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Dictates on Sacrobosco's Sphere given by Alexander Hepburn, taken down by Alexander Pringle

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.5.5
Identifier: Coll-2188
Scope and Contents

Hepburn (Alexander) Regent. Dictates on Sacrobosco's sphere, taken down by Alexander Pringle, 1643-1644. Contains hand-written and printed material, as well as photostats.

Dates: 1643-1644
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Dietetic lecture notes: Helen E Batchelor

 Fonds
Identifier: GD1-153
Scope and Contents

Digitised (available in both PDF and TIFF formats) A5 hardback notebook of lecture notes and recipes from Helen Batchelor's training in dietetics when a student nurse at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (Jan 1938 - May 1941).

Dates: 1940s
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

Dingleton Hospital, Melrose

 Fonds
Identifier: GD30
Scope and Contents

Management 1874-1977; administration 1862-1995; history and publications 1857-2000; finance 1874-1959; patients financial 1946-1958; staff 1870-1992; patients (bound records) 1845-1986; audio-visual 1989, n.d.

Dates: 1845-2000
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

Divination book, Sumatra

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1559, Volume: Coll-1765 / SC-Acc-2016-0121
Identifier: Coll-1765
Scope and Contents

Comprises 18 bark leaves, with the first and last folds pasted to the covers, in 'harmonica' fold. Text in Batak script written in black ink. There 4 pages with different symbols, and 4 pages with tables, all done in red and black ink. Original wooden covers, of which the upper is carved with a relief of lizards.

Dates: 20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Document dated 27 July 1816 Document certifying that Mrs. Sarah Boreland from Dumfries had been regularly instructed by James Hamilton MD, Professor of Midwifery, University of Edinburgh,

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1302
Scope and Contents The certificate - which is in a fragile state - is on board with an engraved drawing of the General Lying-in Hospital (presumably). It is dated, 'University of Edinburgh. July 27th 1816'. It is signed 'Jas. Hamilton MD, Professor of Midwifery'. The certificate states: 'These do certify that Mrs. Sarah Boreland from Dumfries / has been regularly instructed by me in the knowledge of the practice of midwifery, / that during the time of her study she attended the Edinburgh General Lying-in /...
Dates: 1816
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Documents related to Wars and Monasteries of 17th Century Scotland

 Fonds — Box: Dk.7.30
Identifier: Coll-2219
Scope and Contents Documents related to wars and monasteries of 17th Century Scotland. Robert Douglas, Diploma Publicum, 1648 (text in Latin). "Copie of an paper givin in by the Protestors at London to the Lord protector and some members of parliament", Copy of a paper given to Cromwell, c 1651; Copy of a letter to count Rutherford Governor of Tangier, Arabic and Spanish, 1663. Manuscript...
Dates: 17th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Documents relating to missions in China and Madras, and a letter about Shakespeare’s death mask

 Fonds
Identifier: MS BOX 9.1
Scope and Contents

See External Documents (below) for details.

Dates: c.1868-1939
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Doris Myles

 Fonds
Identifier: GD56
Scope and Contents Nursing education coursework and certificates; Red Cross and Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps memorabilia; Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE) 250th anniversary newsletters and booklets; nurse's time book; Pelican league mementos; retirement mementos; Royal College of Nursing, RIE Nurses' League, and General Nursing Council membership documents; Scottish hospital and nursing administration documentation; personal ephemera including national registration identity card, curriculum...
Dates: 1914-2010
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

Draft copy of MacDiarmid's poem 'A hymn to Lenin'

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1100
Scope and Contents

This is an ink manuscript letter on 4 pages. Pages numbered 10, 11, 12, and 13.


The first page of the poem is headed: "First Hymn to Lenin (To Prince D. S. Mirsky)".

Dates: 1931
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Draft letter from Constance Padwick to The Muslim World with list of contacts for information about J. Athelston Cheese, 1966

 Fonds — Box: CSWC Small Collections Box 1
Identifier: CSWC 77
Dates: 1966
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Baillie, Donald Macpherson, 1887-1954 (Scottish theologian) 4
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Blaikie, William Garden, 1820-1899 (Minister of Pilrig and Temperance Reformer) 4
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Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 4
Dunfermline College of Physical Education 4
Godfrey Thomson Unit for Educational Research 4
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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
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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
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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
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Laws, Robert, 1851-1934 (Scottish missionary) 3
Leighton, Kenneth, 1929-1988 (Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh) 3
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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
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