Country Code
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GB
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Repository Code
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231
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Repository
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University of Aberdeen
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Reference
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GB231/MS 1066
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Title
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Records of Inverness Presbyterial Library
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Dates
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c1706-c1743
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Access Status
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Open, subject to signature accepting conditions of use at reader registration sheet
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Access Conditions
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Subject to the condition of the original, copies may be supplied for private research use only on receipt of a signed undertaking to comply with current copyright legislation. Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Head of Special Libraries and Archives (e-mail: speclib@abdn.ac.uk) and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. Where possible, assistance will be given in identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material.
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Description
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Inverness Presbyterial Library catalogue and borrowers' register, 1706 - 1743, containing catalogue of the library's foundation books, and valuation thereof, made by Mr Henderson, stationer, Edinburgh, Jan 1706; details of books gifted to the library, Jan 1706 - 1714; catalogue of books, Dec 1709, arranged alphabetically by author's name; list of library benefactors and their donations, Jan 1706 - Jan 1717, arranged alphabetically by name of benefactor; account of books gifted to the library by Dr James Fraser, Secretary and Register of the Royal Hospital of invalids at Chelsea, 1708 - 1720; and record of loans, c 1712 - 1743 (mostly c 1712 - 1726).
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Level
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Fonds
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Extent
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1 volume
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Finding Aids
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Very brief collection level description available on Aberdeen University Library Catalogue, accessible online http://www.abdn.ac.uk/diss/library/
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Publication Note
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Colin A. McLaren and Margaret A. Stephen, Reports and Surveys of Archives in Northern Scotland , Northern Scotland , 2 (1976 - 1977) 187 - 188. Alexander Mitchell, The Library of Inverness; its origin, constitution, and present condition. Compiled for the information of the Kirk-Session of Inverness by Alexander Mitchell (Inverness, 1901). Inverness kirk-session records 1661-1800 , edited by Alexander Mitchell (Inverness: Carruthers, 1902), pp 189 - 206
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Related Material
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Collection of notes and extracts relating to Inverness Kirk Session Library, compiled by James MacKintosh, 1954 (GB 0231 MS 2369) (1 folder). These papers relate to a series of 4 articles on the history of the library written by MacKintosh, in 1954, when its future was under discussion, and published in the Glasgow Herald. Papers of Reverend Robert Baillie (c 1672 - 1726), 1698 - 1711 (GB 0231 MS 0629)
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Associated Persons
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ABD334 | Inverness Presbyterial Library |
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