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 334 Collections and/or Records:
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
Manuscript volume entitled "The History of Anatomy Containing a Brief Account of Its Rise and Progress From the Earliest age of the World to the present times"
Fonds — Volume Dk.5.1
Identifier: Coll-2185
Scope and Contents
Manuscript volume entitled: "The History of Anatomy Containing a Brief Account of Its Rise and Progress From the Earliest age of the World to the present times", continuing: "Wherein mention is made of the several authors who made Considerable Discoveries or Improvements in this Science, and likewise a Character Given of their Writings. Together with an Appendix Concerning the use of Anatomy in the Several Arts and Sciences, with ane [sic] Index to the whole Being the Publick Lectures of Mr...
Dates:
c 1740
Manuscripts relating to Vadstena Monastery, Sweden
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-417
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts are: "Regula S. Patris nostri Aurelii Augustini..." with its Capitullum 1-24; "Additiones ad regulum Sancti Salvatoris et R. P. Petri..." with its Caput 1-55; "Sequuntur revelations quas R. P. Petrus"; "Capitulu generale Watstenense" with its Articulus 1-52; and "Consuetu dines antiquae Watstenenses" with its Consuetudo 1-64.
Dates:
15th century
Martyrology (Use of Aberdeen), 16th century (after 1552)
Item
Identifier: MS 50
Contents
The manuscript is a Martyrology from the 16th century (after 1552) and originating in Scotland. A martyrology is a catalogue or list of martyrs and other saints arranged in the calendar order of their anniversaries or feasts. This specific manuscript is similar to the Aberdeen Breviary; it is Use of Aberdeen.The Kalendar with Obits starts on f.1r.The Martyrologium secundum usum Ecclesie Aberdonensis (Martyrology, Use of...
Dates:
16th century (after 1552)
Material relating to William Black of Aberdeen
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-795
Scope and Contents
The material consists of the Physics course Introductio ad physicam specialem, in usum juventutis academicae conscripta 1696, and a recent transcript in both Latin and English along with circa 20 copies of sketches.
Dates:
1693-1696, 1985
Medical Lecture notes taken down by William Paterson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2271
Scope and Contents
Seven volumes of lecture notes delivered in the medical faculty of Edinburgh University, appear to be in two hands, some may have been taken down by William Paterson. 1897-1900. 8^o.
Midwifery, by Professor Sir J.H. Croom, 1899.
Physiology, by Professor W. Rutherford. 1899, 2 vols.
Practice of medicine, by Professor J. Wyllie, 1899-1900, 2 vols.
Surgery,...
Dates:
1897-1900