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Collection of Ian R. Grant, antiquarian bookseller
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1383
Scope and Contents
The material represents Ian R. Grant's seller's stock. The widely varied content of the collection includes legal documents on vellum, oaths of burgesses, inventories, correspondence and letter books, printed material such as adverts, magazines and religious pamphlets, songs and poems, family history documents, etc. It also includes a collection of c. 30 Burmese palm leaf manuscripts dating from the 19th century.Because there was no discernible original order, the material was...
Dates:
1544-1986
Collector's box and teaching cabinet of Catherine Mary Stirling
Collection
Identifier: Coll-1893
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one Victorian wooden box, used for collecting and teaching, that belonged to Catherine Mary of Stirling, from Kippenross House, near Dunblane. It is still complete and fitted with 5 removable trays containing specimens of:
Animal & Vegetable Substances (such as nut galls, Portuguese cork, a piece of tortoise shell, timber specimens, pearls, etc.)
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Dates:
1847
Manuscripts from the William Drummond of Hawthornden Collection
Collection
Identifier: De
Scope and Contents
This collection is some of the manuscripts that William Drummond of Hawthornden collected and is the proportion donated to the University of Edinburgh.
Dates:
1482 to early 17th century