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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:

Prints from original photographs of events in Russia, featuring Zinoviev and Béla Kun.

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Identifier: Acc.5435
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Prints from original photographs of political events in Soviet Russia; many feature Grigori Evseevich Zinoviev, and the Hungarian communist leader Bela Kun; with a translation of the Russian comments on the verso of the original photographs, and xerox copies of these explanations.

Dates: Circa 1920.

Proclamation to the people of Great Britain, issued by Prince Charles Edward as Regent for his father, before raising his Royal Standard, initialled C P R and dated in the Prince's hand, Paris, 16 May 1745.

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Identifier: MS.2916
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The proclamation is preceded by a copy of Prince James Edward's commission appointing Prince Charles Regent, Rome, 23rd December 1743, counter-signed by the latter 'Charles P.R.', and bearing his seal as Prince Regent.

This is the original manuscript, the lay-out of which is exactly followed in the printed copies.

It is accompanied by a note on its history, 1887.

Dates: 1745.

`Proofs of the Subjection of Scotland to the Crowne of England`: a list of events down to 1422.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.18
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The manuscript is probably an early 16th-century copy of an older English document.

Dates: Early 16th century.

'Proposals for the improvement in the ventilating arrangements of wireless offices and silent cabinets', being copy letters, memoranda, notes and papers (some printed) bound together in a folder., 1910-1911.

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Identifier: MS.20517
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Although J S Haldane was a member of the committee working on the ventilation of ships in 1912-1913 (cf MS.20511, folios 49-306, passim), it is not clear how or why these papers, which contain nothing written to or by him, came into his possession.

Dates: 1910-1911.

Rearranged copy, late 16th century-mid 17th century, of Sir James Balfour of Pittendrigh, 'Practicks’., [Circa 1579], 1638, 18th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.6.3(c)
Scope and Contents Volume containing the alphabetical rearrangment of Sir James Balfour’s ‘Practicks’, with an 18th century index (folios 8-207; iii-xvii). It is prefaced by ‘The ordoure of Chancellarie’ section (folio 1). It is followed by ‘Schiplawis elected further of alcheron… Anno 1543, 1557’ (folio 209) and ‘The lawes of the merches betwixt Scotland and Ingland, 1590’ (folio 232); these are not the Balfour passages on these subjects, which appear in their proper places in the main section. The border...
Dates: [Circa 1579], 1638, 18th century.

'Record of the Linnen Manufactory in Dunse, 1765’, i.e. Duns Linen Company.

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Identifier: MS.3707
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:Rules and regulations of Partnery (page 1);Minutes of meetings, 1765-1771, 1774 (page 14);A transfer of a share, 1766 (page 57);Invoices, 1767-1768 (page 60);Copies of out-going letters relating to dealings with William Tod & Company, London, 1768-1771 (page 66).Promoted in 1765 by neighbouring gentry and inhabitants of Duns with a view to the public benefit, the company was composed...
Dates: 1765-1774.

Records of Saint Ninian`s Cathedral, Perth; of the diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane; and of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.

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Identifier: Dep.251
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Also included are papers of clergymen connected with Saint Ninian`s, including sermons, historical and liturgical works by Bishop Charles Wordsworth, Bishop George Howard Wilkinson, Dean George Taylor Shillito Farquar, and Dean James Wilson Harper.

Dates: 1648-20th century.

"Records of the Literary Society of Glasgow, 1764-79. Transcribed from the Society's Minutes, 1830", by William James Duncan.

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Identifier: MS.3114
Scope and Contents Album containing.(i) Laws of the Society. (Folio 1.)(ii) List of meetings for each session, with the name of the speaker and the title of his 'discourse', November 1764–January 1771 (folio 3 verso). Occasionally the elections of new members or the names of absentees are recorded. 'There is a gap in the Records for the next 5 years, and the only information we have of their Transactions during the years 1771 and 1773 is from a loose jotting, of which the following is a...
Dates: 1764-1779.