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Mottoes.

 Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Short sentences or phrases encapsulating a belief or ideal. Source: 'Concise Oxford English dictionary', 11th edition (Oxford, 2004).

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Manuscript containing various legal works, compiled in 1704.

 File
Identifier: MS.9248
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Abridgement of ‘Jus Feudale’ by Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton. The text is in a considerably shorter form than the usual epitomes (for which see MS.1950 and Adv.MSS.25.6.1-2, 28.3.14), and omits book i, 11 and 13, book ii, 5 and 15, and book iii, 4 and 7. (Folio 1.)(ii) "Inventory of ane Burges's airship moveables". (Folio 88.) (iii) Latin mottoes. (Folio 90.)(iv) Notes on land measures in Scotland and weights...
Dates: [1704, or before.]

'Poetical Souvenir and Cabinet of Music and Drawing: Andrew Kippen, Edinburgh, 1840' containing poetry, mottoes, songs with music, and drawings of Scottish scenery, finely written in a variety of calligraphic hands.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8934
Scope and Contents

The choice of shorter poems and the type of ornament suggests some affinity with the work of James Cargill (see MSS.8931-8932), of which it presents a considerable refinement.

Dates: 1840.