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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
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`A Perfect Inventor of all the Pious Donations Given to the Kirks and Hospitals in Scotland since the days of K. Iames 1 To the Regne of King Iames the vi. With Additions. Edenburgh Writen 12 novr i702 by R:M:` (i.e. Robert Mylne).
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Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.7
Scope and Contents
The title is recorded on folio 1.The volume consists of a copy of a list of summaries of formal or legal documents relating to bequests of money and property to various religious institutions from the early fifteenth century (undated, but before 1425) to 1592, followed by summaries of bequests made at various times between 1613 and 1652 (folio 51) and `Additions` (folio 59 verso) consisting of further summaries of bequests made both before and after the Reformation, down to...
Dates:
1st quarter of 15th century-1703.
`A perfyte inventar of all the pious donations gevin to kirks and hospitalls since the dayes of king James the first to the reigne of king James the sixt`.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.15.2.25
Scope and Contents
The title is taken from folio 1.The volume consists of a copy in a late seventeenth-century hand of a list of summaries of formal or legal documents relating to bequests of money and property to various religious institutions, from the early fifteenth century (undated, but before 1425) to 1592, followed by summaries of bequests made at various times between 1613 and 1652 (folio 60). The entries do not appear to have been written in any order, although a roughly...
Dates:
1st quarter of 15th century-1652.
Abstracts by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of his own articles and papers., 1935-1939, 1953.
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Identifier: MS.50215
Scope and Contents
The abstracts are arranged chronologically.1935.‘The Sociological Significance of Communism in the Light of Psycho-Analysis’.Typescript, 1935, of an abstract by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of ‘The Sociological Significance of Communism in the Light of Psycho-Analysis’, by Fairbairn. The abstract would appear not to have been published. Folios 1-2. 1938.‘The Ultimate Basis of Aesthetic Experience’.Typescript, 1938, of...
Dates:
1935-1939, 1953.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
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Lectures and articles of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn.
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Abstracts by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of his own writings and those of other authors.
Account by William Rose, the genealogist, of the Chaplaincies, Prebendaries and Alterages in the Dioceses of Ross, Caithness, Moray and Dunkeld, the revenue from which was granted to Rose in 1776.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.18
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is mostly in Rose`s hand. At folio 159 is a summary of the work.
Dates:
1776, or after.
Administrative papers, containing audience figure summaries., 1973-1984.
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Identifier: Acc.10893/344
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes material concerning productions, administration and publicity.
Dates:
1973-1984.
`Adversaria`, being miscellaneous notes and copies of correspondence of Sir Robert Sibbald, with scholars such as William Nicolson, Edward Lhuyd and John Smith of Durham on Scottish history and antiquities.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.19
Scope and Contents
Smith`s letters (folios 47-61), some of which are originals, concern the records of Scottish history surviving at Durham. Other contents are as follows:(i) Notes on historical manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library (folio 2).(ii) The life of Robert Morison copied from his ‘Plantarum Historiae Universalis Oxoniensis’, part 3, with notes on the same volume (folio 4 verso).(iii) `A list of Gold Scotch Coyns` (folios 13 verso, 18).(iv) `The...
Dates:
Circa 1682-1706, and undated.
Annual summaries of the 4th Earl of Minto's administration., 1906-1909.
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Identifier: MS.12685
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845- 1914), who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1859 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1891. He served in the army in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877, in Afghanistan, 1879, and in Egypt, 1882; from 1883 to 1886 he was Military Secretary to the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, from 1898 to 1904 he was himself Governor-General of Canada, and from 1905 to 1910 he was Viceroy of India. He was also much involved in local affairs,...
Dates:
1906-1909.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845-1914), 4th Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to India.
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Printed summaries of the 4th Earl of Minto's administration.
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Printed summaries of the 4th Earl of Minto's administration: Public Works Department.
Annual summaries of the 4th Earl of Minto's administration relating to the Revenue and Agriculture Department., 1906-March 1908.
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Identifier: MS.12683
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845- 1914), who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1859 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1891. He served in the army in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877, in Afghanistan, 1879, and in Egypt, 1882; from 1883 to 1886 he was Military Secretary to the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, from 1898 to 1904 he was himself Governor-General of Canada, and from 1905 to 1910 he was Viceroy of India. He was also much involved in local affairs,...
Dates:
1906-March 1908.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845-1914), 4th Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to India.
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Printed summaries of the 4th Earl of Minto's administration.
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Printed summaries of the 4th Earl of Minto's administration: Revenue and Agriculture Department.
Biannual summary of payments of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman', and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch'., 1874-1922.
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Identifier: Acc.11812/36
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The surviving business records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'The Evening Dispatch', consisting largely of financial records, 1832 to 1964. Other records have survived only sporadically. These include minutes of directors, 1868-1880, and for the 1940s and 1950s, records of debenture stock, office diaries for 1915 and 1941, and papers of libel cases brought against the newspaper.The second part of the archive consists of titles and other administrative records,...
Dates:
1874-1922.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Titles, financial records and papers of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch'.
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Business records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch'.
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Financial records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman', and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch', containing balance sheets, private ledgers, journals, cash books, purchase books, records of contributors and other miscellaneous papers.
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Private ledgers of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman', and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch', also containing biannual summary of payments.
Bibliography of Henry Gough., 1870-1881.
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Identifier: MS.2714
Scope and Contents
From internal evidence the bibliography was probably compiled between 1870 and 1881.
On folio 2 verso there is a summary by George Neilson of a sixteenth-century charter by Thomas Knox, chaplain of the chaplaincy of St James the Apostle in the metropolitan church of Glasgow.
Dates:
1870-1881.
"Breviate of a selection of passages from the Company’s records, concerning the Nabob of Arcot, the characters of his sons, and the attempts to set aside the succession settled by the Mogul’s Phurmaund", undated., ?Late 18th century-mid 19th century.
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Identifier: MS.1065
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Volumes entitled 'Individuals' contain correspondence regarding patronage and other matters of personal interest (requests for employment, promotion, and pensions, complaints of unjust treatment, etc.). These papers frequently give information of a more general kind.
Dates:
?Late 18th century-mid 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount.
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Papers relating to India and the East received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville.
Chapter summaries for MSS.13797-13801: Fair copy of ‘History of Malabar’ by Alexander Walker., ?1st quarter of 19th century.
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Identifier: MS.13809
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates:
?1st quarter of 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
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Papers of and collected by Alexander Walker for proposed publications.
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Fair copies, drafts, notes and chapter summaries of Alexander Walker's history of Malabar.
Chapter summaries for MSS.13810-13811: Fair copy of ‘Jadee Jathu’ by Alexander Walker., [1821, or after.]
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Identifier: MS.13814
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates:
[1821, or after.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
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Papers of and collected by Alexander Walker for proposed publications.
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Fair copies, drafts and other papers concerning 'Jadee Jathu’, an account of the castes in Malabar by Alexander Walker.
'Chief events in the reigns of the Kings of England from the Conquest', being a digest made in 1875 of David Hume's 'History of England'., 1875.
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Identifier: MS.13419
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates:
1875.
Chronicles and historical works, written in England.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.1
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Table of the sons and grandchildren of St. Louis (folio 1)(ii) `Scala mundi`: historical and genealogical tables from the Creation (folio 1 verso). A similar manuscript of this text is in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS. 645. The chronology goes up to 1519, but apart from a few additions in later hands, the last entry is the accession of Albert the Great in 1438. The tables include lunar and solar years, the dates of...
Dates:
15th century.
Composite volume containing four fragmentary manuscripts of the 12th and 13th centuries, all of uncertain origin.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.17
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) `Synonyma` by Pseudo-Cicero, beginning in the middle of the article `Domuit`. This manuscript differs considerably, both in number of articles and verbally, from the printed texts. On folios 10-11 is an 18th-century note on the bibliography of this work. (Folio 2.)(ii) Fragment of a mediaeval work on logic, listing types of argument (intrinsecus: a comparatione, a parte, a nota; extrinsecus: a coniugatis, a genere, a...
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Copies of correspondence and papers of and concerning Hugh Elliot relating to British Naval operations in the Mediterranean., 1803-1804.
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Identifier: MS.13049
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Copies of correspondence between Lord Nelson and Sir John Acton, 1803-1804 (folio 1);
(ii) Copies of letters of Hugh Elliot to Lord Nelson, 1803 (folio 15);
(iii) Papers concerning John Badge, merchant in Naples, and John Park, master of the ‘Columba , arrested on a charge of barratry, 1803 (folio 91);
(iv) Papers connected with the capture of the French privateer ‘Tigre’, 1803 (folio 129);
(v) Papers relating to an alleged attack (in search of naval...
Dates:
1803-1804.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Family and general correspondence and the diplomatic papers of Hugh Elliot (1752-1830), younger brother of the 1st Earl of Minto.
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Papers of Hugh Elliot relating to the Neapolitan Mission.
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Correspondence of Hugh Elliot concerning all aspects of British military operations in Calabria and Sicily.
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Correspondence and papers of Hugh Elliot relating to British naval operations in the Mediterranean.
Copies of official papers, January 1809, etc., concerning affairs in Kutch, including Captain Greenwood's account, September-October 1809, of a journey into Kutch., 1809.
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Identifier: MS.13708
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates:
1809.
Copies of poems of Margaret Maxwell Inglis and of celebrated poets, with original poems of her daughter, Mrs Gregory, and summaries of sermons, all in Mrs Gregory's hand., 1829-1837, undated.
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Identifier: MS.2072
Scope and Contents
The beginning and end are torn away.
Dates:
1829-1837, undated.
Copy made in or about 1690 by James Clapperton, Dalkeith, of the chronicles of the Civil War in Scotland compiled by Henry Guthrie, Bishop of Dunkeld.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.23
Scope and Contents
The text of this manuscript is the same as that common to the other copies in this Library, agreeing with them against the printed book in some small omissions and additions, and numerous variants in vocabulary, spelling and word order. In addition to the text, the manuscript contains: summaries (in red) in the margins of most of the pages; at page i, a table of contents (as far as page 105 only); at page 161, a list of Royalist supporters executed in England during the Commonwealth period;...
Dates:
Circa 1690.
Copy of a work written by Alexander Dickson in support of the claims of James VI of Scotland to the crown of England in reply to ‘A Conference about the next succession to the crowne of Ingland’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.8
Scope and Contents
‘Conference about the next succession to the crowne of Ingland’ was published in 1594 under the pseudonym R Doleman by a number of authors including chiefly Sir Francis Englefield and Cardinal William Allen: Robert Parsons, Society of Jesus, to whom the work has often been ascribed, was a minor contributor (see ‘Recusant History’, volume 4, page 126). Dickson, who had been a supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots, appears to have become a servant of James VI shortly before he began this reply,...
Dates:
1598.
Copy of a work written shortly after the death in 1751 of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, to show that the principalities usually possessed by the Prince of Wales belong to the Crown.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.12
Scope and Contents
The work consists largely of copies and abstracts of charters and other formal documents relating to the Stewartry and Principality of Scotland (folio 6), the Duchy of Cornwall (folio 52 verso), the Principality of Wales and the Earldom of Chester (folio 56) , the Duchy of Normandy (folio 58 verso) and the Dauphine of France (folio 58 verso), preceded by a summary of the contents (folio 2), and followed by a conclusion (folio 62), an appendix (folio 63), a copy (folio 72 verso) of an act of...
Dates:
1751, or after.
Copy of a work written shortly after the death in 1751 of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, to show that the principalities usually possessed by the Prince of Wales belong to the Crown.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.3
Scope and Contents
The work consists largely of copies and abstracts of charters and other formal documents relating to the Stewartry and Principality of Scotland (folio 7), the Duchy of Cornwall (folio 57), the Principality of Wales and the Earldom of Chester (folio 60), the Duchy of Normandy (folio 62 verso) and the Dauphine of France (folio 62 verso), preceded by a summary of the contents (folio 2), and followed by a conclusion (folio 65 verso), an appendix (folio 66 verso), a copy (folio 75 verso) of an...
Dates:
1751, or after.
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.
Correspondence and papers concerning church affairs in the Parish of Minto., 1895-1905.
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Identifier: MS.13324
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates:
1895-1905.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Papers concerning the Elliot family of Minto relating to local affairs.
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Papers on churches and schools in Minto, Ashkirk and parishes in Fife and Roxburghshire.
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Correspondence and papers concerning church affairs in the Parish of Minto.