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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 Thomas Heart, containing prose translations, poetry, notes and some medical recipes.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3004
Scope and Contents

The notebook contains prose translations of most of Horace's ‘Odes and Epodes’ (inverted folio 3, folio 1 verso), a poem entitled "The believer's dowry" with other verses and notes of a religious nature (folio 4), and some medical recipes (folio 27 verso). Dates ranging between the years 1720 and 1763 occur at points throughout the volume.

Dates: 1720-1763.

Notebook of Thomas James de Bourgho.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7464
Scope and Contents

Containing material concerning cartography, surveying, photography and chemistry.

Dates: mid 19th century.

Notebook of Thomas Philip Graham of Airth.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9335
Scope and Contents

Contains notes made during his military studies in France.

Dates: 1861.

Notebook of Thomas Ruddiman, containing mainly details of his personal expenditure.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5047
Scope and Contents

The notebook also includes accounts of money disbursed by Thomas Ruddiman as Assistant Librarian of the Advocates' Library.

Dates: 1702-1713.

Notebook of Thomas Stoddart containing miscellaneous material., 1850-1866.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10295
Scope and Contents

The notebook includes Thomas Stoddart's journal of a fishing trip in 1850 which is the basis of the article 'Suthelandshire' in "An angler's rambles and angling songs", page 29, and drafts of 'The drought of 1864' (published in "An angler's rambles and angling songs", page 251) and other poems.

Dates: 1850-1866.

Notebook of transcripts made for Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., 1657-1661, undated.

 Item
Identifier: MS.25379
Scope and Contents

The transcripts include, 'Lieutenant General Baillie his vindication for his own part of Kilsyth and Preston', undated. Also copies of correspondence between James Sharp, Archbishop of St Andrews, and Robert Baillie, Principal of Glasgow University, 1657-1661.

Inscribed in Lord Hailes's hand 'Transcribed from the original by Mr. Aitken of Glasgow' from the Wodrow papers.

Dates: 1657-1661, undated.