Specifications.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Detailed and exact statements of particulars, especially statements prescribing materials, dimensions, and workmanship for something to be built, installed, or manufactured.
Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:
Accounts and related correspondence for alterations to the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.345/12
Dates:
1870.
Business papers, notebooks, diaries, maps and plans of Robert Stevenson and Sons, civil engineers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10706/1-697
Scope and Contents
These papers contain the business archive of the Stevensons from the late 18th century to the mid 20th century. They consist mainly of letterbooks, incoming correspondence, reports, memoranda, maps and plans, with a large number of printed pamphlets and reports by the Stevensons and others, concerning all the civil engineering works with which the family was involved. The main interest lies in the material relating to harbours and to lighthouse construction, and to the work of the Northern...
Dates:
1636-1963.
Contemporary copy of specifications by John Rennie and others for the Crinan Canal.
Item
Identifier: MS.9499
Scope and Contents
Also included are John Rennie's estimate for the work (folio 33 verso) and notes on the cost of the Forth and Clyde Canal in 1789 (folio 47).
Dates:
1793.
Contract and specifications, between the Grand Junction Water Work Company and Charles Norton., 1811.
File
Identifier: Ch.15433
Scope and Contents
Regarding making and erecting an iron roof on the engine house of the Grand Junction Water Work Company in Paddington.
Dates:
1811.
Copy of 'Estimates, plans, and specifications for work proposed to be undertaken at West Point', Hong Kong, from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane’s service at the East India Station., 1845.
File
Identifier: MS.2414A
Dates:
1845.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Thomas John Cochrane as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station.
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'Admiralty Enclosures' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station.
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'Admiralty Enclosures' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, including correspondence regarding the Malay Archipelago, Hong Kong, and the attack on the stockade of a chief in New Zealand, 1845-1846.
Correspondence, 1803-1810, 1817, and reports, estimates, and other papers, 1794-1810 of John Rennie concerning canal and navigations in Kennet and Avon., 1794-1817.
File
Identifier: MS.19781
Correspondence and papers concerning harbours and roads. , 1805-1834.
File
Identifier: MS.19971
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i)-(vi) Harbours
(i) Aberdeen, letters and accounts 1830, 1833, and a draft of the section of the ‘Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer, written by himself’ relating to the harbour. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Courtown, letters and reports, 1830-1833. See also MS.19978. (Folio 15.)
(iii) Dundee, letters, 1860-1861, 1833. (Folio 50.)
(iv) London, St Katharine's Dock, correspondence, report, and share certificates, 1825-1830. (Folio 58.)
(v) Trinity, letter, 1834. (Folio...
Dates:
1805-1834.
Correspondence of the Faculty of Advocates chiefly concerning alteration specifications to the Advocates Library and accounts for the installation of heating apparatus.
File
Identifier: F.R.344/13
Dates:
1853-1864.
Correspondence, papers and drawings of John Rennie concerning Southwark Bridge., 1811, 1814-1821.
File
Identifier: MS.19774
Drawing - Notes and dimensions - Cape Saunders - surveyed by T S., 1863.
Item
Identifier: MS.5885 (28)
Dates:
1863.
Dunsyre Mains. Specification for work. Parish of Dunsyre., 1882.
Item
Identifier: MS.27748b
Letters, contracts, specifications and other papers to William Nassau Elliot from contractors, commissioners of transport and the municipal authorities of Osnabrück, Bentheim and Munster., 1761-1762.
File
Identifier: MS.12887
Dates:
1761-1762.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers chiefly of William Nassau Elliot of Wells (?1736-1775), Barrister (Inner Temple), and of his son, William Elliot of Wells (1766-1818), Member of Parliament.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning William Nassau Elliot of Wells.
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Correspondence and papers of William Nassau Elliot of Wells as Commissary and Commissary-General to the allied army in Germany.
Miscellaneous formal documents., 1800-1858.
File
Identifier: MS.7513
Notebook containing specifications for the 'Carpenter, Joiner, Slater, Plumber, Plasterer and Ironmongery works' of farm buildings at High Possil, Milton estate., 1818.
Item
Identifier: MS.8204
Dates:
1818.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Correspondence, legal, financial and estate papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Estate papers of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance.
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Notebooks containing specifications for the construction of farm buildings at High Possil, Milton estate.
Notebook containing specifications for the 'Mason work' of farm buildings at High Possil, Milton estate., 1818.
Item
Identifier: MS.8205
Dates:
1818.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Correspondence, legal, financial and estate papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Estate papers of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance.
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Notebooks containing specifications for the construction of farm buildings at High Possil, Milton estate.
Notebook containing transcripts of specifications and articles by various authors relating to a wide variety of small engineering undertakings, owned and chiefly compiled by R Blackadder.
Item
Identifier: MS.19981
Scope and Contents
R Blackadder worked in Dundee, and appears to have been a member of the family of mapmakers and civil engineers from Berwickshire. He was part estate management consultant and part engineer. His interests ranged from manure and drainage, to the construction of damheads, ice houses, bridges, and railway curves. He also made notes on landlord tenant relations, on crop rotation, and on the organisation of various large estates. His work was primarily in Angus, but he spent some time in...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Notebooks containing specifications for the construction of farm buildings at High Possil, Milton estate., 1818.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8204-8205
Dates:
1818.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Correspondence, legal, financial and estate papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Estate papers of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance.
Papers and accounts connected with alterations to Minto House., 1860, 1864, 1891-1899, 1903, 1905-1906.
File
Identifier: MS.13250
Dates:
1860, 1864, 1891-1899, 1903, 1905-1906.
Papers and correspondence concerning roads, building specifications and copies of acts., 1790-1820.
File
Identifier: MS.16274
Dates:
1790-1820.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Correspondence and papers, legal papers, memoranda and reports, tacks, rent rolls and accounts concerning the administration of the Balgowan, Lynedoch and Redgorton estates.
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Papers and correspondence concerning roads, bridges and churches.
Papers concerning building work at Auldbar., 1762-19th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15436-15438
Dates:
1762-19th century.
Papers of John Rennie concerning steam engines., 1778-1811, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19825
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Letters and estimate concerning the purchase by the government, for the use of the dockyard at Deptford, of the engine belonging to the Honourable George Villiers at Aldenham, 1811-1813 (folio 1);
(ii) Reports, possibly by William Murdock, on the engines at Ale and Cakes, and Dolcoath copper mines near Redruth in Cornwall, 1782 (folio 9);
(iii) Description of a Boulton and Watt engine made for Mark Bell, Battersea, undated (folio 13);
(iv) Letters concerning...
Dates:
1778-1811, undated.
Papers of the Free Church of Scotland concerning printing and various funds., 1845-1900.
File
Identifier: MS.18105
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Papers concerning printing, 1879-1886, undated (folio 1); the Reserve Fund, 1896-1900 (folio 97), the Smieton Fund, 1885 (folio 198), and the Widows' Fund, 1845-1896 (folio 244).
Dates:
1845-1900.
Plan, specification and expenses for a drain for Shielswood Loch, in the parish of Ashkirk, by John Black., 1811.
Item
Identifier: MS.25180
Dates:
1811.
Printed specifications of patents produced in the case Lobstein versus Randolph and McLellan., Circa 1874.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.38.6.1
Dates:
Circa 1874.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks of John Inglis, Lord Glencorse, Lord President of the Court of Session, containing full notes of the cases in which he participated both as advocate (criminal cases only, 1841-1858) and judge (civil and criminal cases, 1858-1889).