Microfilms.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Fine-grain, high-resolution film in roll form containing images of documents, reduced in size from the original.
Found in 2421 Collections and/or Records:
Microfilm of schoolbook, transcribed in the early 12th century, containing notes and glosses (in Latin and German) on authors studied in schools and other texts which could be used in teaching.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.703
Dates:
Early 12th century.
Microfilm of Scottish genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.20
Dates:
17th century-1841.
Microfilm of Scottish genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.21
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Pedigrees, 1828, or after, of families of Scottish baronets (Adv.MS.15.1.21);Papers, ? 1799-?1812, of George Chalmers, consisting of lists of and references to manuscripts and documents relating to Scotland held in various libraries, mostly in London. (Adv.MS.15.1.22);Genealogical tree, 19th century, of the Bell family (Adv.MS.32.7.2);History, ?19th century, of the Argyle family (Adv.MS.34.5.22);‘Blazoning of the...
Dates:
1672-19th century.
Microfilm of Scottish music, [1838]; and, dance tunes, [circa 1765], chiefly arranged for the English guitar or the cittern.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.389
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Volume of Scottish music, [1838], comprising airs, Lowland and Highland, songs, dances, a pibroch, etc. (MS.2086);
Book of dance tunes, [circa 1765], chiefly arranged for the English guitar or the cittern (MS.5449).
Dates:
[Circa 1765, 1838.]
Microfilm of scrap books., 1922-1931.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1201
Microfilm of scrap books., 1931-1955.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1202
Microfilm of scrap books., 1967-1986.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1203
Microfilm of scrap books., 1986-1993.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1204
Microfilm of second corrected proofs of ‘Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile’ by John Hanning Speke.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1001
Dates:
[1863, or before.]
Microfilm of 'Second report on the Jarvisfield Estate drawn up with the view for its improvement, 1828', by William Blackadder, Glamis.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1104
Dates:
1828.
Microfilm of selections from works by or attributed to St Bernard, written in the Low Countries.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1279
Dates:
15th century
Microfilm of Sermones de Tempore, a homiliary, early 12th century; and, medical manuscripts, 13th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.423
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Sermones de Tempore, a homiliary written in the early 12th century for Rochester Cathedral Priory (Adv.MS.18.2.4).
Two English medical manuscripts, each written by two scribes of the thirteenth century, bound together from an early date (Adv.MS.18.2.5).
Dates:
Early 12th century, 13th century.
Microfilm of sermons in the hand of Archbishop Spottiswoode.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1045
Dates:
[?1615.]
Microfilm of sermons of Adam of Dryburgh, and other works.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.446
Dates:
Early 15th century.
Microfilm of Shān magico religious work, containing many references to the 'Vessantara-jātaka', and probably intended to instruct people how to gain victory over enemies - hatred, passion, illness, and evil spirits.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.793
Dates:
?19th century.
Microfilm of six volumes of ‘scrapbooks’, the memoirs of David Douglas, bookseller, chronicling the years 1847-1903.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1438-1441
Dates:
1903-1906.
Microfilm of sixty-six pieces of music for violin (two in two parts), chiefly dances, with a further seven pieces in tablature (apparently for a three-stringed instrument).
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1086
Dates:
[Circa 1680.]
Microfilm of Skene Manuscript: a collection of 117 pieces in tablature for the mandora, apparently compiled by John Skene (? of Hallyards, Midlothian, died 1644).
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.231
Dates:
?1615-?1635.
Microfilm of Skene Manuscript: a collection of 117 pieces in tablature for the mandora, apparently compiled by John Skene (? of Hallyards, Midlothian, died 1644).
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.501
Dates:
?1615-?1635.
Microfilm of sketchbook of water-colour drawings, notes and plans by Thomas Scott, Earlston, chiefly of Scottish buildings in the Border area.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.88
Dates:
1845-1850.
Microfilm of sketches, maps, and various other papers of, or concerning, James Augustus Grant., 1850-[1872, or after].
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.557
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Album of sketches, 1860-1863, chiefly watercolour, some pencil or pen and ink, of James Augustus Grant, made on his African expedition with John Hanning Speke. (MS.17919);Album of sketches, 1860-1863, chiefly watercolour, some pencil or pen and ink, and lithographs of James Augustus Grant, made on his African expedition with John Hanning Speke (MS.17920);Unmounted sketches, 1860-1863, of James Augustus Grant, made on his African expedition...
Dates:
1850-[1872, or after].
Microfilm of small collections of correspondence and manuscripts of the author and essayist Thomas De Quincey, acquired at different times., [?1800-?1855.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1567
Microfilm of small collections of correspondence, with some papers, chiefly of J B S Haldane.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2103
Dates:
[?1912-?1936.]