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Manuscripts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to handwritten documents, and may also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the cases of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made.

Found in 6567 Collections and/or Records:

‘Innes of Drumgask, Balnacraig, and Ballogie’, Aberdeenshire, 'a family history', by the Reverend John Stirton., 1942.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3068-3069
Scope and Contents

A typewritten work, dealing in particular with Lewis Innes, Principal of the Scots College in Paris, and his brother Thomas, the historian, and containing accounts of the Scots College, of Jacobite activities in France, and of the founding of the Roman Catholic Seminary at Scalan, Banffshire. Copies of correspondence from the Stuart Papers at Windsor are included.

Dates: 1942.

‘Institutionum Chemicarum Pars Prima`; a treatise on chemistry in two parts, including comments on other writers on the subject.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.6
Scope and Contents

Mention is made of Nicolas Lemery`s work, published in Paris, `hoc Anno 1713` (folio 10 verso). There are a few small pencil sketches of pieces of equipment, and the work is followed by an index.

Dates: 1713.

Instrument of sasine, 1613, concerning lands in the barony of Crawfordjohn.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6510
Scope and Contents

With three documents, 1720, 1873, 1887, concerning ancestors of the donor, Donald Mackenzie.

Dates: 1613, 1720, 1873, 1887.

Interest accounts of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1775-1792.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.2.53
Scope and Contents

The contents of the volume are as follows:

(i) Interest account between the trustees on the estate of Dundas and John Dundas, Writer to the Signet, 17 April 1775-17 January 1785. Some of the material is duplicated or overlapping. It includes calculations of interest (folio 1).

(ii) Interest account between George Dundas of Dundas (died 1792) and John Dundas, Writer to the Signet, 29 April 1785-6 February 1792: account and vouchers (folio 49).

Dates: 1775-1792.

Interleaved copy of "Questions Addressed to Students of Natural Philosophy", (Aberdeen, 1830).

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7717
Scope and Contents

Containing answers in an unidentified hand on the interleaves.

Dates: 1830.