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13th-century manuscript of 'Aurora' by Peter Riga.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.4
Scope and Contents
The text is that of the third mediaeval version (see Paul E Beichner`s edition, volume 1, page xix), but like Notre Dame University Library MS.2, does not include the Liber Iob and Cantica Canticorum. The author`s name is given in a colophon to the Evangelium (folio 155 recto).The manuscript has been misbound, and folios 89-104 should precede folio 81. One passage in III Kings, which Beichner (volume 1, page 300, lines 13-66) attributes to the first recension of Aegidius, is...
Dates:
13th century.
15th-century manuscript written in the Low Countries, containing various works attributed to, or written by, St Bernard.
Item
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.
Letter, undated, of Thomas Carlyle to Joseph Neuberg.
File
Identifier: Acc.10293
Scope and Contents
With extensive modern notes and commentary.
Dates:
circa 1950-1991 and undated.
Letters and poems of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet; and poetry and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell.
File
Identifier: MS.3115
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters, poems, etc., of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet, to Peter Buchan, collector of Scottish ballads, Peterhead, 1828-1850, undated. The letters, which are in Laing's autograph, deal chiefly with literary matters of the day. Most of the poems (folios 4, 6, 10, 19, 23) appear later in published form.(ii) Poems and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell, in his autograph, with one letter to him, 1815-1865, undated. Several of...
Dates:
1815-1865, undated.
Microfilm of miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.304
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Microfilm of miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.870
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Microfilm of theological works of Saints Jerome, Augustine, and others, written in the 12th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.851
Dates:
12th century.
Papers of Douglas Young.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8144
Scope and Contents
Including a thesis and commentary on Theognis, and notes and correspondence on literary and academic matters.
Dates:
1941-1968.
Typed editorial comments, with author`s notes added, by R L C Lorimer.
File
Identifier: Acc.5767
Scope and Contents
Concerning Thomas Crawford, "Burns: A Study of the Poems and Songs" (1960).
Dates:
circa 1960.
Typescript copy of the journal, 1831-1832, of the Reverend James Robert Boyd.
File
Identifier: Acc.7316
Scope and Contents
Kept during a visit to Edinburgh and the Borders.
With notes and comments by the transcriber John S B Pratt Junior, undated
photocopy of a charcoal sketch, circa 1838, of Dr Boyd
biographical note, 1882.
Dates:
1831-1882.