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Commentary on 'De Sphaera'

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.7.29
Identifier: Coll-1947
Scope and Contents

Volume entitled Buchananus De Sphaera: George Buchanan, with commentary by Adam King, covering key aspects of mathematical, natural philosophical, and astronomical knowledge from antiquity to the early modern period, from the Christian West and the Islamicate and pre-Islamic East, and from Copernicus to Galileo and Kepler. Bound with this is a second manuscript containing poetry by King.

Dates: c1616
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Commission of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland appointing George 17th Earl of Morton as Lord High Commissioner

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Identifier: MS BOX 5.4
Scope and Contents

See External Documents (below) for details.

Dates: 1823
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Common-place book of Harriet Holmes, 1818

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Identifier: Coll-1415
Scope and Contents No place of origin recorded. 1818-1820 4to., 98 pages (approx. 14,000 words) pen and ink drawings, entirely Holograph neat sloping hand, in contemp. red straight grain morocco, marbled paper sides, light wear. This Commonplace Book commenced at the very end of 1818 and continued only for a few months gives an interesting indication of the interests of a young woman in her early twenties. The subjects are mostly copied and mostly on topical subjects. They include articles on a...
Dates: 1818-1820
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Common-place book of original lyric verse

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Identifier: Coll-1414
Scope and Contents

87 poems many adorned with pen and ink drawings and a few with attractive watercolour all relative to the text. No hint of place of origin.

Quarto. Manuscript written throughout in a neat hand imitating typeface. 120pp. A purpose produced 'album' volume in red calf, gilt, gilt border, and marbled edges.

Dates: 1827-1839
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Common-place book of S. H., with poems, epitaphs etc, from various sources, c. 1809-1810

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Identifier: Coll-1683
Scope and Contents Small quarto, 43pp, in the original marbled paper covered wrappers. There are pieces written by Mason, and by Thomson. Others are taken from the Edinburgh Magazine and the Morning Post. Titles include, 'A Fragment', 'To a Lady on her Birthday', 'On a Lady who died in Childbirth 1778', 'The parting Lover', 'Woe', 'An inscription on the tomb of one Margaret Sect who died at Selkirk 12 miles from Newcastle 1728', and 'On Conjugal...
Dates: 1809-1810
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Commonplace-book and other family material relating to Rev. William Henderson Begg

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Identifier: Coll-1517
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of: 1 x commonplace book from c.1900: autograph manuscript, 155pp, which also have enclusures (notes, ephemera). Subjects include: art, aesthetic religion, creeds, calvinism, darwinism, equality, love, missions, Puritan, personality, Rome, reason, and scepticism There are also: ...
Dates: 1900-1957
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Commonplace Book of Brian Fairfax

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.5.25
Identifier: Coll-2201
Scope and Contents

Fairfax (B.) Commonplace book of Brian Fairfax, containing his "Iter Boreale" etc.


  1. "Iter Boreale", an account of his mission to George Monck in 1659. Ff.9-29.
  2. A letter of Ferdinando, 2nd Baron Fairfax to his son, Thomas, about portraits by a servant of Sir Anthony Van Dyck. F.2.
  3. Extracts from anti-papistical literature. 82 ff.
Dates: c 1646
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Commonplace book of Charles Greig McCrie (1836-1910), minister of Ayr West Free Church

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Identifier: MS MCC 4
Scope and Contents

Commonplace book belonging to Charles Greig McCrie, (1836-1910), Minister of Ayr West Free Church.

Volume is an A-Z ledger with handwritten entries. Some entries are quotes with citations, whilst others are notes about publications classified by theme.

McCries research interests are broadly theological, but also include references to romantic literature, social history, and philosophy. Many of the pages are blank.

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

Commonplace book of Helen Littlejohn

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Identifier: MS LIT 1
Scope and Contents

Commonplace book containing newspaper clippings (1914-15), poems, and quotations. One poem is dated, 'Pretoria, December 1st 1901', and a clipping of a poem by Rumi, extracted from the Asiatic Journal, July 1839, is pasted on the inside cover.

'Miss Helen Littlejohn Feb. 1841' is written on front flyleaf.

Dates: 1841; 1901; 1914-1915
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Commonplace book of Hugh E. Baikie (1906-1981)

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Identifier: MS BAI 30
Scope and Contents

Commonplace book with later additions loosley inserted, including a newspaper clipping from 1981.

Dates: 1925-1937; Publication: 1981
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

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