Codicils.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Addenda to wills, which explain, revoke, modify, or add to their provisions.
Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of the Free Church of Scotland relating to legacies., 1898-1900.
File
Identifier: MS.18096
Papers of the Free Church of Scotland relating to various trusts., 1855-1900.
File
Identifier: MS.18078
Various manuscripts of David Hume., 1738-1776, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.23159
Scope and Contents
The papers include David Hume's agreement with John Noon for publishing the ‘Treatise of human nature’, 1738; his appointment as Judge Advocate, 1746; a letter of Hume recounting the order to remove three French works purchased by him while Keeper of the Library of the Faculty of Advocates - ‘Contes’ of La Fontaine, Bussy-Rabutin's ‘Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules,’ and Crébillon's ‘L'Ecumoire,’ - deemed by three of his curators 'indecent Books and unworthy of a place in a learned Library',...
Dates:
1738-1776, undated.
Will of Major-General George Brown, 1846, with codicil, 1854., 1846, 1854.
File
Identifier: Ch.1449