Among household accounts in the manuscripts collections at the National Library of Scotland are:
- Household accounts and bills in the Fletcher of Saltoun papers, 1590-1905 [NLS reference: in MSS.16852-16899, 17080-17128]
- Household Account Book of William, Earl of Angus, 1608 [MS.2200, ff.1-71]
- Dunrobin Diet Book, 1688-1689 [Dep.313/499 and 'Dunrobin Bills of Fare', 1703-1713 [Dep.313/551]
- Price of Provisions as stated in the diet books of the New College, St Andrews, 1726-1733 [Acc.12133/2]
- The Ochtertyre House Book of Accompts, 1737-1739, with daily menus and lists of expenditure, from the Murray of Ochtertyre Papers [MS.21106]
- Household Account Book kept by Mary Dudgeon, housekeeper to the family of James Erskine, Lord Alva, 1752-1758 [Adv.MS.2.1.9]
- Household Account Book of the Countess of Eglinton, 1733-1742 [MS.15913]
- Household bills of James Bertram, Brewer in Edinburgh, 1787-1834 [Adv.MS.27.6.1]
- Tradesmen's Account Books for Edinburgh and Bowland 1828-1860, in the Walker of Bowland Papers [MSS.13962-13963; 13968-14044]
- Household accounts of Thomas Buchanan of Powis, 1839-1841 [MS.17951]
- Household Account Book of Patrick W Campbell, WS, 1878-85 [MS.15915]
- Household Account book of Peter MacDougall, Schoolmaster, Stirling, 1856-1858 [MS.8941].
