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Notebooks.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books of blank pages, usually ruled, used for taking notes, especially by pupils and students for taking class notes or writing or drawing exercises. .

Found in 3337 Collections and/or Records:

Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.221
Dates: 1177, 15th century-1924.

Manuscripts of Donald MacPherson.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14890-14895
Scope and Contents Donald MacPherson is described in ‘Cairm’, volume 25, page 207. He was born in Laggan, Badenoch, about 1788 (MS.14891, page 124). He served in the 75th Regiment for fourteen years, and reached the rank of sergeant. On leaving the army he married Mary Stacey, a native of Richmond-on-Thames, and entered business as a bookseller at 54 Upper Ebury Street, Pimlico. In 1824 he published some of his English poems as ‘Melodies from the Gaelic’. This achieving some success, he proposed another work,...
Dates: 1st half of 19th century.

Manuscripts, typescripts, notes and drafts of Kathleen Jamie, with related papers.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11599/1-54
Scope and Contents Kathleen Jamie was born in Johnstone in 1962, and studied at the University of Edinburgh. These papers date from the period 1988 to 1997. During this time, Kathleen Jamie was writer in residence to various organisations, including the Workington Docks Project and the University of Dundee, and was awarded the Scottish Arts Council Scottish-Canadian Fellowship in 1994. The collection includes papers relating to the following published or broadcast works:The Golden Peak (London:...
Dates: 1980-1997.

Manuscripts, typescripts, research notes and personal papers of Jean Mary Allan, librarian and novelist.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8844/1-65
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, poems, essays, talks and some personal papers.

Dates: 1896-circa 1976.

Mathematics notebook of Peter Purdie containing rules and problems in fractions, decimals and mensuration., [1823, or after.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.14288
Scope and Contents

The paper is watermarked 1823. It is wrapped in a copy of the ‘Caledonian Mercury’ (1850).

Dates: [1823, or after.]

Mathematics notebooks.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14287-14289
Dates: [1816, or after]-1832, undated.

Medical notebook of Alexander Ochterlony, a younger son of James Ochterlony of Wester Seaton who studied medicine at the University of Paris.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.15
Scope and Contents The contents of the notebook are as follows:(i) `Spagyricae seu Jatrochymicae Synopsios Cursus ... illustratus a doctissimo viro domino Rheo`, July 1631. Notes of lectures on chemistry given by Rhee [?Rae], a Scot teaching in Paris. (Folio 1.)(ii) `De primis Naturae principiis`. (Folio 39.)(iii) Extracts from ‘De gradibus et compositionibus receptorum et naturalium’ by Paracelsus. (Folio 45.)(iv) Prescriptions in Latin. (Folio 51.)...
Dates: 1631-1635.

Microfilm of diaries and notebooks of David Livingstone., 1850-1871.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10776 [Mf.MSS.285]
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(1) Diary (number VIII), 4 March-19 May 1867. See ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents’ by G W Clendennen and I C Cunningham, page 275, number 21.(2) Diary (number IX), 20 May-7 September 1867. See ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents’ by G W Clendennen and I C Cunningham, page 275, number 22.(3) Diary (number XI), 1 January-12 June 1868. See ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents’ by G W Clendennen and I C...
Dates: 1850-1871.

Microfilm of Industrial Revolution: a documentary history. Series 2. Papers of John Rennie, Thomas Telford and related figures. Part 1., 1795-1821, 1935.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1414
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Papers, 1795-1821, 1935, of John Rennie concerning overseas operations in India (MS.19821);

Papers, 1805-1821, of John Rennie concerning various overseas operations (MS.19822);

Notebook, [1816-1818], of John Rennie containing notes apparently for a corn-mill at Nantes (MS.19823).

Dates: 1795-1821, 1935.