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`Annotationes in Aristotelis physicam`: a volume of lecture notes taken by James Barclay from lectures by Robert Barron at St Salvator`s College, St Andrews.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.1
Scope and Contents
The notes are followed by `Tractatus continens doctrinam Astronomicam` (folio 189), verses on the death of Henry, Prince of Wales, in 1612 (folio 199 verso), and `Solutio quorundam problematum ad elementorum explicationem pertinentium` (folio 201).
Dates:
1620-1621.
Fragments of at least 7 and perhaps 8 manuscripts on medicine and astrology, some, if not all, English.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.11A-H; (former binding)
Scope and Contents
A and E may be in the same hand and from the same manuscript.
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of very miscellaneous papers on ecclesiastical history.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.5.8-11
Scope and Contents
According to the folio catalogue (F.R.186) the volumes were originally marked ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’.
The description of the manuscripts in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.5.7.7-10.
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Miscellaneous material, mostly of a religious nature.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `A Testamentary Memoir written by Theophilus, in which his own dearest concerns are Ingenuously Narrated, and sundry of a more publick Nature are also touched, all Addressed to his surviving friends`, early 18th century. This is similar in style to the ‘Memorial` of James Hog, and the hand is probably the same as that of Adv.MS.32.3.8. The author appears to have written other memorials and a short history of the Covenanters based...
Dates:
18th century.
Notes on natural philosophy, written at King`s College, Aberdeen.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.15
Scope and Contents
The original series of notes were written in 1662 by John Barclay, `son to the lady Johnstoune`, probably from the lectures of his Regent, George Gordon, later 1st Earl of Aberdeen. They deal with commentaries on Aristotle, `De Generatione et Corruptione` (page 1); `De Anima` (page 82); `De Caelo` (page 144); and the `Meteoroligica` (page 150); with a short tract on metaphysics (page 162), and some notes on astronomy (page 178). The notebook passed to Alexander Irvine, who added a treatise...
Dates:
1662, 1694.
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.