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Commonplace-books

 Subject

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

Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:

Ms common-place book containing 37 contributions including poems, hymns, drawings and prose items, c. 1831-1835

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1684
Scope and Contents

A specifically prepared luxury volume as issued by Delarue, Cornish and Rock. Items include: 'Epitaph on professor Young of Glasgow'; 'The Traveller', a poem; 'List of Ministers names who are or have been in the Kirk of Scotland'; 'Translation of one of the Odes in the Media'; 'Hymns Constitutional de Portugal composta por Sua Altera Real Dom Pedro Quarto' with music; 'An essay upon an Apple', a poem; 'The Poets Bride', a poem, and 'Thine Album'.

Dates: 1831-1835
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Ms volume of poems, songs and epigrams, Helen Duncan, c. 1815-1820

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1685
Scope and Contents

Work in the ms volume includes an untitled piece, 'On Belinda', 'Epigram', 'The roof of straw', 'Verses by a young lady', and inserted loosley 'The little men'.

The volume is signed and dated 'Helen Duncan, October 12th 1818' on the front end paper.

Dates: 1815-1820
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notebook on legal matters, including copy of transcript of the trial of Capt. John Porteous

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1244
Scope and Contents Much of this notebook contains a part-copy of the transcript of the trial as it was published in Edinburgh, 1818, in - Criminal Trials Illustrative Of The Tale Entitled The Heart Of Mid-Lothian: Published From The Original Record . Also in the notebook are some law notes on Cox v. Coleridge and the Rights of Allornies (or Attornies?); Rex v. Inhabitants of Middlesex; and, the Assizes at Lewes. There are also notes from Lacon, or Many...
Dates: 1818-1824
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Charles Mackie

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-423
Scope and Contents Volumes: Index Funereus 29 Annorum, June 1727 - June 1756 (Dc.1.47) Commonplace books containing chiefly notes and extracts on Roman and general history, 2 vols [also containing a list in vol. 2 of Mackie's students in History and Roman Antiquities] (Dc.5.24) Annotationes in ontologiam Gerrardi de Vries, 1703 (Dc.7.79) Commonplace book containing...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1703-1756
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of John Ferguson (1846-1913), minister of Linlithgow

 Fonds
Identifier: MS FER
Scope and Contents Papers of John Ferguson, Minister of Linlithgow (1846-1913). Arranged in two sections:MS FER 1.1-13 - Scrapbooks with extracts and transcripts of historical documents relating to Linlithgow and district. 13 volumes. From the General Assembly Library. Presented to the Library in 1915 by Rev. Dr. Fergusson's widow.MS FER 1.1 - David I to Robert III, 1124-1406MS FER 1.2 - Edward I, II, III. James I, II, III. 1290-1488MS FER 1.3 - James IV, V and...
Dates: c.1915; Other: c.1124-1915
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Papers of Robert Kirk

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-394
Scope and Contents

These might be referred to loosely as commonplace books. Extracts of texts by others predominate alongside original notes by Kirk.

Dates: 1660-1674
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Scrapbooks of Margaret Jane Campbell Hunter and Daisy Helen Burnley-Campbell

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2080
Content Description These two scrapbooks were compiled by Margaret Jane Campbell Hunter (a.k.a. Mrs Burnley-Campbell of Ormidale (1857-1938)) and her daughter Daisy Helen Burnley-Campbell (later Warrand (1891-1973)). Dealing with both public and private life, they contain a substantial quantity of material relating to Margaret’s participation in the Gaelic movement, including events devoted to Gaelic language, Highland culture, games and music. They also record her involvement in the suffragette movement,...
Dates: 1909-1919
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Volume entitled "James Ferguson's Common Place Book"

 Fonds — Volume Dk.7.33
Identifier: Coll-2222
Scope and Contents

Fergusson, James. Volume entitled "James Ferguson's Common Place Book", 1775. Some inscriptions, or small portions of text in Hebrew, Greek, Latin. Contains highly detailed, illustrations, graphs, tables, diagrams, some with moving-parts, or folding-out. Interleaved with printed material.

Dates: c 1775
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Volumes of Thomas Elder

 Fonds
Identifier: MS ELD
Scope and Contents

MS ELD 1: A commonplace book from 1834. Volume is primarily handwritten, with a clipping of a recipe for bread pasted to the back board.

MS ELD 2: A scrap book of newspaper cuttings, c. 1830-1840. Cuttings are pasted into the volume, and are mostly of topographical interest.

Dates: c.1830-1840
Found in: New College Library Special Collections