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15th-century manuscript containing the first statutes of the Ordre de Saint-Michel drawn up in 1469, but not those of 1476.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.15
Scope and Contents
The statutes (folio 5) are preceded by a list of their articles (folio 1). There are lacunae in the text following folios 14 and 16. Written in littera bastarda. Ruling in red ink. Folios 4 and 25 blank but ruled. Initials in gold on red and blue grounds. On folio 5 is a large miniature of the French king, crowned and wearing the collar of the Order, seated on a throne. There are no figures of other members of the Order. The arms of France, surrounded by the collar of the Order,...
Dates:
1469-1476.
Book of the Incorporation of Coopers of South Leith.
Item
Identifier: MS.3411
Scope and Contents
According to a note on folio 2, the book was purchased by the Incorporation of Coopers of South Leith in 1669, and it contains records of transactions from the Acts and Statutes, 1525 to 1754. These records, which are not continuous, are chiefly of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. They include: a note of entry-fees to be paid by freemen and their sons, with the Oath of Admission (folio 22 verso); minutes of the admission of freemen from 1601 to 1754, with their marks...
Dates:
1525-1754.
Regula of the Knights Templar, and works concerning ceremonial orders, heraldry and tournaments.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Statutes of the Order of the Garter in English (folio 1). The Statutes are those of Edward VI, 17 March 1552/1553, and are followed by a list of knights present at that Chapter. For other Statutes in English, see Adv.MS.31.7.18.(ii) `Regula pauperum commilitonum Christi templique salomonici` by Joannes Michaelensis, written in two hands of the 12th century (folio 18). The order of chapters differs from that given in...
Dates:
12th century-17th century.
Volume containing a copy of the statutes of the Royal College of Physicians of London and a manuscript of an apparently unpublished early edition of the Edinburgh ‘Pharmacopoeia’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.4
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) A 17th-century copy of the statutes of 1647 of the Royal College of Physicians of London (folio 1).(ii) ‘Pharmacopoeia a Regio Medicorum Edinburgensium Collegio adornata. Edinburgi Typis Haeredis Andreae Anderson MDCLXXXV` (folio 27). This appears to be the manuscript of an early edition of the ‘Pharmacopoeia’ which was never published. The work was first proposed in 1683 but did not appear until 1699 (see ‘The Edinburgh...
Dates:
1647-late 17th century.