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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:

Miscellaneous papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library.

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Identifier: F.R.339e/60
Scope and Contents

The contents include. (i) A letter of thanks from G Calder to William K Dickson for the loan of an item for Glasgow University Library. (ii) A list of other Crawfurd manuscripts in the Advocates Library. (iii) A survey of Lord Rutherford's correspondence. (iv) An analysis of MS.1013 of the Phillipps Collection, sold June 1898.

Dates: 1890-1915.

Miscellaneous papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 17th century-19th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.80.7.2
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) `Vtrum Episcopus Romanus sit Antichristus necne? Problema Theologicum de quo ... M. Thomas Londius publice respondebit in Scholis Theologicis Academiae Andreanae, 29 July 1602.` A version (with some additional matter) of the text printed by R Waldegrave (folio 1).(ii) Catalogue of books belonging to Laurence Dundas, Professor of Humanity, Edinburgh, with places and dates of publication, 1735 (folio 7).(iii)...
Dates: 17th century-19th century.

Miscellaneous papers of the family of Erskine of Alva., 1634-late 18th century, 1878.

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Identifier: MS.5158
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Accounts, 1634-1770, chiefly concerning Marie, Countess of Mar, including proposals by her for sums to be eiked to her husband's testament. There are also valuations of the estates of Airtley and Drumsheugh. (Folios 1-28.)(ii) Inventories and catalogues, including inventories of the plenishings of Lady Mar's house, 1638, and of the jewels and valuables belonging to Catherine Erskine, Lady Binning, shortly before her death, 1635. There...
Dates: 1634-late 18th century, 1878.

Miscellaneous papers of the Fleming family., Mid 17th century-19th century.

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Identifier: MS.20800
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Anonymous poems, chiefly on public affairs and personages of the early eighteenth century. (Folio 1.) Those placed first are numbered E.56-84 (with gaps; for the earlier part of this series see MS.20773 (i)). This is XVIII A in the ‘Inventory’ (MS.20770). At the end is added 'The Song of the Ridsquare fought on the 7 of July 1576 [sic]', formerly loosely enclosed in MS.20779. (ii) 'Character of Sultan Galga Cham of Tartary', a satire, [circa 1720], on George...
Dates: Mid 17th century-19th century.

Miscellaneous papers of the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson., [Before 1928.]

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Identifier: MS.483
Scope and Contents

The contents include a scroll list of the papers of the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson, and newspaper cuttings relating to Lord Lovat and to the massacre of the Eigg people.

Dates: [Before 1928.]

Miscellaneous papers relating to militia, and correspondence and papers relating to county affairs., 1746-1827.

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Identifier: MS.10896
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Miscellaneous papers relating to militia, including clothing bills and receipts, muster rolls, commissions, etc., 1746, 1778, 1803-1827, undated (folio 1);(ii) Correspondence and papers relating to county affairs: letters of Sir Charles Edmonstone, 2nd Baronet of Duntreath, M.P. for Stirlingshire, to Thomas Graham Stirling, 1811-1819 (folio 61); papers relating to the Corn Law, 1810, 1814 (folio 122); papers relating to the property...
Dates: 1746-1827.

Miscellaneous prose works or drafts by William Sharp and 'Fiona MacLeod', largely unpublished., [Before 1906.]

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Identifier: MS.8777
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Five apparently unpublished stories by William Sharp (folio 1);(ii) Six apparently unpublished stories by 'Fiona MacLeod' (folio 46);(iii) Part of an apparently unpublished article by William Sharp on 'Pélleas et Mélisande' by Maurice Maeterlinck (folio 64);iv) Reviews by 'Fiona MacLeod' of ‘The Cuchullin saga’ (London, 1898); of 'A field for modern verse' by Stephen Phiilips, in ‘The Dome’, February 1899; and of...
Dates: [Before 1906.]

Miscellaneous records of the Incorporation of Linlithgow Shoemakers., 1575-1691, undated.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19290
Scope and Contents

The volume contains minutes of decisions taken by the Deacon and Brethren to regulate trade and control admission, 1576, 1581, 1586, 1613-1614, 1632, 1654, undated, lists of freemen and apprentices, 1581, 1586, 1593, 1605, 1628-1655, undated, and notes of payments made by members, 1575, 1587, undated. The miscellaneous and haphazard nature of this volume indicates that it may have been a rough note book rather than a formal record kept by the Incorporation of Linlithgow Shoemakers.

Dates: 1575-1691, undated.

Miscellaneous rough notes, 1877-1959, undated, and accounts, 1905-1956, undated of John Purves., 1877-1956, undated.

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Identifier: MS.15887
Scope and Contents

The manuscript includes: (i) Typescript, undated, of an address to Professor Herbert Grierson (folio 1); (ii) Address to Professor George Saintsbury with other related material, 1922-1923 (folio 17); (iii) Class lists, 1895-1915, undated, for rhetoric and English literature (folio 50); (iv) Material, 1920-1945, undated, concerning examinations in Italian (folio 102); (v) Miscellaneous bills and accounts, 1905-1956, undated, of John Purves (folio 218).

Dates: 1877-1956, undated.

Miscellaneous scraps, including recipes, charades, baptismal certificates, booklists, and school exercises., [Circa 1750]-1908.

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Identifier: MS.13420
Scope and Contents

Iincludes a list of Indian material of the 1st Earl of Minto deposited in the Calcutta Record Office by the 4th Earl in 1908.

Dates: [Circa 1750]-1908.

Miscellaneous tracts and verses.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.2

`Miscellany collections out of the Registers of the justiciary parliament and containing historical and genealogical Collections`, a transcript, late 17th century, partly in the hand of Robert Mylne, of the historical part of Sir Lewis Stewart`s collections, compiled early in the 17th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.11
Scope and Contents Compared with Stewart`s own manuscript (Adv.MS.22.1.14), this transcript has several additional texts (which also mostly appear in the other transcript, Adv.MS.34.3.12); as only a few of these can ever have been in Adv.MS.22.1.14, it is likely that this transcript was not made from it, but from a lost expanded version; and if the Lues Stewart mentioned on folio 145 as a borrower of books is Sir Lewis, the expansion may not have been by him.The correspondence between the two...
Dates: 1134-[circa 1627].

Miscellany of manuscript and printed fragments recovered from the binding of a composite volume of German pamphlets., 15th century-early 17th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.26
Scope and Contents The German pamphlets (pressmark DC.5) were published between 1586 and 1603, beginning with ‘Von der Erbsünde’ by Egidius Hunnius, the Elder (Franckfurt am Mayn, 1594).(i) An almost complete conjugate pair of consecutive vellum leaves (being the innermost bifolium of a gathering) lacking the lower margins and the last few lines, from a commentary on the Decretals. The portion contained in this fragment relates to Book I, Title 43, chapter 12 to Book II, Title 1, chapter 4. The...
Dates: 15th century-early 17th century.

Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh; together with a list of the full collection.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.7122-7150
Scope and Contents

In addition to the medieval manuscripts, there are some non-religious books of later date, and a few unrelated fragments.

Dates: 13th century-17th century; 1881-1882.

Miscellany of papers concerning the Ellice family., 1799-1815, undated.

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Identifier: MS.15176
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: (i) Correspondence, chiefly with George Chalmers, and notes, on antiquarian topics, 1799- 1815, undated (folio 1); (ii) Papers, 1741-1803, undated, concerning the Ellice family, consisting of typed biographical accounts (some incomplete) and copies of portraits of members of the family (folio 75); (iii) A small quantity of unrelated papers, 1844-1921, undated, found loosely enclosed in other parts of the collection (folio 216).

Dates: 1799-1815, undated.