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Original Manuscripts of Rudyard Kipling's "A Diversity of Creatures" and "The Eyes of Asia"

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.2.8
Identifier: Coll-2143
Scope and Contents

Original Manuscripts of Rudyard Kipling's "A Diversity of Creatures" (foirst edition), together with a portion of "The Eyes of Asia". c 1916-1917.

Dates: c 1916-1917
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Outlines of Mechanical Philosophy (notes taken at lectures given by John Robison)

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1370
Scope and Contents

Heavily annotated Outlines of Mechanical Philosophy with inserts, bearing extensive manual revisions from as late as 1803.

Dates: 1780-1803
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Oxyrhynchus Papyri collection

 Fonds
Identifier: P.Oxy
Scope and Contents

18 documents, part of a collection distributed round multiple institutions globally.

Dates: 1st - 6th centuries
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Paleontological drawings of Professor Euan N. K. Clarkson

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1637
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the original paleontological drawings of Professor Euan N. K. Clarkson (some in colour, some in black and white), used as teaching aids as well as for publication in academic journals and monographs in the field of palaeontology.

Dates: c 1963-2002
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Palestine travel journal of Rev. John Christopher Nesbitt and Ella Anderson Nesbitt

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2914
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the travel diary of Church of Scotland minister John Christopher Nesbitt ("J.C.N"), and his wife Ella Anderson Nesbitt ("E."). They travelled through Palestine with a movie camera at the time of the Great Palestinian Revolt (1936-1939). Among other places, they visited the Scots Medical Mission in Tiberias, the Edinburgh Medical Mission Hospital in Galilee, the Scottish Church and Hospice in Jerusalem, and the St Andrews Church of Scotland in...
Dates: 1937
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Palm Leaf Collection: Tamil Manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: Coll-1717
Scope and Contents Collection of five palm leaf manuscripts from the 18th and 19th centuries. Tivākarum (fragment) by Tivākarar. Cūṭāmaṇi nikaṇṭu (fragment) by Maṇṭalapuruṭan. Mūturai (complete) by Auvaiyār. Fragment of a commentary on some work. ...
Dates: 18th-19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Palm-leaf manuscript collection of Nigel Seeley

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1970
Content Description

Palm-leaf manuscript collection of Nigel Seeley, consisting of 13 palm leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka. There exists little information on their nature and their content, but they are probably Buddhist works in the Pali language (the language of the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism) dating from the mid 18th to late 19th century CE, and were collected by Nigel Seeley in the mid-late 20th century. Most of them have interesting and varied decorative wooden covers.

Dates: mid 18th-late 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Panorama of Edinburgh from Calton Hill

 Fonds — Folder: Coll-1092 (E2006.22)
Identifier: Coll-1092
Scope and Contents This is an incomplete aqua-tinted version of the earliest panorama view - and a modest panorama. The panorama is composed of only four of the full collection of a six part set. The panorama shows (when the parts are laid adjacent to each other, and from right to left): - Calton Hill, and the Observatory there, looking east towards Berwick Law and the Forth estuary - Towards...
Dates: 1789-1790
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Panorama of Jerusalem taken from the roof of the Governor's Palace, by Selina Bracebridge

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Identifier: Coll-2108
Scope and Contents

This is a large panoramic view of Jerusalem originally taken from the roof of the Governor's Palace by Selina Bracebridge on the 16th December 1834. The present item is a lithographed reproduction of the full panorama drawing, in the form of a long strip. [Graf & Soret], [1834].

Dates: [1834]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Panorama of London from the roof of the Albion Flour Mills

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Identifier: Coll-2092
Content Description

This is a small panorama in six panels showing a 360 degree view of London, centred on St. Paul's, seen from across the Thames. Aquatint engraving by Frederick Birnie, based on drawings by Henry Aston Barker, which were used to create the full-size panorama shown in Robert Barker's public panorama in 1792.

Dates: 1792
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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