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"Viewer's keys" to three panoramas exhibited in Leicester Square: Battle of Trafalgar, City of Corfu, and George IV's Coronation Procession
Collection
Identifier: Coll-2043
Content Description
This collection consists of the "viewers' keys" of three panoramas created by Henry Aston Barker and shown in "The Panorama" on Leicester Square, London. They depict the Battle of Trafalgar, the City of Corfu (Greece), and George IV's Coronation Procession.
Battle of Trafalgar, printed by J. Adlard, [1806]. Single sheet, 410 x 330 mm. This is the printed viewer’s "key" to the large-scale version of this...
Dates:
1806; c 1820; 1822
Visitors’ book for Lady Glenorchy’s (South) Church, Edinburgh
Fonds
Identifier: MS GLE2
Scope and Contents
See External Documents (below) for details.
Dates:
1909
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Volume of hand-painted illustrations 'Fruits, Plants etc of Malacca' belonging to Robert Munro Binning (1814-1891)
Collection
Identifier: MS 5020
Scope and Contents
Volume of hand-painted watercolour illustrations 'Fruits, Plants etc of Malacca' belonging to Robert Munro Binning (1814-1891) presented by him to New College Library. Annotation on the inside front cover reads 'Malacca, Fruits, Plants +c, Presented by R.M. Binning, I.C.S., donor of many valuable Oriental vols + MSS.' The name of the painter is not given. Each plant or flower is named in ink and some illustrations have had their Latin names added in pencil. Contains 44 illustrations, one...
Dates:
c.1840-1891
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Volume of lecture notes taken by John P Mackintosh at lectures in Constitutional History given by Dr. Balfour-Melville, 1947-48. With enclosures
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1323
Scope and Contents
The material is composed of:
- 1 x notebook of lectures in Constitutional History given by Dr. Balfour-Melville
- insertions (from notebook), being Examination for Vans Dunlop Scholarship in History, 1949, Edinburgh University; three printed examination papers, Edinburgh University - British History (Ordinary) December 1946, British History (Honours) January 1948, British History (Degree of MA...
Dates:
1947-48
Volume of philosophical tracts, in Latin
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-978
Identifier: Coll-1315
Scope and Contents
This is a manuscript volume, written on paper, and has 231 leaves, measuring 240mm by 170mm. It is bound in contemporary vellum over pasteboards.
Dates:
1649
Volumes of Thomas Elder
Fonds
Identifier: MS ELD
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
c.1830-1840
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Waverley Care
Fonds
Identifier: GD36
Scope and Contents
The collection reflects the formation of the Waverley Care Trust in administrative papers and correspondence. Reports, newsletters, photographs and publicity materials document projects, community activities and initiatives run by the Waverley Care Trust, later (after 2003) Waverley Care.
Dates:
1989 – 2000s
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Western General Hospital
Fonds
Identifier: LHB13
Scope and Contents
Administration 1930-1984; plans and buildings 1954-1985; patients (bound volumes) 1930-1966
Dates:
1930-1984
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Western Medieval Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: MS
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 275 medieval manuscript books and c. 45 fragments which have been donated to, and purchased by the University in the course of its history. These are all books and fragments written by hand, from the early 11th to the 16th centuries. Many are finely illuminated and decorated. The collection is mainly composed of bibles and liturgical texts, books of hours, treatises of theology and philosophy, legal and medical works, examples of pre-Reformation Scottish music,...
Dates:
early 11th-16th centuries
William Burton-Stewart bound Game books
Collection — Box: CLX-D-72
Identifier: Coll-1887
Scope and Contents
Two 'game books' which belonged to Major William Burton-Stewart, containing score tables recording his session of game birds shooting and black-and-white photographs of social events, hunting, and people. It also includes sketches and handwritten biographical and travelling accounts by Burton-Stewart himself. Places mentioned in the game books include Ratho Park, Conaglen, Stroud, Darleith, Lothians and the Borders, Venice, India, Ontario (Canada), etc.Highlights in the first album...
Dates:
1889-1935
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- 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
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- Lodge, Richard, Professor Sir, 1855-1936 (historian) 3
- Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957 (writer, reviewer) 3
- Oldham, Joseph Houldsworth, 1874-1969 (missionary and ecumenist) 3
- Pillans, James (Regent, University of Edinburgh) 3
- Stevens, William Victor, 1900-1987 (President of the University of Edinburgh Graduates' Association) 3
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- Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley, 1853-1922 (professor of botany, University of Edinburgh and regius keeper of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh) 2
- Ballantyne, Robert Michael, 1825-1894 (Scottish writer) 2
- Barker, Henry Aston, 1774-1856 (Artist) 2
- Bickersteth, Robert (surgeon at Liverpool Royal Infirmary) 2
- Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800 (Church of Scotland Minister, Professor of Rhetoric) 2
- Bolton, Frederic James, 1908-1993 (Poet, Chemist) 2
- Bonar, Horatius, Rev, 1808?1889 (Free Church of Scotland minister | hymn writer ) 2
- Borland, Catherine Robina, d 1946 (manuscript historian) 2
- Brash, James Couper, 1886-1958, Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh University 2
- Brewster, David, 1781-1868 (natural philosopher and vice-chancellor, University of Edinburgh) 2
- Buchan, John, Baron Tweedsmuir, 1875-1940 (Scottish novelist and historian) 2
- Bulfield, Grahame, 1941-: (geneticist, formerly director and chief executive, Roslin Institute, Edinburgh and vice-principal, University of Edinburgh) 2
- Campbell, Archibald Hunter, 1902-1989 (legal scholar, Professor of Public law, Dean of the Faculty of Law) 2
- Chisolm, George Goudie, 1850-1930 (geographer) 2
- Christian Salvesen Ltd. (1872-2007) (shipping company) 2
- Christison, Sir Robert, 1797-1882 (1st Baronet | Scottish toxicologist and physician) 2
- Church Missionary Society 2
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- Craigie, Patrick George, Major, 1843-1930 (statistician; army major) 2
- Cullen, William, 1710-1790 (chemist and mettalurgist) 2
- Davidson Clinic (Edinburgh, Scotland) 2
- Dickson, William Kirk, 1860-1949, Librarian Historian 2
- Dollar, Thomas Aitken, 1833-1909 (Veterinary scientist) 2
- Duncan, Andrew, 1773-1832 (the younger | British physician) 2
- Dunfermline College of Physical Education 2
- Edinburgh College of Art (1907-:) 2
- Edinburgh Provincial Training Centre (1907-1959) 2
- Edinburgh University Dialectic Society 2
- Edinburgh University Dramatic Society 2
- Edinburgh University Indian Association 2
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