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Rubbings of the Xi'an Stele

 Collection
Identifier: Coll-2105
Content Description

Rubbings of the Xi'an Stele (also known as the "Nestorian Stele"), a memorial stone erected in 718 AD in northwest China, to commemorate the presence of the Nestorian Christian Church in the area at the time. The whole stele is nearly three metres tall, with text in both Chinese and Syriac. The heading translates as "Memorial of the Propagation in China of the Luminous Religion from Daqin [Rome]".


Rubbings of the heading and of the body of the text.

Dates: 19th century[?]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Russian-English word-list relating to Theatre and Theatre Organisation

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1424
Scope and Contents The Russian-English ink manuscript glossary takes up only 5 pages of a small ledger. It is entitled in hand A glossary of Russian theatrical terms. Its ambition was greater than the reality. According to the handwritten title-page, it was intended to list words relating to: theatre organisation; front of house; stage management; acting; production; and authorship and criticism. There was also an intention to list: foreign plays whose titles were adapted in Russian;...
Dates: 1900-1917
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Russian grammar notebook of [Amelia Dickson]

 Collection
Identifier: MS RUS
Scope and Contents

See External Documents (below).

Dates: c.1900
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Sacred Buddhist text or Kamawa-Sa, being Burmese ms on lacquered brass sheets

 Fonds — OpenShelf: SC-Acc-2016-0123
Identifier: Coll-1767
Scope and Contents

13 x brass sheets lacquered recto verso with black text, and gilt decorations, on dark red lacquer background. Loosley collected inside 2 x red lacquer and gilt wooden board covers.


The ornate script is called 'Magyi-zi' or tamarind Seed, written in the Pagan style. Brass sheets were introduced late in the 19th century and area relatively uncommon format.

Dates: circa 1900
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Samuel, Catherine Bruce

 Fonds
Identifier: GD1-46
Scope and Contents

Fever nursing certificates 1920-1925; correspondence 1917-1929; Fever Nurse Training regulations; Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh regulations; General Nursing Council for Scotland rules 1925; lecture notebooks 1917-1923; miscellaneous textbooks and periodicals; photographs; thermometer

Dates: 1917-1929
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

Satire on a Scottish Baillie - "The Hermit's Visit to the New Jail", New Calton Jail, Edinburgh

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1532
Identifier: Coll-1714
Scope and Contents

This satirical illustration entitled "The Hermits [sic] Visit to the New Jail" shows what is assumed to be a Baillie (bearded, with top-hat and walking with a stick) holding a large key... presumably to open the jail or to lock it. The castellated building is in the background. There are posters on a wall...: "Waterloo subscription", "Self-Defence Taught", and "List of Improvements in the City and Suburbs".


In pencil below the drawing is written "Baillie Johnson, January 1817".

Dates: 1817
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Satires of Juvenal possibly translated by Laurance Dundas

 Collection
Identifier: MS BOX 3.2
Scope and Contents

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Dates: 1726
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Satirical illustration, 'The balance of public favor', showing Sir Walter Scott

 Fonds — Box: CLX-D-33, Folder: Coll-1770 / SC-Acc-2016-0126
Identifier: Coll-1770
Scope and Contents

Coloured lithograph by John Doyle, some marginal browning. 394 x 267 mm. Unsigned.

Dates: 1827
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Saunders, Matthew Brown

 Fonds
Identifier: GD1-20
Scope and Contents

Student ticket 1886; Medical Registration certificate of the Scottish Branch of the General Medical Council 1888

Dates: 1886-1888
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

Save the Children Scotland: HIV/AIDS

 Fonds
Identifier: GD1-12
Scope and Contents

AIDS information pack produced by Save the Children 1987; AIDS press cuttings 1986-1988; AIDS guidelines and conference articles 1986-1987; AIDS articles 1986-1987; newsletters and conference information 1986-1988; Scottish AIDS Monitor 1983-1987

Dates: 1983-1988
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

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University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 139
Scott, Sir Walter, 1771-1832 (novelist and poet) 12
Hall, Edward, b 1898 (Bookseller) 11
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (1729-:) 11
Monro, Alexander, 1733-1817 ("Secundus", Professor of anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 9
Barker, Robert, 1739-1806 (Irish artist) 8
Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 8
Moray House College of Education (1959-1991) 8
Chalmers, Thomas, 1780-1847 (Principal and Professor of Divinity at New College) 7
Edinburgh University Dramatic Society 7
Fraser, Sir Thomas Richard, 1841-1920 (Knight ; Professor of medicine at the University of Edinburgh) 7
Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932 (biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner) 7
Hume, David, 1757-1838 (judge, Baron of the Scottish Exchequer) 7
MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 (Scottish poet) 7
Barker, Henry Aston, 1774-1856 (Artist) 6
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
Blackie, John Stuart, 1809-1895 (professor, University of Edinburgh) 5
Christison, Sir Robert, 1797-1882 (1st Baronet | Scottish toxicologist and physician) 5
Church of Scotland 5
Erskine, Ralph, Rev, 1685-1752 (minister and poet) 5
Geikie, James, 1839-1915 (professor of geology, University of Edinburgh) 5
Grierson, Herbert John Clifford, 1866-1960 (literary critic and professor of English Literature) 5
Jameson, Robert, 1774-1854 (geologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 5
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 5
Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957 (writer, reviewer) 5
Playfair, William Henry, 1790-1857 (architect) 5
Robison, John, 1739-1805 (Professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 5
Roslin Institute 5
Royal (Dick) Veterinary College (1839-1951| veterinary college) 5
Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 5
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (playwright) 5
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
Gregory, James, 1638-1675 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh) 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
Playfair, John, 1748-1819 (scientist, mathematician, and professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 4
Poultry Research Centre (1947-1986) (research institution) 4
Smith, Sydney Alfred, Sir, 1883-1969 (Professor of Forensic Medicine and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Edinburgh) 4
University of Edinburgh. Students Representative Council 4
Young, Thomas, 1725-1783 (physician and professor of midwifery) 4
Auerbach, Charlotte, 1899-1994 (professor of genetics at the University of Edinburgh) 3
Aytoun, William Edmondstoune, 1813-1865 (lawyer, poet, professor of Belles Lettres at University of Edinburgh) 3
Baillie, John, 1886-1960 (Scottish theologian and ecumenical leader) 3
Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800 (Church of Scotland Minister, Professor of Rhetoric) 3
Born, Max, 1882-1970 (physicist) 3
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
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
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
Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (Edinburgh) 3
Simpson, Sir James Young, 1811-1870 (Professor of Midwifery, University of Edinburgh) 3
Stevens, William Victor, 1900-1987 (President of the University of Edinburgh Graduates' Association) 3
Stewart, Sir Thomas Grainger, 1837-1900 (Physician, President of the BMA) 3