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Lecture notes.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Notes made with reference to a lecture, both those from which the lecturer speaks, and those taken by people in attendance.

Found in 467 Collections and/or Records:

Notes of the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson for a lecture on the dialects and place-names of Atholl and Breadalbane., [Before 1928.]

 File
Identifier: MS.426
Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates: [Before 1928.]

Notes of William Cullen's lectures, taken by John Brown, the medical reformer., 1767-1768.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2078-2083
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.

Dates: 1767-1768.

Notes of William Cullen’s physiology lectures, xxxv-lxix, January-February 1767, taken by John Brown, the medical reformer., 1767.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2082-2083
Scope and Contents

The volumes are labelled '2’ and ‘3'.

There are two lectures numbered lv.

This does not seem to be the same series as MSS.2078-2080, or the lectures are differently arranged.

Dates: 1767.

Notes on Aristotle and Sacrobosco written by Alexander Henryson (M.A. 1614) from the lectures of Regent James Reid at Edinburgh University .

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.3
Scope and Contents The works discussed are: Aristotle:‘Ethica Nicomachea’ (folios 3-48);‘Physica’ (folios 49-95);‘de Caelo’ (folios 97-111 recto);Johannes de Sacrobosco: ‘de Sphera’ (folios 111 verso-171); Aristotle:‘de Generatione et Corruptione’ (folios 172-210);‘Meteorologica’ (folios 211-222); and,‘de Anima’ (folios 223-284). There are also some notes on religious and...
Dates: 1613-1614.

Notes on astronomy, from the lectures of Professor William Law at Edinburgh University, by John Erskine.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.3
Scope and Contents

The notes consist of commentaries on Ptolomy`s ‘Almagest’ and descriptions of the rotations of the planets, with several sketches. There is also part of a lecture on biology (‘De Corpore Animato`, folio 79); some pages are missing at the end of the latter lecture.

Dates: 1693.

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).

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.6.2
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1732-1733.

Notes on logic, arithmetic and ethics, taken by John Hamilton at Glasgow University from the lectures of his regent, Hugo Binning.

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Identifier: MS.9380
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1648-1649.

Notes on logic by Robert Johnstone of Wamphray (Master of Arts, 1695), probably from the lectures of Regent Andrew Massie at Edinburgh University.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.5
Scope and Contents

The date is taken from folio 17.

Some pages at the end of the notebook are missing.

Dates: 1695.

Notes on logic, from the lectures of Regent Andrew Burnet at Glasgow University, by Sir Charles Erskine of Alva.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.6.1
Scope and Contents

The name Alexander Dundas also appears.

The lectures are in two parts: a ‘Compendium Logicæ` (folio 1), and ‘Disputationes Logicæ’ (folio 77).

Dates: 1659-1660.

Notes on logic, from the lectures of Regent Andrew Massie at Edinburgh University, by James Erskine (Master of Arts, 1687).

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.1
Scope and Contents

Several pages at the beginning of the volume are missing.

Dates: 1685.

Notes on logic, from the lectures of William Law, Regent, and later Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University, by John Ershine.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.2
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1691.