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Brief account of Mr Bowers escape from the Inquisition
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1478
Scope and Contents
This 12pp manuscript (in contemporary marbled wrappers) of a copy of Bower's escape appears to date from after 1763, and could have been the work of a young person copying out the text as an advanced form of exercise. It does not include a final short paragraph found in other copies of this manuscript, but it is the only one containing verses at the end of the document. Written on the inside front wrapper is the name: F. or T. Coole, or Hoole. The manuscript is headed: 'A BRIEF...
Dates:
1762-1770
'Building for the Great Exhibition in London'
Fonds — Frame: SC-Acc-2025-0047
Identifier: Coll-2295
Content Description
Lithograph of the building for the Great Exhibition of 1850 by George Hawkins from a drawing in the posession of Messrs. Fox Henderson & Co. Published by Ackerman & Co. and Day & Co., London.
Dates:
1850 (implied)
Burmese illuminated manuscript
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1768
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is an early or mid 19th century painted Burmese "parabaik", telling the story of Singapatta ("Sangthong" in the better known Thai version), a story from the Buddhist Pannasa Jataka-Suvarnasankha Jataka. The story was so popular that it was later adapted and spread in the forms of "jataka" in the monastic tradition and in the form of tale/performance in the secular tradition. This copy seems to derive from the secular tradition.The manuscript is showing hunting...
Dates:
not known
Business accounts of Hamish A. N. McKenzie, M.A., C.A. Edinburgh
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1480
Scope and Contents
The papers are composed of 11 business accounts books of McKenzie and Co. and are those starting:
February 1976
April 1979
August 1980
May 1982
March 1984
August 1985
May 1988
May 1991
May 1993
December 1995
March 1999
...
Dates:
1976-2000
Calligraphy and illustrations for Spencer
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1413
Scope and Contents
First edition. 1946. Octavo. 11 sheets (13 x 17.5 cm) of fine art paper preserved in a marbled paper folder comprising a decorated title-page followed by the text, with a pen-and-ink drawing at the tope of each page (save the last which closes with a decorated 'Finis'). One of the drawings has been coloured. The illustrations are typical of Mclaren's illustrative at its finest. The initials on the back ('HM') would seem to suggest that this is the recipient of the portfolio....
Dates:
1946
Campbell of Barcaldine Correspondence Papers
Fonds — Box: Dk.8.2-4
Identifier: Coll-2245
Scope and Contents
Campbell (family of) of Barcaldine. Correspondence (52 letters). 1789-1843. Some letters with description attached. With an item price list of E.Halls, arranged alphabetically, some letters cross written.Includes:
21 Letters from Lady Baillie Mary L to her sister Mrs (Lady) Campbell of Barcaldine, Bonaw. 1818-1835. About domestic life, a 'Public Rebuke' in church, smallpox etc.
6 letters about Mrs Dundas J. Hamilton. 1824-1835. About social news, personal life and...
Dates:
1789-1843
Card album entitled "Album des célébrités contemporaines publié par Lefèvre-Utile, Nantes"
Item — Box: CLX-A-1721
Identifier: Coll-2042
Content Description
This is an artfully decorated album issued by the French biscuit manufacturer LU (formerly known as Lefèvre-Utile), entitled "Album des célébrités contemporaines publié par Lefèvre-Utile, Nantes". It contains forty-eight chromolithographed cards featuring famous figures from the arts; each card, embossed with silver or gold, bore a black-and-white photograph portrait of the celebrity along with a relevant colour image and a quotation from the celebrity themselves in praise of LU biscuits....
Dates:
c 1901
Carmichael Stopes Family Archive
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2907
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of around 30 drawings and paintings created by members of the Carmichael Stopes family, compiled by birth control pioneer and sexologist Marie Stopes (1880-1958). The collection is housed in a large portfolio on which she has written "M C Stopes – art", and she has added explanatory annotations to many of the works. The archive includes family portraits, a few prints, landscapes, and architectural and botanical drawings.Below is a list of some of the most...
Dates:
1786-1886
Cartes de visite portraits of medics
Fonds — Folder: Phot.Ill.90
Identifier: Coll-1980
Scope and Contents
Cartes de visite portraits of medics.
Dates:
mid-late 19th century
Catalogue presenting 198 different mounted fabric silk samples, Kyoto, Japan
Fonds — Folder: SC-Acc-2016-0118
Identifier: Coll-1762
Scope and Contents
Album/Catalogue with board covers in purple soft fabric with Japanese script which may once have been gilded. The album contains 198 mounted and different silk samples in various colours or shades.
Dates:
1908