Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Physical or digital representations of a body of information designed with the capacity to communicate. In its broadest sense, ""documents"" include any item amenable to cataloging and indexing, that is, including nonprint media. For the activity of gathering and recording information, see ""documentation (function)""For specfic types of documents, see concepts under ""document genres."".
Found in 1533 Collections and/or Records:
Microfilm of assorted manuscripts, chiefly genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.32
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Genealogical and legal papers, 1794-1866 (Adv.MS.2.1.13);Miscellaneous letters and documents, 1659-1831 (Adv.MS.2.1.14);Miscellaneous manuscript, 1629-1921 (Adv.MS.2.1.15);Stewart genealogies, papers on various families of Stewart collected by, and with some notes of, George Chalmers, 17th century-18th century (Adv.MS.6.1.12);Materials, 1811, or after, for a Baronetage of Scotland, collected by Sir Samuel Egerton...
Dates:
17th century-1921.
Microfilm of assorted papers of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company, the Gibson family, Robert Stevenson and Alexander Graham Dunlop.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.444
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Minute book, 1697-1698, of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company (Adv.MS.83.7.2);Legal and financial papers, 1825-1893, of the Gibson family, concerning the sale and purchase of property in the province of Buenos Aires, together with sketch maps, powers of attorney and other miscellaneous papers (MS.10328);Letters and a journal, 1817, of Robert Stevenson, the engineer, addressed to his daughter Jeanie during a visit he...
Dates:
1697-1698, 1817-1893.
Microfilm of assorted papers of the family of Cameron of Fassifern
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1288
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Notebook containing memoranda on sales of crops and cattle, 1783, 1786, and notes of receipts of rents, 1849-1863 (Acc.9174/14);Miscellaneous estate papers, [circa 1760, ?1742-?1853], including tenants’ petitions and memorials, tacks, notes on crop-rotation, advertisements for sale or lease of farms, both manuscript and printed, a memorandum in John Cameron of Fassifern’s hand concerning the running of his estate during his exile in England and ‘A...
Dates:
1656-1863.
Microfilm of autograph manuscripts of dramas and other works of Sir David Erskine., Early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.112
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Microfilm of autograph manuscripts of dramas and other works of Sir David Erskine., Early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.113
Scope and Contents
Adv.MS.5.1.18.
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Microfilm of autograph manuscripts of dramas and other works of Sir David Erskine., Early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.114
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Microfilm of autograph manuscripts of dramas and other works of Sir David Erskine., Early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.115
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Microfilm of autograph manuscripts of dramas and other works of Sir David Erskine., Early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.116
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Microfilm of Balcarres papers, concerning the Church of Scotland, lead mining, and political papers., [1231-1686.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.212
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Letters and papers, 1231-1641, mostly concerning the Church of Scotland (Adv.MS.29.2.8);
Papers concerning lead mining in Scotland in the late 16th century, and political papers of the 17th century, [1584-1686] (Adv.MS.29.2.9);
Letters and papers, 1574-1604, mostly of the Regent, James Douglas, Earl of Morton, to David Borthwick of Lochill, Lord Advocate (Adv.MS.29.2.9a).
Dates:
[1231-1686.]
Microfilm of Balcarres papers, consisting of papers and accounts concerning the University of Saint Andrews.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1837
Dates:
1438-1630.
Microfilm of Balcarres papers, consisting of papers and accounts concerning the University of Saint Andrews., 1438-1630.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.211
Dates:
1438-1630.
Microfilm of ‘Beginning and the end of the Lewis Chemical Works', a detailed account written by D Morison, former foreman of the plant, of its operation from 1857 to 1874.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2104
Dates:
1895.
Microfilm of chiefly letters of and to James Robert Hope-Scott.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.924-927
Dates:
[?1836-?1873.]
Microfilm of chiefly letters of Thomas Carlyle to his family., 1860-1870.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.365
Scope and Contents
Letters, 1860-15 June 1865, of Thomas Carlyle to his family. (MS.517);
Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his family, with drafts and miscellanea, [27 June 1865-1870] (MS.518).
Dates:
1860-1870.
Microfilm of chiefly letters of Thomas Carlyle to his family.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.365-372
Dates:
1818-1870.
Microfilm of collection of Björn Haldórsson on Icelandic history.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.164
Dates:
15th century-18th century.
Microfilm of collection of theological works by or attributed to Saint Augustine, with a number of letters, chiefly of Saints Augustine and Jerome, written, probably in North Italy, in the fifteenth century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1389
Dates:
15th century.
Microfilm of copies, 17th century, of treaties and other documents, 13th-16th century, concerning France and Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.527
Dates:
13th century-16th century.
Microfilm of copies, 1796, of William Rose, the genealogist, of charters and other papers, 1st half of 16th century-1740; and, arms of the English and Scottish nobility, [circa 1612].
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.356
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copies, 1796, of charters and other papers, 1st half of 16th century-1740, written for and partly by William Rose, the genealogist, in Montcoffer (Adv.MS.15.1.9);
Arms of the English and Scottish nobility, [circa 1612]. A collection, previously owned by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, of painted arms with genealogical notes on their holders, made by an Englishman (Adv.MS.15.1.10).
Dates:
1st half of 16th century-1740.
Microfilm of copies of letters and papers concerning the formation of the Irish Treasury Board and the procedures to be adopted by it, with notes on the procedures of the British Treasury.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.101
Dates:
1793-1794.
Microfilm of copy of a work written by Alexander Dickson in support of the claims of James VI of Scotland to the crown of England in reply to ‘A Conference about the next succession to the crowne of Ingland’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2109
Dates:
1598.
Microfilm of copyrights of Oliver and Boyd registered at Stationer’ Hall.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1145
Dates:
1846-1896.
Microfilm of correspondence and associated papers, March-December 1809, of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.955
Dates:
1809.