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Accounts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents in which monies or goods received and paid or given out are recorded in order to permit periodic totaling. This term was not used in the published volumes of the 'Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925'. Such records were indexed under the subject terms Housekeeping or Prices.

Found in 3038 Collections and/or Records:

Commonplace book of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., 1786-1788, undated.

 Item
Identifier: MS.25427
Scope and Contents

The commonplace book includes verse, historical notes, accounts, and a recipe of 1786. (Folio 7 verso.) Of particular note is the Latin poem concerning Johnson and Boswell, undated. (Folio 6.) The volume served as an engagement diary for September-October 1788, and September 1789, undated. (Folios 1-2, 22-23.)

Dates: 1786-1788, undated.

Copies, in a seventeenth-century hand, of the National Covenant and letters, petitions, poems, etc., connected with it, circa 1637-circa 1641., [Circa 1637-circa 1641.], 1717-1718, undated.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1939
Scope and Contents

At the end are accounts, 1717-1718, undated (folio 72). Inside the end cover, "Archibald Law with my hand ye pen laid at God's command" is written, in a seventeenth-century hand which does not appear to be any of those represented in the manuscript.

Dates: [Circa 1637-circa 1641.], 1717-1718, undated.