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Lecture on George Mackay Brown by Geoffrey Elborn

 Item — Box: CLX-A-1564, Folder: Coll-1794 / SC-Acc-2017-0005
Identifier: Coll-1794
Content Description

This typescript lecture by Geoffrey Elborn on George Mackay Brown has many manuscript corrections. Elborn refers to "a new novel Time in a red coat is to be published next month by the Hogarth Press". This dates the lecture to 1984 when the GMB title came out.


The incomplete typescript consisting of 10pp is numbered pages 1-9, then page 11.

Dates: 1984
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Lecture on Kenya by David Steel, 1990

 Fonds — Box: CSWC Small Collections Box 1
Identifier: CSWC 82
Dates: 1990
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Lectures and Notes of Professor Sir George Walter Prothero

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-454
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of: lecture notes and notes of reading on British, European, and Roman history.

Dates: 19th century - 20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Lectures and sermons by Adam Gib (1714-1788), secession minister, Bristo Street Church, Edinburgh

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Identifier: MS GIB
Scope and Contents Notes of lectures and sermons in the Associate Congregation at Edinburgh. Newspaper clippings are pasted to the end leaves regarding the item's donation in 1880, and a portrait photograph is adhered to the end flyleaf.Each end has a title page with a different date. The front title page reads:'Notes of Lectures and Sermons By Adam Gib, v.d.m. In The Associates Congregation at Edinburgh. From January 10 1762 - all along to October 17 1762 Inclusive. N.b. This title...
Dates: 1762-1763
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Lectures and sermons from General Assembly Library

 Fonds
Identifier: MS LEC
Scope and Contents MS LEC 1: Lectures on various books of the Old Testament recorded in a 17th century hand. Books covered are Genesis, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, I and II Samuel, Job, Psalms, and 12 minor prophets. Notes on Job dated May 13, 1688. Bound in leather and covers are blind stamped with the initials 'A C'. 'Agnes Campbell' inscribed on a fly leaf. Church of Scotland stamp on fly leaf and on last page verso.MS LEC 2: Manuscript volume titled, 'Notes of examinations and Lectures in Theology...
Dates: 1688-1832
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Lectures and sermons of George Gilfillan (1813-1878), minister of School Wynd Secession Church, Dundee

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Identifier: MS GIL 1
Scope and Contents 7 notebooks of lectures and sermons.1. Sermon notes, 1835-1836[?]. End leaves bear repeated ownership marks and pen trials.2. Two lectures 'On the existence and character of God', beginning front and back within the volume3. A popular history of British Poetry (continued).4. Lecture 2 - 4 on 'Robertson of Brighton'.5. Lecture 7 - 13 'On Christ'.6. Five lectures on British Literature7. Notes of sermons...
Dates: 1835-1871
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Lectures by David Gregory

 Fonds — Volume: Dc.6.12
Identifier: Coll-1608
Scope and Contents Volume consists of teaching material originally produced by David Gregory, here transcribed with numerous drawings by Francis Pringle in Oxford in 1694-1695 and George Wood in St Andrews 1705. The volume's index is in Gregory's hand. The lectures, all by Gregory, are the Institutiones Astronomiae, the Oxford address on professional education he called De Ratione Studii Mathematici Consilium, the Lectiones Opticae, Trigonometria Planorum Angulorum, Geometria Practica, Geometriae de Motu, and...
Dates: c1694-c1705
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Lectures by Dugald Stewart

 Fonds — Box: Gen.1987-1989
Identifier: Coll-1881
Scope and Contents

Three small, soft-bound volumes of notes taken at lectures on moral pholosophy given by Dugald Stewart, 1789-1790.

Dates: 1789-1790
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Lectures by James Gillespie (1722-1791), Principal of St Mary’s College, St Andrews

 Fonds
Identifier: MS GIL 2
Scope and Contents

Notebook with lectures on the Gospel of John, begun Dunbarnie [Perthshire] 6 July 1754. Last lecture is dated Dunbarnie, 25 May 1755. 127 numbered pages, with annotations in at least 2 other hands.

From the General Assembly Library.

Dates: 1754-1755
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Lectures by Philip Doddridge (1702-1751)

 Fonds
Identifier: MS DODD
Scope and Contents

Manuscript copy of 'Lectures of Pneumatology, Ethicks, and Theology. In Ten Parts'. Northampton, 1740.

Written mostly in shorthand.

Printed edition published in London, 1763.

From the General Assembly Library.

Front flyleaf includes a note of ownership, 'Caleb Evans, Sept. 1st. 1817'.

Dates: 1740
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

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