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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 of Alexander Drysdale, containing material on trigonometry with calculations of heights and distances illustrated with drawings in watercolours.

 Item
Identifier: MS.14286
Scope and Contents

One example is taken from Leith (folio 26). Also included are some sketch plans of property near Fergus, Ontario, farm accounts and miscellaneous notes, 1835-1838.

Dates: Early 19th century.

Notebook of Alexander Fraser Tytler., 4th quarter of 18th century.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11737/3
Scope and Contents

Records an account of a visit to a house of an unidentified lady. Includes sketches of the landscape.

Dates: 4th quarter of 18th century.

Notebook of Alexander Fraser Tytler containing transcriptions of Latin, Greek and English verse., 4th quarter of 18th century.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11737/2
Scope and Contents

Included in the notebook are financial calculations for repairs of buildings. There are several sketches relating to building design.

Dates: 4th quarter of 18th century.

Notebook of Alexander Macduff.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6357
Scope and Contents

Concerning the lands of Bonhard, Boghall, and Springfield, Perthshire.

Dates: 1828-circa 1840.

Notebook of Andrew Rule, a schoolmaster in Aberdeenshire.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.12
Scope and Contents

As well as teaching in a number or local schools, mostly in the parish of Glenmuick, Rule taught book-keeping, navigation and arithmetic to private pupils. His notebook includes accounts, lists of books, minutes of visits to the schools by the committee of the presbytery, and reflections on the events of the year. These last are mostly of a religious nature, but he mentions his own and his children`s affairs and (folio 48) the political events of 1745.

Dates: 1713-1755.

Notebook of Archibald Fletcher titled 'Notae in Q. Hor(atium) Flaccum Vol(umen)2'., 18th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.17900
Scope and Contents

The title is taken from the cover. 'Notes on Q. Hor. Flaccus Selected from the Best Commentators by A. Fletcher' is written on folio i. His ex-libris, dated 12 October 1747, is on the inside top cover. The notes deal with the 'Odes' from i.27 and the 'Epodes'.

Dates: 18th century.

Notebook of Archibald J Cronin.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8334
Scope and Contents

Containing drafts of 11 "Dr Findlay" short stories.

Dates: circa 1920-circa 1981.