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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, presumably of the late nineteenth century, containing an epic poem in Gaelic, and related material.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3280
Scope and Contents The notebook contains:(i) 'Craobh sgaoilidh nan Gaedheal' (The expansions of the Gaels), being five parts and the argument of a sixth part of an epic, which begins with the migration of the Celts from Asia to Europe (folio 1);(ii) Material, mainly biographical and genealogical, copied from printed sources, especially from Alexander Cameron's ‘The history and traditions of the Isle of Skye’ (folio 50).On folio 1 verso is a note, 'The following are original...
Dates: Late 19th century.

Notebook signed Ernest Marchand on the upper cover, containing detailed stage directions for French productions of plays by Bellini, Verdi and Halévy.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21854
Scope and Contents

The stage directions are for the following French productions: ‘Norma’ by Bellini (folio 1); ‘Ernani’ by Verdi (folio 4); ‘Charles VI’ by Halévy (folio 12 verso).

Dates: ?Late 19th century.

Notebook signed 'John Halkerston', kept, apparently, by Lord Colvill of Ochiltree's factor.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5290
Scope and Contents

The notebook contains notes of financial transactions, 1709-1719, and a separate account of 1768.

Dates: 1709-1719, 1768.

Notebook, "The Life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu", by an unidentified compiler., Mid 19th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.42596
Scope and Contents The "Life" is comprised of ten folios of notes only. The notes on Lady Montagu have been augmented through the inclusion of press cuttings. In particular :(1) a copy of the biography of Lady Montagu from "Chambers`s papers for the people", number 64 (pages 3 and 4, and part of page 5 and part of page 6, have been cut from the copy and pasted into the pages of the notebook); and,(2) five portraits, printed from engravings by W. Greatbatch, extracted from a...
Dates: Mid 19th century.

Notebook, 'Thought-cloud jotter' by Alec Finlay., [2006].

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 36(1)
Scope and Contents

Pages within item are mostly blank except for printed images of cartoon clouds on each page.

Dates: [2006].