The contents are as follows:

(i) 'William, Anne, and George I - drama, essayists' (folio 1);

(ii) 'Pope' (folio 17);

(iii) 'Swift, Addison' (folio 40);

(iv) 'Samuel Johnson' (folio 60), and a fragment on the same subject (folio 80);

(v) Two lectures on 'Daniel Defoe' (folios 84, 104);

(vi) 'Novelist - Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, etc.' (folio 116), and a fragment on Walpole (folio 136).

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'The ballads of Scotland' (folio 1), and two fragments on the same subject (folios 39, 51);

(ii) 'The ballads of modern Europe' (folio 57);

(iii) Four fragments on ballads (folios 79, 84, 90, 93);

(iv) 'Ballad poetry of Europe', delivered at Glasgow (folio 96);

(v) 'Oral literature', incomplete (folio 106).

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'The Poetry of Ossian and his times' (folio 1);

(ii) 'The dark ages' (folio 21);

(iii) 'The age of chivalry, the troubadours and the Anglo-Norman romances' (folio 39);

(iv) 'Roman de Rose, romances of King Arthur and Charlemagne, and Italian poems founded on the latter subject' (folio 59).

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'The Norsemen and their literature' (folio 1);

(ii) Two fragments on 'Norse history and influence' (folios 24, 25);

(iii) 'Song of the Nibelungen' (folio 43);

(iv) ‘On Anglo-Saxon literature’, incomplete (folio 66);

(v) Three lectures on 'Anglo-Saxon literature', the third incomplete (folios 76, 96, 110).

The contents are as follows:

(i) Two lectures on the 'Age of Homer' (folios 1, 24);

(ii) Two lectures on the 'Age of Greek drama' (folios 47, 76); with a translation from the "'Agamemnon' of Aeschylus" (folio 100).

There are six lectures, the third and fifth incomplete (folios 1, 30, 58, 81, 112, 134), and a fragment (folio 163).

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'The rise of Roman literature', incomplete (folio 1), and four fragments on the same subject (folios 21, 27, 34, 39);

(ii) 'Ennius' (folio 49);

(iii) Two lectures on 'Virgil' (folios 63, 85);

(iv) 'Ovid' (folio 109), and a fragment on the same subject (folio 103).

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'Formal rhetoric', delivered in 1851 (folio 1);

(ii) 'Divisions of a discourse' (folio 63);

(iii) 'Conduct of a discourse' (folio 83);

(iv) Three lectures on 'The structure of sentences', the first apparently written before 1858 (folios 106, 127, 148), with fragments, 1846, on the same subject (folio 173).

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'Ornaments'; the subjects dealt with include arrangement, tropes, metaphor, epithets, and hyperbole (folio 1);

(ii) 'Personification' (folio 42);

(iii) Three lectures on 'Elocution' (folios 64, 87, 104);

(iv) 'Public speaking' (folio 132);

(v) 'Eloquence' (folio 164).

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (Jac.V.6.22).

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (Jac.V.6.23).

Also included are two lectures on the Psalms (folios 24, 75).

Pieter Burman the elder was Professor of History, Greek, and Eloquence at Leyden from 1715 to 1741. In these lectures he seems to have used the work of Tursellinus (Orazio Torsellino, 1545-1599; the ‘Historiarum Epitome’ was first published in 1620, and frequently reprinted) as a framework for discourses on universal history. The writer of the dictates is unknown.

Pieter Burman the elder was Professor of History, Greek, and Eloquence at Leyden from 1715 to 1741. In these lectures he seems to have used the work of Tursellinus (Orazio Torsellino, 1545-1599; the ‘Historiarum Epitome’ was first published in 1620, and frequently reprinted) as a framework for discourses on universal history. The writer of the dictates is unknown.

Pieter Burman the elder was Professor of History, Greek, and Eloquence at Leyden from 1715 to 1741. In these lectures he seems to have used the work of Tursellinus (Orazio Torsellino, 1545-1599; the ‘Historiarum Epitome’ was first published in 1620, and frequently reprinted) as a framework for discourses on universal history. The writer of the dictates is unknown.