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Album, containing 'Universal grammar...' written by James Trail, Minister of St Cyrus, and lecture notes on logic by his brother David Trail, Minister of Panbride.

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Identifier: MS.3125
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) 'Universal Grammar, written by James Trail ... Panbride ... 1773' (folio iv);(ii) 'A Compend of Logic, in four parts, by Robert Watson, Master of Arts, Professor of Rhetoric & Logic in the University of St. Andrews' (folio 30).From the notices on folio i, 'James Trail, May, 1775', 'To Da. Trail, 1782', and 'Bot at Dr. Trail's roup by C.R.' (i.e., Reverend Charles Rogers), it seems that the grammar was written by James...
Dates: 1773-1850.

`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.

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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.

`Demonstratio plantarum in horto Regio Parisiensi apud St Victor.’ Notes of lectures given in June and July 1670 by Denis Joncquet, physician and teacher of botany at the Jardin Royal.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.5.10
Scope and Contents

The notes consist of a list of plants, giving the alternative names and medicinal uses of each.

A note at the end (folio 67) is signed P M, and is followed by a brief extract from a lecture by Joncquet in 1669. Joncquet`s name is consistently mis-spelled Jouquet.

Dates: 1670.

‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of very miscellaneous papers on ecclesiastical history.

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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.

Lecture notes taken by Thomas Dickson from lectures by Andrew Sinclair, Professor of Medicine at Edinburgh, on the section dealing with physiology in Herman Boerhaave`s `Institutions medicae`.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.9
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The dates 1743 and 1745 appear on the front flyleaves. Dickson graduated at Leyden in 1746.

Dates: 1743-1745.

Notes of David Hume`s lectures on Scots Law at Edinburgh University, taken by an unknown student.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.6.10(I)-(IV)
Scope and Contents

The main differences from the Stair Society edition are that Part II, Chapters XIV-XVI appear after Chapter VIII (as in Adv.MSS.7.2.4-7.2.17), and that the chapters on Insurance (Adv.MS.81.6.12), and on Teinds and Patronage (Adv.MS.81.6.31) are omitted. For cases where these notes fill gaps in Hume`s manuscript, see the prefaces to the Stair Society edition. This is apparently a fair copy of notes taken at the lectures.

Dates: 1822.

Notes on astronomy, from the lectures of Professor William Law at Edinburgh University, by John Erskine.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.3
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The notes consist of commentaries on Ptolomy`s ‘Almagest’ and descriptions of the rotations of the planets, with several sketches. There is also part of a lecture on biology (‘De Corpore Animato`, folio 79); some pages are missing at the end of the latter lecture.

Dates: 1693.

Notes on Herodotus and Livy, apparently written from lectures in 1732-1733 by someone called Erskine (`Erskine` and the dates November 11, 1732, December 2, February 10, March 17 and April 7 are at the end of each section).

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.6.2
Scope and Contents

The notes are on passages, sometimes consecutive but often widely separated, of Herodotus book 1, and Livy books 1-4, chapter 6; the manuscript is incomplete at the end. They are explanatory of the subject-matter, in Herodotus especially proper names, in Livy especially constitutional matters; other ancient authors are freely cited, and once (folio 6 verso) Abraham Crawley is quoted.

Dates: 1732-1733.

Notes on logic by Robert Johnstone of Wamphray (Master of Arts, 1695), probably from the lectures of Regent Andrew Massie at Edinburgh University.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.5
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The date is taken from folio 17.

Some pages at the end of the notebook are missing.

Dates: 1695.

Notes on logic, from the lectures of Regent Andrew Burnet at Glasgow University, by Sir Charles Erskine of Alva.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.6.1
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The name Alexander Dundas also appears.

The lectures are in two parts: a ‘Compendium Logicæ` (folio 1), and ‘Disputationes Logicæ’ (folio 77).

Dates: 1659-1660.

Notes on logic, from the lectures of Regent Andrew Massie at Edinburgh University, by James Erskine (Master of Arts, 1687).

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.1
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Several pages at the beginning of the volume are missing.

Dates: 1685.

Notes on logic, from the lectures of William Law, Regent, and later Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University, by John Ershine.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.2
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The notes consist of a short introduction to logic, followed by the first part of Law`s course of lectures (folio 14 to `finis prima partis logico`, folio 81). There are also some notes on the derivation of square roots, with six problems for calculation (folios 82-84), and scraps of poetry and Latin proverbs on the fly-leaves.

Dates: 1691.

Notes on natural philosophy, written at King`s College, Aberdeen.

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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.

Notes on part of a series of lectures on Scottish Law given by David Hume, Baron of the Exchequer, probably in 1803, which is apparently the latest date quoted in the text (folio 200); the fifth (folio iii) of a series of six or more volumes.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.6.42
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The notes are written on one side of the leaf only (watermark dated 1798), in an unidentified hand: brief additions are written in pencil on the versos of a few of the leaves by `WRR` (folio 38 verso), apparently William Rose Robinson of Clermiston, who was admitted advocate in 1804, and who was no doubt the next owner of the notes. A summary index of the subjects covered in the volume is written in the original hand at folio iii.

Dates: ?1803.

Notes on philosophy and physics, written probably from the lectures of Regent Charles Erskine at Edinburgh University by Patrick Wilkie (M.A., 1704), later minister of Haddington.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.20.7.1
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The notes consist of lectures on moral philosophy [`Pneumatologia` (folio 4), and `Elementa Philosophia Moralis seu Ethicae’, (folio 85)], and on physics [`Annotationes in Joannis Clerici Physicam’, (folio 133)].

Dates: 1703.

Notes on philosophy, from the lectures of Professor William Law at Edinburgh University, by William Haldane.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.4
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The name David Smyth also appears.

There are three courses of lectures in the notebook: ‘Tractatus Metaphysicus` (folio 2); `Pneumatologia` (folio 23); and `Elementa Philosophia Moralis` (folio 49).

Dates: 1699-1700.

Notes on philosophy, written from the lectures of Regent Andrew Burnet at Glasgow University, by Sir Charles Erskine of Alva.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.6.5
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The lectures comprise disputations on metaphysics (folio 1), and a separate series of disputations on ethics (folio 63); they are regularly dated and complete, excepting the front page of the first series.

Dates: 1661.

Notes on the Romans, and on a Greek author, written by Sir Charles Erskine of Alva, probably from the lectures of his Regent, Andrew Burnet, at Glasgow University.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.6.3
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The volume contains part of a series of lectures on the social, religious, and cultural life of the Romans (folios 1-38), very incomplete due to missing pages. An inverted series of notes contains a glossary or vocabulary to the oration of Isocrates to Demonicus, sections 1-9, also very incomplete (inverted folios 1-12). Two pages (inverted folios 13-14) contain an ink sketch of a man training a horse.

Dates: Circa 1660.

Notes, taken by Wilhelm Ludwig Becker, of the lectures of Christoph August Heumann at Göttingen on his ‘Conspectus reipublicae literariae’, based on the expanded text of the 3rd and subsequent editions.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.15
Scope and Contents

The notes on chapter v are divided in two (pages 725, 846); otherwise the order of the published work is reproduced exactly (notes on chapter i begin on page 3, on ii on page 9, on iii on page 14, on iv on page 28, on vi on page 726, on vii on page 786).

Dates: 1746-1747.