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Record ID 124253

Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.8 (1769-1771, Type: Student). Page: 128

Ossian's poems 2 V:s 4:to

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.


Borrower

Alexander Anderson
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/88470. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1775-1776. Other: Indian Medical Service 1777.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Hugh Blair (Male, born 1718, died 1800), James Macpherson (Male, born 1736, died 1796)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Poetry
The works of Ossian, the son of Fingal : in two volumes.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Hugh Blair (Male, born 1718, died 1800), James Macpherson (Male, born 1736, died 1796)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Poetry
The works of Ossian, the son of Fingal. In two volumes. Translated from the Gaelic language by James Macpherson.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1765. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 112 times in 62 borrowing records


Book Work

Hugh Blair (Male, born 1718, died 1800), James Macpherson (Male, born 1736, died 1796)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Poetry
Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal ... Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday).

Borrower: Alexander Anderson

Author: Hugh Blair (Male, born 1718, died 1800), James Macpherson (Male, born 1736, died 1796), Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Poetry

Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal ... Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Record ID 7670

Library: Glasgow University Library. Register: MS Lib 6: Students Receipt Book (1765-1771, Type: Student). Page: 82r

A Vol: of Moshem

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Returned: 1770/1/18 (Thursday). Original Borrowed Date: 4 Jan 1770. Original Returned Date: 18 Jan 1770. Professor 1: Robert Trail.


Borrower

Dr James Couper
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Student.
Class: Logic, Ethics, Physic, Divinity. Original Full Name: James Couper. Life dates: d. 1836. Academic dates: MA 1775; DD 1800.
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland. Education > University Student. Education > University Professor.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Johann Lorenz Mosheim (Male, born c.1694, died 1755)
Genre: Theology
Institutionum historiae Christianae compendium.
Press: AH. Shelf: 11. Number: 14. Possible modern shelfmark: Sp Coll Bm1-l.27  . Original Author: Mosheim, Johann Lorenz, 1694?-1755..

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Confidence level: Certain

Johann Lorenz Mosheim (Male, born c.1694, died 1755)
Genre: Theology
Io. Lavrentii Moshemii Institvtionvm historiae Christianae compendivm.
Language: Latin . Published: Helmstedt. Date of publication: 1752. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: 13


Book Work

Johann Lorenz Mosheim (Male, born c.1694, died 1755)
Genre: Theology
Institutionum Historiae Christianae Compendium

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Returned: 1770/1/18 (Thursday).

Borrower: Dr James Couper

Author: Johann Lorenz Mosheim (Male, born c.1694, died 1755), Genre: Theology

Institutionum Historiae Christianae Compendium

Record ID 7668

Library: Glasgow University Library. Register: MS Lib 6: Students Receipt Book (1765-1771, Type: Student). Page: 82r

Rol: An History V 1.st

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Returned: 1770/1/17 (Wednesday). Original Borrowed Date: 4 Jan 1770. Original Returned Date: 17 Jan 1770. Professor 1: Thomas Reid.


Borrower

William Paul
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Student.
Class: Greek, Logic, Ethics. Original Full Name: William Paul.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Charles Rollin (Male, born 1661, died 1741)
Genre: History
Antient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians. Translated from the French.
Press: AR. Shelf: 7. Number: 5. Possible modern shelfmark: Sp Coll Bk9-h.1-12. Original Author: Rollin, Charles, 1661-1741..
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Charles Rollin (Male, born 1661, died 1741)
Genre: History
The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Greeks
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1734-1739. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 1315 times in 857 borrowing records


Book Work

Charles Rollin (Male, born 1661, died 1741)
Genre: History
Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Returned: 1770/1/17 (Wednesday).

Borrower: William Paul

Author: Charles Rollin (Male, born 1661, died 1741), Genre: History

Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1

Record ID 7671

Library: Glasgow University Library. Register: MS Lib 6: Students Receipt Book (1765-1771, Type: Student). Page: 82r

Rol: Method V 2d

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Returned: 1770/1/17 (Wednesday). Original Borrowed Date: 4 Jan 1770. Original Returned Date: 17 Jan 1770. Professor 1: James Williamson.


Borrower

Richard Nisbet
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Student.
Class: Physic, Natural Philosophy. Original Full Name: Richard Nisbet.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Charles Rollin (Male, born 1661, died 1741)
Genre: Belles Lettres
Method of teaching and studying the belles lettres ... With reflections on taste; and instructions with regard to the eloquence of the pulpit, the bar and the stage. The whole illustrated with passages from ... poets and orators ... with critical remarks on them ... Translated from the French.
Press: AR. Shelf: 7. Number: 1. Possible modern shelfmark: Sp Coll Bk9-h.13-16. Original Author: Rollin, Charles, 1661-1741..
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Returned: 1770/1/17 (Wednesday).

Borrower: Richard Nisbet

Author: Charles Rollin (Male, born 1661, died 1741), Genre: Belles Lettres

Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres

Volumes borrowed: Volume 2

Record ID 7669

Library: Glasgow University Library. Register: MS Lib 6: Students Receipt Book (1765-1771, Type: Student). Page: 82r

Maclaurin's Algebra

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Returned: 1770/1/15 (Monday). Original Borrowed Date: 4 Jan 1770. Original Returned Date: 15 Jan 1770. Professor 1: Thomas Reid.


Borrower

William Hannah
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Student.
Class: Logic, Ethics. Original Full Name: William Hannah.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

David Gregory (Male, born 1659-6-3, died 1708-10-10), Colin MacLaurin (Male, born 1698, died 1746)
Genre: Education, Genre: Mathematics
Arithmeticae et algebrae compendium ...
Press: AU. Shelf: 6. Number: 6. Possible modern shelfmark: Sp Coll NM.3.12  . Original Author: MacLaurin, Colin, 1698-1746..

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

David Gregory (Male, born 1659-6-3, died 1708-10-10), Colin MacLaurin (Male, born 1698, died 1746)
Genre: Education, Genre: Mathematics
Arithmeticæ et algebræ compendium. In usum juventutis academicæ.
Language: Latin . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1736. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 55


Book Work

David Gregory (Male, born 1659-6-3, died 1708-10-10), Colin MacLaurin (Male, born 1698, died 1746)
Genre: Education, Genre: Mathematics
Arithmeticae et Algebrae Compendium

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Returned: 1770/1/15 (Monday).

Borrower: William Hannah

Author: David Gregory (Male, born 1659-6-3, died 1708-10-10), Colin MacLaurin (Male, born 1698, died 1746), Genre: Education, Genre: Mathematics

Arithmeticae et Algebrae Compendium

Record ID 38895

Library: Haddington Library. Register: MS16480 (1732-1790, Type: Town). Page: 85v

the History of Corsica

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Original Borrowed Date: Janur: 4th. Original Borrower: George Waldie.


Borrower

George Waldie
Gender: Male.


Book HoldingLibrary record

James Boswell (Male, born 1740, died 1795)
Genre: Lives, Genre: Travel
Account of Corsica, the journal of a tour to that island; and memoirs of Pascal Paoli. By James Boswell, Esq; Illustrated with a new and accurate map of Corsica.
Modern Shelfmark: NLS Special Collections Gray.1345.

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

James Boswell (Male, born 1740, died 1795)
Genre: Lives, Genre: Travel
An account of Corsica, the journal of a tour to that island; and memoirs of Pascal Paoli.
Language: English . Published: Glasgow. Date of publication: 1768. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 85 times in 83 borrowing records


Book Work

James Boswell (Male, born 1740, died 1795)
Genre: Lives, Genre: Travel
Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli

Record ID 166449

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1768-1772. (UYLY207-1) (1768-1772, Type: Student). Page: 63

Elements of Critis: Vol 3d

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Returned: 1770/1/13 (Saturday). Classmark: R5 . 33. Original Returned Text: Elements of Critis: V 3d.


Borrower

Allan Robertson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Henry Home Lord Kames (Male, born 1696, died 1782)
Genre: Belles Lettres
Elements of criticism. In three volumes. ...
Classmark: R.5.33, R.6.10.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 3

Book Edition

Confidence level: Likely

Henry Home Lord Kames (Male, born 1696, died 1782)
Genre: Belles Lettres
Elements of criticism. In three volumes.
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh | London. Date of publication: 1762. Format: 8vo. Pagination: 3 vols.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 364 times in 198 borrowing records


Book Work

Henry Home Lord Kames (Male, born 1696, died 1782)
Genre: Belles Lettres
Elements of Criticism

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Returned: 1770/1/13 (Saturday).

Borrower: Allan Robertson

Author: Henry Home Lord Kames (Male, born 1696, died 1782), Genre: Belles Lettres

Elements of Criticism

Volumes borrowed: Volume 3

Record ID 169635

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1768-1772. (UYLY207-1) (1768-1772, Type: Student). Page: 107

Hume's  Essay's

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Returned: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Classmark: B 8. 3. Original Returned Text: Hume's Essays.


Borrower

John Gordon
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

David Hume (Male, born c.1711, died 1776)
Genre: Philosophy and Morality
Essays and treatises on several subjects. By David Hume, Esq;
Classmark: B.8.3.

Book Edition

Confidence level: Likely

David Hume (Male, born c.1711, died 1776)
Genre: Philosophy and Morality
Essays and treatises on several subjects. By David Hume, Esq;
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1758. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 33


Book Work

David Hume (Male, born c.1711, died 1776)
Genre: Philosophy and Morality
Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Returned: 1770/1/4 (Thursday).

Borrower: John Gordon

Author: David Hume (Male, born c.1711, died 1776), Genre: Philosophy and Morality

Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

Record ID 170745

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1768-1772. (UYLY207-1) (1768-1772, Type: Student). Page: 118

Aberneathy's Sermons

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Returned: 1770/2/3 (Saturday). Classmark: B5- 20. Original Returned Text: Aber: Sermons.


Borrower

James Nairne
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1750-1819. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1401500028.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

John Abernethy (Male, born 1680, died 1740)
Genre: Theology
Discourses concerning the Being and Natural Perfections of God, in which That First Principle of Religion, the Existence of the Deity, is prov'd, From the Frame of the Material World, from the Animal and Rational Life, and from Human Intelligence and Morality; and The Divine Attributes of Spirituality, Unity, Eternity, Immensity, Omnipotence, Omniscience, and Infinite Wisdom, are explain'd. By John Abernethy, M.A.
Classmark: B.5.20.

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Returned: 1770/2/3 (Saturday).

Borrower: James Nairne

Author: John Abernethy (Male, born 1680, died 1740), Genre: Theology

Discourses Concerning the Being and Natural Perfections of God

Record ID 172779

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1768-1772. (UYLY207-1) (1768-1772, Type: Student). Page: 141

Watson's  Horace Vol 1st

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Returned: 1770/1/18 (Thursday). Classmark: D3. 3. Original Returned Text: Watson's Horace Vol 1st.


Borrower

William Henderson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Horace (Male, born BCE65-12-8, died BCE8-11-27)
Genre: Poetry
The Odes, epodes, and carmen Seculare of Horace, Translated into English Prose, As near as the Two Languages will admit. Together with the Original Latin from the Best Editions. Wherein The Words of the Latin Text are put in their Grammatical Order; the Observation of the most Valuable Commentators, both ancient and modern, represented; and the Author's Design and Beautiful Descriptions fully set forth in a Key annexed to each Ode and Poem; with Notes both Geographical and Historical. The Whole adapted to the Capacities of Youth at School, as well as of Private Gentlemen. By David Watson, M.A. Of St. Leonard's College, St. Andrew's. Revised by a Gentleman will-skilled in this sort of Literature at London.
Classmark: J.4.11, D.3.3, R.5.3.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Returned: 1770/1/18 (Thursday).

Borrower: William Henderson

Author: Horace (Male, born BCE65-12-8, died BCE8-11-27), Genre: Poetry

Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1

Record ID 172995

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1768-1772. (UYLY207-1) (1768-1772, Type: Student). Page: 144

Keysler's Travles Vol 3d

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Returned: 1770/2/3 (Saturday). Classmark: O6. 20. Original Returned Text: Keysler's Travles V3d.


Borrower

David Methven
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Johann Georg Keyssler (Male, born 1693, died 1743)
Genre: Politics, Society and Political Economy, Genre: Travel
Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorrain. Giving a True and Just Description of the Present State of those Countries; their Natural, Literary, and Political History; Manners, Laws, Commerce, Manufactures, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Coins, Antiquities, Curiosities of Art and Nature, &c. Illustrated with Copper-Plates, engraved from Drawings taken on the Spot. By John George Keysler, Fellow of the Royal Society in London. Carefully translated from the Second Edition of the German. In Four Volumes.
Classmark: O.6.22.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 3

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Returned: 1770/2/3 (Saturday).

Borrower: David Methven

Author: Johann Georg Keyssler (Male, born 1693, died 1743), Genre: Politics, Society and Political Economy, Genre: Travel

Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorrain

Volumes borrowed: Volume 3

Record ID 173514

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1768-1772. (UYLY207-1) (1768-1772, Type: Student). Page: 151

Jackson's works Vol 2d

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Returned: 1770/1/11 (Thursday). Classmark: B1. 20. Original Returned Text: Jackson's Works Vol 2d.


Borrower

Wemyss Robertson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Thomas Jackson (Male, born 1579, died 1640)
Genre: Theology
The works of the reverend and learned divine, Thomas Jackson, D.D. sometime president of Corpus Christi College in Oxon; such as were, and such as never before were printed. In three volumes. With the authors life, and a large and useful table to the whole.
Classmark: B.1.20.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Thomas Jackson (Male, born 1579, died 1640)
Genre: Theology
The works of the reverend and learned divine, Thomas Jackson, D.D. sometime president of Corpus Christi College in Oxon; such as were, and such as never before were printed. In three volumes. With the authors life, and a large and useful table to the whole.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1672-1673. Format: folio.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 9 times in 7 borrowing records


Book Work

Thomas Jackson (Male, born 1579, died 1640)
Genre: Theology
Works of Thomas Jackson

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Returned: 1770/1/11 (Thursday).

Borrower: Wemyss Robertson

Author: Thomas Jackson (Male, born 1579, died 1640), Genre: Theology

Works of Thomas Jackson

Volumes borrowed: Volume 2

Record ID 173769

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1768-1772. (UYLY207-1) (1768-1772, Type: Student). Page: 155

Spectator Vol 3 & 4th

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Returned: 1770/1/18 (Thursday). Classmark: L6 - 16. Original Returned Text: Spectator Vol 3 & 4th.


Borrower

James Cargill
Gender: Male.
St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1371680620.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Joseph Addison (Male, born 1672, died 1719), Sir Richard Steele (Male, born 1672, died 1729)
Genre: Periodicals
Spectator.
Classmark: L.6.16, B.7.5.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 4

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Joseph Addison (Male, born 1672, died 1719), Sir Richard Steele (Male, born 1672, died 1729)
Genre: Periodicals
The Spectator ...
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1760. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 367 times in 196 borrowing records


Book Work

Joseph Addison (Male, born 1672, died 1719), Sir Richard Steele (Male, born 1672, died 1729)
Genre: Periodicals
Spectator

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Returned: 1770/1/18 (Thursday).

Borrower: James Cargill

Author: Joseph Addison (Male, born 1672, died 1719), Sir Richard Steele (Male, born 1672, died 1729), Genre: Periodicals

Spectator

Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 4

Record ID 173889

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1768-1772. (UYLY207-1) (1768-1772, Type: Student). Page: 156

Fable of the Bees

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Returned: 1770/2/3 (Saturday). Classmark: B8 . -. Original Returned Text: Fable of the Bees.


Borrower

John Buddo
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1748-1814. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1369891580.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Bernard Mandeville (Male, born c.1670, died 1733)
Genre: Philosophy and Morality
The fable of the bees: or, private vices, publick benefits. With an essay on charity and charity-schools and a search into the nature of society / [by Bernard Mandeville]. To which is added a vindication of the book from the aspersion's contain'd in a presentment of the Grand-Jury of Middlexex, and an abusive letter to Lord C.
Classmark: B8?.

Book Edition

Confidence level: Speculative

Bernard Mandeville (Male, born c.1670, died 1733)
Genre: Philosophy and Morality
The fable of the bees: or, private vices, publick benefits.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1724. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 25


Book Work

Bernard Mandeville (Male, born c.1670, died 1733)
Genre: Philosophy and Morality
Fable of the Bees

Borrowed: 1770/1/4 (Thursday). Returned: 1770/2/3 (Saturday).

Borrower: John Buddo

Author: Bernard Mandeville (Male, born c.1670, died 1733), Genre: Philosophy and Morality

Fable of the Bees