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Printed materials. Object genre.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Genre of written works published or otherwise available in printed form, usually on paper.

Found in 1186 Collections and/or Records:

Papers collected by the Rymour Club, chiefly containing material not printed in the ‘Miscellanea’., ?19th century-?early 20th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.3768
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Two sets of corrections to T G Stevenson's 'Sempill ballates’, with notes (folio 1);(ii) Popular rhymes (folio 17), with a girls' singing-game (folio 28) and a skipping-rope rhyme (folio 29);(iii) Children's rhymes and a game (folio 30);(iv) Proverbs and sayings (folio 47);(v) Stories (folio 57);(vi) Miscellaneous verse and prose (folio 64), including copies of five poems of Henry Scott...
Dates: ?19th century-?early 20th century.

Papers concerning the Arbroath and Forfar Railway., 1840-1853.

 File
Identifier: MS.15482
Scope and Contents The papers include accounts and abstracts of traffic on the railway, together with minutes of some Annual General Meetings, annual reports, etc., 1840-1833 (folio 1); fortnightly and then four-weekly statements of revenue and expenditure, 1842-1848 (folio 39); a report of an accident, 1841 (folio 103); a book of 'Rules and regulations to be observed by contractors' working on the line, 1846 (folio 110); Acts of Parliament relating to the capital of the company (folio 122); a proposed...
Dates: 1840-1853.

Papers concerning the army and military affairs., 1694-1900, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17505-17508
Scope and Contents

The majority of the papers concern recruitment, especially by press, the raising of Highland companies in the 1750s, and the affairs of the regiments (35th and 32nd Foot) commanded by Generals Henry and John Fletcher. Also covered are the military establishment in Scotland, Leith Barracks, the military road from Dumbarton to Inverary, proposals for a Scots militia, and promotions.

Dates: 1694-1900, undated.

Papers concerning the College at Fort William., 1808-1813.

 File
Identifier: MS.11638
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Copies of certificates of proficiency and related material, 1813, (folio 1);(ii) Printed examination class lists, 1808-1813 (folio 23);(iii) Returns of the absence of students, 1811-1813 (folio 30);(iv) Lists of students who left the College, 1810-1813 (folio 38);(v) Declarations of debt given by students, 1813 (folio 47);(vi) Drafts in the 1st Earl of Minto's hand, of his farewell address...
Dates: 1808-1813.

Papers concerning the Jacobite rebellion, collected by John Blair, ‘Vol. I’., 1715-1716, 1745-1747.

 File
Identifier: MS.487
Scope and Contents Includes papers, manuscript and printed, relating to the election of the Magistrates and Council of the City of Edinburgh by a poll vote, 1746 (folios 1-11, 29); excerpts from printed sources relating to the trial of Archibald Stewart, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 1747 (folios 14-24, 29); ‘Particulars of 1715 and 1716 from Rae, Patten, and Tindal’ (folio 27); similar ‘Particulars’ relating to 1745 and 1746, from printed sources (folio 28 verso); printed pamphlets and broadsides relating to the...
Dates: 1715-1716, 1745-1747.