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Song collection book entitled "Recueil de chansons choisies depuis 1656 jusques à present 1736"
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-385
Identifier: Coll-2052
Content Description
This is a song book entitled "Recueil de chansons choisies depuis 1656 jusques à present 1736", France, 1736. It contains a collection of selected popular songs covering 80 years of French satire and current affairs. The book features some 135 songs, and there are 73 tunes written with musical notation. The songs are helpfully annotated with names and explanations to margins, and indexed by the names mentioned. When a tune is to be used in another song, the compiler puts in a cross-reference...
Dates:
1736
Spitsbergen 1960 - Diary of John Fraser
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1923
Scope and Contents
Reproduction of the diary of John Fraser, then researcher at Imperial College, written during a land-surveying expedition to Spitzberg (Spitsbergen in Norwegian) in 1960. In addition to a day-to-day account of the expetition written by Fraser, the volume contains black-and-white photographs (orginals) depicting landscapes and various scenes of the expetition, a biographical note on Fraser, a photograph of Fraser himself at Imperial College, loose maps of Svalbard and Dicksonland, and an...
Dates:
1960-1961
Sports and academic awards to Nathaniel W Stewart and Alexander Vivian Stewart 1911-1914
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1635
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of medals and a spoon awarded to Nathaniel William Stewart:
1 x bronze medal, University of Edinburgh (School of Medicine), Practical Zoology. Hugh Miller Lecturer. Awarded to Nathaniel William Stewart, Session 1913-1914, in presentation case
1 x bronze medal, Edinburgh University Athletics Club, Awarded for Quarter Mile Flat Race, 1911, Freshmen [probably to...
Dates:
1911-1914
Statutes and Orders of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, revived by Her Majesty Queen Anne
Fonds — Volume: Dk.3.1
Identifier: Coll-2163
Scope and Contents
Order of the Thistle. Statues and Orders. 1775. (Green morocco gilt.) Several inks, same hand.
Dates:
1775
Stereoscopic photographs of Boer War and other subjects
Fonds — Box: Coll-1753
Identifier: Coll-1753
Scope and Contents
An as yet unsorted box of steroscopic photographs.
Dates:
Publication: c1900
Student manuscript copy of Colin MacLaurin's Treatise of Algebra
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1812
Content Description
These are manuscript lecture notes on algebra... notes of 'A Treatise of Algebra' by Colin MacLaurin. Although the writer is unknown (a student?), the ms volume bears a label... an armorial Melville bookplate... possibly that of Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville.The volume is noted...: 'A Treatise of Algebra by Mr McLaurin Professor of Mathematics in the University of Edinburgh. part 1. 1735'.The last five pages are 'Concerning the Art of Measuring Land'....
Dates:
1735
Student notes and writing of Dr. Graeme D. Eddie, and other miscellaneous items
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1263
Identifier: Coll-1671
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of: work on aspects of the output of Swedish writer Göran Tunström (1937-2000); material relating to study periods, and writing and publication while at Edinburgh and Aberdeen Universities, and afterwards; notes providing a picture of Edinburgh University Library at a time of transition in the mid-1990s; and, tracts and other publications, 1940s-1960s, relating to Scottish independence. The material being:
...
Dates:
1987-2003
Student notes of lectures by Baron David Hume
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1534
Scope and Contents
The first manuscript page of Volume 1 states, 'Notes taken from the Lectures of Mr. D. Hume, Professor of Scotch law in the University of Edinburgh, delivered in the years 1814 and 15'. The first page is dated 26 October 1814.The four volumes contain chapters or sections headed, e.g. Introductory lecture; Husband and Wife; Parent and child; Guardian and ward; Guardians to Idiots and Furious persons; Master and servant; Distinction of things; Contract of sale; Contract of Location...
Dates:
1814-1815
Student notes of Malcolm Fife
Fonds — Box: Acc.95/013
Identifier: Coll-1782
Content Description
Geography Lecture Notes, Exam papers etc inc some other Social Science Subjects, taken by Malcolm Fife (MA, Social Sciences, 1976).
Dates:
1970s
Student notes on natural philosophy taken by George Dalgliesh
Collection — Box: CLX-A-1677
Identifier: Coll-2012
Content Description
This notebook contains lectures on the works of Aristotle, dictated by Thomas Craufurd, Regent of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, and taken down by student George Dalgliesh. The lectures cover the third and fourth years of Dalgliesh’s degree, and, besides logic and metaphysics, deal with scientific subjects such as physics, astronomy, and anatomy. The notes are embellished with humorous doodles.
Dates:
1660-1662
