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Bound volume containing French currency, letters, and a poem
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1932
Scope and Contents
Gathering of loose French currency (assignats), letters, offprints, and a manuscript poem bound in a volume. The reasons behind the gathering of these items are unclear.- Assignats are a short-lived type of French 'fiat money' used during the time of the French Revolution and the French Revolutionary Wars, which resemble bank notes. There are four assignats in this volume, each of...
Dates:
1792-1862
Bound volume of manuscript materials by and about Scottish poet Thomas Brown
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1593
Identifier: Coll-1986
Content Description
Ths is a bound volume of manuscript material, correspondence and verse, by and about Thomas Brown, Scottish poet and Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 1810 until the end of his life in 1820. The collection was almost certainly put together by his friend and colleague William Erskine, to whom the vast majority of the manuscripts are addressed.Contents:
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Dates:
1797-1835
Box of twelve newspapers relating to meetings on Church intrusion
Collection
Identifier: MS 5023
Scope and Contents
Tweleve newspapers containing articles on the Chruch intrusion meetings held at Parliament and by the Church of Scotland. Newspapers include Banner {from Aberdeen], Aberdeen Herald, Edinburgh Advertiser, Inverness Herald and The Witness.
Dates:
5 June 1840 - 1 September 1841
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
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
Bruce, Alexander Ninian
Fonds
Identifier: GD1-43
Scope and Contents
Letter of application from and testimonials for A. N. Bruce c1912; obituary of A. N. Bruce 1968; medal awarded to A. Bruce 1887; letter regarding bequest of medal 1988
Dates:
1887-1912
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Bruntsfield Hospital and Elsie Inglis Memorial Maternity Hospital
Fonds
Identifier: LHB8-LHB8A
Scope and Contents
Bruntsfield and Elsie Inglis: management 1883-1966; administration 1879-1989; history, press and publications 1909-1988; photographs 1885-1987; Bruntsfield: patients (bound records) 1885-1969; Elsie Inglis: management 1948-1988; administration 1919-1988; patients (bound records) 1903-1988
Dates:
1879-1989
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
'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)
Bunch, Antonia J.
Fonds
Identifier: GD1-63
Scope and Contents
Information on the development of the Scottish Health Service Centre Library 1970-1981; meetings of the Scottish NHS Librarians 1970-1974; ordinary meetings of the Scottish Health Sciences Librarians 1975-; conference on "Libraries in Hospitals" 1966, 1969; INTERIM newsletter; Lecture Talks 1968-1983; lectures on user education 1971-1982; correspondence relating to lectures 1977-1981; advice on library services 1969-1981; Scottish Home and Health Department memos 1950-1974; dissertation by...
Dates:
1950-1993
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Burgess tickets; call to Cumbernauld Associate (Antiburgher) Congregation; letters from Principal John Cairns and Sir Henry Moncrieff Wellwood; decrees relating to the parishes of Kilmore and Kilbride; and part of a sermon
Fonds
Identifier: MS BOX 20.1
Scope and Contents
See External Documents (below) for details.
Dates:
1630-1836
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
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