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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:

Copies of historical works of Alexander Hume, preceded by a Latin treatise.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.3
Scope and Contents The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.7.18.The contents are as follows:(i) ‘De foedere Dei cum homine’, ‘Arminianorum abjectiones adversus hanc doctrinam’, 1653 (folio 1); (ii) ‘Rerum scoticarum compendium in usum scholarum, per Alexandrum Humium’, 1660 (folio 72); (iii) ‘Clavis in Buchananum, hoc est, nomi num propriorum aliorumque elucidatio’, undated (folio 165).At the end of the volume are some...
Dates: 1653, 1660, undated.

Copies of letters to John Burdon-Sanderson and of papers and speeches given by him to learned societies and on other occasions., [?1854-before 1906.]

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Identifier: MS.20032
Scope and Contents

The papers were apparently intended for use in ‘Sir John Burdon Sanderson a memoir’, which was begun by Lady Burdon-Sanderson after his death in 1905 and completed and edited after her death in 1909 by their niece and nephew Elizabeth S Haldane (in whose hand many of the copies are written, most of the rest being in typescript) and John S Haldane, in 1911.

Dates: [?1854-before 1906.]

Copies of letters, tracts and other papers concerning the troubles in Scotland during the reign of Charles I.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.14
Scope and Contents

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.5.6.9.

Dates: 1637-1639.

Copy, 18th century, by Samuel Ayscough of documents concerning revenues of religious houses.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.5.5
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is an imperfect copy of the book of assumption of benefices.

The transcript is from the Harleian manuscript (4623 (or 4613) tom 2).

Dates: 16th century-17th century.

Correspondence, 1838-1846, concerning the subscriptions for and building of the Scott Monument., 1838-1918, undated.

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Identifier: MS.15974
Scope and Contents

The letters are addressed to Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, John Castle and John Dick. There are also a few miscellaneous letters and papers, 1853-1918, undated.

Dates: 1838-1918, undated.

Correspondence, 1851-1892, undated, and papers and press cuttings, 1849-1892, undated, of James Taylor., 1849-1892, undated.

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Identifier: MS.15908
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Correspondence, 1851-1892, undated, consisting chiefly of James Taylor's letters to his family in Scotland, with a few addressed to him. The series begins with Taylor's departure from London and describes life on the estates of Naranghera and Loolecondera from the early stages of clearing land in order to plant coffee, to the running of an established estate. There are descriptions of scenery, reactions to news of the Indian Mutiny in 1857, views on how to...
Dates: 1849-1892, undated.