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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, number 13 of a series, of James Skene.

 Item
Identifier: MS.20480
Scope and Contents

Most of the contents are theological, but there are reminiscences about James Skene’s family, the death of his wife, and the visit of the Prince of Wales to Oxford in 1863.

Dates: 1862-1863.

"Notebook O No. 4" of George Crabbe., 1822.

 Item
Identifier: MS.42076
Scope and Contents

Title taken from the "Index of English Literary Manuscripts", volume 3, part 1, page 296 (London : Mansell, 1986), which has a full description of the contents of the notebook.

Dates: 1822.

Notebook of a Glasgow engineer.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19982
Scope and Contents

Much of the contents relates to bridges, rolling stock, and small installations (plates, shoes, turntables, levelcrossing gates, water tanks etc) for railways in the vicinity of Glasgow, and for the Highland Railway. The volume also contains notes on harbours in the Clyde, on Glasgow sewerage, and on sea walls at Leith and Dundee.

Dates: 1890-1894.

Notebook of a mid-19th century Lady containing knitting and crochet patterns, and Gaelic poetry.

 Item
Identifier: MS.14899
Scope and Contents The notebook, watermarked 1833, is anonymously written from both ends. End ‘A’, paginated 1-121, consists of knitting and crochet patterns based on Gaugain, ‘The knitter’s friend’. Includes ‘The McDonald pattern’ (page 113). End ‘B’ is paginated 1-63, but pages 9-34 have been cut out. Pages 1-55 are in the same hand as end ‘A’, and are catalogued below. Pages 56-63 are in a later hand and contain knitting patterns and recipes.The contents are as follows....
Dates: Mid 19th century.