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A List of Contributors to a Fund to Commemorate Professor Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson

 Fonds — Box: Dk.3.35
Identifier: Coll-2172
Scope and Contents

A List of contributors to a fund to commemorate the retirement in 1935 and 70th birthday in 1936 of Professor Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson. 1935-1936. With an undated greetings telegram to Professor Grierson from "Darrie", despatched from Guildford, probably on one of the above occasions.

Dates: 1935-1936
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

‘A Meditation occasion’d by the earthquake, at London…’ and ‘Thoughts on the Last Judgment…’

 Fonds
Identifier: MS MED 2
Scope and Contents Composite volume. Quarto, with velum spine, marbelled paper boards and speckled red edges. Foliation is continuous, and does not restart with item 2. Laid paper, with an ornate 'A' watermark.Item 1:A meditation occasion'd by the earthquare, at London. 8 February 1749. 2 leaves, in a clear but loose italic handItem 2:O thoughts on the last Judgement, In a series of Letters to a Friend, in the year 1753. Final letter signed: Q.T.U. 10 letters...
Dates: 1749-1753
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

A translation of "Physionomische fragmente" by Johann Caspar Lavater, with sketches

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1956
Scope and Contents

A translation of "Physionomische fragmente" by Johann Caspar Lasater, with sketches. Watermark 1814. Bookplate of J. A. Jamieson.

Dates: 1814
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Abstract of Journal of William Henry Playfair

 Fonds — Volume: Dc.3.73
Identifier: Coll-1677
Content Description The volume is concerned mainly with affairs connected with the building of the University of Edinburgh, 1817-1822. It also lists details of income and expenditure during the period and, refers to other projects, clients etc.Playfair's opening paragraph describes this as an abstract of a journal of "the principal transactions and events of my life, chiefly in order to prevent doubt and confusion in matters of business."The volume mentions Playfair taking occupancy of...
Dates: 1817-1822
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Abstracts and transcripts of Scottish state documents covering the period 1578-1617

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.1.18
Identifier: Coll-2131
Scope and Contents

Abstracts and transcripts from official and private documents connected with the affairs of Scotland, 1578-1617. Date of abstracts and transcripts: early 18th century.

Dates: Early 18th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Academic archive of Keith Andrews

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-392
Identifier: Coll-2062
Scope and Contents Archive of type-written drafts for articles and lectures of art historian Keith Andrews with manuscript alterations and notes, some in multiple versions, each with a list of slides, with five type-written translations into German, and other material relating to the work of Keith Andrews. "Scottish artists in the Roman Circle of Winckelmann and Fuseli". "Scottische Künstler in Rom" (in...
Dates: 1960s-1989
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Account book of a Scottish Banker

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.4.32
Identifier: Coll-2184
Scope and Contents Account book of a Scottish banker, containing a record of bonds and payments, 1769 - 1790. Marked outside: "Vol. 2d Credit Book January 1769."Names include: Col. James Mure Campbell of Rowallan f.iii/v, Dr. Alexander Webster f.1/v, Daniel Campbell of Shawfield f.2/v, Sir Alexander Don of Newton f.3/, Robert Oliphant of Rossie and John Campbell of Stonefield f.4/v, Sir A. Fergusson of Kilkerran f.5/v, Dr William McFarlen f.7/v, Patrick Kerr of Abbotrule W.S.8/v, Alex Kincaid H.M....
Dates: c 1765-1788
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Account of a trip to the Western Isles and St. Kilda

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Identifier: Coll-1430
Scope and Contents

Manuscript account of a 'Pedestrian tour round the west coast of Scotland in 1849', in August of that year, followed by an account of a 'Trip aboard the Free Kirk Breadalbane yacht with 3 ministers to St. Kilda, Staffa, and back' in 1850.

The volume has inserted a monochromatically tinted sketch of St. Kilda

Dates: 1849-1850
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Account of a voyage to New South Wales on the ‘Neptune’ by James Mitchell (1792- ), ship’s surgeon

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Identifier: MS MIT 3
Scope and Contents

Manuscript notebook with 151 numbered pages.

'An account of my voyage to New South Wales in the ship Neptune, in the year 1820 as Surgeon [and] Superintendant to male convicts.'

Pages 1251 - 1260 of a medical textbook laid in. Chapter heading reads 'wounds', and business card indicates the pages were sent by the Sub-librarian of the Medical School Library.

Dates: 1820
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Action sermons by John Nimmo (c.1705-1784), minister of Johnstone, Annandale

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Identifier: MS NIM 1
Scope and Contents

Action sermons given at Johnstone dated between 25 June 1749 and 13 July 1755. Possibly sermons by John Nimmo (c.1705-1784), minister of Johnstone.

Dates: c.1749-1755
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

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