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Catalogues.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Enumerations of items, usually arranged systematically, with descriptive details; may be in book or pamphlet form, on cards, or online. (AAT) This term in the NLS published catalogues was used only for lists of books. Lists of other objects were indexed under the name of the object (e.g. pictures). General household inventories were indexed under 'Plenishing' (NLS).

Found in 484 Collections and/or Records:

‘Catalogus librorum in bibliotheca facultatis juridicae Edenburgi’, January 1683.

 Item
Identifier: MS.549
Scope and Contents

The first catalogue of the Library. It is in the same handwriting as another manuscript copy, also in the Library, bound with printed sale-catalogues, press-mark, H.35.d.1(5), but contains later accessions in a different hand.

Dates: 1683.

'Catalouge of Books belonging to Thomas Crawfurd of Crawfurdsburne', [2nd of Cartsburn]., Late 17th century-early 18th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2822
Scope and Contents

A list, chiefly of religious and historical works, dating from the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century (folios 2-13), with, in the same hand, a list of books lent (folios 16-27) and 'ane additional Catalouge of my Books begunn on January 4th 1728' (folios 28-51). There are some additions throughout in a later hand, and also, in both hands, further notes of books lent at various dates from 1708-1775.

Dates: Late 17th century-early 18th century.

Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.15
Scope and Contents Each volume has a contents list (folios 1, 77) and the second volume has its own foliation added in an apparently later hand.The first volume (folios 1-74) consists of copies (in the same hand), made apparently in or about 1585, of the following:(i) ‘Discorso del Priore d`Inghilterra a Papa Pio V circa la Riduttione di quel Regno’ (folio 2), being an account by Sir Richard Shelley, Grand Prior of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, written apparently early in 1570,...
Dates: 1537-1606.

Copy in typescript carbon of the catalogue, compiled by Hugh Sharp, of his collection of books.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.19409-19410 [H.S.1247-1248]
Scope and Contents

This is a copy of MSS.5053-5054 with the leaves arranged differently, in two separate alphabetical sequences, and was the working copy used by the donor, Campbell White, in looking after the collection before Hugh Sharp's death.

Dates: [1938, or before.]