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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:
Notes, mainly on geometry, by James Moor, Professor of Greek at Glasgow University.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.5.1
Scope and Contents
Moor`s interest in mathematics predated his classical studies and lasted throughout his life. The present volume contains geometrical theorems and calculations, some avowedly copied from elsewhere, many apparently original.The non-mathematical contents (apart from several invitations to funerals, written over by Moor) are: notes on manuscripts of the Greek mathematical writers (excerpted from ‘Bibliotheca bibliothecarum manuscriptorum nova’ by B de Montfaucon) (folios 1-6); a...
Dates:
Mid 18th century.
Notes, observations and letters made by Robert Graham during an extensive tour in Ireland., 1835-1836.
File
Identifier: MS.16049
Scope and Contents
A complete map of his route with lists of principal places visited is pasted into the volume (folios 2-5). Also bound into the book are a timetable of mail coaches in Leinster, Munster and Connaught (folio 14), some press cuttings and printed ephemera.
Dates:
1835-1836.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Travel diaries, journal letters and papers chiefly of Robert Graham.
Notes of George Combe on lectures of A W von Schlegel on dramatic literature, 1818, and a select list of the contents of the London Courier, 1834-1838., 1818, 1834-1838.
File
Identifier: MS.7403
Dates:
1818, 1834-1838.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of George Combe (1788-1858), lawyer, phrenologist and educationist, and his household.
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Notebooks and journals of George Combe.
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Miscellaneous notebooks and journals of George Combe, containing material chiefly concerning phrenology and Combe’s tours overseas.
Notes of John Purves on, and selections from, the ‘Teseide’ by Giovanni Boccacio; also notes and drafts of articles on Ugo Foscolo, with a chronological list of Foscolo’s poems., [Circa 1940.]
File
Identifier: MS.15877
Dates:
[Circa 1940.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notes of John Purves.
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Note and other material of John Purves concerning Italian literature.
Notes of Nancy Brysson Morrison for ‘The hidden fairing’., 1948.
File
Identifier: MS.27301
Scope and Contents
There is a list of suggested titles for books inside the back cover.
Dates:
1948.
Notes on the origin of the English people and the antiquity of the English language, with lists of surnames, titles of honour, etc., Early 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2755
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is of the early eighteenth century, and is copied from an undetermined geographical work by 'Mr. Morden'.
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Notes on various Greek and Latin authors and on Greek language by James Moor, Professor of Greek at Glasgow University, and others.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.18
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the material consists of elementary exegesis, apparently notes for Moor`s lectures. The dates 1746 and 1751-1753 occur in various places.The principal works dealt with are: ‘Philippics’, ‘On the Peace’, ‘Olynthiacs’, ‘On Halonnesus’, and ‘On the Affairs in the Chersonese’ by Demosthenes (folios 1-50);‘Hiero’ by Xenophon (folios 57-69);‘How a young man should listen to poetry’ by Plutarch (folios 71-80);‘Agamemnon’ by...
Dates:
1746-1757.
Notes, undated, of William Skeoch Cumming on Scottish dress and lists of equipment for a cruise., 4th quarter of 19th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.9777
Dates:
4th quarter of 19th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the artist William Skeoch Cumming (1864-1929) and of his wife Isabella ('Belle') Sutton.
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Working papers of William Skeoch Cumming, comprising notes, sketches, photographs, and other material collected by him in the course of his work.
Notes, undated, on the geography and history of Italy, with a list of Italian proverbs and phrases., 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.9725
Dates:
19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Andrew Rutherfurd, Lord Rutherfurd, Senator of the College of Justice, and other members of the Rutherfurd family.
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Miscellaneous papers and notebooks of Lord Rutherfurd and members of the Rutherfurd family.
Official papers of the family of Erskine of Alva., 1583-1825.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5127-5135
Dates:
1583-1825.
Official papers sent to Charles Erskine, Lord Tinwald, as Lord Justice Clerk, containing lists of persons proposed as Justices of the Peace in each county., 1761.
File
Identifier: MS.5130
Scope and Contents
A commission was issued at the beginning of the new reign, 1761, and the old lists of persons proposed as Justices of the Peace, drawn up in 1750, were amended and brought up to date; some of the changes were suggested by the large landowners in the counties.
Dates:
1761.
Official returns from the different prisons, showing lists of prisoners of the 'Forty-five, accounts for subsistence, payment of surgeons, etc., with miscellaneous petitions, and letters on the subject., 1745-1747.
File
Identifier: MS.288
Dates:
1745-1747.
Original manuscript of Alexander Carlyle's 'Autobiography' covering the years, 1762-1770., 1801-1805.
Item
Identifier: MS.23916
Scope and Contents
The volume originally ended in 1769 (folio 46), the remainder beginning a new volume, but the covers and leaves were subsequently stitched inside the back cover. At folio 57 verso is a note on and a list of members of the Young Poker Club.
Dates:
1801-1805.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Alexander 'Jupiter' Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk, and of his trustees and later relations.
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Autobiographical writings of Alexander Carlyle.
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Original manuscript of Alexander Carlyle's 'Autobiography'.
Other Estate Papers., 1664-1873.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13827/833-842
Dates:
1664-1873.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Estate Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis Families.
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Estate Management Papers.
Outreach and collaborative production files of 'Just pretending' created with mct theatre company., 2000, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12911/212-215
Outsize items., 1936-2000, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12817/89-94
Pages of borrowing ledgers and indexes of the Faculty of Advocates., 1930-1947.
File
Identifier: F.R.506
Dates:
1930-1947.
Papers and accounts concerning the University of Saint Andrews., 1438-1630.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.7
Scope and Contents
Most of the papers relate to, or resulted from the various Royal Commissions to Saint Andrews University in the late 16th century. Copy of the statutes of the Faculty of Theology, 1438; in Latin (folios 1-8). - This has been printed from other manuscripts in Hannay, page 112.Transcript, 1570, of the statutes of the Faculty of Arts, signed by John Rutherford; in Latin (folios 9-15). - This has been printed from another manuscript in Hannay, page...
Dates:
1438-1630.
Papers and copies of letters relating to the trial of Lord Charles Hay., 1757-1760.
File
Identifier: MS.7089
Dates:
1757-1760.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale, formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Correspondence and papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale.
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Letters and papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale; and papers of Lord Charles Hay.
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Papers concerning the trial of Lord Charles Hay.
Papers and correspondence of Mark and Charles Kerr, King`s Painters and Stationers for Scotland.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11853
Scope and Contents
Papers concern financial affairs, stock, printing materials and property and include inventories and book lists.
Dates:
circa 1790-1820.
Papers and correspondence of the 2nd Earl of Albemarle, relating to his command-in-chief in Scotland after the rising of 1745.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3730-3731
Dates:
1742, 1746-1748, undated.
Papers and correspondence of the Honourable Sir Charles G J B Elliot, Admiral of the Fleet., 1844-1875, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21223-21232
Papers and correspondence of the Scottish Reform Club.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12815
Scope and Contents
Includes membership lists.
Dates:
1924-1932.
Papers and letters used by George Chalmers in the compilation of ‘Caledonia’ and the ‘Topographical Dictionary’., 1789-1816.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.21.1.1-21.1.10
Scope and Contents
The papers are arranged by counties alphabetically, and within each county in the order: lists of place-names, copies of documents, other notes, letters (mostly from parish ministers, giving information about their localities; similar letters are in Adv.MS.81.9.3 and MS.15989)
Dates:
1789-1816.
Papers and letters used by George Chalmers in the compilation of ‘Caledonia’ and the ‘Topographical Dictionary’; volume 1: Aberdeenshire (folio 1), Argyllshire (folio 134)., 1795-1800.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.1.1
Scope and Contents
Letters of 1795-1800.
Dates:
1795-1800.