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Colin Campbell Collection
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-38
Scope and Contents
The Colin Campbell Collection contains Gaelic verse, mainly songs; sermon notes and scripture expositions, the earliest being 1703; manuscript treatises; Colin Campbell correspondence, the earliest being 1664; miscellaneous manuscripts including domestic accounts, medical papers, minutes etc; notebooks, accounts, letters and scraps of Patrick Campbell of Achnaba; letters from mathematicians to Colin Campbell, and mathematical papers; a body of accounts, the earliest being 1553; a body of...
Dates:
1553-1836
Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia
Fonds
Identifier: Or Ms
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of over 700 manuscripts pertaining to the Islamicate world and South Asia, dating from the 10th to 19th centuries C.E. (the majority being post-1500). Chiefly bound paper codices, it includes sacred texts of importance to the Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh faiths, Qur’anic commentaries, Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and the Shi’i Imams, works treating Islamic law, world history, the history of India, medicine, mathematics,...
Dates:
10th-19th centuries C.E. (bulk: post-1500 C.E.)
Papers of David Gregory
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Identifier: Coll-33
Scope and Contents
The papers of David Gregory consist of:
bound manuscripts of mathematical and personal papers by both David Gregory and James Gregory
bound manuscripts Lectiones Mechanicae Sive Geometria de Motu parts 1-4 (1689-1690)
bound manuscripts of treatises on mathematics and astronomy (1683-1694)
bound manuscripts Notae in...
Dates:
1652-1706
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