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Music collection of Professor Sir Herbert Stanley Oakeley

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-450
Content Description The collection contains music, orchestrations and arrangements for strings, wind, brass etc by Professor Sir Herbert Stanley Oakeley. Many of the sheets are stamped Edinburgh University, Musical Society. There are also board-mounted diplomas and certificates, with list of these.Music in Box 1: Die Ehre Gottes in der Natur It was a friar of orders grey The Briton's fatherland Volkslied by Mendelsohn Freedom Up in the morning...
Dates: 1855-1901
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Music mss: 'Fausta': aria

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1172
Scope and Contents

Music manuscript - the aria Tu che voli gi'd spirto beata from Fausta.

Dates: 1832
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Musical manuscripts, artwork, and photographs relating to Helen Patuffa Hood

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1102
Identifier: Coll-1393
Scope and Contents

This fonds contains paper documents such as correspondence to Helen Patuffa Hood, concerts programmes and other printed materials; artworks by Helen Patuffa Hood; and material related to the book Songs of the Hebrides. In the out-sized box are some photographs of Helen Patuffa Hood and Marjory Kennedy-Fraser.

Dates: 1909-1938
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

National Radium Centre, Edinburgh

 Fonds
Identifier: GD1-93
Scope and Contents

Correspondence regarding the working of the National Radium Commission, the National Radium Centre at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, and the Joint Committee of the Infirmary and University of Edinburgh 1929-1948

Dates: 1929-1948
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

New College Cartoon: Blik's 7

 Collection
Identifier: GD59
Scope and Contents Series of five cartoon strips entitled 'Blik's 7' based on the artwork of Muir Donaldson and satirical and creative work of Bill Armstrong, Andrew MacLean and Bryan Low, who were all students at New College Edinburgh. At the time of their creation, the strips were intended to be anonymous. The cartoons satirise theologians and Christianity in general. The five cartoon strips are: 1. "Blik's 7. Genesis" 2. "Blick's 7. Exodus" 3. "Blyk's 7. Levitical Wars" 4. "Blyq's 7. The Numbers Game"...
Dates: 1978 - 1979
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

New map of Scotland for Ladies Needlework, 1797

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1111
Scope and Contents

The map is entitled A New Map of Scotland for Ladies Needlework. The title is at the top of the map and the text is encircled by greenery and tartan and supported by a Highlander. It is noted as published in London by Laurie and Whittle, No.53 Fleet Street, 1797. The map is colour tinted and is presented in an oval setting. The rolled sheet is approximately 45cm x 50 cm.

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

New Testament annotated by Henry Drummond, FRSE (1851-1897)

 Fonds
Identifier: MS DRU 2
Scope and Contents

An extensively annotated copy of The New Testament... Translated out of the Original Greek. Pearl reference testament, octavo format. 190 pages. Published in Glasgow by W. Collins, Sons and Co.

Bearing Henry Drummond's signature on the flyleaf.

Interleaved with a folded sheet of nonsense poetry entitled "Mr. Nobody"

Dates: c.1870-1895
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Newspaper articles, 'Diary Extracts' by Rev, Alex Caseby, Malawi, 1977

 Fonds — Box: CSWC Small Collections Box 1
Identifier: CSWC 64
Scope and Contents

6 pages of newspaper cuttings written by Rev. Alex Caseby adhered to A4 paper. The newspaper cuttings were part of a series called Diary extracts, describing live in Livingtstonia, Malawi.

Dates: 1967
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Newspaper cuttings about Flora MacDonald’s faith

 Fonds
Identifier: MS MCD 2
Scope and Contents

Notebook titled: 'Was Flora Macdonald a Presbyterian or an Episcopalian?'

Cuttings from "The Oban Times" 8 July 1922 to 18 April 1923. Correspondence and journalistic focus commemorate the bicentenary of Macdonald's birth.

Each clipping is accompanied by a date in ink, and sometimes further annotations. Manuscript title page bears the stamp of the General Assembly Library.

Dates: 1922-1923
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Newspaper cuttings of ‘The Holm Case’ relating to Rev John Pettigrew, United Presbyterian minister, Holm, Orkney

 Fonds
Identifier: MS PET 2
Scope and Contents Scrapbook of newspaper clippings on‘The Holm Case’, relating to Rev. John Pettigrew, United Presbyterian minister, Holm, Orkney. The case was one of libel following a conflict with presbytery elders, where Pettigrew was accused of inappropriate behaviour and discourse by a number of the presbytery. The moderator, Rev. Robert Reid of Firth, found Pettigrew guilty, and he was suspended from his duties. Octavo volume with 70 numbered leaves. Newspaper columns are pasted to the recto...
Dates: 1864-1865
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

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Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 1835-1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 6
Koestler, Arthur, CBE, 1905-1983 (Hungarian-British author and journalist) 6
Thomson, Godfrey Hilton, Sir, 1881-1955 (psychologist and Bell Professor of Education, University of Edinburgh) 6
Alston, Charles, 1683-1760 (physician and botanist) 5
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Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957 (writer, reviewer) 5
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University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Library 5
Victor Gollancz Ltd 5
Animal Breeding Research Organisation. ABRO (1945 - 1986) 4
Baillie, Donald Macpherson, 1887-1954 (Scottish theologian) 4
Balfour-Melville, Evan Whyte Melville, 1887-1963 (Senior lecturer in history, University of Edinburgh) 4
Blaikie, William Garden, 1820-1899 (Minister of Pilrig and Temperance Reformer) 4
Brown, George Mackay, 1921-1996 (writer and poet) 4
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 (Scottish poet) 4
Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 4
Dunfermline College of Physical Education 4
Godfrey Thomson Unit for Educational Research 4
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Guthrie, Douglas James, 1885-1975 (surgeon and historian of medicine) 4
Hope, Thomas Charles, 1766-1844 (Professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 4
Laing, David, 1793-1878 (antiquarian, bookseller, and librarian of the Signet Library) 4
Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 4
Mare, Walter de la, 1873-1956 (poet and writer) 4
Masson, David Mather, 1822-1907 (Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Edinburgh University) 4
Monro, Alexander, 1697-1767 ("Primus", Professor of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 4
Oldham, Joseph Houldsworth, 1874-1969 (missionary and ecumenist) 4
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Poultry Research Centre (1947-1986) (research institution) 4
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Baillie, John, 1886-1960 (Scottish theologian and ecumenical leader) 3
Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800 (Church of Scotland Minister, Professor of Rhetoric) 3
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Brash, James Couper, 1886-1958 (Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh University) 3
Bruce, William Speirs, 1867-1921 (polar explorer and oceanographer) 3
Chiene, John, 1843-1923 (Scottish surgeon, Professor of Surgery at the University of Edinburgh ) 3
Christian Salvesen Ltd. (1872-2007) (shipping company) 3
Church Missionary Society 3
Combe, George, 1788-1858 (Phrenologist) 3
Cowan House (student hall of residence) 3
Crew, Francis Albert Eley, 1886-1973 (professor of animal genetics and professor of public health and social medicine, University of Edinburgh) 3
Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 (English military and political leader) 3
Cullen, William, 1710-1790 (Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist) 3
Dott, Norman McOmish, 1897-1973 (Neurosurgeon) 3
Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828 (the elder | British physician | Professor at University of Edinburgh) 3
East India Company (1600-1874) 3
Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women (1868-1974) 3
Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 3
Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816 (Scottish historian and philosopher) 3
Grant, John, fl 1955 (Bookseller) 3
Gregory, James, 1753-1821 (professor of medicine, University of Edinburgh) 3
Henderson, Hamish Scott, 1919-2002 (folklorist, poet, songwriter, soldier, intellectual) 3
Hood, Helen Patuffa, 1889-1967 (harpist) 3
Hutton, James, 1726-1797 (Scottish geologist) 3
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research - Edinburgh Research Station. IAPGR (1986-1993) 3
Jex-Blake, Sophia Louisa, 1840-1912 (medical practitioner, reformer and suffragette) 3
Kendall, Sheena Lilian Grant, 1883-1974 (composer) 3
Knox, John, c 1513-1572 (Scottish preacher) 3
Laws, Robert, 1851-1934 (Scottish missionary) 3
Leighton, Kenneth, 1929-1988 (Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh) 3
Lodge, Richard, Professor Sir, 1855-1936 (historian) 3
London Missionary Society 3
Love , John, Rev Dr, 1757-1825 (Church of Scotland minister ) 3
MacLaurin, Colin, 1698-1746 (mathematician) 3
Muir, Edwin, 1887-1959 (poet, novelist and translator) 3
Muir, Willa, 1890-1970 (novelist, essayist and translator) 3
Nyerere, Julius Kambarage, 1922-1999 (President of Tanzania) 3
Pillans, James (Regent, University of Edinburgh) 3