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 and typescripts, undated, of 'Tales of the West Highlands' by Edward Albert, a series of short stories., [1932, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9131-9134
Dates:
[1932, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Edward Albert (1890-1944), who graduated Master of Arts in English at Edinburgh University, 1908, and spent his professional life as English master at George Watson's College, Edinburgh.
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Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of, and notebooks containing material collected for, the fictional works of Edward Albert.
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 of parts of George Scott-Moncrieff's verse drama ‘Fotheringhay’, and of his history of the Catholic Church in Scotland, ‘The mirror and the cross’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19628-19631
Dates:
1951, 1960.
Manuscripts, typescripts and a notebook of William Soutar of writings by people other than Soutar., 1915-1943, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8762-8763
Dates:
1915-1943, undated.
Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of, and notebooks containing material collected for, the fictional works of Edward Albert., 1st half of 20th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9060-9142
Dates:
1st half of 20th century.
Manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence and other papers of and relating to James Kennaway.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12760/1-86
Dates:
[1937]-1994, undated.
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.
Material concerning ‘Bothwell’ by William Edmondstoune Aytoun., [1856, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.4921-4922
Dates:
[1856, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Letters and papers of William Edmondstoune Aytoun, which, on his death, came into the hands of John Blackwood as his executor.
Mathematical exercise book of James Phillips, Dunning School.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9799
Dates:
1842.
Mathematics notebook containing material on subjects such as mensuration, surveying and estimates for work by masons, carpenters, etc., [1816, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.14287
Scope and Contents
The notebook is undated but the paper is watermarked 1816.
Dates:
[1816, or after.]
Mathematics notebook of Peter Purdie containing problems concerning the design of water- and other mills., 1832.
Item
Identifier: MS.14289
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 written by Peter Purdie at Clifton., [1823, or after], 1832.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14288-14289
Dates:
[1823, or after], 1832.
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.
Medical notebook of Dugald Blair Brown, while on service in India.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8640
Dates:
1885-1886.
Memoranda book and notebooks., 1817-1842.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9872/98-100
Memoranda or journals of Walter Scott of Raeburn (‘Beardie’), kept in notebooks or on scraps of paper., 1705-1724.
File
Identifier: MS.1561
Dates:
1705-1724.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and papers of Sir Walter Scott and his family and of John Gibson Lockhart, with those of clients and kinsmen of Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet.
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Papers of Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet, and of various families and individuals, his kinsmen or perhaps clients.
Microfilm of a notebook of Alexander Main, containing copies of letters to him from George Eliot and G H Lewes.
Item
Identifier: MS.15551 [Mf.MSS.30]
Dates:
1871-1877.
Microfilm of diaries and notebooks, and photocopies of a diary of David Livingstone.
Series
Identifier: MS.10776
Dates:
1850-1871.
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.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Microfilm of Industrial Revolution: a documentary history. Series 2. Papers of John Rennie, Thomas Telford and related figures, from the National Library of Scotland. Parts 1-2 (Adam Matthew, 2003).
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Microfilm of Industrial Revolution: a documentary history. Series 2. Papers of John Rennie, Thomas Telford and related figures. Part 1.
Microfilm of Industrial Revolution: a documentary history. Series 2. Papers of John Rennie, Thomas Telford and related figures. Part 1., [?2nd half of 18th century-?early 20th century.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1398-1417
Dates:
[?2nd half of 18th century-?early 20th century.]