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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents distributed to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending.

Found in 1006 Collections and/or Records:

'Kilberry book of Ceol Mor’, 2nd edition, by Archibald Campbell (1953), containing various annotations in Francis Collinson's hand throughout.

 Item
Identifier: MS.22128
Scope and Contents

The annotations are dated between 1960 (page 8) and 1982 (page 9) and most are in pencil.

A photostat copy of a piobaireachd found loosely enclosed has been tipped in at the back.

Dates: 1953, 1960, 1982.

Lady Lucinda Mackay Archive

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.50707-50842
Scope and Contents This collection reflects the personal life and artistic career of Lady Mackay (b.1941). The papers contain correspondence, sketchbooks and loose artworks, writing drafts and proofs, school records, personal and art-related photographs, family papers, and career-related ephemera.The collection has been arranged into five distinct series as follows:1. Correspondence of Lucinda Mackay (with friends, close acquaintances, painting subjects, patrons, other artists, and...
Dates: 1941-2022

‘Laws and customs of Scotland in matters criminal’ (Edinburgh, 1699) by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, Lord Advocate, with manuscript notes by the author's son-in-law, Sir James Mackenzie, Lord Royston, and with further notes in another and later hand., 1699.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2690
Scope and Contents The manuscript notes are for the greatest part extensive interleavings in the printed volume. Those on the first Title of Part 1 are late copies, probably from Adv.MS.25.3.15, which is also an interleaved volume of the same work, annotated by Lord Royston, similar to this but not identical. There is a letter to Thomas Thomson, Deputy Clerk Register, pasted on the inside of the front cover; a note on the manuscript by George Neilson (folio ii verso); and an index by Neilson (folio 549). There...
Dates: 1699.

‘Lays and lyrics’ by Charles Gray (Edinburgh, 1841) with pencil and wash illustrations, 1846, of A A Ritchie.

 File
Identifier: MS.15947
Scope and Contents

At the back of the volume, “A familiar Epistle, addressed to Peter M'Leod, Esq., of Polbeth” by Charles Gray (Edinburgh, 1845) has been bound in.

There are also manuscript verses by A A Ritchie (folio 1), class certificates, 1833-1834, of Charles Gray's son, Charles E Gray, from St Andrews University (folio 3) and a newspaper article, 1845, on Gray's poetry (folio 9).

Dates: 1833-1846.

Letter-book of Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton, with legal notes, and annotated pages of 'Compendium Institutionum Caes. Iustiniani' by Johannes Friderici Böckelmann., 1720-1721, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.16748
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Letter book of Lord Milton, 1720-1721 (folio 1);

(ii) Pages 47-112 (wanting 79-80, 89-90, 105-106) of an octavo edition of Johannes F Böckelmann, 'Compendium Institutionum Caes. Iustiniani', covering lib. I, tit. XVIII to lib. II, tit. XVIII, interleaved, with annotations by Lord Milton (folio 20);

(iii) Legal notes by Lord Milton, apparently for his legal dictionary (MSS.17815-17819) (folio 1 inverted).

Dates: 1720-1721, undated.

Letter of Catherine Carswell to Edwin Muir in a copy of ‘The green ship’ (London, 1936) by Patrick Miller.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19704
Scope and Contents

Catherine Carswell identifies Patrick Miller as her brother, Gordon Macfarlane, and writes about her work and other activities. The book is signed by Miller and the artist Eric Gill.

Dates: 1936.

‘Letter to a friend in London; containing observations on the memoir of himself written by James Hogg ... and prefixed to a late edition of the "Mountain Bard"’ (Edinburgh, 1821) by George Goldie, interleaved, with manuscript notes.

 File
Identifier: MS.3369
Scope and Contents

The notes are stated (folio 1) to be by James Browne, Doctor of Laws, but they are clearly to be read as the composition of George Goldie himself.

Dates: [1821, of after.]

Letters and papers concerning the mission at Arouca, Trinidad., 1844-1848.

 File
Identifier: MS.8020
Scope and Contents

The Arouca Mission was founded by the Reverend George Brodie on behalf of the United Associate Presbytery of Selkirk. This mission was transferred to the United Presbyterian Church in 1848.

Dates: 1844-1848.

Letters, manuscripts, notebooks and printed items of and concerning David Gray, of Kirkintilloch.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.8463-8481
Scope and Contents

David Gray is known particularly for his major poem 'The Luggie'.

Dates: 1845-1964.