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 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 151 Collections and/or Records:

Note from the Royal Medical Society and extracts of Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell's letters, 04 July 1782

 Item
Identifier: Coll-16/I/124-126
Scope and Contents

Extracts of Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell's letters about chemicals by Joseph Black written on a letter from the Royal Medical Society regarding their library.

Dates: 04 July 1782
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Joseph Black and family / Correspondence of Joseph Black I

Notebooks recording periodical receipts, c.1900

 Item
Identifier: AA2/1/69
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Contains the institutional records of New College Library, Edinburgh University Theological Library, Church of Scotland General Assembly Library, Church of Scotland Lending Library and Longforgan Free Church Ministers' Library.

Dates: c.1900
Found in: New College Library Special Collections / Institutional records of New College Library / New College Library

Papers of James Kirkwood (c. 1650-1708)

 Fonds
Identifier: GD19
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of: material including a register, discourse, and sermons; A new family book; or, The true interest of families; a book of letters and receipts relating to the printing and distribution of Irish Old Testaments and Bibles, catechisms and psalm-books, 1687-1699, including letters to Colin Campbell of Carquhin, Astwick, and accounts of disbursements, and a list of Highland parishes; material about Highland schools and libraries; letters...
Dates: 1670-1709
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Papers of Lauriston William Sharp

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-83
Scope and Contents The papers of Lauriston William Sharp at Gen. 2157 consist of printed material such as journals and sheets; numerous bundles of scholarly notes on writers both in manuscript and typescript; notebooks; library notes and card indexes; and, other miscellaneous papers. At Dk.1.29 there are Sharp's notes and miscellaneous items on James Kirkwood (circa 1650-1708) who worked on the establishment of libraries in Scotland, and at Dk.7.51 typescript and notes on Charles Mackie (1688-1770) the first...
Dates: 1872-1955
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers relating to the appeal for funds for new library premises, 1938

 Item
Identifier: AA2/1/105
Scope and Contents

Papers relating to the appeal by Very Rev Prof Alexander Martin, principal of New College, to various trusts for money to fund the new library premises.

Dates: 1938
Found in: New College Library Special Collections / Institutional records of New College Library / New College Library

Partial shelf list , c.1900

 Item
Identifier: AA2/2/80
Scope and Contents

Partial shelf list assumed to be for Edinburgh University Theological Library (EUTL).

Dates: c.1900
Found in: New College Library Special Collections / Institutional records of New College Library / Edinburgh University Theological Library

Peepshow depicting a library, by Martin Engelbrecht

 Item — Box CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-2048
Content Description This is an eighteenth-century perspective view (also called "peepshow", or in the original German Guckkastendioramen) produced by German engraver and publisher Martin Engelbrecht. Printed on thin paper, from etched copper plates, and coloured in watercolour, it depicts a miniature contemporary library, complete with library users reading, discoursing, or simply admiring the shelves.Martin Engelbrecht of Augsburg, Germany started creating...
Dates: 18th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Petty cash account book, 1953-1964

 Item
Identifier: AA2/1/59
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Contains the institutional records of New College Library, Edinburgh University Theological Library, Church of Scotland General Assembly Library, Church of Scotland Lending Library and Longforgan Free Church Ministers' Library.

Dates: 1953-1964
Found in: New College Library Special Collections / Institutional records of New College Library / New College Library

Petty cash ledger, 1949-1962

 Item
Identifier: AA2/1/58
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Contains the institutional records of New College Library, Edinburgh University Theological Library, Church of Scotland General Assembly Library, Church of Scotland Lending Library and Longforgan Free Church Ministers' Library.

Dates: 1949-1962
Found in: New College Library Special Collections / Institutional records of New College Library / New College Library

Petty cash ledger, c.1965-1976

 Item
Identifier: AA2/1/60
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Contains the institutional records of New College Library, Edinburgh University Theological Library, Church of Scotland General Assembly Library, Church of Scotland Lending Library and Longforgan Free Church Ministers' Library.

Dates: c.1965-1976
Found in: New College Library Special Collections / Institutional records of New College Library / New College Library

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