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Record ID 156216

Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.11 (1775-1777, Type: Student). Page: 212

Home's principia

Borrowed: 1776/4/30 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.


Borrower

Hugh Dougall
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/91710. Dissertation: De Haemorrhagiis.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1775-1777; MD (Edin), 1778. Origin: Scottish.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


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Francis Home (Male, born 1719, died 1813)
Genre: Medicine
Principia medicinae [Home]

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Francis Home (Male, born 1719, died 1813)
Genre: Medicine
Principia medicinae.
Language: Latin . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1762. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 43


Book Work

Francis Home (Male, born 1719, died 1813)
Genre: Medicine
Principia Medicinae [Francis Home]

Borrowed: 1776/4/30 (Tuesday).

Borrower: Hugh Dougall

Author: Francis Home (Male, born 1719, died 1813), Genre: Medicine

Principia Medicinae [Francis Home]

Record ID 156213

Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.11 (1775-1777, Type: Student). Page: 212

Simson's Geometry

Borrowed: 1776/4/30 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/5/0.


Borrower

John Carstairs
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/79124. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1775. Other: Royal Army Medical Corps, 1780.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


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Thomas Simpson (Male, born 1710, died 1761)
Genre: Mathematics
Elements of geometry [Simpson].

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Thomas Simpson (Male, born 1710, died 1761)
Genre: Mathematics
Elements of geometry; with their application to the mensuration of superficies and solids, to the determination of the maxima and minima of geometrical quantities.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1768. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 3


Book Work

Thomas Simpson (Male, born 1710, died 1761)
Genre: Mathematics
Elements of Geometry [Thomas Simpson]

Record ID 156210

Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.11 (1775-1777, Type: Student). Page: 212

Fordyce's practice

Borrowed: 1776/4/30 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/6/0.


Borrower

Alexander Longmore
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/83698. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: MA 1774; 1775.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

George Fordyce (Male, born 1736, died 1802)
Genre: Medicine
Elements of the practice of physic [Fordyce]
Possible modern shelfmark: Special Collections H.2019.

Record ID 156207

Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.11 (1775-1777, Type: Student). Page: 212

Watts Logic

Borrowed: 1776/4/30 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/4/6.


Borrower

James Bonar
Gender: Male.
Other: Edinburgh High School. Origin: Scottish. Life dates: 1757-1821.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Isaac Watts (Male, born 1674, died 1748)
Genre: Philosophy and Morality
Logick, or, The right use of reason in the enquiry after truth [Watt]

Record ID 156219

Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.11 (1775-1777, Type: Student). Page: 213

Maclurg on Bile

Borrowed: 1776/4/30 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.


Borrower

James Stevenson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


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James Maclurg (Male, born c.1746, died 1823)
Genre: Medicine
Experiments upon the human bile [Maclurg]
Possible modern shelfmark: Special Collections E.B. .61235 Macl..

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

James Maclurg (Male, born c.1746, died 1823)
Genre: Medicine
Experiments upon the human bile: and reflections on the biliary secretion. With an introductory essay.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1772. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 39


Book Work

James Maclurg (Male, born c.1746, died 1823)
Genre: Medicine
Experiments upon the Human Bile

Borrowed: 1776/4/30 (Tuesday).

Borrower: James Stevenson

Author: James Maclurg (Male, born c.1746, died 1823), Genre: Medicine

Experiments upon the Human Bile

Record ID 39181

Library: Haddington Library. Register: MS16480 (1732-1790, Type: Town). Page: 102r

& 11th Vol of the Ancient Histy.

Borrowed: 1776/4/30 (Tuesday). Original Borrowed Date: Ap. 30.. Original Borrower: John Hamilton.


Borrower

John Hamilton
Gender: Male. Address: Bolton.
Birth date: 1714. Death date: 1797.
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Genre: History
Universal history, from the earliest account of time. Compiled from original authors; and illustrated with maps, cuts, notes, chronological and other tables.
Modern Shelfmark: NLS Special Collections Gray.1351 (vol. 1).
Volumes borrowed: Volume 11

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Genre: History
An universal history, from the earliest account of time. Compiled from original authors; and illustrated with maps, cuts, notes, chronological and other tables.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1747. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 282 times in 207 borrowing records


Book Work

Genre: History
Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time to the Present

Record ID 39180

Library: Haddington Library. Register: MS16480 (1732-1790, Type: Town). Page: 102r

the 9th&10th vols of the Modern Universal History 11 Do

Borrowed: 1776/4/30 (Tuesday). Original Borrowed Date: Ap. 30.. Original Borrower: John Hamilton.


Borrower

John Hamilton
Gender: Male. Address: Bolton.
Birth date: 1714. Death date: 1797.
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland.


Book Holding

Genre: History
Modern part of an universal history, from the earliest account of time. Complied from original writers. By the authors of the antient part.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 9, Volume 10, Volume 11

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Genre: History
The Modern Part of an Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time. Compiled from Original Writers. By the Authors of the Antient Part.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1759-1766. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 576 times in 358 borrowing records


Book Work

Genre: History
Modern Part of an Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time

Borrowed: 1776/4/30 (Tuesday).

Borrower: John Hamilton

Genre: History

Modern Part of an Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time

Volumes borrowed: Volume 9, Volume 10, Volume 11

Record ID 90797

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1772-1776. (UYLY207-2) (1772-1776, Type: Student). Page: 12-13

 Do  Vol 6th

Borrowed: 1776/4/30 (Tuesday). Returned: 1776/5/11 (Saturday). Classmark: -----. Original Returned Text: Do Vol 6th.


Borrower

James Lyon
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

William Shakespeare (Male, born 1564, died 1616)
Genre: Drama, Genre: Poetry
Works of Shakespear. In which the beauties observed by Pope, Warburton, and Dodd, are pointed out. Together with the author’s life; a glossary; copious indexes; and, a list of the various readings. In eight volumes.
Classmark: Q.6.15, S.8.2.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 6

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

William Shakespeare (Male, born 1564, died 1616)
Genre: Drama, Genre: Poetry
The works of Shakespear. In which the beauties observed by Pope, Warburton, and Dodd, are pointed out. Together with the author’s life; a glossary; copious indexes; and, a list of the various readings. In eight volumes.
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1753. Format: 12mo.
Editors: Hugh Blair
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 320 times in 162 borrowing records


Book Work

William Shakespeare (Male, born 1564, died 1616)
Genre: Drama, Genre: Poetry
Works of William Shakespeare

Borrowed: 1776/4/30 (Tuesday). Returned: 1776/5/11 (Saturday).

Borrower: James Lyon

Author: William Shakespeare (Male, born 1564, died 1616), Genre: Drama, Genre: Poetry

Works of William Shakespeare

Volumes borrowed: Volume 6

Record ID 108923

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1772-1776. (UYLY207-2) (1772-1776, Type: Student). Page: 112-113

Annet's Short--hand

Borrowed: 1776/4/30 (Tuesday). Returned: 1776/6/12 (Wednesday). Classmark: T5 6. Original Returned Text: Annets Short--hand.


Borrowers

David Chisholm
Gender: Male.
St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1372513868.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.

George Rollo
Gender: Male. Borrower type: Other.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Peter Annet (Male, born 1693, died 1769)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Annet's Short-Hand, Perfected, Containing, Plain and easy Examples and Instructions for Learning it.
Classmark: T.5.6.

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Peter Annet (Male, born 1693, died 1769)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Annet's Short-Hand, Perfected, Containing, Plain and easy Examples and Instructions for Learning it.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1761. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 26


Book Work

Peter Annet (Male, born 1693, died 1769)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Annet's Short-Hand, Perfected

Borrowed: 1776/4/30 (Tuesday). Returned: 1776/6/12 (Wednesday).

Borrowers: David Chisholm , George Rollo

Author: Peter Annet (Male, born 1693, died 1769), Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge

Annet's Short-Hand, Perfected

Record ID 108941

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1772-1776. (UYLY207-2) (1772-1776, Type: Student). Page: 112-113

Byyrom's Short hand

Borrowed: 1776/4/30 (Tuesday). Returned: 1776/6/12 (Wednesday). Classmark: P 5 7. Original Returned Text: Byrom's short-hand.


Borrower

David Chisholm
Gender: Male.
St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1372513868.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

John Byrom (Male, born 1692, died 1763), Granville Sharp (Male, born 1735, died 1813)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge, Genre: Education
The universal English short-hand; or, the way of writing English, in the most easy, concise, regular, and beautiful manner, applicable to any other language, but particularly adjusted to our own. Invented / By John Byrom...
Classmark: P.5.7?, P.8.42.

Borrowed: 1776/4/30 (Tuesday). Returned: 1776/6/12 (Wednesday).

Borrower: David Chisholm

Author: John Byrom (Male, born 1692, died 1763), Granville Sharp (Male, born 1735, died 1813), Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge, Genre: Education

Universal English Short-hand, Short Treatise on the English Tongue

Record ID 117566

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1772-1776. (UYLY207-2) (1772-1776, Type: Student). Page: 170-171

ossian's  Temora

Borrowed: 1776/4/30 (Tuesday). Returned: 1776/5/11 (Saturday). Classmark: N3.17. Original Returned Text: ossian's Temora.


Borrower

Thomas Hutton
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

James Macpherson (Male, born 1736, died 1796)
Genre: Poetry
Fingal, an ancient epic poem, in six books: together with several other poems, composed by Ossian the son of Fingal. Translated from the Galic language, by James Macpherson. + Temora, an ancient epic poem, in eight books: together with several other poems, composed by Ossian, the son of Fingal. Translated from the Galic language, by James Macpherson.
Classmark: N.3.17, S.7.14.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2 (Temora)

Book Edition

Confidence level: Speculative

James Macpherson (Male, born 1736, died 1796)
Genre: Poetry
Fingal, an ancient epic poem, in six books: together with several other poems, composed by Ossian the son of Fingal. Translated from the Galic language, by James Macpherson.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1762. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 190 times in 168 borrowing records


Book Work

James Macpherson (Male, born 1736, died 1796)
Genre: Poetry
Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

James Macpherson (Male, born 1736, died 1796)
Genre: Poetry
Temora, an ancient epic poem, in eight books: together with several other poems, composed by Ossian, the son of Fingal. Translated from the Galic language, by James Macpherson.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1763. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 137 times in 130 borrowing records


Book Work

James Macpherson (Male, born 1736, died 1796)
Genre: Poetry
Temora, an Ancient Epic Poem

Borrowed: 1776/4/30 (Tuesday). Returned: 1776/5/11 (Saturday).

Borrower: Thomas Hutton

Author: James Macpherson (Male, born 1736, died 1796), Genre: Poetry

Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem, Temora, an Ancient Epic Poem

Volumes borrowed: Volume 2 (Temora)

Record ID 130235

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1772-1776. (UYLY207-2) (1772-1776, Type: Student). Page: 278-279

 Do   Vol 2d

Borrowed: 1776/4/30 (Tuesday). Returned: 1776/5/3 (Friday). Classmark: ---- -. Original Returned Text: Do Vol 2d.


Borrower

Robert Henry
Gender: Male.
St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1385762356.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

John Hawkesworth (Male, born c.1715, died 1773)
Genre: Travel
An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty, for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere : and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq. / by John Hawkesworth, LL.D. ; in three volumes ; illustrated with cuts, and a great variety of charts and maps relative to countries now first discovered, or hitherto but imperfectly known.
Classmark: G.7.1, G.2.21, P.4.11, S.3.12, R.5.13?.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2

Borrowed: 1776/4/30 (Tuesday). Returned: 1776/5/3 (Friday).

Borrower: Robert Henry

Author: John Hawkesworth (Male, born c.1715, died 1773), Genre: Travel

Account of the Voyages undertaken by the Order of His present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere

Volumes borrowed: Volume 2