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Four or five medical manuscripts of the 14th century, with additions of the 14th and 15th centuries.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.9(i)-(v)
Scope and Contents
The volume has been heavily trimmed, leading to the partial loss of some headings and marginal notes.
Dates:
14th century.
Instructions for making fireworks, probably intended as part of a scientific work.
File
Identifier: MS.9240
Scope and Contents
The text refers to figures which are not included. The manuscript also contains household and pharmaceutical recipes (folio 52), and a list of books and equipment of an army officer (folios 1 inverted).
Dates:
19th century.
Journal, 1729, of George Skene, containing ‘An Account of a Journey to London, with the particular rout by Thomas Burnett of Kirkhill, George Skene of that ilk, and David Skene his brother german'.
Item
Identifier: MS.3806
Scope and Contents
In addition to George Skene's journal there are notes of expenditure on the journey and of the mileage of part of the route (folio 1 verso); part of an anti-Hanoverian parody of the ‘Te Deum’, ?1742 (folio 34); and part of a diary, probably of Joseph Mackie, 1837 (folio 35).At the end of the volume, inverted, are detailed accounts of expenditure on the journey of 1729 (folio 1 inverted) and recipes, medical and other (folio 3 inverted), including directions for the treatment of...
Dates:
1729-19th century.
Microfilm of four or five medical manuscripts of the 14th century, with additions of the 14th and 15th centuries.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.300
Dates:
14th century.
Microfilm of work schedules and recipes for the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh kitchens.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1560
Dates:
1943.
Various notebooks of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Series
Identifier: MSS.17888-17894
Dates:
Mid 18th century-early 19th century.
Volume of historical and literary works, 13th century, written in England in the early 14th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.9
Scope and Contents
Sections iv-vii are in the same hand. Folios 33 verso-34 verso are blank. There are a few pen drawings of faces in the margins.
Fragments of a 13th-century contents list from a collection of sermons have been used as binding strips; other fragments from the same source are in Adv.MS.18.2.4 and 18.4.5.
Dates:
14th century.
Work schedules and recipes for the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh kitchens.
File
Identifier: Acc.9123
Dates:
1943.