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'Ruskin Bible'.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.1
Scope and Contents
The manuscript, written in Northern France, takes its name from John Ruskin who greatly admired it (`The Works of John Ruskin`, edited by E T Cook and A Wedderburn (London, 1903-1912), volume xii, page 144). It is described in the exhibition catalogue `Treasures from Scottish Libraries` (Edinburgh, 1964), number 20.Sir John Sinclair’s `Statistical Account of Scotland, 1791-1799` (Wakefield, 1978), x, page 294 refers to a note with the manuscript which stated that it was used ‘in...
Dates:
2nd half of 13th century.
`Saga og páttr af Sneglu-Halla`, with Danish and Latin translations, index, and notes by Finnur Magnússon.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.2.8
Dates:
1807.
Sarum processional, 15th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.20
Scope and Contents
15th-century processional produced in England. The manuscript contains musical services according to the Use of Sarum. The work is written in littera textualis with 24 lines to a page.The contents are as follows:Temporale. Folios 1r-143v.Sanctorale. Folios 144r-176v.Commune Sanctorum and Votive. Folios 176v-193v. Folio 1r is extensively decorated and features two illuminated initials and a complete border. The initials are blue and...
Dates:
15th century.
Schoolbook, transcribed in the early 12th century, containing notes and glosses (in Latin and German) on authors studied in schools and other texts which could be used in teaching.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Juvenal, 'Satires': citations with commentary in alphabetical order of keyword, incipit 'Maior auaritie patuit'. (i.88). (Folio 1.)(ii) Lucan, 'Civil War': introduction and citations with and without commentary from books 1-6 and 9, incipit 'Lucanii sum(m)a utilitas e(st) i(n) topog(ra)phia'. (Folio 5 verso.)(iii) Philosophical notes, possibly connected to Porphyry's introduction to Aristotle's 'Analytica...
Dates:
Early 12th century.
'Scotus Pauperum': a manuscript copy of the elucidation by Guillermus Gorris of Aragon on Duns Scotus's commentary on the 'Sentences' of Peter Lombard.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11759
Scope and Contents
A manuscript probably written in eastern France in ca. 1490. It is possibly linked to, or copied from, a contemporary printed edition of Gorris's work. Begins with an address by the author to Alfonso of Aragon, archbishop of Saragossa, folio 1r: "Reuerendissimo in Christo patri et illustrissimo domino domino Alfonso de Aragonia archiepiscopo cesaragustam[?] dignissimo, subditus Gulliermus Gorris post deuotissima [...] humilime se commendat." This address is dated 1486. The text...
Dates:
Circa 1490.
Sermones de Tempore, a homiliary written in the early 12th century for Rochester Cathedral Priory.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.4
Scope and Contents
The book is in the tradition of the homiliary compiled by Paulus Diaconus at the command of Charlemagne (see ‘Homéliaires liturgiques médiévaux’, chapter XIII), with additions for the weekdays after Pentecost and the Nativity, and a few other alterations (some of these are shared with the version of Paulus printed in ‘Patrologia Latina’, 95, others with contemporary English homiliaries, cf. `Texts and their traditions in the medieval library of Rochester Cathedral Priory`, chapter IV). ...
Dates:
Early 12th century.
'Tabula super bibliam': an early 15th-century glossed copy of a summary of the Bible in Latin verse by Johannes Vasco, Order of Friars Minor, with explanatory verses which give the date of composition as 1393.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.2
Scope and Contents
The text begins 'Ante fir. lux producitur' and the interlinear gloss '[fir]mamentum. quia deus appellat diem'. There are also interlinear capitals indicating to which parts of the chapter the verse refers. Rubrics at the beginning of each book give the number of chapters. The text is followed (folio 123) by mnemonic verses on the books of the Bible with the numbers of their chapters, beginning 'Pentateu genesis exitque levi'; explanatory verses (folio 123 verso) beginning 'Finit tractatus...
Dates:
Early 15th century.
'The Carver Choirbook', a sixteenth-century manuscript also known as the 'Scone Antiphonary'.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.1.15
Scope and Contents
Choirbook produced in Scotland containing polyphonic settings for Masses, Magnificats, motets, with other various fragments. The manuscript contains works by Carver himself and by other composers of the period, including Dufay, Nesbett, Lambe, Cornysh (Senior), and Fayrfax. The volume was previously thought to have been copied by Carver at the Abbey of Scone, but scholars now agree that it was probably written at the Chapel Royal at Stirling. Not all of the compositions are complete and the...
Dates:
16th century
The Chronicle of Fortingall, a 16th-century manuscript written in Highland Perthshire, Scotland.
Item
Identifier: MS.50300
Scope and Contents
A manuscript of varied contents, written by a group of scribes in Fortingall, Perthshire, mostly in the third quarter of the 16th century. The volume chronicles deaths and other events mainly in Highland Perthshire and other Highlands areas, but it also occasionally includes events of national concern, such as those surrounding the forced abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots. The chronicle entries are mainly in Latin, sometimes with Scots words used instead Latin terms, but a number of...
Dates:
ca. 1550-1579
The Sweetheart Breviary, a breviary written in the 14th century for use at Sweetheart Abbey, near Dumfries.
Item
Identifier: MS.40000
Scope and Contents
The winter part of a Breviary written for use at the Cistercian Abbey of Sweetheart near Dumfries, which was founded in 1273 by Dervorguilla (Dearbhfhorgaill) of Galloway, widow of John Balliol. The Breviary, which follows Scottish Cistercian practice, can from internal evidence be dated to 1330-1350. The calendar includes the feast of St Thomas Aquinas, which was added to the Cistercian calendar in 1329, but omits feasts that were added in 1350 or later. In addition to...
Dates:
Ca. 1330-1350.
Three works on Latin grammar formerly in the library of Thomas Ruddiman.
Series
Identifier: MS.17998(1)-(3)
Dates:
1594, [?1622-?1623], 1678.
Topographical and other works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.22
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Scotia illustrata sive Theatrum Urbium, Arcium, Monasteriorum et aedium quarundam illustrium in Scotia`, circa 1692. The Latin text by Sibbald intended for John Slezer`s ‘Theatrum Scotiae’. It is very different from the published text which Slezer had had translated without Sibbald`s authority. The preface is in Slezer`s hand, and each entry is signed by both Sibbald and Slezer. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copy of William Harvey`s...
Dates:
Circa 1692-1709, and undated.
Topographical works of Sir Robert Sibbald.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.2
Scope and Contents
A title page which reads `Atlas Scoticus seu Scotia Antiqua et Moderna` has been pasted onto folio 1 but the contents of the manuscript are not those listed in Sibbald`s ‘Nuncius Scoto-Britannus, sive admonitio de Atlante Scotico’.The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Description of the Scottish Parliament, undated (folio 2).(ii) `Caledonia seu Scotia Antiqua`, circa 1687 (folio 3). This corresponds with the published description given by...
Dates:
4th quarter of 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century.
Transcript of Adv.MS.15.1.26 by Professor R K Hannay: a letter from the General Council of Basle to the bishops and other councillors of James II of Scotland, covering a letter to James II in which the Council asks him to revoke his decree of non-recognition and return to the attitude of his father James I.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.26A
Dates:
1442.
Transcript, written in 1528, of the chartulary of Crail Collegiate Church.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.6
Scope and Contents
Manuscript containing a transcript of the chartulary of Crail Collegiate Church, which was founded as a Collegiate in 1517.The volume consists of transcripts of the charters of constitution and endowment, with inventories of plates, ornaments and books. The work is arranged in a rough topographical order, and the charters are followed by their respective instruments.Davis dates the manuscript to 1528. The main body of work covers the years 1499-1530. The volume is...
Dates:
1528
Transcripts made by the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross (later Minister of Lochbroom) of James Macpherson`s Gaelic manuscripts of the Ossian poems, together with the Latin translation by Robert Macfarlane, made for the edition published by the Highland Society of London in 1807.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.73.4.1-73.4.6
Dates:
3rd quarter of 18th century, 1804, or before.
Translations into Latin verse of Hippocrates, ‘Aphorisms’ by James Macartney.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.4
Scope and Contents
‘Hippocratis aphorismi Latinis versibus redditi per Jacobun Macartreum medicum Edinburgensem.’.
Dates:
1690.
Treatise, "Logistica, Arithmetica, Geometrica, Algebraica et Logarithmetica", including notes on the Scottish Mint.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7422
Dates:
circa 1647.
Treatises on alchemy.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.8.1
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) 'Conpositum de Conpositis abstractis a philosophis'. See 'Catalogue of Latin and vernacular alchemical manuscripts', number 290, which ascribes the work to 'magistri Parisii'. For a summary of the contents and discussion of possible authorship, see ‘History of magic and experimental science’ (London, 1923-1958), volume iii, page 133-135. A colophon gives the place and date of compilation of the treatise as Paris, May, 1331, and...
Dates:
14th century.
Treatises on medicine, astronomy and astrology written by Francisco Argilagues of Valencia, mostly while he was studying medicine at Siena in 1472-1473, with an addition made at Padua in 1480.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.2
Scope and Contents
From the subscriptions and the physical make-up of the volume it appears that there were originally four booklets, bound together a century later.The contents of the volume are as follows:- Written in 1472 with additions in 1480:`Sermo de conservatione sanitatis` by Filippe Bandini of Arezzo (‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column 1294). The beginning is lost but author (Philip de Roderia) and title (`Regimen...
Dates:
1472-1480.
Two 13th-century English medical manuscripts, bound together from an early date, each in the hands of two scribes.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.5
Scope and Contents
(i) Serapion (ibn Sarābī). `Liber aggeratus in medicinis simplicibus`, translated by Simon of Genoa and Abraham Tortuosiensis, incipit `Postquam vidi librum Dyascoridis et librum Galeni in medicinis` (folio 1).(ii) Alī ibn al-`Abbās al-Mağūsī. `Pantegni`, translated by Constantinus Africanus (folio 123). The text is sometimes attributed to Isaac (Isḥāq ibn Sulaiman al-Isrāeli) and was printed in his ‘Opera’. This is the earliest version of Constantinus` translation; it contains...
Dates:
13th century.
Two English medical manuscripts of the 12th century (each with later additions), bound together probably in the medieval period; the second at least belonged to a monk of Peterborough.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.16
Scope and Contents
A. (i) 'Macer Floridus, de viribus [so in title, 'virtutibus' in explicit] herbarum' by Odo of Meung(?). There are marginal headings throughout and two glosses on folio 1. A slightly later hand has added English equivalents of the plant-names (and also started to list them on folio 93 verso). A contents-list in a court-hand of the 13th century is on folio 39 verso. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Liber de virtutibus lapidum’, i.e. 'De lapidibus' by Marbod. (Folio 40.)(iii) Medical...
Dates:
12th century.
Two incomplete manuscript copies, both in the same hand, of the ‘Institutes’ of Justinian.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.7.8-9
Dates:
18th century.
Two Latin poems, 1617, by John Malcolm, minister of Perth, inserted between pages 140-141 of ‘The muses welcome to the high and mighty prince James... King of Great Britaine’ (Edinburgh, 1618).
File
Identifier: MS.14239
Scope and Contents
The poems were presented to King James in honour of his visit to Scotland, but were not published. The second poem was sent to St Andrews to be printed but does not appear in ‘Antiquissimae celeberrimaeque academiae Andreanae Χαριστερια’ (Edinburgh, 1617).
Dates:
1617.