Latin Language
Subject
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Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
5 x documents: notarial instruments relating to lands in Nether Carlowrie, west of Edinburgh, and in Invertiel, 1528-1566. Marks of 16th century Scottish notaries
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1747
Scope and Contents
5 x documents - notarial instruments - being:
Invertiel, 13 November 1528
Nether Carlowrie, 23 January 1529
Nether Carlowrie, 22 June 1535
Nether Carlowrie, 23 February 1540
Nether Carlowrie, 19 April 1566At the foot, each document bears a fine penned mark of a 16th century Scottish notary. Old folds, contemporary endorsements.
Dates:
1528-1566
Bound lecture notes of Ethelwyn Lemon
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1933
Scope and Contents
This fonds consists of 15 volumes of bound lecture notes that belonged to Ethelwyn Lemon. These notes were taken by Ethelwyn Lemon herself, or by other fellow female students, in the late 19th-early 20th century at the University of Edinburgh.
Notes of lectures on British history given by Sir Richard Lodge, taken down by Barbara M Craw. Edinburgh University, 1904. (4 vols)
Notes of lectures on...
Dates:
1892-1931
Collection of 65 Scottish charters and other documents, from 1402 to 1699, in Latin and Scots, some with seals
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1242
Scope and Contents
The collection of 65 Scottish charters and documents, on vellum and paper, is composed of the following:
Charter between Alexander, Abbot of Scone, entirely in Early Scots, on vellum, dated 21 August 1402, 270mm. by 160mm., with the suspended complete wax seal of Katherine Paxton.
Charter of Robert Logy, burgess of Perth, to Andrew Charters, of lands in Perth, in Latin, on vellum, dated 4 June...
Dates:
1402-1699
Facsimiles of Scottish Charters and Letters prepared by Sir William Fraser
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1418
Scope and Contents
The facsimile charters are loose and are numbered at rear from 1 to 288. A few are missing, and these are, nos: 37, 50, 89, 110-111, 136-137, 151, 211, and 233.
Dates:
1094-1844
Gaelic literature (Notes for a lecture series), Late 19th or early 20th century
Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/20
Scope and Contents
A bundle of 6 notebooks, containing notes or scripts for lectures on a lecture series. There are no dates noted on the front covers, but the lectures presumably took place at the University of Edinburgh while Donald Mackinnon was Chair of Celtic. The following notebooks survive:'Old period: Ecclesiastical Latin' (Item B43a)'Old period: Secular Latin' (Item B43b)'Old period: Gaelic and glosses' (Item B43c)'Old period: Prose and verse' (Item B43d)'Old period: Old...
Dates:
Late 19th or early 20th century
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Alexander William Mair, 07 December 1919
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/25/2
Scope and Contents
Mair discusses options in potential Latin and Greek nomenclature relating to the wings and feathers of birds.
Dates:
07 December 1919
List of Latin words, undated
part
Identifier: MS 210/f. 204r
Scope and Contents
Manuscript list of Latin words on one page.
Dates:
undated
Papers of the Ferretti Family of Ancona
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1014
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of some 121 unpublished manuscript documents - in Latin and Italian - relating to the Papal States and the House of Ferretti. The collection also contains many supporting photocopied items (articles etc), and some colour photographs of Palazzo Ferretti in Ancona. There is a large envelope containing city plans of Ancona.This material offers a detailed account of the private lives of the minor nobles in the Papal States after the Sack of Rome in 1527 and...
Dates:
1574-1746
Student notes, 1820s
Series
Identifier: coll-1835/16/2
Scope and Contents
John Urquhart's student notes include:
Botany notes, 1826
Notes entitled 'Clavis Libri Psalmorium'
Notes on miscellaneous books
Notes on Thucydides
Notes on various sermons
Notes on, and passages from the Scriptures
Notes on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations taken in Dr Chalmers' class, 1824-1825
...
Dates:
1820s
University of Glasgow, Gaelic Bursary Examination Papers, 1936-1937
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW398
Scope and Contents
Series of papers relating to the University of Glasgow Gaelic Bursary Examinations, includes draft examination papers for 1936, 1937, summary of regulations and the MacBrayne Hall Constitution and Rules. Also includes a Latin Examination Paper for an exam in Heriots Hospital, Edinburgh in 1881.
The papers are contained in an envelope addressed to J. Carmichael Watson, 5 Botanic Crescent, Glasgow.
The papers are contained in an envelope addressed to J. Carmichael Watson, 5 Botanic Crescent, Glasgow.
Dates:
1936-1937