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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:

Notebook containing notes of Willa Muir on Scottish literature and Pictish monuments., Mid 20th century.

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Identifier: MS.19700
Dates: Mid 20th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Notebooks and manuscripts of Willa Muir, Edwin Muir's wife. / Miscellaneous notes of Willa Muir.

Notebook containing notes on distance from Minto House., 1797, 1832, 1860, undated.

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Identifier: MS.13234
Dates: 1797, 1832, 1860, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Estate papers and correspondence of the Elliot family of Minto. / Minto estate papers.

Notebook containing notes on Domhnall Donn., 1954.

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Identifier: Acc.14529/3
Dates: 1954.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Literary papers and correspondence of Sorley Maclean. / Notebooks of Sorley Maclean on literary and historical figures.

Notebook containing notes on Geoffrey Chaucer., 1932-1933.

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Identifier: Acc.14529/1
Dates: 1932-1933.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Literary papers and correspondence of Sorley Maclean. / Notebooks of Sorley Maclean on literary and historical figures.

Notebook containing notes on the theory of war, descriptions of campaigns, and notes on other military subjects., Circa 1830.

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Identifier: MS.8245
Dates: Circa 1830.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance. / Correspondence, legal, financial and estate papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance. / Miscellaneous papers of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance.

Notebook containing notes on theological controversies, biblical paraphrases, extracts from various sources, and various other notes written by John Sinclair whilst a student at Edinburgh University., 1666.

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Identifier: MS.16476
Scope and Contents

Leaves are torn out before folio 10 and before folios 7 reversed, 17 reversed, 46 reversed and 51 reversed.

The covers are blind-stamped IS.

Dates: 1666.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscript volumes formerly kept at the Gray Library, Haddington. / Volumes containing notes and other writings of John Gray and others.

Notebook containing notes on theological disputes, especially arminianism (folio 1); `Valuatione The Shyre of Mearnes as it was Revalued by the Commissioners of Assessment in Anno 1657` (folio 22), and various notes, receipts, prayers, etc. (Inv. LVII, Mac. 69) (folio 31)., Late 17th century-early 18th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.49.7.17
Dates: Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers, chiefly relating to lands and families of Morayshire, Banffshire, and Aberdeenshire, collected by William Rose, in Montcoffer, the genealogist.

Notebook containing notes, presumably lecture notes, chiefly on the ethics of Aristotle, in an unidentified seventeenth-century hand., 17th century.

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Identifier: MS.16478
Scope and Contents

The upper part of the spine and of the front cover is torn away.

Remains of two pairs of thongs.

Dates: 17th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscript volumes formerly kept at the Gray Library, Haddington. / Volumes containing notes and other writings of John Gray and others.

Notebook containing notes, undated, but circa 1780, from lectures on 'composition' given by William Leechman at Glasgow University., [Circa 1780.]

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Identifier: MS.14096
Dates: [Circa 1780.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker. / Papers of Alexander Walker and his family concerning family and estate affairs. / Notebooks, school exercise books and other miscellaneous papers.

Notebook containing obituary tributes, to the novelist, Thomas Hardy, and including the manuscript of a tribute by Ramsay MacDonald, January 1928, for the ‘Yorkshire Evening News’ and a cutting of the tribute as printed in the newspaper.

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Identifier: MS.25275
Dates: 1928.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Notebook containing original poems and verse translations by George Campbell Hay., 1945-1946.

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Identifier: MS.14968
Scope and Contents

The notebook contains 39 poems in Gaelic (14), English (14) and Scots (11). These include two further poems on ‘Mochtar is Dubhghall’ (folios 15 recto, 38 verso), and English verse translation of An Ciaran Mabach’s “Nollaig bu ghnàthach air fìon” (folio 25 verso) and English prose translations (published) of two of the poet’s own works (folio 43 verso). Folios 27 verso-37 recto, 38 recto blank.

Dates: 1945-1946.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Notebooks containing original poems and verse translations by George Campbell Hay (1915-1984).

Notebook containing originally two sets of extracts: 'Elegantiae Simulae Inusitatae scribendi formulae, Romanis Authoribus tam Historicis quam Poeticis Diligenter Excerptae', and 'Sententiae Celebriores tam Ethicorum quam Christianorum ex variis autoribus Descriptae’., 18th century.

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Identifier: MS.17796
Scope and Contents

The 'Elegantiae Simulae Inusitatae...' begins on folio 4, and the 'Sententiae Celebriores...’ begins on folio 24. The same hand has added extracts from Gellius and Ennius and notes on Roman measures and money on folios 1-3, and calculations on folios 11-17. The name William Paterson and the dates 1704 and 1707 appear on front and back covers. There are some notes in Lord Milton's hand on folios 17-18. Leaves have been torn out at various points.

Dates: 18th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun. / Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun. / Academic and literary papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.

Notebook containing part of 'The genetical theory of populations' by J B S Haldane, described as 'continued' and consisting of some unnumbered chapters., [?1950.]

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Identifier: MS.20615
Dates: [?1950.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway. / Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane. / Notebooks of J B S Haldane containing notes on various topics and first versions of lectures, books and papers on scientific topics, and on some of public concern. / Notebooks of J B S Haldane, containing part of a projected and apparently unpublished work entitled 'The genetical theory of populations'.

Notebook containing part of the manuscript of ‘Two men and a blanket’ by Robert Garioch Sutherland., [1975, or before.]

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Identifier: MS.26610
Scope and Contents

The manuscript corresponds to pages 11-53 of the published edition, though there are some variations in the text.

Dates: [1975, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland, and his father. / Prose works of Robert Garioch Sutherland.

Notebook containing particulars of inhabitants of Glengarry, compiled in 1861, with additions and corrections., 1861.

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Identifier: MS.15164
Dates: 1861.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805. / Estate books, being a number of partly printed bound volumes relating in various ways to the Ellices’ estates in Glengarry and Glenquoich. / Population books containing names, ages, occupations, religious professions and other particulars of inhabitants of Glengarry and Glenquoich.

Notebook containing philosophical and other writings of Richard B Haldane., 1st quarter of 20th century.

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Identifier: MS.20219
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:A chapter of a work on philosophy by Richard B Haldane (folio 1);Draft of the text of a lecture on 'The philosophical significance of humanism' (folio 9);Draft of the text of a lecture on 'The philosophy of the particular' (folio 33 verso);Quotations from various sources (folio 1 inverted);Chapters of works on philosophy (folios 3, 12 inverted);Text of a lecture on education written about 1921...
Dates: 1st quarter of 20th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Notebooks and other papers of Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane, preceded by correspondence of and papers concerning his mother, Mrs Mary E Haldane and his maternal uncle, Sir John S Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and followed by notebooks and other papers of his sister Elizabeth S Haldane. / Papers of Richard B Haldane, Viscount Haldane. / Notebooks of Richard Haldane containing notes on and for lectures and essays chiefly concerning philosophy.

Notebook containing poems addressed to various members of the Seaforth family., 1814.

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Identifier: MS.6400
Dates: 1814.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and manuscripts of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’, and of his family. / Papers of the Seaforth family.

Notebook containing poems mostly by Rob Donn Mackay, taken down by Rev. Dr Alexander Irvine from the recitation of the poet's daughter Janet., 1800

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Identifier: Acc.14544/4
Scope and Contents Notebook with marbled boards of cardboard, the spine strengthened by a strip of brown leather. Paginated [1]-137 by the scribe. In the hand of Rev. Dr Alexander Irvine. Contains mostly poetry of Rob Donn Mackay. A note on the inside back cover, paginated 137, says: "These poems were taken from Janet McKay dr to Rob Mc Kay before Duncan McIntyre poet this 22 of Decr 1800 at no. 17 Thistle Street Edin[burgh].Contains biographical notes on Rob Donn, followed by a collection of his...
Dates: 1800
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Further Gaelic manuscripts from the Irvine-Robertson collection.

Notebook containing press-cuttings chiefly of obituary notices for William Sharp., 1905-1910.

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Identifier: MS.8784
Dates: 1905-1910.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscripts and typescripts of the writings of William Sharp and of the works in the Celtic vein which Sharp wrote under the name of 'Fiona MacLeod'.

Notebook containing printed leaves from, and notes by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes on, the Greek New Testament., [Circa 1759.]

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Identifier: MS.25396
Dates: [Circa 1759.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes. / Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes. / Devotional and theological papers of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes. / Notebooks, notes and translations of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes on the Greek New Testament. / Notebooks containing printed leaves from, and notes by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes on, the Greek New Testament.

Notebook containing printed leaves from, and notes by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes on, the Greek New Testament., [Circa 1759.]

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Identifier: MS.25397
Dates: [Circa 1759.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes. / Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes. / Devotional and theological papers of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes. / Notebooks, notes and translations of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes on the Greek New Testament. / Notebooks containing printed leaves from, and notes by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes on, the Greek New Testament.

Notebook containing printed leaves from, and notes by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes on, the Greek New Testament., [Circa 1759.]

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Identifier: MS.25398
Dates: [Circa 1759.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes. / Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes. / Devotional and theological papers of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes. / Notebooks, notes and translations of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes on the Greek New Testament. / Notebooks containing printed leaves from, and notes by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes on, the Greek New Testament.

Notebook containing printed leaves from, and notes by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes on, the Greek New Testament., [Circa 1759.]

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Identifier: MS.25399
Dates: [Circa 1759.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes. / Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes. / Devotional and theological papers of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes. / Notebooks, notes and translations of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes on the Greek New Testament. / Notebooks containing printed leaves from, and notes by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes on, the Greek New Testament.

Notebook containing printed leaves from, and notes by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes on, the Greek New Testament., [Circa 1759.]

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Identifier: MS.25400
Dates: [Circa 1759.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes. / Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes. / Devotional and theological papers of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes. / Notebooks, notes and translations of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes on the Greek New Testament. / Notebooks containing printed leaves from, and notes by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes on, the Greek New Testament.

Notebook containing printed leaves from, and notes by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes on, the Greek New Testament., [Circa 1759.]

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Identifier: MS.25401
Dates: [Circa 1759.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes. / Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes. / Devotional and theological papers of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes. / Notebooks, notes and translations of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes on the Greek New Testament. / Notebooks containing printed leaves from, and notes by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes on, the Greek New Testament.

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