Showing Collections: 1521 - 1530 of 1946
Portolano Charts
Fonds — Folder: Dc.1.40
Identifier: Coll-398
Scope and Contents
This particular small collection is composed of charts drawn by Franciscus Oliva, one of a well-known family of Italian map-makers, in Marseille in 1650. The charts are of the Aegean Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the coasts of Western Europe and North-western Africa.
Dates:
1650
Portraits of clergymen and public figures
Fonds
Identifier: MS POR2
Scope and Contents
See External Documents (below) for details.
Dates:
c.1860-1936
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Portraits of ministers of the United Free Church of Scotland
Fonds
Identifier: MS BOX 31.2
Scope and Contents
See External Documents (below) for details.
Dates:
1928
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Positive Help
Fonds
Identifier: GD1-145
Scope and Contents
Comprises of reports and reviews, leaflets, and newspaper clippings about the activities of Positive Help and issues around HIV and AIDS.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1989 - 1995
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Postcard photograph of Edinburgh University Hare and Hounds 1923-1924
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1616
Scope and Contents
H. Mumford (Robert Harold Mumford) is shown in a postcard photograph of the Edinburgh University Hare and Hounds team, 1923-1924. Seated centrally in the posed group photograph is R. Everett, the Captain, a Blue, on a chair swathed in a tartan blanket. From left to right (front) is G. B. Brook (Green), G. M'Laren (Blue), Everett, and R. H. Sanderson (Green), the Honorary Secretary. From left to right (back) is J. A. R. Watt (Green), T. Howden (Green), H. Miller (Old Green), Vice Captain, and R....
Dates:
1923-1924
Postcard to John Mandeville Macfie, India from Rev. William Fraser, Aviemore about the Mahabharata translation, 1922
Fonds — Box: CSWC Small Collections Box 1
Identifier: CSWC 72
Dates:
1922
Postcard to Professor A. H. Campbell, 3 December 1969
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1423
Scope and Contents
The postcard is dated 3 December 1969, and its origin is Heriot Row [Edinburgh]. It is addressed to Prof. A. H. Campbell, on Braid Hills Road, Edinburgh and is thanks for a 'letter to D. Currie' and indicating that the 'check is correct'. The writer indicates that 'Crabbie, the Nelsons, or Sir D.T. are not for the moment going to be tried, but there is hope 'that someone else will come along with a letter to them'.
Dates:
1969
Prayer book in Latin and Dutch
Item — Box: CLX-A-131
Identifier: Coll-1939
Scope and Contents
Devotional volume in Latin and Dutch dated 1555, written possibly for a religious community in the diocese of Bruges.
ff. 1r-11v: Calendar in red and black, probably of the Bruges area. Entries in red include SS. Basilius ( 14 June), Eligius (25 June and I Dec.), Egidius ( l Sept.) and Donatianus (14 Oct.). F.12 blank.
ff. 13r-14r: St John I. 1-14 and...
Dates:
1555
Prayerbook in Latin and French
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1313
Scope and Contents
The volume has 72 leaves, and measures 160mm by 100mm. Original leather over pasteboards.
Dates:
1600-1699
Preliminary draft copy of Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory by Noam Chomsky
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1614
Scope and Contents
Professor Angus McIntosh passed this copy of the 4-volume preliminary draft of Noam Chomsky PhD thesis (University of Pennsylvania, 1955), The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory to Professor James Thorne (d. 1988). Volume I is inscribed on the first page, manuscript: For Jimmy / - to whom it is much more directly useful - / this treasured and distinguished / piece of pathfinding / from / Angus / with warmest regards / December 3rd 1986. On the...
Dates:
1955-1975
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