University of Edinburgh Library -- Legacy shelfmark sequence: Da-Dp
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: This shelfmark (or press mark) sequence originated within the Strong Room Library in 'Old College', likely beginning around 1909 (the first Strong Room having been constructed 1905-1909). Each two-letter prefix referred to a block of shelving, which roughly mapped to a category or grouping of items. The first number then referred to the shelf and the final number to the item itself. As collections expanded and were moved, this precise correlation broke down but most of the items retained their shelfmarks.
Da
University Archives. Originally upper floor, north wall of the Strong Room. This later evolved into a crude classification scheme before being abandoned in favour of regular archival arrangement. Items bearing these legacy shelfmarks can still be identified, particularly early Library records which occupied Da.1 and Da.2.
Db
Originally used for mediaeval manuscripts. In the early 20th century, pre-Reformation manuscripts from across the library were brought together to form the Western Medieval Manuscripts collection, under the shelfmark "MS".
Dc
Manuscripts. Mostly bound. Originally on upper floor, front of the Strong Room. This part of the sequence is largely intact, with these shelfmarks now being retained as identifiers of physical location. The items themselves have all been given regular archival reference codes.
Dd
Printed, including Clement Litill. Originally on upper floor, front, south wall of Strong Room.
De
Printed, including the Drummond of Hawthornden collection (largely printed but with some manuscript enclosures from the latter). Originally on the upper floor, back, west wall of the Strong Room. This part of the sequence is intact.
Df
Printed. Originally on the upper floor, back, east wall of the Strong Room. This part of the sequence is intact.
Dh
Printed, including Lutheran tracts. Originally on the upper floor, back of the Strong Room. This part of the sequence is intact.
Dk
Manuscript. Originally in the centre case of the Strong Room, opposite Dh. This part of the sequence is largely intact, with these shelfmarks now being retained as identifiers of physical location. The items themselves have all been given regular archival reference codes.
Dm
Music. Originally in the centre cases of the Strong Room.
Dn
Bindings. Originally in the centre cases of the Strong Room.
Found in 340 Collections and/or Records:
Liber Divinae Doctrinae by Catherine of Siena, translated into Latin by Raimundus de Vineis de Capua, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 87
Contents
The manuscript contains the text Libro della divina dottrina by Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), a tertiary of the Dominican Order, scholastic philosopher, theologian, and considered a Saint and a Doctor of the Catholic Church. The text was originally written c. 1370 in Italian, and it is usually known in English as The Dialogue of Divine Providence. It presents us with a dialogue between a soul rising to God and God himself....
Dates:
15th century
List of Subscribers to a testimonial presented to Richard James Arthur Berry
Fonds — Volume Dk.2.22
Identifier: Coll-2155
Scope and Contents
List of subscribers to testimonial presented to Richard James Arthur Berry, M.D., F.R.C.S.E., on his departure from Edinburgh to take up his duties as Professor of Anatomy at Melbourne University. December 1905.Also contains a letter noting Berry's career from Sir Edward Appleton, with a photograph of the Anatomy Department of the School of Medicine of the Royal College, Edinburgh as it was after DR R. J. A. Berry had taken it over from Dr. James Musgrove, in an envelope at the...
Dates:
1905
Livre de Phisique et Cirurgie, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 171
Contents
This manuscript contains an anonymous book on medicine and surgery written in Middle French in the 15th century, in which we find common topics of medieval medicine such as astrological medicine and the theory of humours. Five folios are missing: ff. I, XXXII, XXXIII (according to the original foliation) and two folios of the index at the end.ContentsText: starts imperfectly on f. 1r with the following words: ...
Dates:
15th century
Livre de Receptes, 15th-16th century
Item
Identifier: MS 172
Contents
This manuscript contains a book of recipes for different ointments and medicines for common illnesses and injuries, including several recipes for treating the plague.The text starts on f. 1r with the title: Recepte pour faire le Baulme, followed by the words: Prenez une once de mastic. And ends on f. 21r with the title: Resepte pour les plez venene dc madamoiselle...
Dates:
15th-16th century
Log-book of the East India Company's Ship Streatham
Fonds — Volume Dk.6.10
Identifier: Coll-2209
Scope and Contents
Log-book of East Indian Company's Ship Streatham. 10 January 1811 to 19 July 1812, covering a voyage from England to Bengal and back.
Dates:
1811-1812
Manuscript copy of "Mock Poem or Whiggs Supplication. Part II" by Samuel Colvil
Fonds — Volume Dk.5.8
Identifier: Coll-2191
Scope and Contents
This is a volume containing a manuscript copy of Samuel Colvil's "Mock poem: or, Whiggs supplication", part 2. In this work, Colvil satirises the Presbyterians.
Dates:
1694?
Manuscript copy of "The History of the Church of Scotland" by Archbishop John Spottiswoode
Fonds — Volume Dk.2.11
Identifier: Coll-2146
Scope and Contents
Manuscript volume entitled "The History of the Church of Scotland" by Archbishop John Spottiswoode. 17th century.
Dates:
c 1639
Manuscript of "Historical Syntax of Classical Greek" by Prof. A. Berriedale Keith
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-2250
Scope and Contents
Manuscript in 13 volumes entitled "Historical Syntax of Classical Greek" by Prof. Arthur Berriedale Keith, c 1914-1944.
Dk.1.5: "Historical Syntax of Classical Greek by Prof. A. Berriedale Keith. Contents."
Dk.1.6: "Historical Syntax of Classical Greek by Prof. A. Berriedale Keith. Sections 1-179."
Dk.1.7: "Historical Syntax of Classical Greek by Prof. A. Berriedale Keith. Sections 180-258."
Dk.1.8: "Historical...
Dates:
c 1914-1944
Manuscript volume containing texts by John Clark Dyer
Fonds — Volume Dk.5.6
Identifier: Coll-2189
Scope and Contents
This is a manuscript volume containing three texts by "John Clark Dyer in Perth, 1785".
Text on the title page:
"This manuscript being the Sixth I have wrote contains
I Some dark texts of Scripture Explained both in the old and new Testments
II A Commentary on the Revelation of St John the Divine
III A Brief Relation for and against Patronages".
Dates:
1785
Manuscript volume entitled "Operations of Surgery", Alexander Monro Secundus
Fonds — Volume Dk.5.7
Identifier: Coll-2190
Scope and Contents
Monro, Alexander Secundus. Operations of surgery. February 15, 1753.
Dates:
1753