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Notebooks of Robert Jameson

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1373
Scope and Contents

Drafts and collect reading material connected to Jameson's literary output, manuscripts submitted for publication in his journal, and travel write-ups and observational notebooks.

Dates: c1790-c1850
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes compiled during a course of philosophy, possibly by Francis Scott, 1661-1662

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1458
Scope and Contents Volume of manuscript notes in Latin, ink on paper, quarto. A few initial letters and chapter headings with penwork decoration. Believed to be associated with Francis Scott (Franciscus Scott). The name of Scott and his initials appear in many penned chapter headings throughout the volume. A coat-of-arms of the Scott family of Buccleuch has been penned in one of the margins. The manuscript volume was compiled during 1661 and 1662, and at the time James Pilan was one of the regent...
Dates: 1661-1662
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes for a sermon written by an amanuensis and amended by Stanley, Very Rev. A. P., Dean of Westminster

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1646
Scope and Contents

The ms volume contains a sermon from Exodus III. 2. said to have been delivered in Glasgow, on the Bush that was not consumed. The seller's notes indicate that the sermon may have been written out by an amanuensis and amended and added to by the Dean.

There is a transcript of the ms text.

Dates: 1863-1881
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections
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Notes from Dr. Duncan's lectures on medical jurisprudence taken down by Charles Anderson, 1792-73

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1587
Scope and Contents The manuscript notes are held in a bound volume, numbered to page 703. Written in longhand is a title page: 'Notes / from / Dr. Duncan's / Lectures / on / Medical Jurisprudence / Taken by / Charles Anderson / 1792-3'. Some final pages of the volume contain a copy of Heads of Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence, or the Institutiones Medicinae Legalis. Delivered at the University of Edinburgh, By Andrew Duncan, M. D. and P. The autograph signature of Charles Anderson...
Dates: 1792-1793
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes from Lectures by Alexander Monro Secundus

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.4.25
Identifier: Coll-2183
Scope and Contents

Lectures given by Monro, Alexander Secundus. 1774.

Dates: 1774
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes from Lectures by Joseph Black

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1852
Scope and Contents Set of three volumes containing lectures given by Joseph Black, beginning 30 Oct 1782. In volume one, the lectures are numbered 1 through to 29, in volume two from 30 to 75, and in volume three from 76 to 118. The volumes are paginated, and bound between pages of the first one is a fold-out drawing, dated 1784, of a thermometer, marked with properties/states of various substances at specific temperatures.The author of the volumes is unknown but was almost certainly one of Black's...
Dates: 1782 - c 1787
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes from lectures by Thomas Charles Hope and Joseph Black

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-1369
Scope and Contents

1 volume of lecture notes (1796-1797) taken down at lectures given by both TC Hope and Joseph Black

Dates: 1796-1797
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes from lectures on climate, geology and zoology given by Robert Jameson

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1372
Scope and Contents

2 volumes of approximately 180 pages each: a careful transcription, with some diagrams, of lectures in climate, geology and zoology.

Both bear the book plate from the library of the Rev William Dansey, Rector of Donhead St Andrew, Wiltshire, though there is nothing to suggest Dansey had been a student of Jameson's

Dates: early 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes in shorthand of David Gregory's clinical lectures

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1106
Scope and Contents

The lectures are noted as having been taken down in 1705. They are written in shorthand. Type of shorthand is unknown. The writer is unknown. The notes in the volume cover 228 pages. Title page statesNotes of Gregory's clinical lectures. There is a rear index of contents in longhand.

Note: James Gregory (d.1731) is probably the only Gregory among this fanous family able to have actually given lectures in 1705.

Dates: 1705
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes of botany lectures given by Daniel Rutherford, taken down by person unknown

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1929
Scope and Contents

Red notebook containing notes taken at Dr Rutherford's botanical lectures in May 1790.

Dates: May 1790
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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