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'General view of fortification', a treatise based partly on the work of seventeenth-century French authorities, such as the Comte de Pagan, the Chevalier de Ville and the Maréchal de Vauban.
Item
Identifier: MS.10690
Scope and Contents
The treatise contains numerous diagrams. The manuscript is undated, but there is a note by an eighteenth-century owner inside the front cover: 'Wrote in ye year 1738'.
Dates:
[?1738.]
Gilbert Burnet, "Exercitationum seu Quaestionum Philosophicarum Tomus Prior"
Item
Identifier: Acc.4179
Dates:
17th century.
Glossary to Icelandic laws, and treatise on Icelandic topography.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.4.6
Dates:
18th century.
‘Grant manuscript.’
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.2 (1)-(2)
Scope and Contents
The description is taken from the “Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. III. History” (F.R.186).
Dates:
1494-1593, 17th century.
Henri Legludic, "Notes et Observations de Médecine Légale", with two letters of the author to André Raffalovich.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5593
Dates:
1896.
Heraldic collection of John Scrymgeour.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.5.2
Scope and Contents
The material was copied by John Scrymgeour of Myres, presumably for his own use, possibly from Adam Loutfut`s heraldic manuscript (British [Museum] Library, Harleian MS.6149). Some of the items in Loutfut`s manuscript have been omitted, and the rest occur in a different order.Loutfut`s manuscript is described in ‘The Book of the Ordre of Chyvalry’, pages xxvi-xxix. (In the following description, ‘Loutfut MS.1-19` refers to the various sections of the manuscript as listed...
Dates:
1st half of 16th century.
Heraldic collection of Sir David Lindsay.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.20
Scope and Contents
Material copied in the late 16th and early 17th centuries apparently for Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Lord Lyon King of Arms from 1591 to 1620. It is closely related to John Scrymgeour`s manuscript (Adv.MS.31.5.2) in that some of its contents are apparently taken from Adam Loutfut`s manuscript (British [Museum] Library Harleian MS.6149), and the same order of arrangement is followed as by Scrymgeour; but there is also some additional material. Loutfut`s manuscript is described in ‘The...
Dates:
Late 16th century-early 17th century.
Illuminated manuscript of `De civitate Dei` [The City of God] by St Augustine.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.2
Scope and Contents
A manuscript of the City of God, executed in Paris in 1503 for the Cardinal d’Amboise, Archbishop of Rouen, and probably intended for presentation to his brother, Louis, Bishop of Albi. The manuscript was originally in two volumes, with the division at the end of Book X. As a result of this division, folios 149v-150v are left blank, but have been lined and ruled. There are two folios missing, so that the beginning of Book X is wanting. Laborde states that the work was probably written by a...
Dates:
1503.
Institutiones Grammaticae.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.3
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is not listed in ‘A Census of medieval Latin grammatical manuscripts’ by G L Bursill-Hall (Stuttgart, 1981). The text refers to Priscian and other authors, and sometimes gives examples of grammatical usage in Italian. Incipit ‘Cum de gramatica sit ad presens sermo.` It ends with a series of Italian phrases and their Latin equivalents, followed (folio 185 verso) by paragraphs on prosody and on Greek, Hebrew and Latin letters.Written in one humanistic hand...
Dates:
15th century.
‘Institutionum Chemicarum Pars Prima`; a treatise on chemistry in two parts, including comments on other writers on the subject.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.6
Scope and Contents
Mention is made of Nicolas Lemery`s work, published in Paris, `hoc Anno 1713` (folio 10 verso). There are a few small pencil sketches of pieces of equipment, and the work is followed by an index.
Dates:
1713.
Interleaved copy, with numerous manuscript annotations, of ‘Fundamentum Logica vel, Introductio in terminorum cognitionem, in libros Logicorum Aristotelis’ by Jodocus Clichtoveus.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.8
Dates:
2nd half of 16th century.
Italian manuscript of Books 1-5 of 'De consolatione philosophiae' by Boethius.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.14
Scope and Contents
The text ends on folio 105 verso; on folios 106-107 recto in the same hand is a note 'Ad sciendum de vita et morte Boetii Notandum ...'; folios 107 verso and 108 are blank.The text is written in a round Italian gothic hand. There are initials in red and blue, infilled and framed with red and green, at the beginning of each book (folios 1, 15 verso, 35, 63 verso, 87 verso). There are plain initials (some shaded) at the beginning of each section, alternately red and blue; within...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
‘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.
Late 13th-century manuscript of the 'Compendium theologicae veritatis', attributed to Robert Grosseteste but probably by Hugh Ripelin of Strasbourg.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.1
Scope and Contents
Late 13th-century manuscript containing the seven books of the 'Compendium theologicae veritatis' of Hugh Ripelin of Strasbourg. The manuscript is written in littera textualis with 26 to 29 lines to a page.The 'Compendium' is believed to have been compiled by Hugh towards the end of his life, from circa 1260 onwards. The work is divided in to seven books: I The Nature of God; II The Creation; III On Sin; IV The Incarnation; V On Grace, the Virtues, the Beatitudes and the Ten...
Dates:
Late 13th century.
Late 15th-century manuscript containing 'Moralium dogma philosophorum' attributed to Guillaume de Conches, bound with 3 incunabula.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.5
Scope and Contents
15th-century manuscript produced in Italy containing the 'Moralium dogma philosophorum' attributed to Guillaume de Conches. The script and watermark evidence suggest that the manuscript is a work of the late 15th century, probably 1470 and after. The manuscript is the work of one scribe using an Italian humanistic script with 26 lines to a page.The contents of the volume are as follows:Pasted to the inner of the front board is a letter from J. B. Oldham, Librarian,...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Late 15th-century manuscript, probably written in Italy, containing the 'Quaestiones' of Ugo Benzi (Hugo de Siena) and a medical work described as the sixth in a series of 'sermons', possibly related to the works of Nicolaus de Florentia.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.12
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) The ‘Quaestiones’ of Ugo Benzi (Hugo de Siena). This text contains those `de complexionibus (folio 1), `de equali ad pondus’ (folio 5 verso), ‘de etate consistendi` (folio 10), `de modo augmentationis` (folio 16 verso), ‘de malitia complexionis diverse` (folio 20), `utrum virtutes anime distinguantur ab invicem et ab anima` and `per obiecta` (folio 30; the two are not here separated), `de secundo modo equalitatis` (folio 31) and...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Lectures on philosophy, possibly taken down at Marischal College, Aberdeen by John Mair, a student at the college, 1718-1722, and later minister of Forbes and Rayne.
File
Identifier: MS.9859
Scope and Contents
The signature 'John Mair, 1725' occurs on one of the front leaves, and the covers are gilt-stamped 'I.M. 1725'.
The lectures may have been delivered by Mair’s regent, Patrick Hardie.
There are three treatises in the volume:
'Metaphysicæ Synopsis' (page 1);
'Pneumatologie Mantissa' (page 53);
'Introductio ad Ethicam' (page 81).
Dates:
[?1718-?1722.]
Legal treatise concerning to forms of process in Scottish criminal cases.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7785
Dates:
circa 1733.
Letter book, 1775-1787, of the Reverend Andrew Ross.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7740
Scope and Contents
Containing correspondence and copies of documents concerning his attempt in 1775 to abjure his subscription of the Westminster Confession of Faith.
With a memorandum, 1885, of Andrew Ross, and a shorthand treatise, "An Esssay on the Being and Attributes of God".
Dates:
1775-1787, 1885.
Letters in English from the Reverend Donald MacQueen of Kilmuir (died 1785) to the Reverend Dr John Stuart of Luss.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.21
Scope and Contents
The letters consist of the Reverend Donald MacQueen’s detailed comments on the Reverend Dr John Stuart’s Gaelic translation of part of the Old Testament with antiquarian excursi including quotations in Gaelic. The principal such excursi are noted below. (i) Letter of the Reverend Donald MacQueen to the Reverend Dr John Stuart, dated 27 November 1777. Genesis. Cf. ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 36 (1931-1933), page 364. (Folio 1.)(ii) Letter...
Dates:
[Before 1785.]
Letters of Jane Carlyle Aitken, four of her daughter, Mary, and others of the Carlyle family.
File
Identifier: Acc.6267
Scope and Contents
With a copy of "The Saints` Everlasting Rest (1833), inscribed by Thomas Carlyle, and an engraved portrait of him.
Dates:
1833, 1858-? 1866, and undated.
Manuscript, 15th century, of a copy of the `Expositio symboli apostolorum` by Joannes de Marienwerder.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.15
Scope and Contents
The main text (folio 10) is preceded (folio 1) by the anonymous `Tabula expositionis` (see ‘Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi’, numbers 4780 and 4780.1), and followed (folio 142 verso) by ` De octo beatitudinibus` (‘Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi’, number 4780, 1.1). The latter appears to be incomplete, breaking off after the third Beatitude.The manuscript is in one hand throughout, with the exception of folio 146. Written in brown ink with large initials, headings and chapter...
Dates:
15th century
Manuscript containing various legal works, compiled in 1704.
File
Identifier: MS.9248
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Abridgement of ‘Jus Feudale’ by Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton. The text is in a considerably shorter form than the usual epitomes (for which see MS.1950 and Adv.MSS.25.6.1-2, 28.3.14), and omits book i, 11 and 13, book ii, 5 and 15, and book iii, 4 and 7. (Folio 1.)(ii) "Inventory of ane Burges's airship moveables". (Folio 88.) (iii) Latin mottoes. (Folio 90.)(iv) Notes on land measures in Scotland and weights...
Dates:
[1704, or before.]
Manuscript entitled ‘Traite du Blazon’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.19
Scope and Contents
The treatise is in thirty-five chapters and is followed (folio 105) by explanatory notes to the illustrations, and (folio 127) by the illustrations themselves, which are in trick. It is preceded (folio 1 verso) by a diagram of the divisions of a field.Three folios which probably contained the title page and dedication have been removed from between folios 2 and 3. Offsets of the dedication survive, from which it appears that the author`s name was Bonin, and that he presented his...
Dates:
1678.