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13th-century manuscript of 'Aurora' by Peter Riga.
13th-century prayer book from France, probably according to the Use of Paris
14th-century manuscript of the `Historia Anglorum` of Henry of Huntingdon.
14th-century manuscript of the 'Historia Anglorum' of Henry of Huntingdon.
15th-century manuscript written in the Low Countries, containing various works attributed to, or written by, St Bernard.
`Adversaria`, being miscellaneous notes and copies of correspondence of Sir Robert Sibbald, with scholars such as William Nicolson, Edward Lhuyd and John Smith of Durham on Scottish history and antiquities.
Bible, probably written in Italy in the 13th century.
Calendar of Holyrood Abbey: a bifolium containing the entries for July to October.
The entries are written in red, blue, green, and black. There are several additions and deletions in later hands, and a sixteenth-century marginal note concerning writs of property.
Charters collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne.
Collection of manuscript material transferred from printed theses collection, 1637-late 19th century, chiefly consisting of German academic papers, but including a small cache of Scottish legal papers, 19th century.
With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.
Compendium of texts or lecture notes on philosophical subjects, probably written in France in the 17th century.
Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
Composite volume of 15th-century manuscripts of miscellaneous works by four hands bound together, with an incunable, in the 16th-century or earlier.
Composite volume of English origin containing two manuscripts of the 12th and 13th century; the 'Thebaid' of Statius, and the 'Aeneid' of Virgil
Composite volume of English origin, containing works of Ovid ('Fasti') and Claudian (major poems), the former of which belonged to Leicester Abbey.
Copies, 19th century, and original papers collected by Sir William Fraser, 16th century-1793.
Copy of "Fabularum Aesopicarum Delectus" (Edinburgh, 1710), with manuscript notes of James Maule, possibly 4th Earl of Panmure.
‘Exercitationes Physicae’.
The work consists of an introduction and four `exercitationes` divided into chapters. Mention is made of authors such as Gerard Vossius, Descartes and Gassendi. There are a few diagrams dealing with astronomy. The work is followed (folio 131) by theological notes in English and Latin, including part of an attack on the philosophy of Descartes.
Extracts and copies of historical works, collected by Sir James Balfour, 17th century.
Five 13th-century medical manuscripts, possibly written in England, with additions of the 14th and 15th centuries.
The manuscripts had been bound into one volume by the 15th century. The contents are: (i) translation, by Constantinus Africanus, of 'De gradibus simplicum' by Isaac and the end of an unidentified work, with recipes added in later hands; (ii) Gerard, 'De modo medendi', with recipes and notes added by later hands; (iii) a work on digestion; (iv) seven works on medical subjects; (v) the end of an unidentified work on the degrees of medicine, with added recipes in French.
Fragments of at least 7 and perhaps 8 manuscripts on medicine and astrology, some, if not all, English.
A and E may be in the same hand and from the same manuscript.