Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 821 - 830 of 2172

Manuscript ‘History of the Church of Scotland from the earliest dawning of the light of the Gospel’ by Matthew Crawford

 Fonds
Identifier: MS CRA 1
Scope and Contents Manuscript titled, 'History of the Church of Scotland from the earliest dawning of the light of the Gospel after the Apostles time to the year 1688, by Matthew Crawford, with life of the author.' Included in front of the first volume is a note attributed to David Laing and a note about the purchase of the volumes by the General Assembly in 1737.Two published pamphlets have been bound into the manuscript: The propositions presented to His Majestie at...
Dates: 1726
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Manuscript music book containing a collection of Highland bagpipe music [...] Alexander Wallace

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1428
Scope and Contents The item is a bound manuscript book, with cloth-covered boards. The volume contains the former front cover with the bookseller's details: The Cowdenbeath Manuscript Music Book, Williamson, Music seller, Cowdenbeath. The cloth board, inside front cover, has a handwritten title-page: 'A collection of / highland bagpipe music, / containing strathspeys / marches quicksteps / laments hornpipes / highland schottisches, jigs / reels polkas waltzes and country dances / Arranged and Written by /...
Dates: 1880-1910
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Manuscript music book containing music for 43 Scottish, German and French dances

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1425
Scope and Contents

The first leaf of the oblong 8vo item of [60]pp. is headed 'Scottish Quadrilles'. It includes German and French examples as well as a couple of waltzes and a mazurka. Many of the tunes are initialled and are dated from October 1850 to April 1857, some with the location Wemyss. The volume was produced by M'Dowall, Greig and Wahler, lithographic and letterpress printers, Edinburgh. It has a coloured scrollwork cover.

Dates: 1850-1857
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Manuscript music book containing music for 182 Strathspeys and Reels

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1426
Scope and Contents This volume containing the music for 182 strathspeys and reels also includes the identities of the composers. Oblong 8vo, 106 pp, paper watermarked 1830. There is a partial index. It contains signatures of William Sutherland and John Roy Stuart to the rear and others have been erased from the front. Tunes include: Lady Montgomerie, composed by the Earl of Eglinton Shela O Neal composed...
Dates: 1830
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Manuscript music book containing the music for 74 Scottish airs

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1427
Scope and Contents

This volume containing the music for 74 Scottish airs, includes:


  1. Cauld Kail in Aberdeen
  2. The bush aboon Traquair
  3. Oh! Open the door Lord Gregory
  4. Auld Robin Gray

Oblong 8vo, 24pp. Paper watermarked 1804. Signature of James Aikman, Perth.

Dates: 1804
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Manuscript notebook of Dr Thomas Charles Hope recording medical case histories

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1704
Identifier: Coll-2024
Content Description

Manuscript notebook of Dr Thomas Charles Hope recording medical case histories. The constellation of Dr Hope, Dr Duncan, and Dr Rutherford together with the mention of patients being admitted "into the Infirmary" lead to the ascription of this being notes from the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. The Dr Duncan mentioned several times in the text is presumably Andrew Duncan (1773-1832), who founded the hospital.

Dates: ca 1796
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Manuscript notebook of George John Malcolm

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2909
Scope and Contents This is a manuscript notebook by Rear Admiral George John Malcolm, dated 1878-1881 and containing draft correspondence, speeches and descriptive accounts relating principally to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden ahead of the British occupation of Egypt in 1882. Since 1873, Malcolm had been in the Turkish services as Pasha, and was employed as Director General of the Abolition of the Slave Trade and Judge of the Slave Courts. Just before this, he had commanded anti-slavery British naval...
Dates: 1878-1881
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Manuscript notebook of James McGregor (fl.1778) including 17th century sermons

 Fonds
Identifier: MS NOT
Scope and Contents Notebook with the name James McGregor 1778 in the front. Notes written in both Latin and English in different hands.Miscellaneous content, including: Tracts in Latin, Sermon by John Wood, minister in Dunino, St Andrews, 25 September 1655, Sermons by Laurence Charters or Charteris, St Andrews, 19 November 1650 and 8 March 1651, Copies of various letters and proclamations 1649-1684.Bound in leather with the initials WFM stamped on the front and back covers.A...
Dates: 1650-1778
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Manuscript notebook of unidentified Scottish law firm setting out details of titles properties

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1318
Identifier: Coll-1742
Content Description

The content suggests that this was an Edinburgh-based law practice, with the majority of entries noting city addresses. The unknown law firm sets out details of titles properties, 1920s, 1930s.


The volume has this information on the spine: "Notes on Titles No.6". The volume comes from John Reid, Law & Mercantile Stationer, 78 Queen Street, Edinburgh. It holds reference numbers: 885 - for re-ordering.

Dates: 1920-1939
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Manuscript Notes from David Hume's Lectures on Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2075
Scope and Contents This collection consists of four volumes (numbered 1, 2, 5 and 6) with spine-labels reading "Hume's Lectures on the Scots Law". Topics include marriage, contracts, teinds, tack, adjudication, and succession in heritage. There are near-contemporary ownership inscriptions (Alex Orrock, Newton of Wemyss) to front pastedown of each volume.Vol. 1 and vol. 6 have numerous additional pages of later notes on agriculture and chemistry at the rear, and extracts from A. W. Kinglake's novel...
Dates: 1790
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
University of Edinburgh Library -- Legacy shelfmark sequence: Da-Dp 129
Correspondence 112
Sermons 94
Student lecture notes 83
Photographs 79
Missionaries 75
University of Edinburgh -- student lecture notes 72
Missions 52
Students 49
University of Edinburgh -- Students 43
Lectures and Lecturing 42
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 40
Diaries 38
Hospitals | Administration | 37
Poetry 33
Commonplace-books 30
Church History 27
India 27
Law (Scotland) 25
China 24
Scotland -- Church history 24
Edinburgh -- Scotland 23
English literature | 20th century 23
Medicine 23
Student notes 23
Family papers 22
Medicine | Study and teaching | Edinburgh (Scotland) | 22
Music 22
University of Edinburgh -- Societies and Clubs 22
Women workers | 22
Anatomy 21
Medical records | Scotland | 21
Philosophy 20
Student activities | Edinburgh (Scotland) 20
University of Edinburgh -- Alumni and alumnae 20
Law 19
Medals 19
Medical students 19
University of Edinburgh -- staff 19
Lectures 18
Theatre 18
Theology 18
Women students 18
Mathematics 17
Nursing | Study and teaching | Scotland | Edinburgh | 17
Natural History 16
Panoramas 16
Travel writing 16
Chemistry 15
Church of Scotland, Establishment and disestablishment 15
Nigeria 15
Scottish literature | 20th century 15
World War, 1914-1918 15
Astronomy 14
Geology 14
Linguistics 14
Malawi 14
Medical students | Scotland 14
National Health Service (Great Britain) 14
Poets 14
Portraits 14
Sketchbooks & albums 14
Societies and Clubs 14
Botany 13
Health boards | Scotland | 13
Historians 13
Materia medica 13
Nursing | Edinburgh (Scotland) | Study and teaching | 13
Physics 13
Publishers and Publishing 13
Surgeons 13
sketches 13
Letters 12
Manchuria (China) 12
Minutes 12
Physicians 12
Poets, Scottish 12
Scotland 12
University of Edinburgh -- Principals 12
Animal Genetics 11
Christianity 11
History, 17th Century (Scotland) 11
Illustrations 11
Midwifery 11
Photograph albums 11
Scotland -- History 11
South Africa 11
Teachers, Training of 11
Thesis and dissertation 11
Agriculture 10
Bible 10
Botanists 10
China -- Photographs 10
Colonization 10
Ethics 10
Family History 10
Geologists 10
Kenya 10
Latin Language 10
Missions (Africa) 10
Names
University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 139
Hall, Edward, b 1898 (Bookseller) 18
Scott, Sir Walter, 1771-1832 (novelist and poet) 12
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (1729-:) 11
Monro, Alexander, 1733-1817 ("Secundus", Professor of anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 9
Barker, Robert, 1739-1806 (Irish artist) 8
Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 8
Moray House College of Education (1959-1991) 8
Chalmers, Thomas, 1780-1847 (Principal and Professor of Divinity at New College) 7
Edinburgh University Dramatic Society 7
Fraser, Sir Thomas Richard, 1841-1920 (Knight ; Professor of medicine at the University of Edinburgh) 7
Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932 (biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner) 7
Hume, David, 1757-1838 (judge, Baron of the Scottish Exchequer) 7
MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 (Scottish poet) 7
Barker, Henry Aston, 1774-1856 (Artist) 6
Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 1835-1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 6
Koestler, Arthur, CBE, 1905-1983 (Hungarian-British author and journalist) 6
Thomson, Godfrey Hilton, Sir, 1881-1955 (psychologist and Bell Professor of Education, University of Edinburgh) 6
Alston, Charles, 1683-1760 (physician and botanist) 5
Blackie, John Stuart, 1809-1895 (professor, University of Edinburgh) 5
Christison, Sir Robert, 1797-1882 (1st Baronet | Scottish toxicologist and physician) 5
Church of Scotland 5
Erskine, Ralph, Rev, 1685-1752 (minister and poet) 5
Geikie, James, 1839-1915 (professor of geology, University of Edinburgh) 5
Grierson, Herbert John Clifford, 1866-1960 (literary critic and professor of English Literature) 5
Jameson, Robert, 1774-1854 (geologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 5
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 5
Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957 (writer, reviewer) 5
Playfair, William Henry, 1790-1857 (architect) 5
Robison, John, 1739-1805 (Professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 5
Roslin Institute 5
Royal (Dick) Veterinary College (1839-1951| veterinary college) 5
Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 5
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (playwright) 5
University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Library 5
Victor Gollancz Ltd 5
Animal Breeding Research Organisation. ABRO (1945 - 1986) 4
Baillie, Donald Macpherson, 1887-1954 (Scottish theologian) 4
Balfour-Melville, Evan Whyte Melville, 1887-1963 (Senior lecturer in history, University of Edinburgh) 4
Blaikie, William Garden, 1820-1899 (Minister of Pilrig and Temperance Reformer) 4
Brown, George Mackay, 1921-1996 (writer and poet) 4
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 (Scottish poet) 4
Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 4
Dunfermline College of Physical Education 4
Godfrey Thomson Unit for Educational Research 4
Gregory, James, 1638-1675 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh) 4
Guthrie, Douglas James, 1885-1975 (surgeon and historian of medicine) 4
Hope, Thomas Charles, 1766-1844 (Professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 4
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
Masson, David Mather, 1822-1907 (Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Edinburgh University) 4
Monro, Alexander, 1697-1767 ("Primus", Professor of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 4
Oldham, Joseph Houldsworth, 1874-1969 (missionary and ecumenist) 4
Playfair, John, 1748-1819 (scientist, mathematician, and professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 4
Poultry Research Centre (1947-1986) (research institution) 4
Smith, Sydney Alfred, Sir, 1883-1969 (Professor of Forensic Medicine and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Edinburgh) 4
University of Aberdeen (1495-:) 4
University of Edinburgh. Students Representative Council 4
Young, Thomas, 1725-1783 (physician and professor of midwifery) 4
Auerbach, Charlotte, 1899-1994 (professor of genetics at the University of Edinburgh) 3
Aytoun, William Edmondstoune, 1813-1865 (lawyer, poet, professor of Belles Lettres at University of Edinburgh) 3
Baillie, John, 1886-1960 (Scottish theologian and ecumenical leader) 3
Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800 (Church of Scotland Minister, Professor of Rhetoric) 3
Born, Max, 1882-1970 (physicist) 3
Brash, James Couper, 1886-1958 (Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh University) 3
Bruce, William Speirs, 1867-1921 (polar explorer and oceanographer) 3
Chiene, John, 1843-1923 (Scottish surgeon, Professor of Surgery at the University of Edinburgh ) 3
Christian Salvesen Ltd. (1872-2007) (shipping company) 3
Church Missionary Society 3
Combe, George, 1788-1858 (Phrenologist) 3
Cowan House (student hall of residence) 3
Crew, Francis Albert Eley, 1886-1973 (professor of animal genetics and professor of public health and social medicine, University of Edinburgh) 3
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
Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828 (the elder | British physician | Professor at University of Edinburgh) 3
East India Company (1600-1874) 3
Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women (1868-1974) 3
Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 3
Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816 (Scottish historian and philosopher) 3
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
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research - Edinburgh Research Station. IAPGR (1986-1993) 3
Jex-Blake, Sophia Louisa, 1840-1912 (medical practitioner, reformer and suffragette) 3
Kendall, Sheena Lilian Grant, 1883-1974 (composer) 3
Knox, John, c 1513-1572 (Scottish preacher) 3
Laws, Robert, 1851-1934 (Scottish missionary) 3
Leighton, Kenneth, 1929-1988 (Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh) 3
Lodge, Richard, Professor Sir, 1855-1936 (historian) 3
London Missionary Society 3
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