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 11 Collections and/or Records:
‘Compend or breviarie of the most substantiall poynts relateing to the law, extracted forth of the bookes of that learned Jurisconsult D[ominus] T[homas] C[raig] relating upon the feudall law’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.14
Dates:
17th century.
Compendium of charters, concerning the Principality of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3698
Dates:
circa 1600-1627.
Compendium of medical treatises in Gaelic written by Angus Beaton.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.10
Scope and Contents
The compendium of medical treatises was written 1611-1614 by Angus Beaton. He gives only his patronymic, Aonghus mac Fearchair mhic Aonghuis (pages 126, 192, 260), but this is sufficient to identify him as of the Beatons of Husabost in Skye. Apart from one visit to Skye (Trumpan, page 66), and a meeting or consultation with Cameron of Lochiel at a place called Dunán Eachain (page 106), Angus’ line-fillers and other notes indicate that the manuscript was written on circuit in the contiguous...
Dates:
1611-1614.
Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1540-1549, 1570-1593, collected, late 17th century, by Alexander Colvill, and John or Henry Sinclair.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.1.4
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'Sinclair, Maitland, Culroes, decisions MS’, to which Thomas Ruddiman has prefixed a note which informs us that it was a copy from the originals in the library of Sir Alexander Seton of Pitmedden, who has himself explained the collection;(ii) Subjoined to it is ‘a compend of decisions by an uncertain author’;(iii) Transcript of the manuscript inventory of pious donations from James I’s reign to that of James VI....
Dates:
1540-1549, 1570-1593.
Literary journal and digest of reading of Alexander Irvine.
File
Identifier: Acc.9025
Dates:
1800-1804.
Manuscript known as ‘Neil MacBeath’s Psalter’, containing medical notes in Gaelic and prayers and Psalm 118 in Latin.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.4
Scope and Contents
This remarkably small, chubby manuscript, ‘Neil MacBeath’s Psalter’, is described by David McRoberts in ‘Two Hebridean liturgical items’, page 171, with a plate showing its external appearance. ‘Cleric and physician’, he concludes, ‘he . . . had in his vade-mecum, which he would fasten to his belt, all the literature he required (his substitute for the Divine Office and his medical notes) when he set out to attend to the souls and bodies of his parishioners’. The ‘Divine Office’ is Psalm...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Microfilm of three Gaelic manuscripts of religious and medical texts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.666
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘1467 MS.’ written by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail and the Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’, written by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín, [circa 1425, circa 1467], (Adv.MS.72.1.1);
Manuscript, 16th century-17th century, containing a medical compendium, in Gaelic, asembled by the Mull Beatons (Adv.MS.72.1.2);
‘Materia medica’, 15th century, formerly belonging to the Beaton family of physicians (Adv.MS.72.1.3).
Dates:
15th century-17th century.
Microfilm of various Gaelic manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1365
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, 1462, known as the ‘Emanuel Manuscript’, containing 'An Cath Cathardha', written by Tadhg Ó Cianáin (Adv.MS.72.1.46);Gaelic version of classic epics, 14th-15th century (Adv.MS.72.1.8);Continuation of Adv.MS.72.1.43: 17th century copy of Foundation of Knowledge of Ireland; or History of Ireland. A narrative history by Geoffrey Keating (Adv.MS.72.2.1);Compendium of medical treatises, 1611-1614, in Gaelic written by...
Dates:
14th century-17th century.
Pocket-book of Sir John Gordon of Invergordon, containing a digest of ten pocket-books of memoranda.
Item
Identifier: MS.108
Scope and Contents
The subjects include a family pedigree with chart and blazonings, accounts of income and expenditure, estate accounts and other business, receipts from the Principality of Scotland, prices, journeys, from Edinburgh to London, politics and elections, household recipes, verses.
Dates:
1754-1759.
Sir George Lockhart’s compendium, 17th century, of Durie’s ‘Practicks’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.4.14
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (a.7.46).
Dates:
1621-1642.
Various manuscripts written or owned by Thomas Ruddiman.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20491-20496
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts are lettered RA-RK (RC missing) and some also have Roman numerals.
Dates:
4th quarter of 17th century-1st half of 18th century.