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Treatise on the jurisdiction and form of proceeding in the High Court of Star Chamber, written in the reign of James I.
Treatise on the law relating to pupils and minors and their tutors and curators.
‘The tutors guide or the principle of the civil and municipal laws and curators relating to pupils and minors and their tutors and curators laid down in an easy and natural method in three parts viz (i) of tutors; (2) of curators; (3) of things common to both’.
The manuscript is in the hand of John Chalmers, written about 1732.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (W.5.20).
`Treatise on the Provincial Dialect of Scotland`, a work in two volumes by Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie.
Treatises on alchemy.
Treatises on medicine, astronomy and astrology written by Francisco Argilagues of Valencia, mostly while he was studying medicine at Siena in 1472-1473, with an addition made at Padua in 1480.
'Treaty of surnames in general, but especially those of Scotland’ by Sir James Balfour, Lyon King of Arms.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (A.7.29).
Two collections of writings of Allan Ramsay, in his hand.
Two English medical manuscripts of the 12th century (each with later additions), bound together probably in the medieval period; the second at least belonged to a monk of Peterborough.
Two manuscripts bound together, containing the burgh laws, ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam Attachiamenta’, statutes, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots.
Volume containing a fair copy (possibly the original) of `Ane treatise of the Happie and Blissed Vnioun, betuixt the tua ancienne realmes of Scotland and England ... ` by John Russell (folio 1), followed by `Ane wther treatise, contiening the deuty and office, of ane Christiane prince, ...` (folio 21).
The manuscript is the earlier of two known copies, the other being in the British Library, Royal MS 18.A.LXXVI. This copy appears to have been written between May and October 1604: the other, which contains numerous differences, appears to have been written after October 1604, and probably in 1605, and was probably presented to King James.
Volume containing inter alia translations or copies, 1706 or after, of treatises on maritime law, chancery styles, and Crown patrimony, an index to Stair’s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, and copies of Scottish patents, 16th and 17th century.
The manuscript is in the hand of Robert Mylne, and his initials are recorded on the inside front cover. The latest document is dated 1706, and the manuscript was probably written soon after that date. On the flyleaf a contemporary hand has written `This Book Considering the Valuable Miscellanies therein cannot be sold under ten dollars at least [[ … ]] I.V.G.`