[{"lid":"60","slug":"aberdeen-theological","lname":"Aberdeen Theological Library","namevars":"","settlement":"Aberdeen","address":"","addressvars":"","latitude":"57.14929","longitude":"-2.09695","url":"https:\/\/www.abdn.ac.uk\/collections\/our-collections\/cld\/38","foundationdate":"1700","ltype":"Institutional","ldescription":"

A theological library was instituted in the year 1700 by the Synod of Aberdeen, who granted the sum of 1000 merks to the Professor of Divinity in Marischal College, out of the rents of an estate mortified to support the Professor of Divinity in King\u2019s College; the books purchased \u2018to be set up in a distinct library by themselves in the Marischal College, or some convenient room in New Aberdeen,\u2019 \u2018so as to be patent for all the students of Divinity in both colleges.\u2019 In 1754, the books were placed in the Divinity Hall of the college, and the professor continued to select those to be purchased till 1785, when a committee of the students received the management. The contributors of a small sum annually for four years\u00a0were constituted life-proprietors. There is a printed catalogue of the collection, and the regulations under which it is managed are sanctioned by the colleges, no alteration of them being valid unless made with the consent of both colleges, in order to avoid \u2018the many evils arising from precipitation. (from\u00a0The New Statistical Account of Scotland, Vol XII: Aberdeen<\/em>\u00a0(Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1845), 1160;\u00a0Commissioners appointed by his Majesty<\/em>,\u00a0101).\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

The surviving borrowing records date from a reorganisation of the collection into the form of a subscription library. This was something of a hybrid arrangement in the university context and was also used for the natural philosophy library.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

A set of 1819 regulations for the library confirms that students who had paid four annual contributions (at a rate of 9s<\/em>. per annum) became \u2018proprietors\u2019 of the book stock \u2018and as such, entitled to the use of books during the whole subsequent part of his life while in Scotland, without making any additional payments\u2019. There were also stipulations for the rolling appointment of students to the management of the library in collaboration with its librarian.<\/p>","bdescription":"

Borrowers were students of theology or recent graduates registered at either Marischal or King's College, Aberdeen or professors from those institutions.<\/p>","hdescription":"

The majority of the books are theological, although works of philosophy and morality, and some more general works are also present.<\/p>","collectioninfo":"Still in situ","moderncaturl":"https:\/\/abdn.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/discovery\/search?vid=44ABE_INST:44ABE_VU1&lang=en","sourcesoutside":"","secondarysources":"

Iain Beavan, \u2018Marischal College Library, Aberdeen, in the Nineteenth Century: An Overview\u2019,\u00a0Library & Information History<\/em>, 31.4 (November, 2015): 258-79, (258-59).<\/p>","barcharttext":"

This bar chart shows total borrowings by year. As only one register of Aberdeen\u2019s 7 registers covering our period has been transcribed, this bar chart shows borrowings only from that first register (1786-97).<\/p>","registerstext":"

There are seven borrowers\u2019 registers that fall within the period covered in our dataset. Of these, we have transcribed one (1786-87). Press on Open\u2019 next to this register to view images and transcription of the register. Digitised images without transcriptions of the remaining registers can also, however, be viewed by pressing on \u2018Open\u2019 next to the relevant register.<\/p>","numReg":7,"numRec":3333,"numBook":360,"numBorrower":274,"distinctBorrowersWithOccs":228,"totalOccs":258,"numEdition":346,"numAuthor":255,"avgBorrowingsPerBorrower":12.16,"avgBorrowingsPerBook":9.26,"sources":[{"asid":956,"lid":60,"stype":"Other","sdescription":"Books belonging to the Theological Library of Marischal College, Aberdeen (Aberdeen: D. Chalmers and Co., 1823)"},{"asid":959,"lid":60,"stype":"Other","sdescription":"Catalogue of Books belonging to the Theological Library of Marishcal College, Aberdeen (1790)"},{"asid":962,"lid":60,"stype":"Other","sdescription":"1823 catalogue digitised on Google Books https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/books\/edition\/Catalogue_of_Books_Belonging_to_the_Theo\/zx8k1GgHlR0C?hl=en&gbpv=1"}],"years":[{"byear":1786,"num":266},{"byear":1787,"num":361},{"byear":1788,"num":288},{"byear":1789,"num":256},{"byear":1790,"num":203},{"byear":1791,"num":356},{"byear":1792,"num":389},{"byear":1793,"num":376},{"byear":1794,"num":258},{"byear":1795,"num":258},{"byear":1796,"num":309},{"byear":1797,"num":13}],"avgBorrowingsPerYear":277.75},{"lid":"28","slug":"advocates","lname":"Advocates Library","namevars":"

Advocates' Library<\/p>","settlement":"Edinburgh","address":"

Advocates Library
Parliament Square
Edinburgh
EH1 1RF<\/p>","addressvars":"","latitude":"55.949350169861496","longitude":"-3.1895776060998053","url":"http:\/\/www.advocates.org.uk\/faculty-of-advocates\/the-advocates-library","foundationdate":"1682","ltype":"Institutional","ldescription":"

The Advocates Library was offcially inaugurated by the Faculty of Advocates in 1689 as a library to support legal education for its members. It remains a private library for members of the Faculty.<\/p>\r\n

The library's collections developed rapidly. Its catalogue of 1692 lists over 3,000 items with just over half being legal texts. The non-legal collection - much of it donations from members of the Faculty - included works of philosophy, heraldry, poetry, geography, and theology. The Queen Anne Act of 1709 gave the library the right to claim free copies of all books and journals published in the UK and Ireland.<\/p>\r\n

The library's extensive and comprehensive collection of books and manuscripts went beyond the needs of practicing lawyers and the library. It attracted scholars, philosophers, and historians throughout the Scottish Enlightenment and into the nineteenth century. Notable users include David Hume (who served as the Keeper of the Library from 1752 to 1757), James Boswell, and Sir Walter Scott.<\/p>\r\n

The Advocates Library acted as a national library for Scotland until 1925 when the National Library of Scotland was founded. The Faculty then donated its non-legal collections to the Scottish nation.<\/p>","bdescription":"

Borrowers were members of the Faculty of Advocates and approved external users who gained access upon request.<\/p>","hdescription":"

The library was (and remains) a working legal library. It retains and continues to develop its legal materials for the use of practicing lawyers. It holds a world-class collection of historical legal books from the earliest days of printing as well as manuscripts. Its special collections<\/a> include legal books and collections of Session Papers, the written pleadings of the Court of Session.<\/p>","collectioninfo":"Still in situ","moderncaturl":"https:\/\/advocates.ent.sirsidynix.net.uk\/client\/en_GB\/public","sourcesoutside":"","secondarysources":"

Berry, Sara, 'The Advocates Library, Edinburgh', 21 (3\/4) Legal Information Management<\/em> (2021), 160-66<\/p>\r\n

Betteridge, Robert L., \u2018\u201cSome Curious Bookes for Their Library\u201d: The Books of Robert Park, Advocate\u2019, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society<\/em>, 16 (2021), 71-87<\/p>\r\n

Brown, Iain Gordon, Building for Books: The Architectural Evolution of the Advocates' Library, 1689-1925<\/em> (Aberdeen, 1989)<\/p>\r\n

Cadell, P. and A. Matheson (eds), For the Encouragement of Learning: Scotland's National Library 1689-1989<\/em> (Edinburgh, 1989)<\/p>\r\n

Cairns, John W. and Hector L. MacQueen, Learning and the Law: A Short History of Edinburgh Law School<\/em> (Edinburgh, 2013)<\/p>\r\n

Finlay, John, 'Legal Education, 1650-1850', in The Edinburgh History of Education in Scotland<\/em>, ed. Robert Anderson, Mark Freeman and Lindsay Paterson (Edinburgh, 2015)<\/p>\r\n

Grant, Francis J. (ed.), The Faculty of Advocates in Scotland, 1532-1943 with Genealogical Notes<\/em>, Scottish Record Society (Edinburgh, 1944)<\/p>\r\n

Hillyard, Brian, 'The Formation of the Library, 1682-1728', in For the Encouragement of Learning: Scotland's National Library, 1689-1989<\/em>, ed. Patrick Cadell and Ann Matheson (Edinburgh, 1989), 23-66<\/p>\r\n

Kelly, W. A., The Library of Lord George Douglas (ca. 1667\/8?-1693?): An Early Donation to the Advocates Library<\/em> (Cambridge,1997)<\/p>\r\n

Pittock, Murray, Enlightenment in a Smart City: Edinburgh\u2019s Civic Development, 1660-1750<\/em> (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019)<\/p>\r\n

St Clair, John and Roger Craik, The Advocates' Library: 300 Years of a National Institution, 1689-1989 <\/em>(Edinburgh, 1989)<\/p>\r\n

Townley, Maureen, The Best and Fynest Lawers and Other Raire Bookes: A Facsimile of the Earliest List of Books in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh with an Introduction and Modern Catalogue<\/em> (Edinburgh, 1990)<\/p>\r\n

Wellburn, Peter, \u2018The Living Library\u2019, in For the Encouragement of Learning: Scotland\u2019s National Library, 1689-1989<\/em>, ed. Patrick Cadell and Ann Matheson (Edinburgh: HMSO, 1989),186-214<\/p>","barcharttext":"

This bar chart shows total borrowings per year. Of the 54 registers of the Advocates Library, we have transcribed 11. This bar chart allows you to see which years have been transcribed at a glance, and gaps in this bar chart represent periods for which we have not transcribed borrowings, not ones where no borrowings are recorded.<\/p>","registerstext":"

There are 54 borrowers\u2019 registers that fall within the period covered in our dataset. Of these, we have transcribed 11. Press on \u2018Open\u2019 next to any register with a substantial quantity in the \u2018Borrowing Records\u2019 column to view images and transcription of the register. Digitised images of the remaining registers without transcriptions can also, however, be viewed by pressing on \u2018Open\u2019 next to any relevant register.<\/p>","numReg":54,"numRec":11965,"numBook":5942,"numBorrower":934,"distinctBorrowersWithOccs":865,"totalOccs":1504,"numEdition":5507,"numAuthor":3476,"avgBorrowingsPerBorrower":12.81,"avgBorrowingsPerBook":2.01,"sources":[{"asid":811,"lid":28,"stype":"Other","sdescription":"Minute Books of the Faculty of Advocates, vols 2-4 (Edinburgh: Stair Society, 1980-2008)"},{"asid":814,"lid":28,"stype":"Other","sdescription":"Digisted catalogues of the Advocates Library: https:\/\/www.nls.uk\/collections\/rare-books\/collections\/advocates\/catalogues"}],"years":[{"byear":1766,"num":12},{"byear":1767,"num":5},{"byear":1768,"num":4},{"byear":1769,"num":29},{"byear":1770,"num":50},{"byear":1771,"num":307},{"byear":1772,"num":433},{"byear":1773,"num":47},{"byear":1774,"num":40},{"byear":1775,"num":526},{"byear":1776,"num":313},{"byear":1782,"num":12},{"byear":1788,"num":360},{"byear":1789,"num":677},{"byear":1790,"num":686},{"byear":1791,"num":113},{"byear":1792,"num":347},{"byear":1793,"num":706},{"byear":1799,"num":628},{"byear":1800,"num":351},{"byear":1801,"num":3},{"byear":1810,"num":1},{"byear":1812,"num":1},{"byear":1813,"num":1},{"byear":1816,"num":1},{"byear":1819,"num":1039},{"byear":1820,"num":477},{"byear":1821,"num":366},{"byear":1822,"num":523},{"byear":1823,"num":459},{"byear":1824,"num":532},{"byear":1825,"num":554},{"byear":1826,"num":436},{"byear":1827,"num":567},{"byear":1828,"num":410},{"byear":1829,"num":364},{"byear":1830,"num":492},{"byear":1831,"num":34},{"byear":1832,"num":51},{"byear":1833,"num":1},{"byear":1834,"num":2},{"byear":1840,"num":1}],"avgBorrowingsPerYear":284.88},{"lid":"41","slug":"chambers","lname":"Chambers' Circulating Library","namevars":"

Robert Chambers' Circulating Library<\/p>","settlement":"Edinburgh","address":"

48 Hanover Street<\/p>","addressvars":"","latitude":"55.953440425191246","longitude":"-3.197450443879709","url":"","foundationdate":"1828","ltype":"Other","ldescription":"

Circulating library run by the bookseller Robert Chambers from 1828 to 1832 when Chambers sold it. A catalogue of 1829 survives in the NLS (L.C.3344 (15)) with the bookplate of William Robert Reid of Lauriston Castle.<\/p>\r\n

A borrowing register for 1828 to 1829 survives in the NLS (Dep. 341\/413) and has previously been examined by Mark Towsey who has provided a spreadsheet giving the names of subscribers and some preliminary work on holdings.<\/p>","bdescription":"

Well-off residents of Edinburgh's New Town, military, academics, and country borrowers who had books shipped to their estates.<\/p>","hdescription":"

The Chambers collection was probably purchased from another circulating library. It contained predominantly novels and periodicals, with some works of History, Lives and Belles Lettres.<\/p>","collectioninfo":"Dispersed and lost","moderncaturl":"","sourcesoutside":"","secondarysources":"

K. A. Manley, Books, Borrowers, and Shareholders: Scottish Circulating and Subscription Libraries before 1825<\/em> (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Bibliographical Society and the National Library of Scotland, 2012), pp. 52, 173.<\/p>","barcharttext":"

This bar chart shows total borrowings per year. As the Chambers Circulating Library register covers only two years (1828-1830), this is what is represented here. All borrowings from the register have been transcribed.<\/p>","registerstext":"

Only one register is extant from Chambers Circulating Library. We have fully transcribed this register. Press on \u2018Open\u2019 next to this register to view images and transcriptions of the register.<\/p>","numReg":1,"numRec":7319,"numBook":919,"numBorrower":311,"distinctBorrowersWithOccs":97,"totalOccs":108,"numEdition":649,"numAuthor":343,"avgBorrowingsPerBorrower":23.53,"avgBorrowingsPerBook":7.96,"sources":[{"asid":856,"lid":41,"stype":"Other","sdescription":"Edinburgh Post Office Directory, 1829-30: https:\/\/digital.nls.uk\/directories\/browse\/archive\/84927261"}],"years":[{"byear":1827,"num":3},{"byear":1828,"num":2463},{"byear":1829,"num":4565},{"byear":1830,"num":288}],"avgBorrowingsPerYear":1829.75},{"lid":"40","slug":"craigston-castle","lname":"Craigston Castle Library","namevars":"","settlement":"Craigston","address":"

Craigston Castle, Turriff, Aberdeenshire, AB53 5PX<\/p>","addressvars":"","latitude":"57.584809090630834","longitude":"-2.399414159156975","url":"","foundationdate":"1604","ltype":"Other","ldescription":"

    \r\n
  1. Craigston Castle, dating back to 1604, was built by John Urquhart [1597-1631] and has been lived in by the family ever since, except for the period 1657-1738, when it went out of family hands owing to some financial difficulties. It was bought back by one of the family\u2019s more colourful and financially successful characters \u2013 Captain John Urquhart. For some time he was a privateer under the Marque of the Spanish King and is sometimes referred to as \u2018The Pirate\u2019<\/li>\r\n
  2. The Library: Untangling the stages of building from the initial construction, through various periods of adaptation and extension is difficult (ref.1) and much still remains to be discovered about the history of the library as a room. It has certainly moved once ie from what may have been its original location in the High Room, to its current location, in the gallery, both of these are on the third floor.<\/li>\r\n
  3. The Loans Register is a single bound volume of which 21 unnumbered pages are used. Of the 682 loan items recorded, 679 are within scope of the project ie from its first entry in 1768 to its fourth last in 1829. The remaining 3 appear to represent attempts to reintroduce a loans system at later dates. The loans system as it is recorded in the register was most active up to 1800. There is a gap 1802-7. Loans are then steady to around 1820 when they begin to drop-off. Evidence of who may have initiated the system is present on the inside front cover which has the inscription \u2018William Urquhart Esq. Craigston\u2019.\u00a0 Though there are several Williams in the family tree, this is almost certainly William Urquhart [1741-1796] who was Laird from 1756-1796 and is known to have had a keen interest in the library.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    \u00a0<\/p>\r\n

    \u00a0<\/p>","bdescription":"

    Though much work is still to be done on the borrowers, some general comments can be made. Around 150 names are recorded, including a significant number of women. This total will fall with better identification of borrowers as there is almost certainly some double-counting where the name of the same person is entered differently eg Miss Urquhart Meldrum and Miss Mary Urqht. Meldm. Borrowers include neighbours, relatives, local doctors and their families, local ministers, gardeners, a grieve and so on and come from a surprisingly large area given local travelling conditions but mainly from an area bounded by Banff, Turriff and Fraserburgh.\u00a0 Loans cross the subject range including fiction and non-fiction with regular borrowings in French and a smattering in Italian and Spanish. It is very much newly and recently published works that seemed to be of most interest. Borrowers varied greatly in their use of the library though none could outclass Miss Fraser of Inverallochy who on the 5th<\/sup> of May 1770 loaded her carriage with 20 loans all from the modest Italian collection.<\/p>\r\n

    \u00a0<\/p>\r\n

    \u00a0<\/p>","hdescription":"

      \r\n
    1. The collection: as with the library as a room, there is much still to be discovered about the history of the collection itself, particularly about what happened before Captain John bought the castle back.\u00a0 It may be that the collection dates from then, but this is unknown at present. There was certainly a significant collection by the time of his death (see 5a below).\u00a0 One of the most important aspects of the library as we find it today is that in 1915 up to 400 of books published before 1800 were taken from the library to the Abbey of Fort Augustus. The laird Arthur Urquhart, who inherited in 1915 after the death of Francis Pollard Urquhart (see a below) was already a Benedictine Monk having taken the name Father Jerome. The story of this episode is currently being researched. These books are important as they were of course in the library and thus available to borrowers during the life of the Register.<\/li>\r\n
    2. Collectors: As with many family libraries, Craigston\u2019s lairds have varied in their interest in the books. Active owners include John Urquhart [1696-1756], William Urquhart [1741-1796], Francis Pollard Urquhart [1848-1915] and Bruce Pollard Urquhart [1908-1995].<\/li>\r\n
    3. Dates of publication range from 1477 to the present. Many of the earliest works were removed by the monks (see above) and so there are now very few works from the 16th<\/sup> century and none of the incunabula (pre-1500) remain.<\/li>\r\n
    4. Languages include\/ included significant holdings in French, Spanish, Italian and Latin and a small number in Greek\/Hebrew\/Arabic.<\/li>\r\n
    5. Subject range: from its outset Craigston has been a wide ranging library. Subjects include history, exploration, literature, language, classics, politics, economics, sciences, law and religion. The very earliest works include a history Venice, an edition of Livy, a Latin Bible and a work in Spanish covering all sorts of subjects including faith, law and chivalry.<\/li>\r\n
    6. Catalogues:\u00a0 Three exist: a) The inventory of 1756 \u2013 probably created on the death of John Urquhart (1696-1756) with some additions by his successor William Urquhart (1741-1796). Detail varies but generally includes au\/ti, date, place of publication and often publisher, nos of vols. It is arranged by subject and, within that, format. It has no shelf marks; b) The catalogue possibly produced c1800 \u2013 it gives au\/ti [detail varies]; nos of vols; and shelf location; c) The current catalogue provides full bibliographical details, including brief provenance notes and location.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

      \u00a0<\/p>","collectioninfo":"Still in situ","moderncaturl":"","sourcesoutside":"","secondarysources":"

      Ref. 1: Harry Gordon Slade, Craigston Castle, Aberdeenshire<\/em>, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 108 (1976-77), 262-299, available at https:\/\/archaeologydataservice.ac.uk\/library\/browse\/details.xhtml?recordId=3186728<\/a><\/p>","barcharttext":"

      This bar chart shows total borrowings per year. The period 1768-1830 of the Craigston Castle Loans Register is shown in this bar chart. These borrowings have been fully transcribed. We are grateful to Sandra Cumming for kindly donating her initial transcriptions.<\/p>","registerstext":"

      There is one Loans Register from Craigston Castle. The borrowings within the period of this project \u2013 i.e. 1768-1830 have been fully transcribed from it. We are grateful to Sandra Cumming for kindly donating her initial transcriptions. Press on \u2018Open\u2019 next to this register to view images and transcriptions of the register.<\/p>","numReg":1,"numRec":684,"numBook":396,"numBorrower":189,"distinctBorrowersWithOccs":25,"totalOccs":31,"numEdition":379,"numAuthor":284,"avgBorrowingsPerBorrower":3.62,"avgBorrowingsPerBook":1.73,"sources":[],"years":[{"byear":1768,"num":5},{"byear":1769,"num":4},{"byear":1770,"num":55},{"byear":1771,"num":13},{"byear":1772,"num":11},{"byear":1773,"num":13},{"byear":1774,"num":23},{"byear":1775,"num":14},{"byear":1776,"num":30},{"byear":1777,"num":5},{"byear":1778,"num":18},{"byear":1779,"num":17},{"byear":1780,"num":15},{"byear":1781,"num":22},{"byear":1782,"num":26},{"byear":1783,"num":37},{"byear":1784,"num":24},{"byear":1785,"num":31},{"byear":1786,"num":21},{"byear":1787,"num":32},{"byear":1788,"num":33},{"byear":1789,"num":27},{"byear":1790,"num":24},{"byear":1791,"num":18},{"byear":1792,"num":24},{"byear":1793,"num":1},{"byear":1794,"num":9},{"byear":1795,"num":16},{"byear":1797,"num":1},{"byear":1798,"num":3},{"byear":1802,"num":3},{"byear":1807,"num":10},{"byear":1808,"num":15},{"byear":1809,"num":4},{"byear":1810,"num":8},{"byear":1811,"num":6},{"byear":1812,"num":2},{"byear":1813,"num":1},{"byear":1814,"num":2},{"byear":1815,"num":21},{"byear":1817,"num":1},{"byear":1818,"num":1},{"byear":1819,"num":2},{"byear":1820,"num":1},{"byear":1821,"num":3},{"byear":1822,"num":1},{"byear":1823,"num":3},{"byear":1824,"num":8},{"byear":1825,"num":7},{"byear":1826,"num":8},{"byear":1828,"num":2},{"byear":1829,"num":2}],"avgBorrowingsPerYear":13.15},{"lid":"63","slug":"dumfries-presbytery","lname":"Dumfries Presbytery Library","namevars":"","settlement":"Dumfries","address":"","addressvars":"","latitude":"55.070724","longitude":"-3.611993","url":"","foundationdate":"c.1706","ltype":"Other","ldescription":"

      Appears to have been formed initially around a small collection of books from James Kirkwood's parochial libraries initiative, but the major part of the collection came with a bequest from John\u00a0Hutton that arrived in 1713. Hutton (d.<\/em>1712) was originally from Dumfriesshire and had been First Physician to King William III and Queen Mary II, Physician General to the Armies and Land Forces, and, from 1710, MP for the Dumfries Burghs constituency. The library was moved into a purpose-built space, Presbytery House, in 1730.<\/p>","bdescription":"

      Primarily ministers in the Presbytery of Dumfries, but also open to non-ministerial subscribers, who are described in the records as 'cives'. There is a list of subscription payments (five shillings annually, raised to six shillings in 1765) made by 'cives' members in the final pages of the borrowing ledger.<\/p>\r\n

      Many of the borrowers sent servants to fetch and return books.<\/p>","hdescription":"

      As noted above, the\u00a0bulk of the collection came in the bequest from Howard, with an emphasis on theology. However the library continued to make acquisitions into the nineteenth century.<\/p>\r\n

      A large portion\u00a0of the collection (Howard (2002) suggests approximately 64%) survives\u00a0as part of the New College Library at the University of Edinburgh. These books are searchable in the Edinburgh University Library online catalogue. Equally, Kirsty Stewart the New College Collections Curator and Archivist kindly provided a handlist of the surviving DPL books for this research project, which is referred to in the data as 'NCC'.<\/p>","collectioninfo":null,"moderncaturl":"","sourcesoutside":"","secondarysources":"

      Harold J. Cook, \u2018Practical Medicine and the British Armed Forces after the \u201cGlorious Revolution\u201d\u2019, Medical History<\/em>, 34 (1990): 4\u20135.<\/p>\r\n

      Gordon Goodwin, \u2018Hutton, John (d<\/em>. 1712)\u2019, revised by Harold J. Cook, ODNB Online <\/em>(23 September 2004).<\/p>\r\n

      JV Howard, \u2018Herd-boy, Court Physician, MP, Spy: the life of Dr John Hutton of Dumfries\u2019, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh<\/em>, 35 (2005): 164\u201368.<\/p>\r\n

      John V. Howard, \u2018John Hutton, M.D. and the Dumfries Presbytery Library, 1714\u20131826\u2019, Scottish Church History<\/em>, 32.1 (2002): 41\u201369.<\/p>\r\n

      G. W. Shirley, \u2018Dumfriesshire Libraries\u2019, in The Gallovidian Annual 1932<\/em>, ed. Dorothy M. McBurnie (Dumfries: Robert Dinwiddie, 1932), 130\u201335.<\/p>\r\n

      Mark Towsey, Reading the Scottish Enlightenment: Books and their Readers in Provincial Scotland, 1750\u20131820 <\/em>(Leiden: Brill, 2010), 123\u201331.<\/p>\r\n

      Paul Kaufman, Libraries and their Users <\/em>(London: The Library Association, 1969),\u00a0141-42<\/p>","barcharttext":"

      This bar chart shows total borrowings per year. The Dumfries Presbytery Library Issue Book is in one volume covering the period 1732-1826, and has been fully transcribed. Gaps in this bar chart therefore represent periods where no borrowings were recorded.<\/p>","registerstext":"

      The Dumfries Presbytery Library Issue Book is in one volume covering the period 1732-1826, and has been fully transcribed. Press on \u2018Open\u2019 next to this register to view images and transcriptions of the register.<\/p>","numReg":1,"numRec":3475,"numBook":636,"numBorrower":249,"distinctBorrowersWithOccs":154,"totalOccs":162,"numEdition":626,"numAuthor":433,"avgBorrowingsPerBorrower":13.96,"avgBorrowingsPerBook":5.46,"sources":[{"asid":467,"lid":63,"stype":"Accessions records","sdescription":"A Catalogue of the Books in the Library belonging to the Presbytery of Dumfries (Dumfries: Robert Jackson, 1784). "}],"years":[{"byear":1732,"num":57},{"byear":1733,"num":81},{"byear":1734,"num":55},{"byear":1735,"num":35},{"byear":1736,"num":179},{"byear":1737,"num":107},{"byear":1738,"num":109},{"byear":1739,"num":90},{"byear":1740,"num":84},{"byear":1741,"num":93},{"byear":1742,"num":81},{"byear":1743,"num":74},{"byear":1744,"num":88},{"byear":1745,"num":103},{"byear":1746,"num":113},{"byear":1747,"num":63},{"byear":1748,"num":99},{"byear":1749,"num":83},{"byear":1750,"num":81},{"byear":1751,"num":103},{"byear":1752,"num":129},{"byear":1753,"num":106},{"byear":1754,"num":105},{"byear":1755,"num":86},{"byear":1756,"num":70},{"byear":1757,"num":52},{"byear":1758,"num":58},{"byear":1759,"num":58},{"byear":1760,"num":47},{"byear":1761,"num":28},{"byear":1762,"num":44},{"byear":1763,"num":49},{"byear":1764,"num":79},{"byear":1765,"num":67},{"byear":1766,"num":82},{"byear":1767,"num":52},{"byear":1768,"num":39},{"byear":1769,"num":59},{"byear":1770,"num":41},{"byear":1771,"num":60},{"byear":1772,"num":50},{"byear":1773,"num":35},{"byear":1774,"num":26},{"byear":1775,"num":70},{"byear":1776,"num":29},{"byear":1777,"num":25},{"byear":1778,"num":22},{"byear":1779,"num":20},{"byear":1780,"num":5},{"byear":1789,"num":2},{"byear":1790,"num":7},{"byear":1796,"num":1},{"byear":1809,"num":1},{"byear":1813,"num":8},{"byear":1814,"num":2},{"byear":1815,"num":6},{"byear":1816,"num":12},{"byear":1817,"num":2},{"byear":1818,"num":1},{"byear":1819,"num":2},{"byear":1820,"num":5},{"byear":1822,"num":2},{"byear":1823,"num":18},{"byear":1824,"num":13},{"byear":1825,"num":13},{"byear":1826,"num":9}],"avgBorrowingsPerYear":52.65},{"lid":"25","slug":"edinburgh-university","lname":"Edinburgh University Library","namevars":"

      University of Edinburgh Library<\/p>","settlement":"Edinburgh","address":"","addressvars":"","latitude":"55.94754","longitude":"-3.18670","url":"https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/information-services\/library-museum-gallery","foundationdate":"1582","ltype":"Institutional","ldescription":"

      The Edinburgh University Library is one of the oldest libraries in Scotland. It dates from 1580 when Clement Little bequeathed his books to the Town and Kirk of Edinburgh. The gift was transferred to the Town's College upon its foundation by King James VI's charter in 1582.<\/p>","bdescription":"

      The library was for the use of the University of Edinburgh's academic community. Students became members on payment of a matriculation fee. Outside users were permitted to borrow books with the permission of the principal. The professors' borrowing registers also show evidence of books being borrowed for friends and family.<\/p>","hdescription":"

      [significant donations\/bequests]<\/p>\r\n