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University of Edinburgh Library -- Legacy shelfmark sequence: Da-Dp

 Subject

Staff Only
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:

Music Book of Mostly Scottish Airs

 Fonds — Volume Dk.5.13
Identifier: Coll-2193
Scope and Contents

Music book of Colin McRae, either first owner or the author, containing mostly of Scottish airs. 1830-1835. P.96 dated 18 April 1835.

Dates: 1830-1835
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notebook containing press cuttings of reviews of Archibald Stewart’s History Vindicated in the case of the Wigtown martyrs

 Fonds — Volume Dk.7.42
Identifier: Coll-2225
Scope and Contents

Stewart (A.) Notebook containing press cuttings of reviews of Dr Archibald Stewart's History Vindicated in the case of the Wigtown martyrs. etc. 1867 and 1869.

Dates: 1867-1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notebook entitled "Observations on Logic by Several Professors" containing notes on lectures on logic given at the Universities of St Andrews, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh, taken down by John Campbell

 Fonds — Volume Dk.3.2
Identifier: Coll-2164
Scope and Contents Note on lectures of logic taken down by John Campbell, entitled "Observations on Logic by Several Professors". Glasgow, 1775. "A System of Logic Taught at Aberdeen" by Dr Thomas Reid, 1763, now professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow, pp. 1-101. "A System of Logic Taught at St Andrews" by Mr. Robert Watson, 1764-1765, pp. 102-200. "Observations on Logic" by Mr James...
Dates: 1775
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notebooks containing materials used to illustrate Materia Medica lectures

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-2279
Scope and Contents

Edinburgh University. Department of Materia Medica. Two notebooks of books, blackboard diagrams, preparations, experiments etc. used to illustrate lectures on materia medica. 1885-1887. 12/o

Dates: 1885-1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notebooks Containing Sermons Preached at Duns

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-2269
Scope and Contents

Notes for sermons and lectures delivered at Duns [Dunnikier], Scotland, but also at Alloa, Burntisland, Cairney, Leith, Leven, Methven, Milnathort and Pathhead, probably by a secessionist minister. Two other preachers, Mr Armstrong and Mr Smart are mentioned, 21 August 1773 (p.18) and 25 August 1776 (p.180). 18 July 1773 - 25 Aug 1776. 2 vols.

Dates: 1773-1775
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notebooks of Robert Jameson

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1373
Scope and Contents

Drafts and collect reading material connected to Jameson's literary output, manuscripts submitted for publication in his journal, and travel write-ups and observational notebooks.

Dates: c1790-c1850
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes from Lectures by Alexander Monro Secundus

 Fonds — Volume Dk.4.25
Identifier: Coll-2183
Scope and Contents

Lectures given by Monro, Alexander Secundus. 1774.

Dates: 1774
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes from lectures on climate, geology and zoology given by Robert Jameson

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1372
Scope and Contents

2 volumes of approximately 180 pages each: a careful transcription, with some diagrams, of lectures in climate, geology and zoology.

Both bear the book plate from the library of the Rev William Dansey, Rector of Donhead St Andrew, Wiltshire, though there is nothing to suggest Dansey had been a student of Jameson's

Dates: early 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes of lecture entitled "A Few Observations upon Materia Medica" given by Professor Charles Alston, taken down by Henry Blegborough

 Fonds — Volume Dk.5.12
Identifier: Coll-2192
Scope and Contents

Notes of lecture on "A Few Observations upon Materia Medica" given by Professor Charles Alston, taken down by Henry Blegborough, 1754.

Dates: 1754
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections