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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.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3591
Scope and Contents
With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.
Dates:
14th century-19th century.
Collection of twenty-one documents relating to the Stuart family and the French royal family.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.368
Dates:
1543-19th century.
Commentary on ‘Isagoge’ on Galen’s 'Tegni', by Johannicius (Honein ben Ishak); and, commentary on the 'Aphorisms' of Hippocrates by Oribasius, both written by the same scribe in the 12th century and bound together at least from the 15th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.13
Scope and Contents
(i) Commentary on ‘Isagoge’ on Galen’s ‘Tegni`, by Johannicius (Honein ben Ishak), incipit `Cum inter omnia animalia humanum corpus` (Thorndike-Kibre, col. 311). Frequent quotations from the text of Johannicius are included, incipit `Medicina diuiditur in duas partes idest in theoriam and practicam` (folio 1). Folio 49 verso blank.(ii) Commentary on Hippocrates, `Aphorisms’, by Oribasius, incipit ‘Afforismorum Ypocratis huius noue editionis ea causa extitit`...
Dates:
12th century.
"Commission by King Charles the first to Sir Robert Anstruther as Ambassador to the Emperor and States of Germany mett at Nurremburgh, anno 1627."
Item
Identifier: Ch.899
Dates:
1627
Common-place book of medical, chemical and alchemical recipes and experiments.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.10
Scope and Contents
At the end of the manuscript are numerous prescriptions by a physician in high practice in Scotland in the beginning of the 17th century. One commences ‘Dedi Alexandro comiti Eglintonis uxoris meae confebr[...]ino… 30 Octob.1625’.On a fly leaf is written ‘I wagered with the young laird of Darfie that his wyff was with a sone (deprehenso pulsu brachii dextri maiore) a paire of stage ledder gloves the last of Januar 1634’.The description of the manuscript in the folio...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Commonplace book of James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.3
Scope and Contents
Composite manuscript produced in Scotland and compiled in the late 15th century, probably circa 1500, by James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane and secretary to William Scheves, Archbishop of St Andrews. The manuscript is a commonplace book and consists of a variety of religious, historical, legal, and literary material. There are several hands evident throughout the manuscript. Anderson states that folios 1r-24v are written by very similar hands, and could...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Compendium of texts or lecture notes on philosophical subjects, probably written in France in the 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14312
Content Description
A compilation of texts, possibly lecture notes, on philosophical subjects, written in a continental humanistic hand possibly of the late 16th or early 17th century. There are leaves missing at the beginning and end, and two leaves have been torn out in the middle after page 284. The watermark, located at the top edge of the leaves and cropped down to a fragment throughout, seems to be of a bunch of grapes with a thick stem. A number of possible matches are French and date from...
Dates:
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.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.15
Scope and Contents
Each volume has a contents list (folios 1, 77) and the second volume has its own foliation added in an apparently later hand.The first volume (folios 1-74) consists of copies (in the same hand), made apparently in or about 1585, of the following:(i) ‘Discorso del Priore d`Inghilterra a Papa Pio V circa la Riduttione di quel Regno’ (folio 2), being an account by Sir Richard Shelley, Grand Prior of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, written apparently early in 1570,...
Dates:
1537-1606.
Composite volume containing four fragmentary manuscripts of the 12th and 13th centuries, all of uncertain origin.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.17
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) `Synonyma` by Pseudo-Cicero, beginning in the middle of the article `Domuit`. This manuscript differs considerably, both in number of articles and verbally, from the printed texts. On folios 10-11 is an 18th-century note on the bibliography of this work. (Folio 2.)(ii) Fragment of a mediaeval work on logic, listing types of argument (intrinsecus: a comparatione, a parte, a nota; extrinsecus: a coniugatis, a genere, a...
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Composite volume of 15th-century manuscripts of miscellaneous works by four hands bound together, with an incunable, in the 16th-century or earlier.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.8
Scope and Contents
The collection has been in one volume since the 16th century at least. The contents are as follows:[(i) A printed book: Johannes de Hildesheim, ‘Liber de gestis ac translatione trium regum’, etc., ([Cologne], 1478) = National Library of Scotland Inc.43 (B.M.Cat. IB 4236) (folio 1)]. Folio 56 blank.(ii) Baebius Italicus (?), `Ilias latina` (‘Poetae latini minores’ ii.3; this manuscript is not included in the list given by P Vollmer in ‘Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen...
Dates:
15th century.
Composite volume of English origin containing two manuscripts of the 12th and 13th century; the 'Thebaid' of Statius, and the 'Aeneid' of Virgil
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.12
Scope and Contents
(i) Statius, 'Thebaid' (folio 1). There is a prose argument on folio v verso, and verse arguments to books ii-v, vii-ix, and xii. The text of this manuscript belongs to Boussard's group σ⁴ (Paris.lat.8280, Vatican Barb.lat.106, Vatican Pal.lat.1692, Florence Laur.pl.58.7 - all 13th century; and Milan Ambros.H.21 inf., 14th-15th century), as omitting x.104-105 and 112-117, having the interpolation before x.131, and having varying readings in the other test passages (x.62 'pudorem', s.1....
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Composite volume of English origin, containing works of Ovid ('Fasti') and Claudian (major poems), the former of which belonged to Leicester Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.13
Scope and Contents
In the margins of both parts (folios 26 verso, 46 verso, 63 verso, 102 recto and verso) are written English proverbs in the same 16th-century hand.Pastedowns and flyleaves from an earlier binding consist of two bifolia folded in half and used sideways, containing in a 14th-century hand part of an unidentified commentary on Isaiah, dealing at length with 19.1 to 21.5, and to be read in the order viii recto + vii verso, viii verso + vii recto, ii recto + v verso, ii verso + v...
Dates:
Late 12th century-13th century.
Composite volume, of uncertain origin, containing two manuscripts of works by St Bonaventure, the 'Breviloquium' and the 'Formula noviciorum'.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.7
Scope and Contents
A manuscript containing two works of St Bonaventure. The 'Breviloquium' is of the 13th century, and the 'Formula noviciorum', here attributed to St Bonaventure, is of the 14th century.Both works are written in double columns. The 'Breviloquium' is the work of one scribe, written in littera textualis with 39 lines to a page. The 'Formula noviciorum' is the work of a different scribe, written in a rotunda script with between 32 to 36 lines to a page.The contents are as...
Dates:
13th century, 14th century.
Confirmation by Thomas de Galwethia, Earl of Atholl, and Isabel, Countess of Atholl, his wife, of a charter of Malcolm, Earl of Atholl, and Henry his son in favour of the monks and church of the Holy Trinity, Dunfermline.
Item
Identifier: Ch.862
Dates:
Early 13th century.
Copies, 19th century, and original papers collected by Sir William Fraser, 16th century-1793.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.25
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Latin legal abbreviations, 16th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Speech in Latin addressed to `domine doctissime coeterique commilitones mei suavissimi`, in praise of modesty. Late 16th or early 17th century. (Folio 2.)(iii) Transcript, 19th century, of the Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3 February, 1590, concerning the slaughter of David Taillor by William Spottiswood of that Ilk and others. Cf. ‘The...
Dates:
16th century-1793.
Copies, apparently by Alexander Ross, of Johannes Ferrerius "Historiae Compendium de Origine et Incremento Gordonias Familiae", 1545, and of his own "Suthirlandiae Comitum Annales", 1625.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11085
Scope and Contents
Indluding:
1. "Vera Narratio...Victoriae...quod Auinum Amen [Glenlivet]... Anno Dmi 1594", with ownership inscription of Robert Gordon and Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
2. incomplete charter, undated, of John, Earl of Sutherland
3. letters, 1605, 1623 and undated
4. two fragments of a writing excercise, undated
5. poems, undated, mostly of Robert Southwell, with a photocopy of typescript on the poems.
Dates:
16th century to 17th century.
Copies of miscellaneous papers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.11
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Copy, after 1688, of the `Account of the Affairs of Scotland relating to the Revolution in 1688’ by Colin, Earl of Balcarres. The text is similar to that of Ruddiman`s edition of 1754. For other copies of the work, see MSS.1911 and 3738, and Adv.MSS.33.7.12-33.7.13 and 49.7.6. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies, late 17th and early 18th century, of two Latin poems by Archibald Pitcairne, with translations: `Elegy on the Viscount of...
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Copy, 1802, of verses of Sir John Harington, Queen Elizabeth I`s godson, written in 1602 to accompany a New Year`s gift of a dark lantern to James VI.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.2
Scope and Contents
The present manuscript was copied by the poet John Leyden. An inscription at the end of the verses states that he had made the transcription `from the original in the University Library, Edinburgh, March 26, 1802`. The verses, written in Latin and English, are preceded by a detailed description of the lantern.
The verses are apparently unpublished.
Dates:
1602.
Copy, eighteenth century, of ‘Arcanum hermeticae philosophiae opus’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.17
Scope and Contents
‘Arcanum hermeticae philosophiae opus in quo occulta Naturae et Artis circa Lapidis philosophorum materiam et operandi modum canonicé et ordinatè fiunt manifesta. muarto editio emendata et aucta 1647’.
Dates:
1647.
Copy, late 15th or early 16th century, of material, early 14th century-1364, concerning the Parlement de Paris.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.15
Scope and Contents
(i) List of contents (folio 1).(ii) Guillaume du Breuil, `Stylus curie Parlamenti` (folio 5). This manuscript was known to Félix Aubert who edited the ‘Stilus curie Parlamenti’ (Paris, 1909). It belongs to Aubert`s second family of manuscripts; chapter 25 follows chapter 21, and chapter 37 item 39 is omitted. There are many inaccuracies and the scribe made a number of additions in the margin.(iii) `Sequuntur ordinationes adiunctiones et statuta parlamenti` (folio...
Dates:
Late 15th or early 16th century.
Copy, made by Andrew Cook, of ‘Germania Christiana’ by Robert (in religion, Boniface) Strachan, Benedictine monk at Ratisbon.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.20
Scope and Contents
This copy was made by Andrew Cook, a fellow monk, in or before 1684, when, according to the inscription at folio 1, it was sent as a present by the Abbot, Placid Fleming, to Christopher Irvine, physician and philologist. The work was intended by Strachan as volume 1 of a work in two volumes (see Adv.MS.17.1.9, folio 225, his letter to Sir John Scot, Lord Scotstarvet, in 1641), but no more was ever written, nor was this part published.The pagination of this manuscript, which is...
Dates:
1684, or before.
Copy of "Fabularum Aesopicarum Delectus" (Edinburgh, 1710), with manuscript notes of James Maule, possibly 4th Earl of Panmure.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3933
Dates:
1710.
'Culross psalter', made for Richard Marshall, Cistercian abbot of Culross.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.11
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar in red and black (folio 1). Entries in red include Saints Thomas Aquinas (7 March), Servanus (1 July), and Ninian (16 September), and in black, Saints Margaret of Scotland (19 June), Findoce (13 October) and the usual Cistercian saints. The calendar was published in ‘Kalendars of Scottish saints’, pages 53-64.(ii) Psalter and Canticles (folio 7). The Te Deum is omitted.(iii) Litany, including Saints Servanus, Blaan,...
Dates:
Circa 1470.
‘De unione Britanniæ, dialogi tres.’
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.21
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.6.penult.
‘In primo agitur de jure successionis Regum apud Britannos. In secundo de regnorum Anglie et Scotiæ unione, et de vero Angliæ successore. In terti de remotis Angliæ Regni heredibus et de designando successore.’
The manuscript is in a hand of the period and with the initials of King James VI on the boards, and Latin hexameters at the end.
Dates:
Early 17th century.