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Lists.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Transcribed collections of numbers, names, or other text indicating tallies of concepts collocated for any particular purpose.

Found in 1660 Collections and/or Records:

‘List of the Nos. in Collington Parish in 1780’.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.3.11
Scope and Contents The manuscript contains lists of the names of the inhabitants of the various villages and other small places comprising the parish (folio 1), and of Colinton itself (folio 6), followed by a list of ‘Seceders’, most of whom appear to be members of the Burgher and Antiburgher Synods of the Secession Church. It is not known for what purpose nor by whom the list was compiled: possibly the minister of Colinton may have been responsible. The list which is in its original covers (folios ii, iii) is...
Dates: ?1780.

List of the printed books (amongst which are recorded a few modern manuscripts), illuminated manuscripts, and paintings owned by William Finlay Watson, bookseller, Edinburgh, which he intended to bequeath to the National Galleries for Scotland., 1881-1882.

 Item
Identifier: MS.7150
Scope and Contents At the end of the list (folio 52) is a statement signed by his executors (his sisters and brother-in-law) certifying that the Trustees of the National Galleries had selected the illuminated manuscripts (some of which are MSS.7122-7149) and the paintings. The list was compiled after Watson's death and written out by Alexander Dowell, auctioneer, Edinburgh, who recorded the Trustees' refusal of the printed books and their acceptance of the illuminated manuscripts and paintings at folios 38...
Dates: 1881-1882.

List of thirty-one Scots songs, both traditional ballads and poems by Burns and other authors, followed by arrangements of twenty-nine of them by David Stephen., Early 20th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.22161
Scope and Contents

The arrangements are marked ‘second copies’ and have tonic sol-fa notation added in red.

The compilation was made for a tenor album, which does not appear to have been published, of ‘Folk songs of Scotland’ edited by David Stephen and Robert Burnett.

Dates: Early 20th century.