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15th-century manuscript of the 'Moralia in Job' of Pope Gregory I.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.6
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Scotland containing Books XXIII-XXXV of Pope Gregory I's 'Commentary on Job', also known as the 'Moralia, sive Expositio in Job', or the 'Magna Moralia'.The manuscript was written in the 15th century, before 1483, at which date it was donated to Dunkeld Cathedral. Watermark evidence also suggests a date of the latter half of the 15th century.The work is written in double columns on folios 1r-15v and in a single block of text from folios 16r-187r,...
Dates:
15th century, before 1483.
15th-century manuscript of uncertain origin which contains miscellaneous works, mostly theological
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) A version of the first two parts of the `Secretum Secretorum`. It corresponds to the text published in ‘Opera ... Rogeri Baconi’, fascicle V, pages 38-75, but is a very much shorter version, omitting the whole of caps. ii (the prologue of John), iv and viii, and many passages elsewhere. There are a few insertions and corrections in another hand. Begins `Quando allexander subiugavit sibi perses`. Ends `una vice post aliam et sic...
Dates:
15th century.
15th-century manuscript written in the Low Countries containing devotional texts.
Item
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.
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.
15th-century transcript of the chartulary of Dryburgh Abbey.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.7
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in Scotland containing the chartulary of Dryburgh, a Premonstratensian Abbey founded in 1150 and dissolved in 1606. Davis, Borland, and Spottiswoode date the manuscript to the 15th century.The manuscript is the work of one hand and has apparently been transcribed from an earlier compilation. The material covers the 12th to the 14th centuries, with the last entry dated 1338. The chartulary is arranged in a roughly topographical order, with copies of...
Dates:
15th century.
16 documents, mostly orders for payment out of the Public Revenue.
File
Identifier: Acc.3709- is now MS.9931, ff 102-125.
Dates:
1625-1668, 19th century.
16 Gaelic manuscripts including the "Book of the Dean of Lismore".
Collection
Identifier: Acc.7764- is now Adv.MSS.72.1.37-50, Adv.MSS.72.2.1-2
Dates:
16th century to 18th century.
16 letters concerning a bridge and a ferry over the Clyde near Lanark.
File
Identifier: Acc.3383- is now MS.10789, ff.141-172.
Dates:
1834-1846.
16 letters of John Aitken Carlyle to William and Archibald Glen.
File
Identifier: Acc.5311
Dates:
1832-1865.
16 letters of John S Blackie, probably to Chapman and Hall.
File
Identifier: Acc.7859
Scope and Contents
Concerning his publications.
Dates:
circa 1875-circa 1877.
16 letters to William Blackwood and Sons from poets, including Thomas Moore, thomas Aird, Charles Mackay, and Caroline Anne Bowles.
File
Identifier: Acc.5307- is now MS.30968-30969.
Dates:
1819-1846.
16 pencil drawings by Alexander Nasmyth for "Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley" (Edinburgh, 1821).
File
Identifier: Acc.11900
Dates:
circa 1821.
16 plans and drawings for the construction of the Royal Border Bridge.
File
Identifier: Acc.6874
Dates:
1847-1850.
16 typescript descriptions of "Motoring by-ways round Edinburgh", illustrated with photographs.
File
Identifier: Acc.8329
Dates:
circa 1950.
16th-century manuscript containing a register of charters and leases of St Andrews Priory, Pittenweem Priory and the archbishopric of St Andrews, covering the years 1553-1574.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.3
Scope and Contents
16th-century manuscript written in Scotland, containing a register of charters and leases covering the years 1553-1574.Davis has dated the manuscript to the second half of the 16th century. The volume is multi-scribal, containing entries in various contemporary hands.Affixed to the beginning of the volume, folio ii, is an analysis of the contents by James David Forbes, who at that time was principal of the United College at the University of St Andrews.The...
Dates:
2nd half of 16th century.
16th-century manuscript containing the Accounts of the Archbishopric of St Andrews, covering the years 1539-1549.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.2
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Scotland, containing accounts of the Archbishopric of St Andrews from October 1539 to May 1549. The entries provide information on the different kinds of grain delivered and expended as rendered by the 'Granitarius', and on the more general cash accounts rendered by the 'Camerarius'.Borland suggests that the work is written by one hand. A section from folios 46r-65r, however, exhibits a different character of writing with distinctive pen-strokes, although...
Dates:
Circa 1549.
16th-century manuscript containing the 'Vie de saint Louis' of Jean de Joinville.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.16
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in France containing the Life of Saint Louis by Jean de Joinville. The work was probably written circa 1550, certainly after 1547. It appears to be a presentation copy, with the text corresponding to the 1547 edition by Antoine Pierre de Rieux. As in the printed edition, the main text of the manuscript is introduced by prefaces by Antoine Pierre de Rieux and Guillaume de La Perrière.The text is the work of one hand, written in a gothic littera bastarda script...
Dates:
Circa 1550.
16th-century manuscript of the 'Lives of the bishops of Dunkeld' by Alexander Myln.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.4
Scope and Contents
Myln was a canon of Dunkeld who served as Official of the diocese from 1513 to 1519 when he was appointed Abbot of Cambuskenneth. R K Hannay, in his introduction to ‘Rentale Dunkeldense’, page xii, suggests that the manuscript was revised, if not written by Thomas Brown, who succeeded Myln as Clerk of accounts in Dunkeld in 1511. The text includes events which took place late in 1516, but was composed before Myln succeeded to Cambuskenneth.The opening pages are...
Dates:
16th century.
16th-century manuscript of the romance 'Clariodus', a translation of a French prose original into Older Scots verse.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.5
Scope and Contents
The Manuscript is imperfect; according to the old foliation, seven folios are missing at the beginning, and another one or more at the end. A passage of eight lines has been pasted in on folio 125 verso.
Written in one hand throughout, with large decorative initials at the beginning of each book. Watermark of pot with letters IB (cf. Briquet number 12804).
Dates:
16th century.
17 Christmas cards and letters of William McLaren, artist, to Winifred Hamilton-Meikle. Many of the cards are original artworks.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13183
Dates:
1953-1973.
17 farm work journals of Auchinleck.
File
Identifier: Acc.10108- now deaccessioned.
Dates:
1772-1790.
17 letters and postcards of S. R. Crockett.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.2926- is now MS.8887, f.151.
Dates:
1890-1903.
17 letters, circa 1752-circa 1781, of and to Hugh Hume Campbell, 3rd Earl of Marchmont.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.7770
Scope and Contents
Concerning estate and family matters.
With six letters and other papers, 1674-1766, concerning Bruce Campbell and his family.
Dates:
1674-circa 1781.