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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Marginalia]: ms note, in pencil, in French, on verso of half-title, may relate to text or may refer to works by authors eg ' ...Esprit...,... La Fontaine...,... Rochefo... AnonFrederic le GrandPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]: ms notes on binding pages: (1) "an English verb has/ not above six or seven/ different ... /whereas a french has/ very often more than/forty"; (2) "The Engl...Miss Erskine Robert LowthA short introduction to English grammar: with crit...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]: ms notes on some 12pp, some ink, some pencil, most in English, some in Arabic. All are notes on points of grammar or translation: e.g p.8 the text 'eight de...John Drummond Erskine John RichardsonGrammar of the Arabick language in which the rules...Print: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]: occasional marginal marks, numbers and comments throughout text, with further brief notes referring to text on 5 binding pages. Combination of ink and faded...H. Wansey Venerable BedeEcclesiastical history of the English Nation, from...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: one ms note at the end of the text: 'You are a story [?] teller I ... said Mr Joseph Emin'. Some of the page is missing. John Drummond Erskine Joseph EminThe life and adventures of Joseph Emin, an Armenia...Print: Book
1850-1899[Marginalia]: p. 465 has a bookmark and marginal mark against item 'Regimen'; opposite the half-title there is reference to another medical work 'An Essay on The Action o...Magdalene Sharpe Erskine Alexander MacaulayA dictionary of medicine, designed for popular usePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]: pen annotations on binding pages appear to be page references to a number of topics eg: "Jesseigne"; "Rajah Rannah". Occasional marks in the margins, usuall...John Drummond Erskine Francois BernierHistory of the late revolution of the empire of th...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]: pencil annotation at the end of the text of v.1 (ie p. 378): 'And this is given as the character of Louis the Fourteenth Pooh! P...! What a Prostitution of ...John Drummond Erskine Jean de La BruyereLes caracteres de Theophraste et de La Bruyere, av...Print: Book
[Marginalia]: pencil annotations on last binding page are in Latin and appear to be brief notes relating to 4 classes of disorders.Robert ThomasThe modern practice of physic, exhibiting the char...Print: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]: pp.31-61 are heavily annotated - the only clue to the identity of the annotator is in the ink - it is the colour used by Will. Baillie (see section 1.5). T...Will Baillie Leonardo Da VinciA Treatise of PaintingPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: several pencil and ink annotations (some fading to illegibility) throughout text, usually of the form of a marked item within the text followed by annotatio...John Drummond Erskine Niccolo MachiavelliThe works of Nicholas Machiavel, secretary of stat...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: several pencil annotations (some fading to illegibility) throughout text, usually of the form of a marked item within the text followed by annotation in the...John Drummond Erskine HelvetiusA treatise on man, his intellectual faculties and ...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]: Some blanks, left by printer, have been completed in either ink or pencil. The data entered covers numbers of crew, dates and costings. There are also copio... AnonProspectus of a plan for the building and equipmen...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: some marginal and text pencil annotations to pp 408-438 only, e.g: p. 408 'Prop.1 Prices are in proportion to the plenty of money ...' has a vertical margi...John Drummond Erskine James SteuartAn inquiry into the principles of political oecono...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]: some pencil marks and marginal ms notes throughout the text. Generally they highlight points of grammar or translation, mostly in English but at least one i...John Drummond Erskine William JonesGrammar of the Persian Language, APrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Marginalia]: some very brief marginal marks/notes eg p. 72/3 is bookmarked and has text '11. Calcium. - This metal is a component of part of all animals' marked by three...Jonathan PereiraTreatise on food and diet, APrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: substantial annotations on several pages, usually associated with marked passages in the text: eg p. 8 para beginning 'I admit that the existing stock of sp...John Drummond Erskine John WheatleyRemarks on currency and commercePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: substantially annotated throughout usually in the form of marks (| or *) in the text, to highlight points or sections of interest - usually points of trans...John Drummond Erskine William JonesPoeseos Asiaticae commentariorum libri sex, cum ap...Print: Book
1900-1945[Marginalia]: there are two annotators, one using blue ink and one red. All ms notes take the form of additional genealogical information ie pp. 4-7 added dates and peopl...Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (eds)Domestic papers of the Rose familyPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]: Three entries (Perth, Haddington and Fife & Kinross) have been annotated with some extra information ex. from the Perth entry 'At a small village calld [sic...Francis Wemyss Mostyn John ArmstrongScotch Atlas; or description of the kingdom of Sco...Print: Book


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