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12th-century manuscript of plays by Terence, and part of a grammatical treatise on ‘exigentia’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.2
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The manuscript includes additions of the 14th century.(i) Terence, `Andria` (folio 1), `Eunuchus` (folio 11), `Heautontimorumenos’ (folio 24 verso), `Adelphoe` (folio 39 verso), `Hecyra` (folio 51 verso), `Phormio` (folio 60). The lines are written as prose. The following lines are missing through loss of leaves; ‘Andria’ 1-74 ‘vitam’, 238 ‘sese’-381 ‘tum’, 973 ‘de’-‘Eunuchus’ 61 ‘belIum’, ‘Hecyra’ 823 ‘planum’ – ‘Phormio’ 3 ‘detenere’. ‘Hecyra’ 201-281 ‘umquam’ (folio 25) are...
Dates:
12th century.
13th-century manuscript containing extracts from the writings of Gilbert of Hoyland, St Bernard, St Gregory, St Augustine, and other theological works.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.3
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Manuscript produced in England containing the theological works of various authors. The manuscript has been dated to the 12th century by Mikkers; to the end of the 12th century by Schenkl; to the 12th-13th century Leclercq (quoted in Mikkers); and by Dutton and Borland to the 13th century.The manuscript is written by various contemporary hands in a protogothic bookhand. It is written in a single column with 26-30 lines to a page.The contents of the volume are as...
Dates:
1st half of 13th century.
13th-century manuscript containing theological works by Boethius and St Augustine, and short excerpts of works by Anselm, Eadmer, St Gregory of Tours, St Caesarius of Arles, and Bernard of Clairvaux.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.18
Scope and Contents
13th-century manuscript produced in England containing a selection of theological works from the 'Opuscula sacra' of Boethius, Sermons of St Augustine, and excerpts from Eadmer, Anselm, St Gregory of Tours, St Caesarius of Arles, and Bernard of Clairvaux; as well as two annonymous excerpts, the 'Gesta Salvatoris' and a commentary on Psalm 84.The manuscript has been dated to the 13th century by Ker, and to the early 14th century by Borland, Römer, and Schenkl. The work...
Dates:
13th century.
14th-century manuscript, possibly produced in Italy, containing a complete copy of the 'Eruditio regum et principum' of Guibert de Tournai, originally written in 1259 for King Louis IX of France.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.6
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14th-century manuscript, possibly produced in Italy, containing a complete copy of the 'Eruditio regum et principum' of Guibert de Tournai, originally written in 1259 for King Louis IX of France. There is an inscription at the head of folio 1r which reads: 'Ludovico IX', refering to King Louis. The work belongs to the 'Mirrors for Princes' literary genre which aims to instruct kings and rulers on their behaviour.The manuscript is the work of one scribe and is written in a rotunda...
Dates:
14th century.
15th century Italian manuscript of works by Cicero
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.15
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:'Laelius de amicitia' (folio 1); 'Cato Maior de senectute' (folio 25); and,'Paradoxa Stoicorum' (folio 47) (49 'infinite'-end is lost). The text shows a great many variants, especially changes of order and small omissions, from that of the older manuscripts. On folio 1 is a gold initial with white vine-stem decoration, filled with green and lilac and surrounded with blue. Other initials...
Dates:
15th century.
15th-century manuscript containing 'De vero et falso bono' of Bartolomeo Platina in the hand of Bartolomeo Sanvito.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.16
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Manuscript produced in Italy, either in late 1471 or early 1472, after the election of Sixtus IV to the Papacy. The work is a dedication copy to Pope Sixtus IV of a moral treatise, consisting of three dialogues written by Bartolomeo Sacchi, more commonly known as Bartolomeo Platina. This is the second version of the dialogue, with an earlier version called 'De falso ac vero bono' dedicated to Pope Paul II. The work starts with a dedication to Sixtus IV by Bartolomeo Platina on...
Dates:
[?1471-?1472]
15th-century manuscript of 'Le livre des meurs du gouvernement des seignieurs', a translation of the pseudo-Aristotelian 'Secretum secretorum'.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.4
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in England containing a translation into French of the the Pseudo-Aristotelian 'Secretum Secretorum', or 'Secret of Secrets'. The Secret of Secrets is a translation of the Arabic 'Kitab sirr al-asrar', ostensibly a letter to Alexander the Great from Aristotle. The work is intended as a didactic piece in the 'Mirror for Princes' tradition and covers a range of topics including statecraft, alchemy, magic, astronomy, and ethics.The manuscript is the...
Dates:
15th century.
15th-century manuscript written in the Low Countries containing devotional texts.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.20.8.3
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Speculum peccatoris` by an unknown author. It has been variously attributed to Saints Bernard and Augustine, Richard Rolle of Hampole, and others. See ‘Writings ascribed to Richard Rolle’, pages 353-354, and ‘Die Handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des heiligen Augustinus’, II/2, page 116. Printed in ‘Patrologia latina’ xi, columns 983-992. (Folio 2.)(ii) Devotions to the Virgin, beginning 'O virgo concipiens et...
Dates:
15th century.
15th-century manuscript written in the Low Countries, containing various works attributed to, or written by, St Bernard.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Extracts from the `Vita beatissimi Malachie`, caps. 1-25. See ‘Patrologia Latina’ 182, 1073-1104 (folio 1 verso).(ii) Notes on vipers with reference to Aristotle (folio 8 verso).(iii) `De conversione ad clericos`, cap. 3. ‘Patrologia Latina’ 182, 856-857 (folio 9).(iv) `Bernardus de servitute vitiorum et incertitudine mortis` (folio 10).(v) Anonymous commentaries on the Song of...
Dates:
15th century.
`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.
Anonymous English treatises on the probability of war with Spain and the political scene in Europe.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.3
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `The Castilian proiect against England with advertisements for preuentinge thereof`, addressed to James I (folio 1). The author, who had served in the West Indies, was in favour of supporting the Netherlands in a war with Spain. The work is undated, but refers to Philip III as the young Spanish king (folio 27 verso). Another copy of the work (Adv.MS.34.2.10, folio 1) states that it was written by F W shortly after James`s...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
`Beacone upon the Rock of European and Brittanick alchimie or The phisicianes philosopheres and chimist`s alchimie displayed or the minthouses defended against the grand imposture of transmutatione of mettalles by the universale cure. In a second letter to his Brittanick majestie Queen Anne of Brittaine and Irlande`; an unpublished alchemical treatise by John Leslie, written in the form of two letters to Queen Anne and one to the Duke of Queensberry.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.14
Scope and Contents
The work is undated but was probably written sometime in the early 18th century.
Dates:
?Early 18th century.
Compendium of medical treatises in Gaelic written by Angus Beaton.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.10
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The compendium of medical treatises was written 1611-1614 by Angus Beaton. He gives only his patronymic, Aonghus mac Fearchair mhic Aonghuis (pages 126, 192, 260), but this is sufficient to identify him as of the Beatons of Husabost in Skye. Apart from one visit to Skye (Trumpan, page 66), and a meeting or consultation with Cameron of Lochiel at a place called Dunán Eachain (page 106), Angus’ line-fillers and other notes indicate that the manuscript was written on circuit in the contiguous...
Dates:
1611-1614.
Composite manuscript containing a short treatise intended for the guidance of kings, and a short account of Ḥaleb.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.3(i)- Adv.MS.18.7.3 (ii)
Dates:
1581, 1584.
Composite volume, of uncertain origin, containing two manuscripts of works by St Bonaventure, the 'Breviloquium' and the 'Formula noviciorum'.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.7
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A manuscript containing two works of St Bonaventure. The 'Breviloquium' is of the 13th century, and the 'Formula noviciorum', here attributed to St Bonaventure, is of the 14th century.Both works are written in double columns. The 'Breviloquium' is the work of one scribe, written in littera textualis with 39 lines to a page. The 'Formula noviciorum' is the work of a different scribe, written in a rotunda script with between 32 to 36 lines to a page.The contents are as...
Dates:
13th century, 14th century.
Contemporary copies of state papers, concerning the negotiations between Charles I and the Covenanters, which led up to the Pacification of Berwick and the Covenanters` protestation of 1 July.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.17
Scope and Contents
Also included are the petition of the Scots living in Ireland to the Lord Deputy and Council of Ireland, 1639 (folio 9), and an incomplete treatise `A distinction betweene the Ecclesiasticall Lawe and the Common Lawe`, undated (folio 18).
Dates:
May-June 1639.
Copies, 17th century, of documents relating to heraldry.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.18
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) A treatise on heraldry in 28 chapters, with particular reference to the Court of the Lord Lyon, 1661 (page 1). The last chapter is a copy of the proclamation, 1447, of Arthur, Constable of France and later Duke of Brittany. See Adv.MSS.31.5.2, folio 1, and 31.3.20, folio 1.(ii) `Kinges of armes and heraulds in Ingland 1628` (pages 75, 79). This has been numbered Cap.29 in continuation of (i). The work has been printed,...
Dates:
1385-1661.
Copy, 16th century, of `Recueil des Principaux Seigneurs qui passerent la Mer avec Guillaume Conquereur d`Angleterre`, a treatise on the genealogy and heraldry of the English nobility written by Jean Benard in 1567.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.2
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The manuscript is similar to the autograph manuscript of 1572 (Bibliotheque Nationale, MS. français 19000), but lacks the dedicatory letter to Charles IX and has no miniatures. The decoration consists of paintings of flowers and fruit, borders and armorial bearings, with some decorated initials. There is a note, ‘Southampton`s Genealogies`, in a 17th-century hand on folio iii.
Dates:
1567.
Copy, early 18th century, of `A Discourse concerning the three Unions betwixt Scotland and England’, an apparently unpublished work, written circa 1670.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.7
Scope and Contents
The affairs which are discussed include James VI’s succession to the English throne, the proposals for a more entire union of Scotland and England made early in James`s reign and the proposals for a legislative union made in 1669-1670 by Charles II.
Dates:
Circa 1670.
Copy in an unidentified hand of ‘Memorial offered to the Honourable Commissioners of Excise concerning the Mensuration of Tuns or Backs that have some irregularity in the Figure and Situation of the Bottom ... To which is added a Method of correcting the common Tables, and some new Theorems` by Colin Maclaurin.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.13
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There is a pen drawing of a ship on folio vi. This is a work of applied mathematics written in order to enable customs officers to gauge the contents of molasses barrels used in the port of Glasgow.
Dates:
1735.
Copy, late 17th century, of `A Discourse concerning the three Unions of Scotland and England`, written circa 1670 and apparently unpublished.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.13
Dates:
Circa 1670.
Copy, late 17th century, of a treatise on sea laws by Alexander King, Judge Admiral of Scotland, circa 1590, entitled `Tractatus Legum et Consuetudinum Navalium quae apud omnes fere Gentes in usu habentur; Omnia Nautica et quaecumque ex causis marinis in judicium veniunt succincte definiens in certos Titulos ... methodice distinctos. Authore Alexandro Regio`.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.28.4.7
Scope and Contents
The last Titulus (`De Piratis`) is in Scots, as is the appendix on `The forme and Maner of holding of Courts of Admiralitie and processe led befoir Them` which follows.
Dates:
Circa 1590.
Copy of a work written by Alexander Dickson in support of the claims of James VI of Scotland to the crown of England in reply to ‘A Conference about the next succession to the crowne of Ingland’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.8
Scope and Contents
‘Conference about the next succession to the crowne of Ingland’ was published in 1594 under the pseudonym R Doleman by a number of authors including chiefly Sir Francis Englefield and Cardinal William Allen: Robert Parsons, Society of Jesus, to whom the work has often been ascribed, was a minor contributor (see ‘Recusant History’, volume 4, page 126). Dickson, who had been a supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots, appears to have become a servant of James VI shortly before he began this reply,...
Dates:
1598.
Copy of Adv.MS.31.3.18, documents relating to heraldry, made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.22
Scope and Contents
Translations have been provided with the material in Latin.
Dates:
1385-1661.
Copy of ‘Discourse of coin and coinage’ by Rice Vaughan.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.4
Scope and Contents
The dedication by Henry Vaughan and the tables and additional material at the end of the published text are omitted.
On folio iv are two inscriptions `for the right honourable the Lord Roberts Lord Privie Seale of England`, and, in another hand, notes about waste land in Ireland with a reference to Sir William Petty.
Dates:
17th century.