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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Brief statements condensing substansive points in a longer document.

Found in 245 Collections and/or Records:

Notes and descriptions of the important features and places in the various counties and other administrative and jurisdictional areas of Scotland, compiled by Sir James Balfour, 1st Baronet, of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.27
Scope and Contents The volume is labelled on the spine ‘Balfour`s collections on the shires’, and is inscribed ‘Vol:3.’ in a seventeenth-century hand on folio 5.The main text is preceded by a contents list (folio 5). Almost all of the entries are undated, but appear to have been written at different times between about 1630 and about 1640, with later additions until at least 1650 (folio 94) and 1654 (folio 321). The entries record natural features such as rivers and glens, and...
Dates: Circa 1630-circa1654.

Notes, undated, of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, for ‘Antient metaphysics’., Late 18th century.

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Identifier: MS.24525
Scope and Contents

The notes consist of summaries and extracts from Lord Monboddo's manuscripts (some of which are now lost) and pocket books, with some additional matter. The first hundred and many other pages are missing.

Dates: Late 18th century.

Papers of and concerning the 2nd Earl of Minto., 1835-[circa 1840.]

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Identifier: MS.12064
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Notes and papers, 1836-1839, concerning naval operations against the slave trade from West Africa (folio 1); (ii) The Countess of Minto's list of dinners given at the Admiralty, 1835-1839, with names of guests (folio 62); (iii) Copy of a circular, January 1838, regulating the entry of 1st Class Volunteers to the Navy (folio 68); (iv) Reports and other papers, 1835-1836, relating to the Russian Fleet and its naval establishments on the Black Sea, and to the...
Dates: 1835-[circa 1840.]

Papers of John Stuart Blackie on classical mythology and literature., 1844-1857, undated.

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Identifier: MS.2654
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Summary of classical mythology, 1844, by John Stuart Blackie for his Aberdeen students (folio 1);(ii) Verse translation of Horace (Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Saeculare), preceded by an introduction on his life and writings; with specimen printed pages, apparently corrected by friends (folio 42);(iii) Latin speech and verse addresses, 1844-1856, to students at Aberdeen and Edinburgh (folio 161);(iv) Other verse,...
Dates: 1844-1857, undated.

Papers of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale concerning public affairs., [Circa 1665]-1678.

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Identifier: MS.14490
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Valuation book of the shires, with related papers, circa 1665 (folio 1);

(ii) Account book, with related papers, of charge and discharge of Sir James Stewart, circa 1670 (folio 14);

(iii) Summary of Sir William Sharp’s accounts, 1667-1669 (folio 29);

(iv) List of fees and pensions to officers of state signed, 19 October 1678, by the King at Whitehall (folio 31).

Dates: [Circa 1665]-1678.