Student lecture notes
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Notes taken down by students
Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscript Notes from David Hume's Lectures on Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2075
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of four volumes (numbered 1, 2, 5 and 6) with spine-labels reading "Hume's Lectures on the Scots Law". Topics include marriage, contracts, teinds, tack, adjudication, and succession in heritage. There are near-contemporary ownership inscriptions (Alex Orrock, Newton of Wemyss) to front pastedown of each volume.Vol. 1 and vol. 6 have numerous additional pages of later notes on agriculture and chemistry at the rear, and extracts from A. W. Kinglake's novel...
Dates:
1790
Manuscript notes on medical lectures taken at the University of Edinburgh
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2119
Scope and Contents
This fonds consists of 18 volumes of manuscript notes taken at medical lectures at the University of Edinburgh between 1873 and 1874. At the front of each volume the subject of the lecture and the name of the lecturer is provided.The subjects covered are:
Pathology (Vols. I-IV);
Materia Medica (Vols. I-II);
Midwifery (Vols. I-IV);
Surgery (Vols I, II, and V only);
Clinical Surgery (Vols. I-II);
Practice of Physic...
Dates:
1873-1874
Manuscript volume containing notes of lectures by Hugh Blair
Fonds — Box CLX-A-389
Identifier: Coll-2064
Content Description
This is a manuscript volume containing notes of lectures by Hugh Blair, Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the University of Edinburgh, taken down by an unknown student. It is dated 1770, and comprises 39 complete lectures.Hugh Blair published his lectures in 1783, but very few manuscripts of his teachings survive nowadays. He did not want any "bastardised" versions to survive, as he called them in his publications, and insisted in his will that all his personal papers...
Dates:
1770
Manuscript volume entitled "Notes on Cattle Pathology from Prof. Strangeway's Lectures", taken down by Thomas Smith and copied by George Greig Jr., 1869
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/23-0048
Scope and Contents
Manuscript volume of lecture notes, entitled: "Notes on Cattle-Pathology from Professor Dr Strangeways' Lectures. By Thomas Smith. Edinburgh 1860-61. Copied by George Greig Jr 1869". This title occurs midway through the volume, on p. 244, therefore it may not refer to earlier pages. The first page's title reads, "Anatomy of the Animal Body".
Dates:
1869
Material relating to William Thompson Hall
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1559, Folder: SC-Acc-2016-0129
Identifier: Coll-1773
Content Description
Material relating to William Thompson Hall being notebooks and jotting pad. The latter is a small notebook with notes on 'Reasoning'. Two larger notebooks contain notes on Arts topics and Chemistry.
Dates:
1864-1865
Medical lecture notes of T. L. Kennish
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1908
Scope and Contents
Edinburgh University medical lecture notes taken down by T. L. Kennish, c 1880s.
Dates:
1880s
Notebook entitled "Notes of Lectures on Moral Philosophy by Adam Ferguson L.L.D.", 1782-1783
Item — Box CLX-A-387
Identifier: Coll-1848/22-0056
Scope and Contents
Notebook entitled "Notes of Lectures on Moral Philosophy by Adam Ferguson L.L.D. in 4 Volumes. Vol 4th Edinburgh 1782-3". Author unknown (initials "JJ"). Later pencil scribbling on p. 9: "Thomas Loughlin" - perhaps a later owner of the notebook.A neatly presented contemporary manuscript copy (with slight variations) of the sixth and seventh parts of Adam Ferguson's Institutes of Moral Philosophy. For the use of students in the College of Edinburgh...
Dates:
1782-1783
Notebook of John Mackintosh, Cambridge
Fonds
Identifier: MS MCK 7
Scope and Contents
Manuscript notebooks, with notes of public lectures taken at Trinity College Cambridge, 1841-1842. Spine title of all three volumes reads 'Notes on Classics'.
Bookplate of MacKintosh bequest pasted to front boards
Dates:
1841-1842
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Notebooks of lectures at the University of Edinburgh, taken down by Robert Low Orr and William J. Orr
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1919
Scope and Contents
This fonds consists of 20 notebooks containing notes on legal and medical lectures given at the University of Edinburgh, taken down by Robert Low Orr and William J. Orr. Also includes some class cards, exam papers, and ephemera of Robert Low Orr.
Robert Low Orr: Lectures on Metaphysics (Fraser)
Robert Low Orr: Law lectures (Muirhead, Macpherson)
Robert Low Orr: Scots law...
Dates:
1873-1886
Notes from Lectures by Joseph Black
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1852
Scope and Contents
Set of three volumes containing lectures given by Joseph Black, beginning 30 Oct 1782. In volume one, the lectures are numbered 1 through to 29, in volume two from 30 to 75, and in volume three from 76 to 118. The volumes are paginated, and bound between pages of the first one is a fold-out drawing, dated 1784, of a thermometer, marked with properties/states of various substances at specific temperatures.The author of the volumes is unknown but was almost certainly one of Black's...
Dates:
1782 - c 1787