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Booklet entitled "Paraphrases des Psaumes I-II-XVI-XXXVI-CXXIX par André Melvin", 1906-1907
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Identifier: Coll-1848/Df.7.42
Scope and Contents
This is a booklet entitled "Paraphrases des Psaumes I-II-XVI-XXXVI-CXXIX par André Melvin", which contains reproductions of manuscript psalms and two enclosed manuscript letters addressed to Sir William Turner from Paul Mellon, Association Franco-Écossaise, Sorbonne, 1907. The booklet is dedicated to William Turner: "Offert à Monsieur William Turner Recteur de l'Université d'Edimbourg et au Conseil Académique par M. P. Mellon, Secrétaire Général du Comité de Patronage des Étudiants Étrangers...
Dates:
1906-1907
Institute Visitors' Book, 1924-1947
File — Box EUA-A-64, Box: data_value_missing_7e46d21a244709a02ea7647c681ffa7b, Box: data_value_missing_0972644b46c2528e8bdd11ac9657b219
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/A1/5/3
Scope and Contents
Green bound volume containing signatures, messages and photographs of the Institute's many visitors over the years. Signatures include: G.J van Oordt, Christian Wriedt, Edward N. Wentworth, L.J Cole, W.E Agar, Karl Madsen, Oscar Riddle, Ramon Blanco, James Anderson, L.C Dunn, C.C Little, B.P Wiesner, E.W Lindstrom, Stefan Kopec, Amal Chandra Chaudhuri, Allan C. Fraser, Ilya Ivanov, M.S Gutowska, I. Johansson, Raymond T. Parkhurst, E. Azarme, J. P Chu, S.S and Dorothea Munro, Hugo Merton, G....
Dates:
1924-1947
La.III.522: Specimens of calligraphic styles of writing, 1570-1624 (approximate)
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Identifier: La.III.522
Scope and Contents
MS La.III.522 is a composite manuscript of late-sixteenth and/or early-seventeenth century pieces of calligraphy, assembled by a later collector. The bulk of the manuscript is a combination of two different calligraphic alphabets with sample-texts, which follow the aspect and structure of early-modern writing-books. One of these decorative alphabets is composed of gothic, knotwork intials, while the other is structured by Roman capital letters against backgrounds of delicate, swirling vines....
Dates:
1570-1624 (approximate)
Miscellaneous Papers, Vol. 1, c1741
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Identifier: Coll-205/5/1 (Dc.2.39/1)
Scope and Contents
Scots plants of the Linnaean class Cryptogamea; History of the mines at Wanloch Head; Elevatio Plantarum; Epistola ad Linnaeum; Letter to Sr James Nasmyth; Hortulan experiments; The old Gardens at Bargaly; Note on the Battle of the Bree; Some fruits at Munches in Galloway; Scots insects; the Loch Fyne shark; Two fossils; 8 species of Tremella; 2 species of Clavaria; Description of Agaricus Annulata; and of Lichen Punctatus; agricultural benefits of the Nile's overflow and Vesuvius' eruption;...
Dates:
c1741