Lecture notes.
Found in 152 Collections and/or Records:
Notes on forensic medicine from lectures delivered by Sir Henry Duncan Littlejohn, Physician, while Professor of Forensic Medicine at Edinburgh University, 1897-1906.
Notes on Herodotus and Livy, apparently written from lectures in 1732-1733 by someone called Erskine (`Erskine` and the dates November 11, 1732, December 2, February 10, March 17 and April 7 are at the end of each section).
The notes are on passages, sometimes consecutive but often widely separated, of Herodotus book 1, and Livy books 1-4, chapter 6; the manuscript is incomplete at the end. They are explanatory of the subject-matter, in Herodotus especially proper names, in Livy especially constitutional matters; other ancient authors are freely cited, and once (folio 6 verso) Abraham Crawley is quoted.
Notes on lectures delivered in 1829 at the London Mechanics' Institute by George Birbeck, physician, on mechanical philosophy, and by ?? Wallis on astronomy.
Notes on logic, arithmetic and ethics, taken by John Hamilton at Glasgow University from the lectures of his regent, Hugo Binning.
The notes are regularly dated, and consist of lectures on syllogisms, 'De structura syllogismi' (folio 1), a commentary on ‘Posterior analytics’ by Aristotle (folio 292), lectures on arithmetic (folio 366) and a commentary on ‘Ethics’ by Aristotle (folio 378).
Notes on logic by Robert Johnstone of Wamphray (Master of Arts, 1695), probably from the lectures of Regent Andrew Massie at Edinburgh University.
The date is taken from folio 17.
Some pages at the end of the notebook are missing.
Notes on logic, from the lectures of Regent Andrew Burnet at Glasgow University, by Sir Charles Erskine of Alva.
The name Alexander Dundas also appears.
The lectures are in two parts: a ‘Compendium Logicæ` (folio 1), and ‘Disputationes Logicæ’ (folio 77).
Notes on logic, from the lectures of Regent Andrew Massie at Edinburgh University, by James Erskine (Master of Arts, 1687).
Several pages at the beginning of the volume are missing.
Notes on logic, from the lectures of William Law, Regent, and later Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University, by John Ershine.
The notes consist of a short introduction to logic, followed by the first part of Law`s course of lectures (folio 14 to `finis prima partis logico`, folio 81). There are also some notes on the derivation of square roots, with six problems for calculation (folios 82-84), and scraps of poetry and Latin proverbs on the fly-leaves.
Notes on logic written by James Kennan from the lectures of Regent Herbert Kennedy at Edinburgh University.
"Notes on Mr. Erskine's Praelections on Sir George McKenzie's 'Institutions of the Law of Scotland', Sess. 1740/1", apparently taken by Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, of Minto.
Notes on natural philosophy, written at King`s College, Aberdeen.
Notes on part of a series of lectures on Scottish Law given by David Hume, Baron of the Exchequer, probably in 1803, which is apparently the latest date quoted in the text (folio 200); the fifth (folio iii) of a series of six or more volumes.
The notes are written on one side of the leaf only (watermark dated 1798), in an unidentified hand: brief additions are written in pencil on the versos of a few of the leaves by `WRR` (folio 38 verso), apparently William Rose Robinson of Clermiston, who was admitted advocate in 1804, and who was no doubt the next owner of the notes. A summary index of the subjects covered in the volume is written in the original hand at folio iii.
Notes on philosophy and physics, written probably from the lectures of Regent Charles Erskine at Edinburgh University by Patrick Wilkie (M.A., 1704), later minister of Haddington.
The notes consist of lectures on moral philosophy [`Pneumatologia` (folio 4), and `Elementa Philosophia Moralis seu Ethicae’, (folio 85)], and on physics [`Annotationes in Joannis Clerici Physicam’, (folio 133)].
Notes on philosophy, from the lectures of Professor William Law at Edinburgh University, by William Haldane.
The name David Smyth also appears.
There are three courses of lectures in the notebook: ‘Tractatus Metaphysicus` (folio 2); `Pneumatologia` (folio 23); and `Elementa Philosophia Moralis` (folio 49).
Notes on philosophy written by James Bisset from the lectures of Thomas Nicolson, Regent at Glasgow University (later, Vicar Apostolic of Scotland).
The notes are on:
logic (folios 1-105);
metaphysics (folios 106-157); and,
moral philosophy (folios 158-206).
Notes on philosophy, written from the lectures of Regent Andrew Burnet at Glasgow University, by Sir Charles Erskine of Alva.
The lectures comprise disputations on metaphysics (folio 1), and a separate series of disputations on ethics (folio 63); they are regularly dated and complete, excepting the front page of the first series.
"Notes on Political Œconomy From Prof: Stewart's Lectures at Edinburgh, from Novr. 1803 to April 1804."
Notes on the Romans, and on a Greek author, written by Sir Charles Erskine of Alva, probably from the lectures of his Regent, Andrew Burnet, at Glasgow University.
The volume contains part of a series of lectures on the social, religious, and cultural life of the Romans (folios 1-38), very incomplete due to missing pages. An inverted series of notes contains a glossary or vocabulary to the oration of Isocrates to Demonicus, sections 1-9, also very incomplete (inverted folios 1-12). Two pages (inverted folios 13-14) contain an ink sketch of a man training a horse.
Notes, probably by C C Kotzebue, of the lectures of Pieter Burmann on Suetonius, ‘De vita Caesarum’.
‘Dictata V.C. Petri Burmanni in C Suetonii Tranquilli, D. Ceasares’. A neat manuscript of notes of prælections on Suetonuis.
Notes, probably by C C Kotzebue, of the lectures of Pieter Burmann on Suetonius, ‘De vita Caesarum’.
Notes taken by Alexander Cunningham, afterwards Sir Alexander Dick, Baronet, of Prestonfield, when attending Herman Boerhaave’s lectures in Leyden from 1724 to 1726, interleaved with Herman Boerhaave’s ‘Institutiones medicae’, 3rd edition (1720), wanting all after page 320.
Notes taken by David Cleghorn, Writer to the Signet, of lectures on Scots Law delivered by David Hume at Edinburgh University.
Notes taken by Gaspar de l`Eglise from lectures on literature and philosophy given by James Cheyne at the Collège de Ste-Barbe, Paris
Notes taken by John Oliphant at St Andrews University from the lectures on Aristotle delivered by George Martin, Provost at St Salvator's College.
The volume is incomplete.
Notes, taken by Wilhelm Ludwig Becker, of the lectures of Christoph August Heumann at Göttingen on his ‘Conspectus reipublicae literariae’, based on the expanded text of the 3rd and subsequent editions.
The notes on chapter v are divided in two (pages 725, 846); otherwise the order of the published work is reproduced exactly (notes on chapter i begin on page 3, on ii on page 9, on iii on page 14, on iv on page 28, on vi on page 726, on vii on page 786).