Excerpts.
Found in 683 Collections and/or Records:
Excerpts from religious works compiled by Mary Jane Ash, with a continuation by James B Burnett., 1846.
Excerpts from religious works compiled by Mary Jane Ash, with a continuation by James B Burnett, who also wrote MS.24607., 1846-1847.
Excerpts from scripture written by Henry Fletcher of Saltoun in a form of shorthand (most vowels omitted)., 18th century.
Excerpts from Sir Walter Scott’s marginal notes in books at Abbotsford, compiled by his sons Walter and Charles in 1832., 4th quarter of 18th century-early 19th century.
The excerpts are written in an old book containing Minutes of the first meeting of the First Committee appointed to examine Scottish Forms of Process, signed by Walter Scott, 1809 (folio 43). Several sheets are cut out; others are sewn in.
Excerpts from the classics by George Reith., [?1885-?1941.]
Excerpts from the Countess of Minto's correspondence with her sister, written by her in two notebooks., 1794-1801.
Excerpts from the diaries of Henry Mackenzie; Joshua Henry, Lord Mackenzie; and his wife Helen., 1784, 1821, 1831.
The contents are as follows:
(i) Diary of Joshua Henry, Lord Mackenzie, January 1821 (folio 1);
(ii) Diary of Henry Mackenzie during his visit to France, 1784 (folio 2);
(iii) Diary of Helen, wife of Joshua Henry, Lord Mackenzie, 1831 (folio 13).
Excerpts from the diary of John Smith., 1812-1854.
The extracted entries, which were made by a grandchild of John Smith, are always brief. They mainly record a fairly eventful social life, but his professional activities are also mentioned in passing.
A pedigree of the Smiths is also included, along with transcripts of two deeds relating to the family.
Excerpts from the diary of John Smith, sculptor and builder in Darnick, near Melrose, Roxburghshire; with a typed transcript of the diary.
‘Excerpts from the register’ [minutes] of the Faculty of Advocates, 20 June 1661 to 10 June 1675; dated 3 August 1698., 1661-1675.
Excerpts from 'Uranium 235' for Clydebuilt., Undated.
Excerpts from various religious works, in two hands, of which the latter is apparently that of James Grant, minister of Nairn, and the earlier may therefore be that of his father, Alexander Grant, minister of Cawdor., 1671-1796.
The excerpts are chiefly from Issac Barrow, 'Sermons' (Edinburgh, 1751), and Edward Fowler, 'The design of Christianity' (London, 1671). There are also exceprts from Gilbert Burnet, 'Exposition of the thirty-nine articles', (London, 1699), Jacques Henry Bernardin de Saint Pierre, translated by Henry Hunter, 'Studies of nature', (London, 1796), and Jeremiah Seed, 'Posthumous works' (London, 1750).
Excerpts, in a nineteenth century hand, from the 'Appendix To the Memoirs of Dr Alexander Carlyle of Inveresk' ... 'Being the proceedings before the Church Courts against him for attending the representation of the Tragedy of Douglas [by John Home] in 1757'., 1757.
The contents consists almost entirely of excerpts from the proceedings of the Presbytery of Dalkeith. The excerpts are written on the rectos of the leaves, with additions, and some headings, written in another nineteenth-century hand on some of the versos. A leaf containing an excerpt in a hand wrongly ascribed to Sir Walter Scott which was formerly loosely enclosed is tipped in after folio 108.
Excerpts in James Stuart's hand from his letter-books and other correspondence., 1782-1783.
Excerpts made in 1748 from the 14th-century register of the Abbey of Holme Cultram, Cumbria.
Excerpts of letters on Italian politics and a paper on Italian affairs, concerning Sir Ralph Abercromby, 2nd Baron Dunfermline., [Circa 1860], 1862.
The excerpts of letters on Italian politics, were written from Genoa, Turin and Rome, 1844-1848, by the 2nd Baron, Sir Ralph Abercromby and the Baroness to their parents and parents-ln-law respectively, and copied from the originals by Mary, Lady Dunfermline, circa 1860, (folio 1); The paper is titled, 'Return of all Papers presented to Parliament on Italian Afalrs from 1846 to the Close of the Session of 1862', and was compiled in 1863 for Ralph, Lord Dunfermline, (folio 68).
Excerpts used in, and other material relating to, contributions of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland) to the Scottish Amnesty Show., [1982].
Excerpts, written by the Very Reverend John Lee, from ecclesiastical records: Erskine., 1651-1663.
Excerpts, written by the Very Reverend John Lee, from ecclesiastical records: Kennoway., 1638-1644.
Excerpts, written by the Very Reverend John Lee, from ecclesiastical records: Kilbarchan, 1649, and Renfrew, 1649-1653., 1649-1653.
Excerpts, written by the Very Reverend John Lee, from ecclesiastical records: Scone., 1622-1638.
'Extract of a dissertation upon the true number, names, series ... and chronology of the first 24 Kings of the Scots ... from the begining of the regn of K. Fergus Mac-Erch to the Union of the Scotish and Pictish Kingdoms by K. Keneth Macalpin', addressed 'to Mr. Rudiman'., 18th century.
‘Extracta de Cronicis Scotiæ Quæ ad Historiam civilem pertinent’, in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
This volume and Adv.MS.15.2.2 consist of extracts and notes by Sir Robert Sibbald from the manuscript called ‘Extracta de Cronicis’ which he says was given by William Bishop of Dumblane to Henry Sinclair, Dean of Glasgow, in 1550.
‘Extracta ex variis chronicis Scotiae’, a transcript made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane, 1738, taken from the original manuscript, Adv.MS.35.6.13, a collection of extracts of chronicles, late 15th century-early 16th century, mostly taken from Fordun and Boece with extensive annotations in the hand of Sir William Sinclair of Roslin.
Later additions in the original are here collected at the end (pages 249). The folio numbers of the original are given in the margin, and the index which is placed at the beginning in the original, is here transferred to the end (page 263).
‘Extracta ex variis chronicis Scotiae’, an incomplete transcript, early 18th century, taken from the original manuscript, Adv.MS.35.6.13, a collection of extracts of chronicles, late 15th century-early 16th century, mostly taken from Fordun and Boece with extensive annotations in the hand of Sir William Sinclair of Roslin.
A number of items in the Wodrow collection are in the same hand, and the copyist appears to have worked fairly frequently for Robert Wodrow. Later additions in the original are here collected at the end (page 159) and partially in a different hand, but the copyist breaks off in mid-entry at folio 296 verso of the original. The folio numbers of the original are given in the margin, and the index, which is placed at the beginning in the original, is omitted.