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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:

Essay, notes, and extracts from other works, on teinds and other ecclesiastical matters.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.11
Scope and Contents According to a pencil note on page i, `This Book is in handwriting of Commissary John Goldie [of Craigmuie]`.The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Note on reason for parsons being addressed as `Sir’. (Page i.)(ii) `Ane Essay on Teinds.’ This is basically the same text as in Adv.MS.81.1.3. (Page 1.)(iii) `Extracts from [White] Kennets Parochiall antiquitys of Ambrosden andc [Oxford, 1695]`. (Page 88.)(iv) `Extracts from a...
Dates: 18th century.

Ewen MacLachlan’s ‘Leabhar Caol’, containing transcripts (with occasional notes) from nine manuscripts sent to him for examination by the Highland Society of Scotland.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.5
Scope and Contents The manuscripts were sent to Ewen MacLachlan by the Highland Society of Scotland in 1812. Dated passim. MacLachlan generally called the volume ‘An Leabhar Caol’, but on the title pages added as alternatives ‘An Diabhol Caol’, ‘The Celtic Repository’. Binding inscribed ‘Ancient Celtic Tales’, ‘The Tales of Other Times’.The contents (text) as follows.(i) Contents list. (Page ii.)(ii) Note on 8th-century learning. (Page iii.)(iii)...
Dates: 1st quarter of 19th century.

Excerpts from printed works concerning history and genealogy, compiled by Andrew Stuart and his brother James Stuart., 1787-1795.

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Identifier: MS.8304
Scope and Contents The excerpts are from the following:(i) Scottish sources, including ‘System of heraldry, speculative and practical’ by Alexander Nisbet (Edinburgh, 1722-1742), ‘Annals of Scotland’ by David Dalrymple (Edinburgh, 1776-1779), and ’History of the House of Douglas’ by David Hume of Godscroft (Edinburgh, 1643) (folio 1);(ii) English sources, including ‘Holinshed’s Chronicles’ (London, 1577) and ’Foedera’ by Thomas Rymer (London, 1704-1713), with a biography of Arabella...
Dates: 1787-1795.