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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:

Research papers concerning Clan Gregor, including extracts and copies of historical and genealogical papers; with some papers relating to the history and administration of the Clan Gregor Society.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12335/84-243
Scope and Contents

The arrangement and description of the papers from the Clan Gregor Centre was undertaken by Sheila McGregor on behalf of the Centre. The described papers represent the activities of a small number of people who collected and compiled them over many years, combining traditional knowledge with research to both preserve and extend information about the clan.

Dates: 1539-2001.

Reviews by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of works of others authors., 1926-1938.

 File
Identifier: MS.50219
Scope and Contents The reviews are arranged chronologically. Where material concerning a particular work spans two or more years the papers are placed by the earliest date.1926.Assorted reviews.Extract, pages 93-94, ‘Notes on Books’, from the ‘Edinburgh Medical Journal’, 1926. The extract includes reviews by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of: ‘Old and New Viewpoints in Psychology’, by Knight Dunlop [i.e. Dunlap]; and, ‘Psychoanalysis and the Psychic Disorder of General...
Dates: 1926-1938.

`Roll of the Magistrats of Edinburgh from Michaelmess 1583 till this present Day` by Sir Thomas Young of Rosebank, 1702, with additions in several hands up to 1804.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.14
Scope and Contents

The roll gives the names of the Provosts, Baillies, Deans of Guild and Treasurers. It is followed (folio 33) by a list of the Bailies of Leith, 1665-1804, compiled in the early 19th century.

Dates: 1702-early 19th century.

Russian documents concerning the activities of Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart as British Vice-Consul in Moscow, and Russian politics.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11970
Scope and Contents A file, received bound, of fifty-one documents in Russian and relating to Russian politics, particularly in Moscow, 1915-1917. The papers were assembled by Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart (1887-1970), then British Vice-Consul in Moscow, where he enjoyed a wide range of social and political contacts. This period of Bruce Lockhart's career is described in his 'Memoirs of a British Agent', (London, 1932), pages 97-191.The documents are arrnaged as follows:1. List of...
Dates: 1915-1917, undated.

Scottish Book Marketing Group bestseller lists featuring the novels of Ian Rankin., 1998-2002.

 File
Identifier: MS.50587
Scope and Contents

Scottish Book Marketing Group bestseller lists, 1998-2002, ‘Top Twenty Scottish Titles / Scottish Bestseller List’, featuring the novels of Ian Rankin. Folios 1-55.

Lists cover specific dates, format DD Month YYYY.

Scottish Book Marketing Group yearly bestseller lists, 1999-2001, ‘Scottish Bestseller List / Top Ten Scottish Titles’, featuring the novels of Ian Rankin. Folios 56-58.

Lists are for entire calendar years.

Dates: 1998-2002.

Scottish chartularies and other works transcribed for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist in 1742 and 1746.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.3.13
Scope and Contents The sources are mainly the original manuscripts then in the Advocates` Library. Only those documents not known from other sources are indexed in detail. The contents are as follows:(i) `Registra Coenobiorum de Melrose et Balmerino Impensis Walteri McFarlan de eodem Transcripta Anno MDCCXLII`, copied from Adv.MSS.34.4.11, late 13th century (folio 1), and 34.5.3, 14th century (folio 67), with extracts from Richard Augustine Hay on Melrose, 1700-1707, or after (folio 54; from...
Dates: Late 13th century-1707, or after.

Scottish chartularies transcribed, 1738-1744, for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.35.2.5-35.3.9
Scope and Contents

The wording and ornament of the title pages suggest a division into three groups:

(i) Adv.MSS.35.2.5, 35.3.6, 35.3.7, 35.39: 1738-1739.

(ii) Adv.MSS.35.3.2, 35.3.4: 1740.

(iii) Adv.MSS.35.3.3, 35.3.5, 35.3.8: 1740-1744.

The sources are mainly the original manuscripts then in the Advocates` Library, with notes taken from Richard Augustine Hay`s works. Only those documents the present location of whose originals is unknown are indexed in detail.

Dates: 13th century-1707, or after.

Seaman`s books, 1973-1985, of David Campbleton, Edinburgh.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12376
Scope and Contents

Includes papers, 1947-1973, of Alex McCorkindale, Dalkeith, relating to his service in the Merchant Navy.

Dates: 1947-1985.

'Sederunt Book of the Knights Companions of the Cape': number 1, 1764-July 1787., 1764-1787.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2004
Scope and Contents

Contains the minutes of meetings, preceded by an introduction relating the history of the club, the statutes of the club, and a roll of Knights, giving their real names and club titles. Inside the front cover is a list of Knights alive in 1841.

Dates: 1764-1787.