatures 'John Blakey' (page 15) and 'Thomas Wyld' (pages 30, 72), with some additional matter (page i), dated 1818, written perhaps by the James Lomax whose signature is on page 3.

Dates: Late 18th century, 1818.