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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Notes added as comment or explanation, such as those accompanying an entry in a bibliography, reading list, or catalogue intended to describe, explain, or evaluate the publication referred to.

Found in 581 Collections and/or Records:

Copy of ‘Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky (London, 1733) with manuscript annotations.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.4.2
Scope and Contents The volume also contains extracts of two letters, ?circa 1690, concerning the attitude of James VII towards the Church of England (folio 1), and `Some additional Characters of the chief of the last Ministry`, 1715, signed M S (folio 3). The characters, which are apparently copied from another manuscript, are of Bolingbroke, Stafford, the Bishop of London and others. The annotations, writtenbetween 1781 and 1797, are signed `M.` and `E.M.` and are mostly copies of notes by...
Dates: Circa 1690, 1715, 1733, 1781-1797.

Copy of "Pictures in the New Club" (1911), with manuscript annotations and additions.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7871
Scope and Contents

A catalogue of pictures in the New Club, Edinburgh.

Dates: 1911.

Copy of Robert Law, "Memorials" (Edinburgh, 1818), with annotations by editor Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9331
Scope and Contents

Includes letters of James Ballantyne to Sharpe concerning the printing of "Memorials".

Dates: 1818.

Copy of the statutes of the Order of the Garter in English, written probably in 1558, containing the statutes of Henry VIII, and of Mary and Philip, and a further statute, dated 12th of January in the first year of Elizabeth, added in another hand.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.18
Scope and Contents The title, and the statutes of Henry VIII, are introduced by small gold initials within blue and brown parti-coloured squares. Many of the statutes of Henry VIII, and most of those of Mary and Philip have a title or a summary in red in the margin, written in the same hand as the text; several have marginal annotations in another hand of the late 16th or early 17th century. All the statutes, except that of Elizabeth, have been numbered, and at folios i-ii is a list of contents, written in a...
Dates: 1558.

Copy of "Traditions of Edinburgh" (1825), by Robert Chambers, with double pages replacing cancelled leaves and the original text (concerning Hugo Arnot) supplied in manuscript.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12417
Scope and Contents

Includes tipped in notes of Arnot`s son, and an anecdote, of Walter Scott to Robert Chambers which was incorporated into "Traditions of Edinburgh".

Dates: circa 1825.