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Tracts [belonging to] Herbert Kennedy

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Identifier: MS KEN 2
Scope and Contents Composite manuscript volume containing:Item 1: Titled 'Tractatus logicus A Mr Herberto Kennedy philosphice professore; facile messiodo conncinncot et in quatuor partes pronumero mentis operiction redactus nec non a me George Benedicto dilliganter conscriste.'[Tractatus Logicus By Mr. Herbert Kennedy, professor of philosophy; easily compiled and edited into four parts, with a mind for the purpose of understanding, and diligently written by me, George Benedict.]...
Dates: 1684; 1737
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Tragara Press archive

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Identifier: Coll-1571
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of 14 letters from Alan Anderson to Donald Weeks about his Corvine pamphlets (published by the Tragara Press) - 10 manuscript and 4 typescript, some with 72 Dundas Street letter-heading, some with 137 Warrender Park Road. The letters are dated: 23 August 1974, Wednesday 10 September, 1 October 1979, 29 July 1980, 17 August 1981, 7 November 1983, 14 November 1983, 23 July 1983, 15 December 1983, 18 January 1985, 21 February 1985, 23 May 1985, Tuesday,...
Dates: 1974-1985
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Transcript of "Remarques astronomiques sur le livre de Daniel" by Jean-Philippe Loys de Cheseaux

 Fonds — Box: Dk.7.54-64
Identifier: Coll-2242
Scope and Contents

Jean-Philippe Loys de Cheseaux. "Remarques astronomiques sur le livre de Daniel". Transcript, 1831.

Dates: c 1831
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Transcription of records from the Presbytery of Lanark

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Identifier: MS LAN
Scope and Contents Notebook containing extracts from the records of the Presbytery of Lanark. Sections in the notebook are labelled:'Extracts from the Records of the Presbytery of Lanark between 1624 and 1703.''Extracts from the Records of the Heritors of the Parish of Carluke between 1703 and 1796.''Fac-simile Autographs from the Records from which the foregoing extracts are taken.''Book or Roll of the Polleable persons in the parish of Carlouk; Extracts from an...
Dates: coverage: 1624-1703
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Transcription of the "Letter book of John S. Black as Agent of The Edinburgh Spanish Evangelisation Society in Sevilla"

 Fonds — Box: Dk.2.40-42
Identifier: Coll-2161
Scope and Contents

This is a typescript entitled: "Transcription of the Letter book of John S. Black as Agent of The Edinburgh Spanish Evangelisation Society in Sevilla from January 1870 to June 1871". British missionaries came to support the expansion of protestantism in Spain in the 19th century.

Dates: 1870-1871
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Transcriptions of Inverness Kirk Session Records

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Identifier: MS INV
Scope and Contents

A selection of kirk session minutes from Inverness from 1712-1824, transcribed in two volumes.

MS INV 1 (1712-1726)

MS INV 2 (1726-1824)

The transcription is attributed to Alexander Mitchell in 1890 in preparation for the publication of 'Inverness kirk-session records 1661-1800.' Inverness, 1902. MS INV 2 has a leaf from a publication in Gaelic laid in between pages 866-867.

Dates: 1712-1821; 1890
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Travel diary of Bishop Stephen Neill (1900-1984)

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Identifier: MS BOX 20.4
Scope and Contents

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Dates: 1950
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Travel ephemera from a journey on Canadian Pacific Steamships - Empress of Britain - 1961

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1403
Scope and Contents Travel ephemera relating to the journey made by Verna Isaac includes: 1 x Canadian Pacific passenger list relevant to the sailing from Liverpool, Tuesday 22 August 1961 1 x Canadian Pacific westbound ocean ticket in favour of Miss Verna Isaac, on 'Empress of Britain', Liverpool to Montreal, 22 August 1961 1 x ticket document pouch (without tickets) - Trans-Canada Air...
Dates: 1960-1961
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Treatise by William Glen (1778-1849), missionary to Astrakhan

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Identifier: MS GLE1
Scope and Contents Treatise on Tartar-Turkish grammar. 81 numbered pages with handwritten text, but not all pages are in use. Additional unnumbered pages of writing at the end of the volume, in an unidentified script.Many newspaper cuttings on church questions (1865-1871) have been pasted in through out the book, sometimes obscuring the text.Front board bears several names and inscriptions. Some of these are in the same hand as the text, and others are later. Unclear whether these are...
Dates: c.1830; 1865-1871
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Treatise of the Materia Medica

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1127
Scope and Contents The bound manuscript volume begins: ' A treatise of the Materia Medica in which the Virtues of all the Simples of the three Kingdoms are truly described and they have been fully demonstrated by the accurate Observations of many truly celebrated Authors and particularly of the learned Dr. Charles Alston Professor of the Materia Medica and Botany in the University of Edinburgh and Reg. Prof. Botan'. The text in the manuscript volume is organised into the following...
Dates: 1745-1747
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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