Surveys. Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documentation of examinations or inspections conducted in order to achieve a comprehensive view, as of a place, a group of related items, or to ascertain condition or value. For detailed lists of items on hand, or of items in a given category, use ""inventories""For sets of questions submitted to a number of persons to obtain information, use ""questionnaires"" .
Found in 61 Collections and/or Records:
Series of two drawings from a survey, 1843, by E K Calver - Port - Eyemouth, Berwick - surveyed by D and T Stevenson., 1882.
File
Identifier: MS.5849 (146)-(147)
Dates:
1882.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with Edinburgh, London Road-Ey.
Series of two prints by James Wyness - Survey of harbour with proposed improvements - Stonehaven, Kincardine - surveyed by Robert Stevenson., 1824.
File
Identifier: MS.5862 (115)-(116)
Dates:
1824.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with S.
'Survey and report with methods for improving the woods ... on the estate of Longnewton ... by Robert Monteath'., 1828.
Item
Identifier: MS.8083
Dates:
1828.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Douglas family of Springwood Park, near Kelso, Roxburghshire.
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Estate papers of the Douglas family of Springwood Park.
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Papers of the Douglas family of Springwood Park concerning individual steadings on the Springwood Park and Longnewton estates.
Survey notebook of John Rennie concerning canals and navigations in Chelmer and Blackwater., 1792.
Item
Identifier: MS.19779
Survey notebook of John Rennie for the Rochdale Canal: Colne to Farside branch., [Circa 1791.]
Item
Identifier: MS.19784
Survey notebook of John Rennie for the Rochdale Canal: Dean Royd to Touchethole branch., [Circa 1791.]
Item
Identifier: MS.19785
Survey notebooks of John Rennie for the Rochdale Canal., [Circa 1791.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19784-19885
Survey of the estate of Fettercairn made for Lady Diana Middleton., 1773.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/789
Dates:
1773.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Estate Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis Families.
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Estate Management Papers.
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Miscellaneous Fettercairn Estate Management Papers.
Topographical and other works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.22
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Scotia illustrata sive Theatrum Urbium, Arcium, Monasteriorum et aedium quarundam illustrium in Scotia`, circa 1692. The Latin text by Sibbald intended for John Slezer`s ‘Theatrum Scotiae’. It is very different from the published text which Slezer had had translated without Sibbald`s authority. The preface is in Slezer`s hand, and each entry is signed by both Sibbald and Slezer. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copy of William Harvey`s...
Dates:
Circa 1692-1709, and undated.
Volume of topographical surveys.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.13
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume (somewhat out of order) are as follows:(i) a report of a survey of Loch Broom made in July 1793 (folio 1);(ii) a report, addressed to John Rennie, of the survey of Loch Bay made in May 1793 by John Baine (folio 23) which was given in to the Highland Society; (iii) John Mackenzie`s letter, 1798, forwarding the reports (folio 53);(iv) a copy of a report by Thomas Telford to Nicholas Vansittart, then secretary of the...
Dates:
1793-1801.
Window tax survey of East Lothian parishes., 1775.
Item
Identifier: Ch.10963