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 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:

Description by Sir William Burrell of a tour made by him, chiefly in Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2911
Scope and Contents Sir William Burrell’s route takes him from London through the eastern counties of England to Durham, and by Carlisle into Galloway. After an excursion into County Antrim, he proceeds by the Ayrshire coast to Greenock, and thence to Glasgow and Stirling. Having explored Perthshire, he goes to Edinburgh, and visits many places in the neighbourhood. He then takes the route marked by Dumbarton, Inveraray, Fort William, Inverness, Banff, Aberdeen, St. Andrews, and Kinghorn. After further visiting...
Dates: 1758.

Descriptions and drawings, by David Donald, a mechanic from Glasgow, of machinery in Holland, France, and Belgium., 18th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.2147
Scope and Contents

Included is a letter of David Donald to his patron, Lord Sinclair, copied by a contemporary from the originals in Lord Sinclair's possession, and preceded by an account, by the copyist, of Donald's career. At the end are some descriptions of machines in Great Britain.

Dates: 18th century.

Descriptions of coronations and other ceremonies in the hand of Sir James Balfour of Denmilne.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.26
Scope and Contents

Most of the material concerns European ceremonies of the 16th century, but rulers of the Incas, Mongols and others are also included. The final chapter `The Coronation of the Czarina of Muscovy May 1724` has been added in a later hand (folio 96).

The name Robert Innes in an 18th-century hand has been deleted (folio 14).

Dates: 17th century.

Descriptions of travels by Duncan H McPherson., 1937-1944.

 File
Identifier: MS.19618
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Typescript copies of Duncan McPherson's letters to his parents describing a journey by train and car from New York to San Francisco and back, 1937. (Folio 1.)(ii) Typescript description by Duncan McPherson and his companions of a trek in the hills of South India, 1940. (Folio 111.)(iii) Typescript description of a trek in Kashmir, 1941. (Folio 128.)(iv) Typescript copies of Duncan McPherson's letters written on...
Dates: 1937-1944.

Devotional writings by a member of the Episcopal Church of Scotland., 1713-[1717, or before].

 File
Identifier: MS.2750
Scope and Contents

The devotional writings begin with "Prayers I composed while in my Father's House in Inverury", 1713-1714 (page 1), and continue with commentaries, liturgical excerpts, prayers, versifications, etc. In another hand are copies of letters (page 315) of M G, who 'died the 9th of June 1717 in the 70th year of her age'.

Dates: 1713-[1717, or before].

Diaries and notebooks of Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick L Maitland.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.353
Scope and Contents This collection includes the fair copy (not autograph) of Maitland’s ‘Narrative of the Principal Occurrences on board HMS Bellerophon’, and journals of his naval service in South America, 1819-20, the Mediterranean 1820-1, and 1828-30, and India, 1837-9. It also includes a number of printed books relating to Napoleon, particularly to the time he spent on St Helena. Some of these were written by Barry O’Meara and dedicated by him to Maitland with whom he had served as surgeon...
Dates: 1815, 1819-1820, 1828-1839.

Diaries, logs, official correspondence and other papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles A C Gordon, MC, RA, mostly relating to the 11th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8969/1-78
Scope and Contents

The papers mostly concern Gordon`s command of the 11th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery and include Battery log books, copies of Battery correspondence, a history of the Battery, photograph album, training materials, notes and engagement diaries.

Dates: 1896-1977.

Diaries of General Sir Charles William Pasley covering the years following his retirement from active army service and public employment., 1848-1861.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9869-9878
Scope and Contents The diaries describe Charles Pasley’s regular activities in considerable detail, especially his continued work as public examiner for the East India Company's Military Seminary, Addiscombe College, Surrey, and the experiments at the Royal Engineer Establishment, Chatham, on his decked, copper-lined pontoons. Other subjects mentioned include army organisation, railways, revisions of his books on military engineering, decimal coinage, meetings of various learned societies attended, especially...
Dates: 1848-1861.

Diary in typescript carbon of John L Baird.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8893
Scope and Contents

Describing journey to Turkey, Mesopotamia and Persia.

Dates: 1913.

Diary of Aylmer Haldane., 1875-1946.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20247-20252
Scope and Contents

This is not the original diary (which Aylmer Haldane subsequently destroyed), but a copy which he personally typed and supplemented by small number of photographs, sketches, maps and other papers, and subsequently had bound into volumes.

There is no diary for 1876-1877, 1881-September 1897.

Dates: 1875-1946.

Diary of John Nicoll, Writer to the Signet.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.1
Scope and Contents

The diary records political and other events of the time, and includes copies of proclamations and other current publications.

Dates: 1650-1667.

Diary of Lady Henrietta Liston, and description of Constantinople., 1812-1814.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5709
Scope and Contents

The volume contains fair copies of some of the material in MSS.5707-5708.

Dates: 1812-1814.

Diploma certifying the award of the insignia of office as Protonotary Apostolic to Giovanni Paolo Pongelli at Camerino, 1582., [1566, or after]-[1589, or after.]

 File
Identifier: MS.25247
Scope and Contents

With a copy of Giovanni Paolo Pongelli's doctoral diploma, 1582 (folio 11) and privilege of citizenship of Camerino, 1589 (folio 20). Illuminated with the arms of Pongelli and two cardinals.

Dates: [1566, or after]-[1589, or after.]

‘Diplomatum collectio’: copies of Scottish charters, made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.2.4(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents

Although lettered as volumes i and ii of the same collection, they are different in layout and character, and are written by different hands. Only those charters the present location of whose originals is unknown are indexed in detail.

Dates: ?12th century-?15th century.

‘Diplomatum collectio’: copies of Scottish charters, made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane, volume I., ?12th century-?15th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.2.4(i)
Scope and Contents

There is no title page, but Macfarlane’s signature appears on the inside front cover. The charters are numbered throughout, and the source of each is indicated accurately. The numbering, dates, and some notes on seals are by Macfarlane him¬self; the text is by his earlier copyist.

Dates: ?12th century-?15th century.

‘Diplomatum collectio’: copies of Scottish charters, made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane, volume II., ?12th century-?15th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.2.4(ii)
Scope and Contents The volume is entitled `Veterum Diplomatum Collectio Partim ex ipsis Autographis Partim ex probatis Apographis Transcripta Vol: II. Impensis Walteri Macfarlane De Eodem MDCCLVIII`, and written by Macfarlane`s later copyist.The transcripts from which Macfarlane had copies made were amongst the papers of Richard Augustine Hay (Adv.MSS.35.4.16-35.4.17) which passed to him after Hay`s death. The contents are: The cartulary of Soutra (folio 1), transcribed from the...
Dates: ?12th century-?15th century.