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:
Catalogue and list of books of Lord George Douglas which he presented to the Faculty of Advocates.
Series
Identifier: F.R.198-F.R.199
Dates:
1695.
‘Catalogue and succession of the Kings ... of this Realme of England' ([London], 1622), by Ralph Brooke., 1622, [circa 1804].
Item
Identifier: MS.6133
Scope and Contents
The notes by John Borthwick include some observations by Thomas Hamilton, Lord Binning, on the claims of the Borthwicks of Crookston to the title of Lord Borthwick (folio 1 verso).
Dates:
1622, [circa 1804].
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of mediaeval manuscripts and two printed books with manuscript notes, formerly in the possession of the family of Borthwick of Crookston.
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Printed works on heraldry, with manuscript notes chiefly concerning the genealogy of the Borthwick family, probably by John Borthwick of Borthwick and Crookston, circa 1804.
"Catalogue Books Brunstane [Lord Milton's Edinburgh house, see MSS.17477-17487]", apparently a shelf-catalogue, although the presses and shelves are not indicated in any way., [Circa 1760.]
Item
Identifier: MS.17866
Dates:
[Circa 1760.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Catalogues and lists of books of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Catalogue compiled by Hugh Sharp of the Hugh Sharp Collection of printed books.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5053-5054
Scope and Contents
The catalogue was compiled before the transmission of the collection to the National Library of Scotland in 1938. It contains interesting details about many of the books. A newspaper-cutting about the collection, and notes made by members of the National Library staff, found loose in the first volume, have been pasted in.
Dates:
[1938, or before.]
Catalogue, compiled by James Stevenson, Advocate, (Keeper 1693-1702), of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Item
Identifier: F.R.259a
Dates:
1699.
Catalogue (in two volumes) and valuation of the library of Alfred Shepherd, Writer to the Signet.
File
Identifier: Acc.10032
Scope and Contents
With a manuscript poem on the origins and early history of Britain.
Dates:
1930.
Catalogue of a library of the Kerr family, Marquesses of Lothian. , 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.5822
Catalogue of a library of the Kerr family, Marquesses of Lothian., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.5827
‘Catalogue of all the provosts, fellowes and schollers of the Kings Colledge of the Blessed Virgin Marie and St Nicholas in the University of Cambridge’, from 1443 to 1627.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.29
Scope and Contents
The following notes appear at the front of the volume. ‘Thomas Hatchir the Author hereof viz. to y[e] year 1563’. “See some account of this Catalogue in Advertizements to Registrum Regale of Eton scholars Quarto and Walp[ole’s] Paint[er]”. “This catalogue is often cited in Fuller’s Worthies”.
Dates:
16th century-1627.
Catalogue of, and memorandum concerning imperfect books and books in the course of publication at the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Series
Identifier: F.R.336/1-F.R.336/2
Dates:
1807-1816.
Catalogue of Banchory House Library, compiled by James B. Thomson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13866
Dates:
1910
"Catalogue of Baron Hume’s library", i.e. that of David Hume, nephew of the philosopher and Baron of the Exchequer of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: MS.348
Scope and Contents
The catalogue was compiled by Thomas G Stevenson, bookseller, Edinburgh, 1840 (see folio 312 verso).
Dates:
1840.
Catalogue of books., 1821.
File
Identifier: Acc.11049/70
Dates:
1821.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Personal and estate papers of the Willison family of Perthshire and Lanarkshire, including farming notebooks, private correspondence and family documents; with family history and genealogical papers compiled by Ralph Willison Simmonds.
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Miscellaneous notebooks and printed matter of and relating to the Willison family.
Catalogue of books and index to scriptural texts of sermon, 1860-1893.
File
Identifier: Acc.3334/47
'Catalogue of Books belonging to James Boswell, Esq.', in Boswell's autograph.
Item
Identifier: MS.3285
Dates:
Circa 1770.
'Catalogue of books belonging to Lady Ancram, Newbattle Abbey, September 1800'., 1800.
Item
Identifier: MS.5823
Scope and Contents
The catalogue is partly in the hand of Henrietta, 1st wife of the 6th Marquess of Lothian.
Dates:
1800.
‘Catalogue of books belonging to Mr. Thomas Ruddiman’ undated., Early 18th century-mid 18th century, 1802, 1887.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.764-766
Dates:
Early 18th century-mid 18th century, 1802, 1887.
Catalogue of books belonging to the Paisley Musical Club, instituted 10 February 1810, a list of 54 items, with prices., [Circa 1843.]
Item
Identifier: MS.2756
Scope and Contents
At the end of the volume are some humorous verses.
Dates:
[Circa 1843.]
Catalogue of books belonging to the Reverend Donald Sage, Minister of Kirkmichael and Cullicudden, drawn up 28 October 1823.
File
Identifier: MS.1537
Scope and Contents
There are also excerpts and translations from Martial and translations of the ‘Faolan’ and ‘Song on a Jilted Lover’ of Rob Donn. Bound at the beginning and end of a volume containing ‘An Epistle address'd to a Friend’ ([Edinburgh], 1740), and 'Love of fame, the universal passion: In seven characteristical satires' (Glasgow, 1755) by Edward Young, both formerly the property of Sage.
Dates:
1740, 1755, 1823.
'Catalogue of Books belonging to the Right Honourable William Marquis of Lothian, Newbattle, October 12th 1709'., 1709.
Item
Identifier: MS.5819
Catalogue of books belonging to William Murray, of Touchadam.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7935
Dates:
1758.
'Catalogue of books in Fore Cabin'., Late 18th century-Mid 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.2460
Dates:
Late 18th century-Mid 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Various logbooks, order-books, returns, and other material concerning the naval careers of Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, and of his son Sir Thomas John Cochrane.
'Catalogue of Books in the Earl of Ancram's dressing room in Berkeley Square, London, 1759'., 1759.
Item
Identifier: MS.5821
'Catalogue of books in the library of the Faculty of Advocates, consisting of the whole of the articles in the printed catalogue of 1742, in that of 1776, and in that of 1807, collected and arranged alphabetically'., 1812.
Sub-Series
Identifier: F.R.152-F.R.168
Scope and Contents
The catalogues were collected and arranged under the inspection of W A Cadell, one of the curators of the library.
Dates:
1812.
'Catalogue of books in the library of the Faculty of Advocates, consisting of the whole of the articles in the printed catalogue of 1742, in that of 1776, and in that of 1807' containing entries beginning with A., 1812.
Item
Identifier: F.R.152
Dates:
1812.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Printed catalogues of the Library belonging to the Faculty of Advocates.
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'Catalogue of books in the library of the Faculty of Advocates, consisting of the whole of the articles in the printed catalogue of 1742, in that of 1776, and in that of 1807, collected and arranged alphabetically'.