Summaries.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Brief statements condensing substansive points in a longer document.
Found in 245 Collections and/or Records:
'Summary of the work of the Legislative Department during the Viceroyalty of the Earl of Minto from 18th November 1905 to 30th September 1910' (Simla, 1910)., 1910.
Item
Identifier: MS.12671
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:
1910.
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: Legislative Department.
'Tabula super bibliam': an early 15th-century glossed copy of a summary of the Bible in Latin verse by Johannes Vasco, Order of Friars Minor, with explanatory verses which give the date of composition as 1393.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.2
Scope and Contents
The text begins 'Ante fir. lux producitur' and the interlinear gloss '[fir]mamentum. quia deus appellat diem'. There are also interlinear capitals indicating to which parts of the chapter the verse refers. Rubrics at the beginning of each book give the number of chapters. The text is followed (folio 123) by mnemonic verses on the books of the Bible with the numbers of their chapters, beginning 'Pentateu genesis exitque levi'; explanatory verses (folio 123 verso) beginning 'Finit tractatus...
Dates:
Early 15th century.
Tour diary of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton: Madras Presidency, August 1909., 1909.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.85.1.2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.
Dates:
1909.
Two copies and various drafts of an historical summary of the 'progress and transactions of the East India Company from their first institution to the present day'., [Circa 1805, circa 1825.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13939-19349
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:
[Circa 1805, circa 1825.]
Typed research and summaries of research of 'The witches of Renfrewshire'., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.12135/3
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes research notes, typescripts and proofs of novels, correspondence, and papers concerning her involvement in cultural and business organisations.This archive includes papers relating to the following published works:'Games of kings' (1961)"Queens' play" (1964)'The disorderly knights' (1966)'Dolly and the singing bird' (1968)'Pawn in frankincense' (1969)'Dolly and the cookie bird' (1970)'The...
Dates:
Undated.
Typescript copy of report of Sydney Jacobs on the Glasgow Youth Action-Research project in Maryhill.
File
Identifier: Acc.7399
Scope and Contents
With a copy of a printed summary concerning the project.
Dates:
1974.
Typescript of summaries, made by the Reverend Walter Macleod, of charters relating to the estate and family of Dundas., ?Late 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.4.15
Scope and Contents
The summaries, which deal mainly with the earlier and more important charters, are arranged under the lands to which the charters relate; marriage contracts, remissions, and commissions are listed separately.
Dates:
?Late 19th century.
Various drafts of MSS.13939-13940: Historical summary of the 'progress and transactions of the East India Company from their first institution to the present day'., [Circa 1805.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13941-13949
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:
[Circa 1805.]
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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Two copies and various drafts of an historical summary of the 'progress and transactions of the East India Company from their first institution to the present day'.
Various printed papers concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to the Army Department., 1905-1910.
File
Identifier: MS.12677
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Annual summaries of the 4th Earl of Minto's administration, Department of Military Supply, 1905-June 1908 (folio 1);
(ii) Annual summaries of principal events and measures, June 1906-May 1909 (folio 29);
(iii) ‘Imperial Gazetteer, India’, volume iv, chapter xi, Army, 1905 (folio 51);
(iv) Notes on establishments, 1907 (folio 86);
(v) Progress report, number 3, on the preparation of the army in India for war, and the redistribution scheme, 1908 (folio...
Dates:
1905-1910.
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: Army Department.
Various printed papers concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to the Commerce and Industry Department., 1905-1912.
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Identifier: MS.12667
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Annual summaries of the 4th Earl of Minto's administration, 1905-March 1909 (folio 1); (ii) Summary of principal measures, 1905-1909 (folio 95); (iii) Papers regarding the views of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce as to the move of the administrative capital of India to Delhi, 1912 (folio 100).
Dates:
1905-1912.
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: Commerce and Industry Department.
Various printed papers concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to the Finance Department., 1905-1911.
File
Identifier: MS.12665
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Summary of the principal measures during the viceroyalty of the 4th Earl of Minto, 1905-November 1908 (folio 1);
(ii) Letter and resolution concerning the revision of the rules for sanctioning expenditure from Indian revenue, 1908 (folio 52);
(iii) Papers relating to alterations in budget procedure, 1908 (folio 59);
(iv) Principal events affecting the Finance Department, 1906-1909, chiefly relating to the gold standard, currency, and excise (folio 76);
(v)...
Dates:
1905-1911.
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: Finance Department.
Various printed papers concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to the Foreign Department., 1905-1910
File
Identifier: MS.12638
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Summaries of the principal events and measures of the viceroyalty of the 4th Earl of Minto, 1905-March 1909 (folio 1);
(ii) Memorandum by St John Brodrick, 1905, on Indian relations with Afghanistan from the Treaty of Gandamak in 1879 until 1905 (folio 32);
(iii) Memorandum by Lord Cromer on the situation in Egypt, 1906, chiefly concerning the strength of the Pan-Islamic movement (folio 40);
(iv) Reports on affairs in Afghanistan by the British agent in...
Dates:
1905-1910
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: Foreign Department.
Various printed papers concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to the Railway Department., 1905-1910.
File
Identifier: MS.12669
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Annual summaries of the 4th Earl of Minto's administration, 1905-1907, 1908-1909 (folio 1);
(ii) Papers connected with the surveying and financing of the projected railways from Peshawar to Kabul by the Khyber, and from Kohat to Kabul by the Kurram Valley, 1906 (folio 70);
(iii) Papers relating to the Baghdad Railway, 1907-1909 (folio 88);
(iv) Memorandum for the Secretary of State on funds for railway construction, 1909 (folio 136);
(v) Memorandum on the...
Dates:
1905-1910.
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: Railways Department.
Vellum and paper fragments from various manuscripts and printed sources, all recovered from the binding of the same work., 1522, or before.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.13
Scope and Contents
The fragments are as follows:(i)-(iv) Two vellum and two paper fragments from unidentified works which are not recorded in ‘Patrologia Latina’. Fragments (i) and (ii) are from the same source, and fragment (i) has a printed fragment pasted across its top.(v)-(xvii) Thirteen fragments, all of which are bifolia from which the tops of the leaves have been cut, of a work apparently summarizing the New Testament or the Bible. Fragments (v)-(x) relate to Matthew Chapters...
Dates:
1522, or before.
‘Vita Merlini Caledonii, metrice composita Galfrido Monumetensi’, being a transcript in the hand of George Ellis, of some passages of Cotton MS. Vespasian E.IV.7 in the British Museum, with summaries in English prose of the intervening passages, and with marginal notes, in the hand of George Ellis., 4th quarter of 13th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.2730
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Many of the manuscripts contain notes, indexes, etc., by George Neilson.
Dates:
4th quarter of 13th century.
Volume containing an account of Leven`s Regiment (which later became the 25th Foot) from 1688, when it was raised by David Leslie, 3rd Earl of Leven, to 1826.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.21
Scope and Contents
The volume would appear to have been the first of two, for the leaves are watermarked 1860 and folio 175 is inscribed in pencil `See Book No II`. The work is anonymous: it appears to have been made the basis of the text of ‘Records of the King`s Own Borderers’ by R T Higgins, but neither the text nor the many pencil additions and alterations appear to be in his hand. The account begins at folio 13, being preceded by a summary account to 1793 (folio 1) and `A List of His Majesty`s...
Dates:
1860, or after-1908.
Volume containing summaries of accounts, 1862-1879, and descriptions of graves at Tornacarry and the inscriptions thereon, 1931; with notes, 1906, on paint prices., 1862-1931.
Item
Identifier: MS.15162
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Leaves have been torn out between folios 5 and 6, and 18 and 19.
Dates:
1862-1931.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
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Estate books, being a number of partly printed bound volumes relating in various ways to the Ellices’ estates in Glengarry and Glenquoich.
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Estate finance books.
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Summaries of estate accounts.
Volume of miscellaneous papers concerning genealogy and religion which belonged to Robert Mylne, the antiquary.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.1
Scope and Contents
Sections (i), (ii), (v), and (vi) are written by Mylne himself; (iii) and (iv) by another late-seventeenth- or early-eighteenth-century hand; the last addition in (vi) is by an eighteenth-century hand. Sections (i), (ii), (iii)-(iv), and (vi) originally had separate paginations: Mylne has overwritten these in paginating throughout. An instruction to his binder survives on folio 75. There is the beginning of an index on folios 177-178, deleted and with the note that `the index is in loos...
Dates:
1st quarter of 15th century-1st half of 18th century.
Volume of speeches, tracts and other papers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.2
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Part of a speech to the English Parliament on the financial affairs of James I, probably by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, ?1610 (folio 1).(ii) Copy, dated 1613, of Salisbury`s speech to Parliament, 15 February 1610. For summaries, see ‘A Life of Robert Cecil’, pages 297-299, and ‘Parliamentary Debates in 1610’, pages 1-9 (folio 4).(iii) Notes on rumoured preparations by Catholic forces, by Mr Foster,...
Dates:
Late 16th century-17th century.
Yule collection, chiefly of Scottish manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but including a Book of Hours and some Persian manuscripts.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.3134-3185
Scope and Contents
Many of the papers are accompanied by transcripts or summaries by Alexander Macdonald.
Dates:
1552-19th century