Inventories.
Found in 496 Collections and/or Records:
Testament testamentar and inventory of Alexander Home of Renton (d August 1619)., 3 December 1621.
Testament testamentar and inventory of Mrs Catharine Forrester, daughter of Sir Andrew Forrester, deputy secretary for Scotland., 18 April 1733.
Three small groups of private letters and related material.
Tour journals: two of Emily Jackson and Ina Jackson of their tour in the Eastern United States and Canada, 1884; and, two of John Jackson and Emily Jackson of their tour in Italy, 1891-1892.
Emily Jackson`s journal of her tour in Italy includes an account of a holiday in Kilmorack, Inverness-shire, Scotland, in 1887.
Transcript by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1824, of the late 15th-16th-century cartulary of the cathedral of Aberdeen known as ‘Registrum Capellanorum Chori’ (‘Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain’, number 1112), which is kept at Aberdeen University Library., Late 15th century-16th century.
Transcription, circa 1894, of the minute books of the Edinburgh Skating Club, 1784-1893., 1784-1893.
A copy of the membership list follows the transcription (folios 141-148), with later additions up to the elections of 1939 (folio 148), and Directions and Inventory copied from the Minute Book for 1784-1888. Miscellaneous verses are transcribed from both original books at folios 158-172.
Transcripts made in the early nineteenth century (see watermarks) of Mey and Tarbat charters and inventories, titled 'Cartularium Eccles. Cathedral. Rossensis'.
The contents are as follows. (i) Excerpts from an inventory dated 1641 of charters then in the House of Mey and from other inventories of charters covering the period 1464-1637, relating to the Sinclairs of Mey and to neighbouring lands (folio 1), with notes regarding rights of Sir George Mackenzie of Tarbat, 1666, and a testimonial regarding Tarrell, 1382 (folio 13); (ii) Copies of charters in Tarbat House, 1457-1642, undated.
Transcripts of interviews recorded for the BBC television series, 'Writing Scotland', made by Hopscotch Film Productions.
Two copies, one manuscript and one typescript, of the inventory of the lantern slides made to accompany certain lectures by William Kirk Dickson on the history of manuscripts and early printed books; with a further list of the slides prepared by the National Library of Scotland., 1937.
Two letters of John Allen to John Clerk, 1806, and to James Gibson Craig, [?1827], on political changes; inventory of thirteen manuscripts of Sir Walter Scott, deposited in 1827 by J T Gibson-Craig, Writer to the Signet, on behalf of Archibald Constable, with Thomas Thomson, advocate, till their ownership be determined; and a letter from London, 1831, chiefly concerning the charters of the National and Commercial Banks, but also including a note of the sale of the above manuscripts., 1806-1831.
Typescript copy of the Inventory of Writs and Title-Deeds relating to the lands of Mount, Cupar, Fife, with genealogical and other notes and four pedigrees by Douglas Hamer, University of Sheffield, based on the original documents.
Typescript of an 'Inventory of the papers of the family of Lawson of Cairnmuir, presented to H.M. General Register House ... by James Lawson ... Brooklyn, Wellington, New Zealand', compiled by the Keeper of Registers and Records, 1938.
The papers, the contents of which are summarized, consist of writs relating to the lands of Cairnmuir, 1423-1700 (folio 1), Netherurd, 1399-1744 (folio 11), and Bryandland, 1438-1742 (folio 23), and miscellaneous papers, 1670-1899, undated (folio 26).
Typescript, 'The Rhind Lectures. The Development of Writing and Printing in Western Europe', by William Kirk Dickson; with accompanying lantern slides, glass negatives and inventories of the slides.
Typescripts of correspondence, 1782-1811, undated, of James Grahame; with other papers, 16th century-19th century, of the Grahame family., 16th century-19th century.
Various finding aids relating to the papers of General Sir George Murray, with a report on the collection., 1st half of 20th century.
The contents of the volume are as follows:
List of printed books in the collection which have been transferred to the Department of Printed Books (folio 1).
List of non-manuscript maps which have been transferred to the Map Room (folio 4).
Report on the collection by Robert Young, 1914 (folio 17).
Inventory of Murray’s private papers, 1907, including many not in the National Library of Scotland (folio 56).
Volume containing genealogical and other notes in a number of early 18th-century hands.
Volume containing notes from the inventory of writs compiled about 1700 of lands belonging to the family of Fleming, Earls of Wigtown (folio 3) and to the family of Fleming of Bord (folio 18) made by James Dennistoun for a projected history of Dumbartonshire, in order to illustrate the pedigree of the Flemings and their estates in the county., 1841.
Only a few leaves have been used: folios 15-17 and all after folio 18 are blank.