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15th-century manuscript containing 'De remediis utriusque fortunae' of Adrianus Carthusiensis, incorporating passages from the 'De remediis utriusque fortunae' of Petrarch.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.1
Scope and Contents
The place of production of this manuscript is unclear. The volume is the work of one scribe, in a hand which Nicholas Mann has described as a Germanic gothic bookhand. The work is written in one column of 27 lines to a page. Mann has dated this manuscript to the first half of the 15th century. The work itself contains an abridged and revised version of the second book of the 'De remediis utriusque fortunae', compiled from Petrarch's 'De remediis utriusque fortunae' and Adrianus...
Dates:
1st half of the 15th century.
17th-century extracts and transcripts, in the hand of Sir James Balfour, of chartularies and other historical works.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.9
Scope and Contents
17th-century manuscript written and compiled by Sir James Balfour containing the following works:1. Copy by Sir James Balfour of George Marjorybanks, 'Annals of Scotland, 1514-94'. Folios 6r-23r.A history of Scotland in the form of annals written in Scots, originally written in the late 16th century by George Marjoribanks, burgess of Edinburgh. The location of the original manuscript from which Balfour made his copy is unknown. The work is separated into...
Dates:
17th century.
Abbreviated version of the ‘Scotichronicon’ by Walter Bower.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.1.7
Scope and Contents
The exemplar for the manuscript was being compiled no later than 1444 under the direction of Bower himself. Richard Augustine Hay, writing in the early 18th century, at the beginning of the manuscript, states that it was written 1453-1454 by a canon of Inchcolm called Peter, and presented to Couper Abbey by William Earl of Orkney and Caithness in 1445 (probably a mistake for 1455), but he cites no evidence for this (see ‘Scotichronicon by Walter Bower in Latin and English’, ix, chapter 12,...
Dates:
Circa 1450 x 1480.
Abridgement by Patrick Russell, prior of the Charterhouse of Perth, of a work by Walter Bower known as the 'Book of Cupar Angus'.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.7
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Manuscript compiled in Scotland by Patrick Russell, a prior of the Charterhouse of Perth. The manuscript is an abridged copy of the 'Book of Cupar Angus', which is itself an abbreviation of the 'Scotichronicon'.The manuscript is written in a single column, probably all by the same hand, which is becomes harder to read towards the end of the volume. The work is not complete, as two or more folios are missing between 246v and 247r.Watt suggests that the lost examplar...
Dates:
1460 - 1488
Abridgement of the ‘Chroniche’ of Giovanni Villani (died 1348) continued by his brother Matteo (died 1363) and by Matteo`s son Filippo, to the end of 1365.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.2
Scope and Contents
The abridgement breaks off, in mid-sentence, in 1363 (in the middle of Chapter 69 of Book XI of the Matteo-Filippo Chronicle), 3¾ folios at the end being blank. The manuscript was written, probably in Florence, shortly after 1500; there are two water-marks, an eagle (Briquet 87: Florence, 1495) and a hat (Briquet 3383-3393: mostly Florence, 1470-1500). It is therefore possible that it is the autograph of the author of the abridgement, who was alive in 1500 (see folio 14 verso)....
Dates:
After 1500.
'Abridgement of the Scottish History', a list of the succession of the Kings of Scotland from Fergus I to James VI by Sir James Balfour, in his hand.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.29
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.7.14.
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
‘Breviary of the Decisions of the Lords of Session ... and of the Acts of Sederunt, from June, 1661, to July, 1681, observed by Sir James Dalrymple of Stair.’
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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.1
Scope and Contents
The Acts of Sederunt, 1661-1681, as in the printed ‘Decisions of the Lords of council and session’, are followed by a summary of Decisions arranged alphabetically according to subject. The text is apparently copied from an incomplete manuscript.At the end, inverted, is a copy of ‘Instructions and rules ... to the Commissaries, clerks, procurators fiscalls, and other members of the court of the whole ecclesiasticall jurisdiction,’ forwarded under cover of a Royal letter dated...
Dates:
1661-1681.
Copy, 18th century, written on paper watermarked 1742 or 1749, of an extract from `An Abridgment of the Scotishe historie`, written by John Maxwell, 4th Lord Herries of Terregles and dated 1656.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.7
Scope and Contents
The extract covers the period 1541-1571. There is a brief description of the original manuscript on the flyleaf of the present volume. According to Robert Pitcairn in his preface to the published work, the original manuscript was probably destroyed sometime during the French Revolution, having been housed in the Scots College at Douai. The copyist, whose initials appear to be J P (folio 1), may have been Friar John Pepper, Society of Jesus, who was a student at the Scots College, Douai from...
Dates:
1656.
‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of very miscellaneous papers on ecclesiastical history.
Series
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.
Manuscript, by John Gibson junior, a canon of Glasgow, of an abridged copy of the 'Black Book of Paisley', a version of the 'Scotichronicon' of Walter Bower.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.8
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in Scotland and written by John Gibson junior, a canon of Glasgow. The manuscript is an abridged copy of the 'Black Book of Paisley', a version of the 'Scotichronicon'. The original copy of the 'Black Book of Paisley', from which Gibson made his abridgement, is in the British Library. The full contents of the manuscript are as follows:A verse history of the Scots from their origins to the reign of James II. Folios 1r-10r.Genealogy from...
Dates:
1501
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
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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.
Microfilm of abbreviated version of ‘Scotichronicon’ by Walter Bower.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1522
Dates:
[?1450-?1480.]
Volume of genealogies and poems in the hand of Robert Mylne, engraver, son of the writer and antiquary of the same name (see folio 82), with a few additions by his father.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.24
Scope and Contents
The following dates of writing are given: 15 September 1712 (folio 2), 10 April 1713 (folio 76), 13 November 1712 (folio 80).The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `The Pourtrait of True Loyalty exposed in the Family of Gordon, without interruption to this present year of God, 1691. With a copious relation of the siege of the Castle of Edinburgh in the year 1689. By W.S. An. 1691.` The original manuscript of this work, which was in Blairs College, Aberdeen...
Dates:
1338, circa 1670-1732.