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Signet Library Collection Guides
Arguing the Enlightenment:
The Signet Library Session Papers
Elevations of Charlotte Square, Edinburgh. From Session Paper 265:15 [1812]
Session Papers are the printed arguments of Scotland’s Advocates as presented in civil cases in the Inner House of the Court of Session. Their authors include some of the most significant figures in eighteenth century Scottish writing and thought and they are thought by many to represent the largest untapped historical resource for the period of the Scottish Enlightenment.
The Signet Library collection is the second largest to survive. This guide contains indexes and finding aids to the collection, and describe the collection’s origins, history and importance. Click on the image below to visit each part of the guide.
Introduction to Session Papers.
The History and Function of Session Papers.
Session Papers as a phenomenon: genre and afterlife.
The Signet Library’s Collection of Session Papers: the collection, its collectors and indexers.
Indexes, Finding Aids and Digitizations
Session Papers Collections Elsewhere