Stylebooks. Reference sources.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Manuals or guides that give examples of rules on the usage of words, punctuation, and typography for the preparation of copy for publication.
Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:
"A collection of styles...Vol 1st, by a Committee of the Juridical Society".
Item
Identifier: Acc.6130
Dates:
1774.
‘Acta Scotica’, containing styles, chiefly of commissions and safe conducts for Ambassadors, with extracts of some proceedings in Parliament.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.5
Dates:
[?1488-?1489.]
Box of the Reverend William Matheson, containing collections of 18th-19th century papers., 1707-1870.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9711 Box 1(1-5)
Drafts of deeds, apparently used as a style book for deed and other writs, volume II., Mid-18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.5.15
Dates:
Mid-18th century.
Drafts of deeds, apparently used as a style book for deed and other writs, volume III., Mid-18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.5.16
Dates:
Mid-18th century.
Drafts of deeds, apparently used as a style book for deeds and other writs.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.24.5.14-24.5.16
Dates:
Mid-18th century.
Drafts of deeds, apparently used as a style books for deed and other writs, volume I., Mid-18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.5.14
Dates:
Mid-18th century.
‘Grant manuscript.’
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.2 (1)-(2)
Scope and Contents
The description is taken from the “Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. III. History” (F.R.186).
Dates:
1494-1593, 17th century.
‘Grant manuscript’, volume 2., 1583-1593, 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.2 (2)
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) A treatise of the office and duties of the High Treasurer of Scotland; (ii) ‘De charta, ejus partibus et clausulis' (page 6);(iii) De warda (page 12);(iv) De maritagio (page 14);(v) De Relevio (page 15);(vi) De nonintroitu (page 16);(vii) De modo tenendi terras nomine cani (page 16);(viii) De diversis generibus chartarum (page 17);(ix) De partibus cartæ...
Dates:
1583-1593, 17th century.
‘Introduction for Reference Work’., 1993.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13656/115
Scope and Contents
SLA style guide.
Dates:
1993.
Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth.
Item
Identifier: MS.5898
Scope and Contents
Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth (folio 28), and subsequently belonging to Robert Blair, Writer in Errol (folio 176 verso).The contents are as follows.(i) Style-book of Scots Law forms based on examples collected in and around Perth (folio 5); preceded by two indices (folios 1 verso, 3).(ii) Latin verses, 1683, entitled 'Carmina auditu digna', possibly written by James Blair. (Folio 92.)(iii) Recipes for dyeing...
Dates:
1682-1683.
Legal books of the Ker family, many of which belonged to Robert Ker, 4th Lord Jedburgh, and later to George Carre, Lord Nisbet., 1590-1749.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5433-5441
Dates:
1590-1749.
Notes and correspondence of the Reverend Dr John Struthers, Minister of Prestonpans, with manuscripts collected by him., 1836-1886.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2119-2127
Papers concerning the family of Gordon of Cairnfield.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7579
Scope and Contents
Including a style book and rental book.
Dates:
circa 1707-circa 1899.
Printer's style books for 'Magnus' and 'Greenvoe', by George Mackay Brown.
File
Identifier: Acc.11126
Dates:
1971-1973.
'Scheme of book-keeping for a writer’, and a collection of drafts and copies of legal documents., 1770-1772.
File
Identifier: MS.24610
Scots law style book, 'containing the forms of all obligations, assignations, translations, dispositions, contracts, charters &c. and other writes which pass twixt private persons, with the usuall forms of summondess and lyblis used before Sheriff and Commissary Courts of Aberdeen. Belonging to and written by James Catanach, MDCCXXII'.
Item
Identifier: MS.3666
Dates:
1772.
Scots law style-book, written by D Bonthrone.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.2
Scope and Contents
The author’s signature appears on folio 69.
Dates:
1702.
Scots Law stylebook titled ‘An introduction to the knowledge of the Stile of Writs simple and compound made use of in Scotland’., Early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.203
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Style book.
Item
Identifier: MS.3050
Scope and Contents
The name John Mudie is written on folios iii verso, xv verso, and xvi.
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Style-book, 1751, of James Marshall, writer in Edinburgh, containing a copy of a deed, 1735, regarding the Struthers family., 1735, 1751.
Item
Identifier: MS.2125
Style book of Alexander Duncan.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.7.4
Scope and Contents
A collection of styles apparently written by Alexander Duncan, whose name is on the first page.
Dates:
17th century.