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Book of hours, according to the use of Utrecht, made in the second half of the 15th century in the western Netherlands, probably in the province of South Holland.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.11
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was made in the western Netherlands, probably in the province of South Holland.The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar in red and black (folio 1). Entries in red include Saints Ponciaen (14 January), Pancraes (12 May), Servaes (14 May), Odulf (13 June), Lebuin (25 June and 12 November), and Geroen (17 August).(ii) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary (folio 13).(iii) Hours of the Cross (folio 44).(iv) Hours of the Holy...
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Utrecht, written in the western Netherlands, probably in the province of South Holland, in the second half of the 15th-century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.18
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was made in the western Netherlands, probably in the province of South Holland.The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar and table of Golden Numbers in red and black. Entries in red include Saints Servatius (13 May), Jero (17 August) and Lambert (17 September). June and November are missing. (Folio 1.)(ii) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a hymn `Ave rosa sine spinis’ (‘Repertorium hymnologicum’, number 2084), and `Obsecro te`. (Folio...
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
'Book of Liddesdale', being an account of the history, antiquities, etc., of the district by the Reverend James Snadden, minister of the United Presbyterian (afterwards United Free) Church at Newcastleton.
Series
Identifier: MSS.949-953
Dates:
1880-1929.
`Book of Opinions`, volumes 2 and 3, containing copies of opinions and memorials of English Crown counsel in matters of customs and excise arising in the Exchequer or Treasury.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.1(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
The volumes were copied in July 1751 for John Maule, Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, from other copies belonging to the Board of Customs in Edinburgh.
Dates:
1727-1746.
Book of prayers titled ‘A golden chain to link the penitent sinner unto God. By R. B., Edinburgh, 1742’.
Item
Identifier: MS.1748
Scope and Contents
The title is laid out like that of a printed book; on the last page are the words, ‘Wrote By William Jackson Junior Writer in Edinburgh, And finished this 31st December, 1742’, It seems, therefore, to be a copy of another manuscript or a printed book.
Dates:
1742.
Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.8.1-26.7.37
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of printed books, 1718-1850 (Adv.MSS.25.8.1-25.8.42), and manuscripts, 1511-1857 (Adv.MSS.25.9.1-25.9.23), owned by Riddell, correspondence and papers (many incomplete) ?1799-1860, and undated, relating to peerages (Adv.MSS.26.1.1-26.1.29), to baronetcies, to landed families and to various related topics (Adv.MSS.26.2.1-26.2.23), and a large number of notebooks, circa 1805-1852, containing excerpts from the public records of Scotland, and other matter...
Dates:
1511-1860.
Borthwick manuscripts, consisting of two 15th century Books of Hours, and a 15th century almanac girdle book.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12059/1-3
Dates:
15th century.
Box of miscellaneous photostats and photographs.
Series
Identifier: MS.8494
Dates:
8th century-1958.
Brahmasūtrabhāṣya of Śaṅkara, a commentary on the Brahmasūtra, the authoritative aphorisms of Vedānta philosophy.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.15
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is in Devanāgarī script.The text is a commentary on the Brahmasūtra, the authoritative aphorisms of Vedānta philosophy.The side margins ruled in red, erasures with yellow; mostly no daṇḍas but space has been left for later insertion (presumably in red).Colophon (folio 61 verso): iti śrīmacchārīrakamīmāṃsābhāṣye śrīmacchaṃkarabhagavatpādakṛtau tṛtīyasyadhyāyasya caturthaḥ pādaḥ 4 samāpto yaṃ tṛtīyo dhyāyaḥ cha (7 times) [that is,...
Dates:
Undated.
‘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.’
File
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.
Brief biographies of the bishops and archbishops of St Andrews from the 10th century to 1615, by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.8
Scope and Contents
The work was compiled after 1623 (reference is made to John Selden’s edition of Eadmer`s works published in that year) and used Fordun, Boece and other historians as sources.
Dates:
After 1623.
'Brief sketch of a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott, commencing in the year 1814', by Joseph Train.
File
Identifier: MS.3277
Scope and Contents
According to an 'introductory letter' to John Gibson Lockhart, 1833, Joseph Train wrote these recollections for the benefit of his children and sent them to Lockhart for use in his ‘Life of Sir Walter Scott’. The work, which includes transcripts of letters of Sir Walter Scott, some not printed in the Centenary Edition, gives an account of Train's relations with Scott, of his antiquarian researches and the objects which he presented to Scott, of Galloway traditions, some of which provided...
Dates:
1814-1841.
`Bualög.`
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.3.8
Scope and Contents
Note by F Magnusson: `No. 16. Leges Oeconomicæ Islandiæ cum Indice.`
Dates:
1775.
Calendar from a 14th-century Dominican liturgical book produced in southern Germany.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.20
Scope and Contents
The entries are in black and red, with one (translatio Marie Magdalene, March 19) in blue. Among those in red are: Dorothea (February 7), Runegund (March 3), George the Martyr (April 23), Peter (April 29: ‘ord(in)is n(ostri)’), Walburga (May 1), translatio beati Dominici (May 24), Henry (July 13), Dominic (August 5: ‘co(n)fess(oris) p(at)ris n(ost)ri’), Laurence (August 10), Sebaldus (August 19), Abbot Giles (September 1), Martin of Tours (November 11), Elisabeth of Hungary (November 19),...
Dates:
14th century.
Calendar from a 14th-century liturgical work from Germany.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.21
Scope and Contents
The entries are in black and red. Among those in red are: Peter (April 29), Petronella (May 31), Dominic (August 5 ‘p(at)ris n(ost)ri`), Augustine (August 28), and Nicholas (December 6). There are several later additions, including: Gertrude (March 17), Adalbert (April 23), Erasmus (June 2), Procopius (July 11), Anne (July 26), Martha (July 27), Barbara (December 4). Othmar (November 15) and Conrad (November 26) are deleted.The calendar is from a Dominican house, perhaps a...
Dates:
14th century.
Calligraphic page, written in miniature by Matthew Buchinger (1674-1739), a German calligrapher who had neither hands nor feet.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.4
Scope and Contents
The page contains the Lord`s Prayer, the Apostle`s Creed and the Commandments, within an ornamental border composed of parts of St John`s Gospel, chapter xviii.
Dates:
1722.
‘Capitulatio…Caroli VI’ (The Hague, 1713), with manuscript notes by Johann Jacob Vitriarius.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.4.13
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Cards and letters of Harry Lauder to W. Lockyer.
File
Identifier: Acc.14019
Scope and Contents
Includes two autographs and one signed photograph (1937) of Harry Lauder; programme of Command Performance at Balmoral Castle, 5 September 1924; some photographs probably of W. Lockyer and members of his family.
Dates:
1923-1929.
'Carmen paschale' by Coelius Sedulius; an Italian, possibly Florentine, manuscript, with the title 'De actibus prophetarum et toto Christi salvatoris cursu’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.7
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains the preface; book i divided as 'de figmentis poetarum' (verses 1-59), 'Invocatio vel oratio poetae' (verses 60-102), and 'Liber I' in 26 sections (verses 103-368); book ii, called 'liber primus de nouo testamento', in 21 sections; book iii, called 'liber secundus Miracula et facta x̄p̄i', in 27 sections; book iv, not separated, in 19 sections; book v, separated into 'quartus' (verses 1-260) in 20 sections and 'V et ultim(us)' (verses 261-438) in 9 sections; the two...
Dates:
15th-century.
Catalogue (in two volumes) and valuation of the library of Alfred Shepherd, Writer to the Signet.
File
Identifier: Acc.10032
Scope and Contents
With a manuscript poem on the origins and early history of Britain.
Dates:
1930.
‘Catalogue of the Books Manuscripts and pamphlets Belonging to Robert Mylne wryter in Edr. 1709’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.17
Scope and Contents
The catalogue is in two parts: books and manuscripts arranged by format (folio 2), and pamphlets (folio 115). The entries give the imprints and pressmarks. According to two declarations, 1709 and 1711, on folio 113 verso, the catalogue was largely written by Mylne`s son James, but there are numerous additions in Mylne`s hand, and also notes of loans of books, 1709-1743 (folios 232-238). Also on folio 113 verso is a note by Mylne, 1718, stating that he bequeathed his library to his sons.
Dates:
1709-1743.
'Causa di stravaganze, o vero compendio historico delli rumori e sollenazioni de’ popoli successi nella citta e regno di Napoli, 1647-1655’, by Dr Aniello della Porta.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.4.7-22.4.8
Scope and Contents
‘Causa di stravaganze, o vero compendio historico delli rumori e sollenazioni de’ popoli successi nella citta e regno di Napoli, da 7 di Gennaro 1647 sino a Gugiro 1655. Opera del Dr Aniello della Porta divisa in quat. Two parte’.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.195) includes the reference: (Ba.4.11-14).
Dates:
1647-1655.
`Certane records touching the state of the Church of Scotland, since the reformation of religion therein, till the parliament holden at Perth, 1606`, a 17th century copy in a neat italic hand of John Forbes, minister of Alford`s church history, which concentrates on the years 1605-1606.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.4.5
Scope and Contents
The manuscript bears the inscription of one John Gibson `Dec. 22nd 1704`, but he was not the copyist.
Dates:
17th century.
Cess roll of Berwickshire, written partly, at least, by Joseph Robertson of Ladykirk, circa 1736, and compiled from records of various dates, particularly those of 1694.
Item
Identifier: MS.1017
Dates:
1694.
Chartulary of Dunfermline Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.3A
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in Scotland containing the Register of Dunfermline Abbey, a Benedictine house founded circa 1070 and dissolved in 1593. The material in the register covers the 12th to the 16th centuries.The manuscript is a composite register compiled at various stages through the 13th to the 16th centuries. Davis and Broun state that the original portion of the manuscript was created sometime between 4 February 1254 and the early part of 1255. The work is multi-scribal and...
Dates:
13th century.