Recipes. Instructions (document genre)
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Account book of Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton, containing memoranda, list of debts, and accounts, 1727-1728., 1726-1728.
Item
Identifier: MS.16957
Scope and Contents
The accounts relate chiefly to the estate of Aberlady (see MSS.17450-17472).
There is also a legal note, 1726 (folio 2 inverted), and two recipes (folio 5 verso inverted).
Dates:
1726-1728.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Financial papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Financial books of Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton.
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Account books of Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton.
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Octavo account books of Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton.
Accounts, chiefly relating to the household of Mary of Lorraine, but with a few items of the late 16th century., 1532-1600, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.5
Scope and Contents
Unless otherwise stated all items are in French. Accounts of Jacques Girard, treasurer; Longueville, 25 May 1544 (folios 1-6; the correct order should be folios 1-2, 5, 4, 3, 6). - There is a partial translation in ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 4), page xxvii.Wine account of Jean Mean, butler to Mary, Queen of Scots, March 1544 (folios 7-8).Building expenses at Stirling Castle, March-April 1544 (folio...
Dates:
1532-1600, and undated.
‘Antidotarium` by Nicolaus., 14th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.9(i), folios 1-48
Scope and Contents
The text is preceded by a list of medicines mentioned (folio 1). On folios 43 verso-48 are recipes in several 14th- and 15th-century hands.
Initials are in red or blue with tracery in the other colour.
Dates:
14th century.
‘Ceo sunt quentyses bones et esproves`. Miscellaneous recipes in Anglo-Norman.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.9(iii), folios 32 verso-33 recto
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Sections iv-vii are in the same hand. Folios 33 verso-34 verso are blank. There are a few pen drawings of faces in the margins.
Fragments of a 13th-century contents list from a collection of sermons have been used as binding strips; other fragments from the same source are in Adv.MS.18.2.4 and 18.4.5.
Dates:
14th century.
'De modo medendi' by Gerard, incipit 'De modo medendi vel ordine cum corpus sit purgandum'., 13th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.1(ii), folios 7-23
Scope and Contents
Initials are in red and green.
At the end in three hands are added recipes and notes, one in French (`La confexion de Noygages`) (14th century, folio 23 verso).
Dates:
13th century.
End of an unidentified work on the degrees of medicine, explicit 'et passionario et protinus aliis libris ut modicam pararet ualitatem'., 13th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.1(v)
Scope and Contents
There is no ornament.
At the end are added recipes in French (15th century, folio 156 verso).
Dates:
13th century.
Fragments of ‘Secretum secretorum’ by pseudo-Aristotle., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.11F, folios 50-65
Scope and Contents
(i) A paragraph from ‘Secretum secretorum’ by pseudo-Aristotle, incipit `Reges sunt quatuor: Rex largus sibi` (‘Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Bacon’, fascicle v, pages 42-43) (folio 50).(ii) The medical and physical sections of ‘Secretum secretorum’ by pseudo-Aristotle, incipit `Nunc vero plus [sic] tradere volo doctrinam medicinalem` (‘Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Bacon’, fascicle v, pages 64-99, 123-140) (folio 51). There is a gap after folio 58, corresponding to ‘Opera...
Dates:
15th century.
Medical treatise covering illnesses of various parts of the body, recipes, and a work on the significance of thunder in the twelve signs of the zodiac., 14th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.9(v), folios 81-156
Scope and Contents
Medical treatise in French covering illnesses of various parts of the body, incipit ‘Euporiston est celt liure apele ceo est a dire bien esproue` (folio 81). The first part of this text is published in ‘Documents manuscrits de l’ancienne littérature de la France conservés dans les bibliotèques de la Grande-Bretagne’, page 111. There are frequent marginal additions.Folios 147 verso-148 blank.Recipes in French in several hands (folio 149).On the significance...
Dates:
14th century.
Miscellaneous papers and books of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1543-1924.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.7.1-80.7.14
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers, with some exceptions, have been arranged in the following categories:Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.1.18: Correspondence.80.2.1-80.2.66: Financial papers.80.3.1-80.3.57: Account books.80.4.1-80.4.16: Miscellaneous estate papers.80.5.1-80.5.6: Legal papers.80.6.1-80.6.14: Notes and notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas, Advocate.80.7.1-80.7.14: Miscellaneous papers and books.The main exceptions are...
Dates:
1543-1924.
Miscellaneous papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 17th century-19th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.7.2
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) `Vtrum Episcopus Romanus sit Antichristus necne? Problema Theologicum de quo ... M. Thomas Londius publice respondebit in Scholis Theologicis Academiae Andreanae, 29 July 1602.` A version (with some additional matter) of the text printed by R Waldegrave (folio 1).(ii) Catalogue of books belonging to Laurence Dundas, Professor of Humanity, Edinburgh, with places and dates of publication, 1735 (folio 7).(iii)...
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Recipes, medical and other., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.11G, folios 66-92
Scope and Contents
The recipes on folios 71 verso and 72 verso are attributed to Mr William of Bristowe. On folio 90 verso is one for dyeing silk. On folio 92 is a description of a choleric man.On folio 66 is the first stanza of `A Dietary` by John Lydgate (‘The Minor Poems of John Lydgate’, volume ii, page 702). On folio 89 verso is an extract, headed `De spermate hominis’, from the South English Legendary, St Michael (‘The Early South English Legendary’, pages 319-320, 11.702-11.729; ‘The South...
Dates:
15th century.
Seven works on medical subjects., 13th century.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.1(iv), folios 32-151
Scope and Contents
`Practica’ by Bartolomaeus Salernitanus; printed in ‘Collectio Salernitana’, volume 4, page 321). Author and title are not given. (Folio 32.)`Practica` by Joannes Platearius. (Folio 68.) At the end are added a series of recipes (14th century, folios 111-112). There are notes, 15th century, in the lower margins of folios 72, 75 verso, 86, and 111 verso.`Exceptiones de disputatione phisicorum et arte medicorum`. (Folio 112 verso.)`Liber aureus` by Joannes...
Dates:
13th century.
`Summa magistri Walteri de Agelon facta de dosis medicinarum`, and a list of symptoms., 14th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.9(iii), folios 59-68
Scope and Contents
`Summa magistri Walteri de Agelon facta de dosis medicinarum`, incipit `Medicinarum uero quedam sunt simplices quedam composite` (‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column 860) (folio 59).A list of symptoms, incipit `Significat solutionem se acute mediante fluxu sanguinis a naribus’ (folio 65 verso).Vacant spaces are filled in by different hands of the 14th and 15th centuries with recipes (folios 65, 68 verso, some of the latter in...
Dates:
14th century.
Translation, by Constantinus Africanus, of 'De gradibus simplicum' by Isaac (Isḥāq ibn Sulaiman al-Isrā’li), and the end of an unidentified work., 13th century.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.1(i), folios 1-6
Scope and Contents
End of an unidentified work, explicit `De ueconia si quis ante prandium sumpserit non ebrius fiet`. (Folio 1.)`De gradibus simplicum` by Isaac (Isḥāq ibn Sulaiman al-Isrā’li), translated by Constantinus Africanus. The author is not named and the title is given as `liber gradum`, incipit `Absinthium calidum vel siccum in 1º gradu` (cf. ‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column 11). (Folio 1.) Initials and headings are in red....
Dates:
13th century.