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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:

Notebook of Walter McCulloch, schoolmaster and session clerk of St Ninians., 1778-1803.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9823
Scope and Contents

The notebook contains the following: Lists of births and deaths in the parish, 1783-1803 (folio 1); Heritors' minutes, 1778-1785 (folios 90, 121); Notes for the first Statistical Account, circa 1795 (folio 111); 'Some remarks on the Parish of St Ninians with relation to the poor', circa 1759 (folio 123).

Dates: 1778-1803.

Notebook, undated, of Evelyn Stewart-Murray containing Gaelic grammatical notes, exercises and music., Late 19th century-early 20th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.14889
Scope and Contents The grammatical notes and exercises are on folios 1-106, and the music is on folios 107-123.The contents are as follows.(i) Small envelope bearing Evelyn Stewart Murray's address (folio i);(ii) Tale headed ‘An t-seana bhantrach’ (folio 1), and an English translation entitled ‘The poor widow’ (folio 2);(iii) Moral tale headed “Tha irioslachd agus bochdainn a' trearachadh gu neamh” (folio 3) and an English translation, “Humility and poverty lead...
Dates: Late 19th century-early 20th century.

Notebook, undated, of Robert Garioch Sutherland containing miscellaneous notes on literature and science., Mid 20th century-late 20th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26581
Scope and Contents

The notebook also includes rhyme lists (folio 54), articles on the makars and on an Edinburgh eccentric (folios 77, 95) and a Scots glossary (folio l54).

Dates: Mid 20th century-late 20th century.

Notebooks containing much of ‘Fotheringhay’ by George Scott-Moncrieff., 1951.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19628-19629
Scope and Contents

The beginning of Act I is not included and pages which probably contained the end of Act II and beginning of Act III are missing from MS.19629. This manuscript includes additional material for all three acts and a list of suggested titles. The manuscripts were written in 1951 (MS.19629, folio 20) and the play was first performed in 1953.

Dates: 1951.

Notes and drafts of articles by David Steuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.17
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Sketch of the character of John, Earl of Hopetoun`, 1781. The correct order of folios should be 1, 3 verso, 4, 2 (folio 1).(ii) List of contributions by Buchan to ‘The Bee’, 1791-1793 (folio 3).(iii) Biographical sketches of James Anderson, economist and editor of ‘The Bee’, 1790 (folio 8).(iv) Biography of Walter Minto, the mathematician, 1801. This was intended for the ‘Edinburgh Magazine’,...
Dates: 1781-1801.