Papers of Catherine R. Borland

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-241
• Dates of Creation:1911-1916
• Name of Creator:
  Borland, Catherine Robina, d 1946 (manuscript historian)
• Language of Material:Latin English, Latin.
• Physical Description:
  1 box

• Scope and Content

  The collection consists of 7 notebooks and a file of correspondence relating to Borland's work on the catalogue of western medieval manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library, 1911-1916 (catalogue available online (external link)).

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Catherine Robina Borland studied at Edinburgh University and was awarded the degree of MA in 1905. She was a distinguished pioneer in industrial welfare service. Borland worked on the catalogue of medieval manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library. Her work was entitled A descriptive catalogue of the western mediaeval manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library (1916), and is still one of the main finding aids for the Western Medieval manuscripts collection of the library. She was also joint editor of Fragments d'une traduction francais en vers de la chronique en prose de Guillaume le Breton (1913). Catherine Robina Borland died at a nursing home in Edinburgh on 28 April 1946.

• Access Information

  Open. Please contact repository for details in advance.

• Other Finding Aids

  Important finding aids generally are: the alphabetical Index to Manuscripts held at Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections and Archives, consisting of typed slips in sheaf binders and to which additions were made until 1987; and the Index to Accessions Since 1987.

• Related Material

  Special Collections also hold "Proofs of the descriptive catalogue of Western Mediaeval Manuscripts by Catherine R. Borland, 1914-1915", Coll-1423.

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