Summaries.
Found in 245 Collections and/or Records:
Food bills., 1669-1696.
Gaelic material, chiefly plays and broadcasts, of Hector MacIver., 1934-1962, undated.
'Glen Quoich stags 1873 to 19__', printed for Edward Charles Ellice in 1899., 1899-1910.
The volume contains a title page (folio 1), photographs of Glenquoich Lodge and its billiard room (folio 2), blank leaves on which are recorded summaries of stags shot, 1841-1863 (folio 4), a printed record of stags shot, 1893-1898 (folio 8), leaves partly printed with details added by hand, 1899-1910 (folio 34) and leaves left blank (folio 45). Printed analyses of stags shot, 1910-1912, have been pasted to folios 45-46.
The flyleaf at the front has been cut out.
Glossary of Gaelic terms connected with ‘music, poetry, dancing and oratory’ compiled by Angus Fraser., [1855, or after.]
Imperfect copy, lacking the title page, of the libretto of ‘La Traviata’ by Verdi (Paris, 1865).
Incomplete copy, written in the late 17th century, of the chronicle of the Civil War in Scotland compiled by Henry Guthrie, Bishop of Dunkeld, subsequently printed as ‘The Memoirs of Henry Guthrie’ (London, 1702).
The manuscript, which covers the period only as far as October 1643, is the same as that common to the other copies in this Library, agreeing with them against the printed book occasionally in small omissions and additions, and frequently in vocabulary, spelling and word order. A few of the early pages contain summaries in the margin.
‘Inventory of the writts of the lands and baronies of Gleneagles & Haldane’ containing in a late eighteenth-century hand transcripts and summaries of charters and other formal documents, and notes of others concerning the Haldane claim to the earldom of Lennox., [?1724, or earlier.]
Journal and précis of dispatches of J L Doerfeld, secretary to Lewis de Vismes, Envoy extraordinary to Sweden., 1774-1776.
The papers concern: Robert Liston's career as tutor to the sons of Sir Gilbert Elliot; the period from 1771 to 1773 which he spent in applying, unsuccessfully, for various posts; his assisting Gilbert Stuart in editing 'The London Magazine'; and the beginning of his diplomatic career, as secretary to Hugh Elliot in Munich and as Chargé d'Affaires to the Imperial Diet in Ratisbon, 1774-1776.
Journal of Charles Abbot of a tour of Scotland., 1827.
'Julii Pacii a Beriga I.C. Erotemata in Digesta seu Pandectas’, being a summary by question and answer of the first twenty-seven books of the 'Digest' of Justinian., 17th century.
Many of the manuscripts contain notes, indexes, etc., by George Neilson.
Ledger containing ‘Accounts of the monies expended & the work executed on the Barony of Strathbrock’, now Uphall, belonging to the Earl of Buchan.
The accounts were begun ‘by John Millar, Precentor of Uphall and School Master of the Parish, and continued by Ebenezer Faichney, Overseer to the Earl of Buchan'. They relate mainly to the estate of Kirkhill; but they include also some household and personal expenses of the Earl, who passed and signed the accounts, a summary of the enclosures on the estate of Kirkhill, 1780 (folio 26), and a list of the Statute work of the barony (folio 103).
Legal notes on various matters of Civil and Scots law, including some by Lord Milton., 17th century-18th century.
The more substantial items are: suggestions for amending the law, 1752 (folio 12), proposals for publishing the Civil Law (folio 15), notes on actions (folio 57; cf. MS.17820), a summary of Stair's ‘Institutions’ (folio 69), a copy of 'De jure praelationis Nobilium Scotiae ... 1606' (see Adv.MS.33.7.5) with various lists of peers down to 1707 and of representative peers down to 1739 (folio 86), and an alphabetical list of tailzies from 1685 to 1754 (folio 131).
Letter-book of Francis Jeffrey whilst Lord Advocate, containing some copies and a much greater number of summaries of his outgoing letters., 24 December 1830-18 March 1833.
Many of the letters and summaries are addressed to Henry Cockburn who was Solicitor-General for Scotland during the same period.
Each volume has at the front, leaves marked for an alphabetical list, which has been started but not continued with in MS.23220-23221 and unattempted in MS.23222.
Letter-book of Francis Jeffrey whilst Lord Advocate, containing some copies and a much greater number of summaries of his outgoing letters., 27 January 1831-9 April 1832.
Many of the letters and summaries are addressed to Henry Cockburn who was Solicitor-General for Scotland during the same period.
Each volume has at the front, leaves marked for an alphabetical list, which has been started but not continued with in MS.23220-23221 and unattempted in MS.23222.
Letter-book of Francis Jeffrey whilst Lord Advocate, containing some copies and a much greater number of summaries of his outgoing letters., 18 March 1833-22 July 1834.
Many of the letters and summaries are addressed to Henry Cockburn who was Solicitor-General for Scotland during the same period.
Each volume has at the front, leaves marked for an alphabetical list, which has been started but not continued with in MS.23220-23221 and unattempted in MS.23222.
Letter-book of John Russell of Braidshaw, Writer to the Signet (adrnitted 1711), started in 1700 and continued until 1712, with an almost complete gap between December 1704 and January 1707, and another between November 1707 and May 1709.
The volume contains copies, drafts and summaries of his outgoing letters, and copies of legal and financial documents concerning himself and his sisters. Several letters are addressed to merchants and officials in Rotterdam (where his father had been a merchant) and in other parts of Holland.
Letter-books of Francis Jeffrey whilst Lord Advocate, containing some copies and a much greater number of summaries of his outgoing letters., 1830-1834.
Many of the letters and summaries are addressed to Henry Cockburn who was Solicitor-General for Scotland during the same period.
Each volume has at the front, leaves marked for an alphabetical list, which has been started but not continued with in MS.23220-23221 and unattempted in MS.23222.