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Manuscript, written in Italy, of 'De Lingua Latina' by Varro, containing books v to x.54 (‘contra in eo’).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.15
Scope and Contents
Headings in red. Initials of books v, vi, viii, and x have been cut out. Written in a small, round humanistic hand. Greek words are omitted or added by a later hand. What was probably an ownership inscription at the foot of folio 1 has been cut out. On the lower pastedown is written ‘1452 vezudo p(er) mi Zohane de ipescadun [?]’. The same note, dated 1451 or 1452, is found in other manuscripts: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud.Lat.48, Add.A2, D’Orville 36 and Canon.Misc.486 (see ‘Catalogue of...
Dates:
Mid-fifteenth century; before 1452.
Manuscript, written in Italy, of the epitome by Junianus Justinus of 'Historiae Philippicae' by Trogus Pompeius, and of the prologues to that work.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.11
Scope and Contents
The epitome begins on folio 1, and the prologues on folio 163.The text is apparently contaminated from the [?] and [?] classes.Headings in red. A large initial on folio 1 in blue, red, and gold and a border of flowers and leaves in red, brown, green and blue; in the centre of this at the root is a coat of arms, azure three thistles on a chevron or. Initials of each book and prologue alternately red and blue (except that those of books xx and xxi are both blue and...
Dates:
15th century.
Manuscript, written in Italy, of the 'Satires' of Juvenal.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.14
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written by two 15th-century hands (changing after folio 30, vi. 487). Folio 70 (an inserted leaf) repeats xiv. 93-142, already written on folio 69. The first part is of the Ξ group (cf. `Handschriftliche Grundlagen des Juvenaltextes`); the second part, although it has the Ξ feature of xv being placed after xvi, appears to have a Ψ text.The first part is written in a neo-Caroline hand, closely imitating the script of the 11th and 12th centuries (indeed it has...
Dates:
15th century.
Manuscript, written in South France or Spain in the first half of the 12th-century, containing medical treatises.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.11
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) 'Liber febrium' by Isaac (Isḥāq ibn Sulaiman al-Isrā'ili), translated by Constantinus Africanus, in prologue and five books. The author and translator are given in the contents list only (folio 1).(ii) 'Secretum secretorum' by Pseudo-Aristotle, the medical section translated by Joannes Hispalensis, without title (folio 82). See 'Speculum', volume xxxiv, page 24.(iii) 'Micro-tegni' by Galen, translated by...
Dates:
1st half of 12th century.
Manuscript, written in the 14th century, containing extracts from 'De Clementia' and an incomplete text of 'Epistolae morales' by Seneca; with many contemporary annotations.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.16
Scope and Contents
(i) Extracts from the ‘De clementia’, in two series, concerning respectively ‘clementia’ and ‘crudelitas’: i.1.5 ‘rarissimum’ – ‘est’, ‘nemo’ – ‘Romano’, i.1.6 ‘difficile’ – ‘procedunt’, i.1.7 ‘iam’ – ‘sunt’, ‘fecit’ – ‘assecuti’, i.2.2 ‘nec’ – ‘praeponderet’, 1.3.3 ‘nullum’ – ‘struendum est’, i.4.1 ‘ille’ – ‘fidem’, i.4.3 ‘olim’ – ‘capite’, i.5.1 ‘uides’ – ‘parcere’, i.5.3 ‘decet’ – ‘conspicitur’, i.5.5 ‘magnam’ – ‘despicere’, i.7.4 ‘humili’ – ‘liberius est’, i.8.1 ‘eorum’ - i.8.2 ‘timore’,...
Dates:
14th century.
Manuscript,1589, of a poem by Jacob Jacobsen Wolf in honour of the marriage of James VI and Anne of Denmark; with a printed work, 'Cenotaphium illustrissimo principi ac Domino Friderico II' (Rostochij, S. Myliander, 1588).
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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.29
Scope and Contents
Manuscript, probably written in Denmark, containing a complete copy of Jacob Jacobsen Wolf's wedding poem to King James VI and Princess Anne of Denmark. Harsting suggests that this manuscript is Wolf's original version of the Latin text and is written in his hand, in a humanistic script.The verses are written across the spread of two pages, from the verso of one leaf to the recto of the next. The manuscript was written in 1589, and Harsting suggests late November to...
Dates:
1589.
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.221
Dates:
1177, 15th century-1924.
Manuscripts of the lectures on Civil Law delivered by John Wilde, Professor of Civil Law at Edinburgh, from 1792 to 1799.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.8.3-81.8.21
Dates:
1792-1799.
‘Martirium Saneti Adriani’, a drama in Latin iambics in three acts.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.20.8.2
Dates:
1607.
Material on the early history of Scotland by Sir Robert Sibbald.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.26
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Caledonia sive Scotia Antiqua et Recentior`, 1680 (folio 1). According to the preface, Sibbald intended this to be a work in four books, but it breaks off after the beginning of the second. The contents do not correspond with those of `Caledonia` described by Sibbald in ‘An Account of the writers antient and modern’, pages 9-11, which refers to Adv.MS.15.1.2, folios 3-14.(ii) `Corn: Taciti Britannia`, 1687-1688 (folio...
Dates:
1680-1698.
Materials for a preface to a proposed but unrealized edition of the works of George Buchanan by the genealogist James Anderson, Writer to the Signet, and others.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.2
Scope and Contents
The work was intended as a reply to the criticisms of Buchanan by Robert Freebairn in the preface and by Thomas Ruddiman in the life of Buchanan in Ruddiman`s edition of Buchanan`s ‘Opera Omnia’. The edition appears to have been proposed by the Lord Advocate, Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, of Hailes, and a society was formed under Anderson in 1719, but following the deaths shortly afterwards of some of Anderson`s principal collaborators, including Dalrymple, the project lapsed. ...
Dates:
1719, or after.
Medical notebook of Alexander Ochterlony, a younger son of James Ochterlony of Wester Seaton who studied medicine at the University of Paris.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.15
Scope and Contents
The contents of the notebook are as follows:(i) `Spagyricae seu Jatrochymicae Synopsios Cursus ... illustratus a doctissimo viro domino Rheo`, July 1631. Notes of lectures on chemistry given by Rhee [?Rae], a Scot teaching in Paris. (Folio 1.)(ii) `De primis Naturae principiis`. (Folio 39.)(iii) Extracts from ‘De gradibus et compositionibus receptorum et naturalium’ by Paracelsus. (Folio 45.)(iv) Prescriptions in Latin. (Folio 51.)...
Dates:
1631-1635.
Memorandum concerning the homage of K. Alexʳ. 3d. of Scotland to K. Edward 1st of England
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.13
Dates:
Undated.
Microfilm of 15th-century manuscript containing various legal works: an index to the works of Bartolus de Saxoferrato; the 'Allegationes' of Lapo da Castiglionchio the Elder, abbreviated by Anthonius de Butrio; the 'Canonum Collectio' of Pseudo-Isidore.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.181
Dates:
15th century, after 1440.
Microfilm of manuscript containing poems in Latin, apparently autograph, by Mark Alexander Boyd and later poems and personal information on members of the family of Boyd of Penkill and Trochrig.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.940
Dates:
1585-1617.
Microfilm of manuscript, possibly of the 11th century, containing the Gospels of Saints Mark, Luke and John; and, papers, late 17th century, concerning the Scottish Benedictines at Ratisbon
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.301
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, possibly of the 11th century, the Gospels of Saints Mark and Luke, and part of the prologue of Saint John (Adv.MS.18.8.16);Copy made by Thomas (Dom Placid) Fleming, Abbot of Ratisbon, of papers, late 17th century, in the dispute between the Irish and the Scottish Benedictines over the rightful ownership of the former Irish monasteries in Germany, and particularly that of St. James, Ratisbon. (Adv.MS.29.7.1);Account, [circa...
Dates:
?11th century.
Microfilm of manuscript produced between 1380 and 1550, the register of the Cathedral Church and Bishopric of Aberdeen.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.438
Dates:
1380-1550.
Microfilm of Psalter of French provenance; and, Book of hours.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.532
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Psalter of French provenance, 2nd half of 15th century, written for a community of Dominican nuns (MS.7122);
Book of hours, 2nd half of 15th century, probably according to the Use of Rome (MS.7124).
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Mid 13th-century Bible, probably written in England.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.10
Scope and Contents
(i) The contents are in the order Genesis-Nehemiah, Esther, Tobit, Judith, Job-Matthew, Luke, Mark, John, Acts, Catholic Epistles, Pauline Epistles (with Colossians following 2 Thessalonians), Apocalypse (folio 1). Two leaves containing the end of the general prologue and the prologue to the Pentateuch, and Genesis chapters 24-25 are missing. There are no prologues to 2 Chronicles, Ecclesiastes, Hosea, or the Pauline Epistles from Ephesians to Hebrews. The prologues are the usual set (see...
Dates:
Mid 13th century.
Miscellaneous notes, letters and other items.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.17
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Notes of decisions of the Court of Session, 1714-1721. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies, early 18th century, of letters of and to George Buchanan, 1573-1581, and undated, with notes on others of his letters, mostly in Thomas Ruddiman`s hand; these are Epistolae XXVII, XV, XII, XXXI, XXIV, XL, XXXVII in Ruddiman`s edition of Buchanan`s Works, and Ruddiman`s introductory notes to Epistolae XI, XVI, VIII, XII, XX, XXVIII, XXXI, XXXIV,...
Dates:
17th century-1912.
Miscellaneous papers.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Translation, 17th century, of Jan de Laet`s edition of ‘Lexicon Vitruvianum’. The beginning is missing; the text starts at `Abstantia` and breaks off at `Mataxa`. (Folio 1.)(ii) Article attacking the service-book, circa 1638. (Folio 51.)(iii) Manuscript, 1709, of ‘A Letter directed thus, for Mr James Lyon in Kirkwal’ by James Sands. (Folio 72.)(iv) Copy, late 17th century, of George Buchanan`s...
Dates:
?1595-18th century.
Notes by Robert Chapman.
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Identifier: Acc.3294
Scope and Contents
Concerning accentuation.
Dates:
1951.
Notes upon Buchanan's history of Scotland, transcript of charters of David II and Robert III to the Laird of Edmonstoun.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.3
Dates:
Undated.
Palimpsest, made up of at least five English manuscripts of the 8th to 11th centuries, overwritten in England in the late 11th century and belonging to Thorney Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.8
Scope and Contents
Underwriting: Such identification as has been achieved is due to N R Ker, in ‘Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions’, iii, 169 and what follows; and E A Lowe, ‘Codices Latini Antiquiares’, supplement. Ultra-violet photographs of folios 1 + 8, 4 + 5, 9 + 16, 28 + 31, 19 + 22, 3, 30 recto, and 26 + 33 are in MS.8494, folios 1-15.Folios of the manuscripts (i), (ii), (iv), and (v) have generally been turned sideways and folded to form sheets of the new volume;...
Dates:
8th century-11th century.
Papers concerning the family of Gordon of Buthlaw.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9708
Scope and Contents
Includes transcripts of charters.
Dates:
circa 1750.