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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
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 ticket of Ayr in favour of Andrew Cathcart of Carleton
Item — Box: Dk.2.20
Identifier: Coll-2933
Scope and Contents
This is a burgess ticket in favour of Sir Andrew Cathcart Barrt, of Carleton, dated 23 September 1784.
Dates:
23 September 1784
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 — Box: CLX-D-33
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