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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Portions of a larger work, such as a literary work or motion picture, reproduced or excised without further change from their original context.

Found in 683 Collections and/or Records:

Material relating to Sir Walter Scott.

 File
Identifier: MS.3248
Scope and Contents

The material includes transcripts of letters of Sir Walter Scott not printed in the Centenary Edition; transcripts of letters of his family and other correspondents; and extracts, correspondence, and notes on his ancestry and on various episodes in his life.

Dates: 18th century-2nd quarter of 20th century.

Memorandum, 1800, by General Sir David Dundas, relating to the expedition, 1762, against Havana., 1762-1800.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3850
Scope and Contents

At the end (folios 25-28) is an "Extract from the Abbé Raynal's History of the Situation of the Havanna, about the year 1775".

Dates: 1762-1800.

Microfilm of assorted 13th-17th century manuscripts.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.465
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Fair copy, 1686-1689, of ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio’, being Richard Augustine Hay’s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh, volume 1. (Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)); Register of the Chapel Royal of Stirling, written, circa 1537, by John Lambert, prebendary of the Chapel, containing copies of papal bulls and other documents, 1501-1537...
Dates: 13th century-1689.

Microfilm of extracts, late 17th century, from the Books of Sederunt of the Court of Session, 1532-1689.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1078
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Extracts, late 17th century, from the Books of Sederunt of the Court of Session, 1532-1659 (Adv.MS.25.2.5(i));

Extracts, late 17th century, from the Books of Sederunt of the Court of Session, 1661-1689 (Adv.MS.25.2.5(ii)).

Dates: 1532-1689.

Microfilm of Kilberry book of piobaireachd, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus, numbers 185-290., [?1910-?1958.]

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.951
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Kilberry book of piobaireachd, numbers 185-200, [?1911-?1958] (MS.22113), 122 frames;Kilberry book of piobaireachd, numbers 201-218, [?1910-?1958] (MS.22114), 112 frames;Kilberry book of piobaireachd, numbers 219-241, [?1911-?1958] (MS.22445), 89 frames;Kilberry book of piobaireachd, numbers 242-262, [?1911-?1939] (MS.22116), 80 frames;Kilberry book of piobaireachd, numbers 263-290, [?1910-?1940] (MS.22117), 172...
Dates: [?1910-?1958.]