Compendiums.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Works containing in a smaller document the substance or general principles of larger works, often serving as a supplement to the larger work.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Compendium containing copies of several treatises on Scots Law., 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.1951
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) 'Institution of the Colledge of Justice', describing the foundation of the College, its procedure and personnel (page i), preceded by an index (folio ii); it appears to have been written after 1613;(ii) Hope's ‘Minor practicks’ (page 45), preceded by an index (page 41);(iii) 'Practiques observed befor The Lords of Sessione Collected alphabeticallie be (?)rj from 1627 to 1637' (page 141), preceded by an index (page 133);...
Dates:
17th century.
Compendium relating to kirklands, teinds, stipends, etc., and miscellaneous law notes., Late 17th century-early 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.1943
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Compendium relating to kirklands, teinds, stipends, etc., and containing abstracts, practiques, copies of decisions, and correspondence of the reign of Charles I, commencing with a list of the religious houses in Scotland, with their district, order, and founder (folio i);
(ii) Miscellaneous law-notes, citing decisions from 1666 to 1675 (page 295) with an index (page 551).
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.
“Wingate's arithmetick compendiz'd”, undated, by Thomas Ruddiman., 4th quarter of 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.20491
Scope and Contents
Edmund Wingate's textbook ‘Arithmetique made easie’ went through several editions in the seventeenth century. This compendium by Thomas Ruddiman, though undated, presumably belongs to his youth.
The manuscript is labelled ‘RD, II’.
Dates:
4th quarter of 17th century.