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H.M.S. Challenger Moored at St. Paul's Rocks, Aug 28/73
H.M.S. Challenger Moored at St. Paul's Roc...

HMS Challenger Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-46
Scope and Contents At Gen.28-31 the Challenger Papers contain sheets of plates illustrating various marine life forms, and original drawings of marine life forms; engravings, lithographs, photographs, etc. of marine life forms; drawing and engravings of Challenger equipment; and, statistical material, graphs, charts and maps. There are drawings, engravings and photographs of Challenger personnel at various tasks, and of Challenger and its interiors; and, pictures of people and places (not Challenger...
Dates: 1872-1876
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Holograph ms in ink of the poem 'Cities' by Alan Bold, over a watercolour washed sky with a blackened sun and chimneyscape

 Fonds — Box: CLX-D-33, Folder: Coll-1771 / SC-Acc-2016-0127
Identifier: Coll-1771
Content Description

This holograph ms in ink of the Alan Bold poem 'Cities' is over a watercolour washed sky with a blackened sun and chimneyscape. It is signed 'Alan Bold 72'. It begins...:

Cities stink.

Sunshine shames them.

A vast pink

Sky above stone and grime.

Dates: 1972
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Hope Account Book, Sir John Hope of Craighall

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1149
Scope and Contents This key research resource is an important survival, being a manuscript account book detailing transactions - debits and credits - relating to the lead-ore company at Leadhills, operated by Sir John Hope of Craighall. Many important people are mentioned in this book, including Alexander Hope of London, Archibald Hope of Craighall, the Earl of Wigtown, the Duke of Hamilton, the Lord of Inglestone, Charles Erskine of Alba, Alexander Tait, Lady Marie Keith, the Earl of Crawford, Lord...
Dates: 1662-1671
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Hope, Mann, Todd and Kirk, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh law agents

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Identifier: GD13
Scope and Contents Inventories of Writs and Title Deeds, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh 1885; papers relating to the Old Infirmary 1738-1885; Surgeons Square 1765-1861; Surgeons Square and George Square papers 1849-1862; miscellaneous papers relating to the Medical Society of Edinburgh 1779-1862; High School Wynd petition 1742; Infirmary Street 1690-1829; Burnbrae (formerly Linhouse) 1837-1883; Sinclair Johnson papers 1927-1940; Sandyhill, St. Andrews 1784-1935; Mrs. Louise Eliza Barron, of Aberfoyle's Trust...
Dates: 1690-1948
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

Horne Papers relating to plantations in Sri Lanka

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1580
Identifier: Coll-1810
Content Description The papers of Jack Horne and Joan L. G. Horne relating to the plantation industry in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) are composed of...: Diaries - four 'Letts's' diaries: 1878, 1879, 1880, and 1881 Ledger - dated with entries June 1909 to August 1918 Notebook - various notes on e.g.: bulking teas, shipping, charcoal, tea exchanges, and acreages Folder - containing...
Dates: 1881-1937
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Hospital Chaplains, Edinburgh Diocese of the Episcopal Church of Scotland

 Fonds
Identifier: GD1-51
Scope and Contents

List of duties; routines and timetables; visiting etiquette; scriptural texts; list of Church property; annual and Christmas accounts; baptism, confirmation and burials registers; annual returns 1939-1960; graphs relating to activities 1927-1962

Dates: 1927-1962
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

Houstoun Family Album

 Item — Box: CLX-A-1595
Identifier: Coll-2013
Content Description This is an album used as a sketchbook and a common-place book from the mid-19th century to the 1930s, created and compiled by two Scottish women of the same family. The first contributor is Caroline Elizabeth Houstoun (1840-1926), who filled the volume with well-spaced studies of landscapes and buildings in coloured pencil, pastel, and some watercolour. Some noteworthy sites include Inverness from the Castle, Edinburgh Castle, Euston Station in London, and Saint-Germain in Paris. The...
Dates: 1850s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Ikebana manuscripts compiled by Yamanaka Chuzaemon entitled 'Shinsen Heika Zui' (New Selection of Illustrated Flower Arrangement)

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-368
Identifier: Coll-1862
Scope and Contents

Two volumes comprising 52 leaves with 100 water-colour illustrations (three double-pages) with captions in Japanese. One page of Japanese text at the end of volume two. The illustrations are finely drawn and painted in delicate colours, all well preserved, and depict 100 flower arrangements of Ikenobo rikka style. Two different kinds are mentioned; Rokkakudo and Takada Anryubo. These volumes are read from right to left.

Dates: Genroku II (1698)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Illuminated commonplace book

 Fonds — Volume: Dn.6.10
Identifier: Coll-2890
Scope and Contents

Manuscript commonplace book containing sayings and prayers. Calligraphic hands, illuminated capitals, and decorated margins. The volume is mostly blank, with only six pages filled in.

Dates: 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections
unpaginated
unpaginated

Illuminated manuscript by Charles Oppenheimer (1875-1961) of 'The Eve of Saint Agnes' by John Keats

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1261
Identifier: Coll-1666
Scope and Contents

1901 work in the form of an illuminated manuscript of the poem The Eve of Saint Agnes, by John Keats. The bound volume is of fourteen pages of vellum.

Work demonstrates Oppenheimer's craftsmanship and skill and improving drawing. It is not known whether the item was a commission, an academic exercise or business sample.

Dates: 1901
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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