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Subscription lists.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Lists or records of subscriptions and subscribers.

Found in 78 Collections and/or Records:

Manuscript of 'The Gododdin' by William Owen Pughe, with facing English translation, and other papers.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.18
Scope and Contents The manuscript was written during 1784-1785 (see pages iii, 198) by William Owen Pughe (1759-1835), co-editor of ‘The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales’. For further transcripts of the work in his hand see the following National Library of Wales manuscripts: 13240 B; 21281 E, page 231, column a; Erfyl Fychan papers.The contents are as follows.(i) Line from an ‘awdl’ ascribed to Casnodyn: ‘Cyn glas ved cyn glassu vyggran’. ‘The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales’, volume 1,...
Dates: 1784-1785.

Microfilm of Solemn League and Covenant, 1643; and, copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas conferring titles and Baronetcies, 1554-1707.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.456
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Solemn League and Covenant, printed by Evan Tyler (Edinburgh, 1643), and subscribed in West St. Giles’s, Edinburgh, in October 1643. It has some 750 names, of which two-thirds are actual signatures (Adv.MS.23.3.16);

Copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas conferring titles and Baronetcies, 1554-1707, most of the material being late 17th and early 18th century. Also included are copies of material concerning the Order of the Thistle (Adv.MS.34.6.2).

Dates: 1554-1707.

Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.19
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Printed prospectus of the Sanitary Protection Association of Edinburgh, late 19th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Printed list of members, with subscriptions, of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries (Konungliga Norraena Fornfraeda-Felag), 1849, in Icelandic. There are also an extract from the constitution of the Society (in French), a note on the subscriptions (in Danish), and a list of the books published by the Society....
Dates: 1561, 17th century-late 19th century.

Miscellaneous papers concerning Robert Southey., 1843-? late 19th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.42559
Scope and Contents

Folios 1-2 : "The late Mr. Southey" : printed minutes, 1843, concerning the intention to erect a memorial to Robert Southey in the

Church of Crosthwaite. Included is a list of subscribers to the memorial fund.

Folios 3-4 : letter, 10 October 1896, of Richard Garnett to John Murray IV concerning a draft of a letter of Southey.

Folios 5-6 : notes, ?late 19th century, concerning costs in relation to publications by Southey.

Dates: 1843-? late 19th century.

Miscellaneous papers of Hugh Pattison Macmillan., 1911-1952, 1958.

 File
Identifier: MS.25273
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Miscellaneous printed papers, various dates, relating to the Faculty, Advocates' Library and the National Library; several are duplicated in MSS.25260-25273 (folio 1); (ii) A sketch, reproduced on a small card, and a photograph, 1958, of Moon Hall, Ewhurst, the Surrey home of Lord and Lady Macmillan (folio 55).

Dates: 1911-1952, 1958.

Miscellaneous papers relating to Canadian affairs concerning the 4th Earl of Minto., 1898-1902, 1923, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.12582
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Miscellaneous notes by the 4th Earl of Minto, some on military matters, undated, (folio 1); (ii) Miscellaneous papers, 1898-1902, undated, including a list of subscriptions paid by the Governor-General, the accounts of St Bartholomew's church, Ottawa, 1901, and a note of the native population of Canada divided by tribes (folio 25); (iii) Miscellaneous addresses, many presented during the 4th Earl's visit to the West in 1900. These have not been indexed in...
Dates: 1898-1902, 1923, undated.

Miscellaneous single letters, poetry, etc., of celebrities, collected by Allan Park Paton., 1762-1900, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.3219
Scope and Contents Among the writers are: Hugh Blair, writing of Ossian and of University matters, 1762 (folio 1); Robert Burns, part of a letter to Mrs McLehose (Clarinda) (published), 1787 (folio 3); 'An American gentleman', probably the Reverend Heman Humphrey, on the field of Waterloo, 1835 (folio 36); Principal Alexander John Scott, a sonnet, 'Harold complains that mountain-climbers find', ?1844 (folio 58); Lord Dufferin, commending Ebenezer Wyse, who navigated the ‘Foam’ to Iceland, etc., on the voyage...
Dates: 1762-1900, undated.

Papers of James Balfour of Pilrig, Director of the Darien Company., 1689-1698, 1753, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.3582, folios 101-213
Scope and Contents

The contents include subscription-lists, accounts, lists of ship's equipment, stores, etc., bills, and memoranda, with a few letters. There is also a letter of David Hume to James Balfour of Pilrig, Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh, with a draft reply by Balfour, 1753 (folio 213).

Dates: 1689-1698, 1753, undated.

Papers of Robert Moir., 1537-1862, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.21775
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) A psalm setting by Robert Moir written on two leaves cut out of MS.21774 after folio 17 and pasted to a larger sheet of stiff paper. (Folio 1.)(ii) Extracts from newspapers and other periodical publications concerning musical topics published between 1852 and 1862 (and some from earlier sources), written on twenty-five printed bifolia (from a larger number) containing a prospectus and a subscription list for ‘Beauties of the Bible’ by...
Dates: 1537-1862, undated.

Papers of the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC)., 1987-2011.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13657/42-71
Scope and Contents

Papers of the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC), including papers relating to its foundation in 1991.

Dates: 1987-2011.

Papers of the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13657/1-71
Scope and Contents The papers include minutes, committee papers, working group papers and reports produced by the Library and Information Services Council Scotland (LISC(S)) and its successor the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC). Although the organisation dates from 1982 there are papers relating to its creation between 1979 and 1982. There are a number of papers which relate to LISC partners in Northern Ireland and Wales. There are several files which relate to the restructuring of LISC(S) into...
Dates: 1979-2011.

Papers of Trinity Bowling Club.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9456
Scope and Contents

Includes minute book, proposal book, subscription lists, account books, record of matches, menu card and photographs.

Dates: 1855-1967.