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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:

'Proposals for the improvement in the ventilating arrangements of wireless offices and silent cabinets', being copy letters, memoranda, notes and papers (some printed) bound together in a folder., 1910-1911.

 File
Identifier: MS.20517
Scope and Contents

Although J S Haldane was a member of the committee working on the ventilation of ships in 1912-1913 (cf MS.20511, folios 49-306, passim), it is not clear how or why these papers, which contain nothing written to or by him, came into his possession.

Dates: 1910-1911.

Prose writings, of some of which there are several drafts, by William Drummond of Hawthornden., 1635-1643, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.2058
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

Letter, 1635, to the Earl of Ancram, concerning the divulging of a paper to the King (folio 1);

'Irene', 1638 (folio 42);

'Queries of state' (folio 190);

'The magicall mirror', 1639 (folio 211);

'The load-starre' (folio 242);

‘A Declaration against the Crosse Petition, by the Commissioners of the General Assembly’ (Edinburgh, 1643) (printed) (folio 250);

'Σκιαμαχία’, 1643 (folio 260).

Dates: 1635-1643, undated.

Related material inserted in ‘Our Journall into Scotland, Anno Domini 1629, 5th of November’ by Christopher Lowther (Edinburgh, 1894).

 File
Identifier: MS.20755
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Photographs of the original manuscript (folio 1, 2, 5, 6); (ii) Letters, 1894, 1918, to the publisher, David Douglas, about the edition (folios 3, 7, 10, 18-48); (iii) A copy with manuscript corrections of pages 73-88 of the ‘Thirteenth report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission’, Appendix, Part VII (London, 1893) (the first publication of Lowther's journal) (folio 11); (iv) Press cuttings, 1894, containing reviews of the book (folio 50); (v) A...
Dates: [1893, or after]-1918.