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Receipt for a Bible for the Church of Weem

 Fonds — Box: Dk.7.54-64
Identifier: Coll-2237
Scope and Contents

Craigie, William. Receipt for £5 to buy a bible for the church of Weem. 27 June 1575.

Dates: 1575
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Receipt for bookbinding prepared by J. Henderson and Bisset, Hill St, Edinburgh

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1648
Scope and Contents

This Edinburgh bookbinders receipt, part-printed and completed in ms, acknowledges payment for binding five works including Racine in half-French calf, Fables de la Fontaine and Public General Statutes for £1 7s 9d and lettering the contents.

A single sheet, lined blue-tinted paper-stock, engraved royal crest, decorative italic, shadow and gothic title fonts, folded for sending.

Dates: 1879-1880
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Receipts and other papers of the Campbell and Arthur families of Patna, Ayrshire

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1552
Scope and Contents The papers in this small collection are from the Campbell and Arthur families of Patna, Ayrshire. They date between 1779 and 1887. They include: Receipt dated Edinburgh 29 May 1862. received from Mr. David Arthur five punds fifteen shillings being Years Rent for subjects occupied by him at Patna Village Order or Receipt, dated Dallmellington 27 November 1867, Wm. stewart to...
Dates: 1860-1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Recipies, remedies - a Butler's book

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1180
Scope and Contents This collection is a compendium of recipes, medicines and preparations, with a hand-made thumb index at the start of the volume. The recipes include a mixture for bookbinder's varnish and ingredients for constipation pills. The medical remedies are given dates in 1898. The notebook has not been completed. The notebook has an index of 105 pages, then a further 575 pages. The recipes and remedies include these: ...
Dates: 1898
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Record of Cases taken in the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, Preparations from the Pharmacopeia of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and Baffin Voyage Journal

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-891
Scope and Contents The manuscriptCases taken in the Royal Infirmaryis by no means unique. A range of student copies of Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE) casebooks have survived. Some contain copies of remedies from pharmacopoeias of either the RIE or the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE). This casebook is from 1820-1821. The mansucript also contains a copy of preparations from the pharmacopoeia of the RCPE. The 'Baffin' voyage journal contains a record of the experiences...
Dates: 1820-1824
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Record of Experiments on Frog's Heart by Professor Sir Thomas Richard Fraser

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.7.13
Identifier: Coll-2217
Scope and Contents

Fraser, Sir Thomas Richard. Record of experiments on frog's heart with bodies of digitalin group. Materia Medica Laboratory, Edinburgh, 1886.

Dates: 1886
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Records of Brunstane Farm, Portobello, Edinburgh

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-808
Scope and Contents The material is composed of several folders of accounts offering an insight into farming practice throughout the mid-decades of the twentieth century, an impression of the scale of self-sustaining small business in Portobello and district itself, and an idea of the cost of living from the 1930s to the 1970s especially for a small farmer. The firms include insurance companies, animal feed firms, and repair shops. There are accounts from an ironmonger and sheet metal worker in Portobello, the...
Dates: 1932-1973
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Records of Campbell Campbell W.S. Solicitors

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-126
Scope and Contents

The records are composed of: private ledgers; ledger balances; exchequer business; letter books; and, correspondence on conveyancing.

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

Records of Charles Holtzapffel and Company

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-134
Scope and Contents

The records consist of: ledgers F, H, and K, between 1811 and 1822; and, customers' journal 1892-1897, containing accounts for sales, repairs etc. of lathes, machinery and tools.

Dates: 1811-1897
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Records of Cowan House

 Fonds
Identifier: EUA GD59
Scope and Contents

2 cash books, numbers 6 & 7.

Dates: 1947-1953
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Masson, David Mather, 1822-1907 (Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Edinburgh University) 4
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Robison, John, 1739-1805 (Professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 4
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Animal Breeding Research Organisation. ABRO (1945 - 1986) 3
Baillie, John, 1886-1960 (Scottish theologian and ecumenical leader) 3
Barker, Robert, 1739-1806 (Irish artist) 3
Blackie, John Stuart, 1809-1895 (professor, University of Edinburgh) 3
Christian Salvesen Ltd. (1872-2007) (shipping company) 3
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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
Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 3
Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women (1868-1974) 3
Fraser, Sir Thomas Richard, 1841-1920 (Knight ; Professor of medicine at the University of Edinburgh) 3
Geikie, James, 1839-1915 (professor of geology, University of Edinburgh) 3
Hutton, James, 1726-1797 (Scottish geologist) 3
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research - Edinburgh Research Station. IAPGR (1986-1993) 3
Laing, David, 1793-1878 (antiquarian, bookseller, and librarian of the Signet Library) 3
Playfair, John, 1748-1819 (scientist, mathematician, and professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 3
Royal (Dick) Veterinary College (1839-1951| veterinary college) 3
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (playwright) 3
Tragara Pressnn 3
University of Edinburgh. Library 3
University of Edinburgh. Students Representative Council 3
Young, Thomas, 1725-1783 (physician and professor of midwifery) 3
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 (English Philosopher | Attorney General | Lord Chancellor of England) 2
Baillie, Donald Macpherson, 1887-1954 (Scottish theologian) 2
Balfour-Melville, Evan Whyte Melville, 1887-1963 (Senior lecturer in history, University of Edinburgh) 2
Beattie, James, 1735-1803 (Scottish poet, professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic) 2
Berry, Richard James Arthur, 1867-1962 (Surgeon, Emeritus Professor of Anatomy) 2
Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800 (Church of Scotland Minister, Professor of Rhetoric) 2
Bolton, Frederic James, 1908-1993 (Poet, Chemist) 2
Borland, Catherine Robina, d 1946 (manuscript historian) 2
Brown, George Mackay, 1921-1996 (writer and poet) 2
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Cullen, William, 1710-1790 (Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist) 2
Davidson Clinic (Edinburgh, Scotland) 2
Dickson, William Kirk, 1860-1949 (Librarian and Historian) 2
Dollar, Thomas Aitken, 1833-1909 (Veterinary scientist) 2
Douglas, Gavin, 1474-1522 (Scottish bishop, makar, translator) 2
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811 (1st Viscount Melville, lieutenant, Scottish politician) 2
East India Company (1600-1874) 2
Edinburgh Provincial Training Centre (1907-1959) 2
Edinburgh University Sports Union (EUSU) (c1971-present) 2
Edinburgh University Women's Athletics Club 2
Edward VII, 1841-1910 (King of Great Britain) 2
Emmett, William B, fl mid 20th century (psychologist) 2
Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 2
Foreign Mission Committee the Church of Scotland 2
Fowler, William, fl.1910s-1930s (Founding member of the Robert Louis Stevenson Club, Edinburgh) 2
Fraser, Sir John 1885-1947 (surgeon, 1st Baronet, Principal of Edinburgh University) 2
Geological Society of London (1807-:) 2
Geological Survey of Great Britain (1835-:) 2
Greenwood, Alan William, 1897-1981 (genetical physiologist and director of ARC Poultry Research Centre) 2
Guthrie, Douglas James, 1885-1975 (surgeon and historian of medicine) 2
Hamish Henderson Archive Trust 2
Heatley, David Playfair, 1868-1944 (Reader Emeritus in Political Science and Mackay Lecturer in History, University of Edinburgh) 2
Henderson, Hamish Scott, 1919-2002 (Folklorist, poet, songwriter, soldier, intellectual) 2
Holland, Sir Thomas Henry, 1868-1947 (geologist, Principal of the University of Edinburgh) 2
Hope, Thomas Charles, 1766-1844 (Professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 2
Hume, David, 1711-1776 (Scottish Philosopher) 2
Hume, David, 1757-1838 (judge, Baron of the Scottish Exchequer) 2
Jeffrey, Francis, 1773-1850 (Lord Jeffrey, Scottish judge and literary critic) 2
Jex-Blake, Sophia Louisa, 1840-1912 (medical practitioner, reformer and suffragette) 2
Kirk, Robert, 1644-1692 (Folklorist and Church minister) 2
Lawley, Derrick, 1915-2012 (statistician) 2
Liston, Robert, 1794-1847 (Scottish surgeon) 2
Lodge, Richard, Professor Sir, 1855-1936 (historian) 2
MacCaig, Norman Alexander, 1910-1996 (poet, teacher) 2