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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:

Notebook of accounts between James Byres and Patrick Moir.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13900
Content Description

Relates to Byres's stay in Rome.

Dates: 1790.

Notebook of Alexander Drysdale, containing material on trigonometry with calculations of heights and distances illustrated with drawings in watercolours.

 Item
Identifier: MS.14286
Scope and Contents

One example is taken from Leith (folio 26). Also included are some sketch plans of property near Fergus, Ontario, farm accounts and miscellaneous notes, 1835-1838.

Dates: Early 19th century.

Notebook of Andrew Rule, a schoolmaster in Aberdeenshire.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.12
Scope and Contents

As well as teaching in a number or local schools, mostly in the parish of Glenmuick, Rule taught book-keeping, navigation and arithmetic to private pupils. His notebook includes accounts, lists of books, minutes of visits to the schools by the committee of the presbytery, and reflections on the events of the year. These last are mostly of a religious nature, but he mentions his own and his children`s affairs and (folio 48) the political events of 1745.

Dates: 1713-1755.

Notebook of John Kirk, relating to Zanzibar, 1871-1873, and England, 1899-1902., 1871-1902.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9942/29
Scope and Contents

Notebook covering the dates 30 November 1871 – 29 September 1873, and January 1899 – December 1902. Comprises journal entries and administrative notes. Subjects include customs duties, slave trade, slave export figures, relationship with Sayyid Barghash. Also includes personal financial accounts kept at Sevenoaks (1899-1902).

Dates: 1871-1902.

Notebook of Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.17
Scope and Contents (i) Note of decisions (folio 1).(ii) Note of expenses (folio 1 verso).(iii) Note of expenses in London, 1667 (Crawford, page 180) (folio 2).(iv) Note of expenses (folio 3).(v) Journal of travels in England and Scotland, 1667-1670 (Crawford, pages 167-204, omitting folios 39-40) (folios 4-46).(vi) Observations on Public Affairs, 1669-1670 (Crawford, pages 228-236) (folios 46-34).(vii) Accounts, 1670-1671 (Crawford, pages...
Dates: 1667-1676.

Notebook of Thomas Ruddiman, containing mainly details of his personal expenditure.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5047
Scope and Contents

The notebook also includes accounts of money disbursed by Thomas Ruddiman as Assistant Librarian of the Advocates' Library.

Dates: 1702-1713.

Notebook of William Soutar entitled "Ane Makar's Makings"., 1934-1943.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8693
Scope and Contents

The notebook contains a record of William Soutar's returns from poems published in magazines or newspapers.

Dates: 1934-1943.