Treatises.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Formal and systematic written expositions of the principles of a subject, generally longer and more detailed than essays.
Found in 97 Collections and/or Records:
`A Treatise concerning averidge Written originallie in Dutch by Quijntyn Weytsen Counseller to the King of Spain in the Court of Holland.`
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.2(iv), folios 34-40r
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The manuscript is in the hand of Robert Mylne, and his initials are recorded on the inside front cover. The latest document is dated 1706, and the manuscript was probably written soon after that date. On the flyleaf a contemporary hand has written `This Book Considering the Valuable Miscellanies therein cannot be sold under ten dollars at least [[ … ]] I.V.G.`
Dates:
16th century-1706.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Volume containing inter alia translations or copies, 1706 or after, of treatises on maritime law, chancery styles, and Crown patrimony, an index to Stair’s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, and copies of Scottish patents, 16th and 17th century.
'A treatise of algebra', signed 'Carre, his book', with a partially erased date, probably 1743., ?1743.
Item
Identifier: MS.5455
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The Nisbet papers fall into four groups, belonging respectively to the Nisbets of that Ilk, the original owners of the estate; the Kers (later Carres) of Cavers and West Nisbet; who acquired the estate in 1649; the Chisholmes of that Ilk, connected by marriage to Charles St Clair, 15th Lord Sinclair, who succeeded to the estate some time before 1813; and William Molleson, probably related to the sister of Charles St Clair, de jure 13th Lord Sinclair.
Dates:
?1743.
Anonymous treatise on mystic theology., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.1896
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:
19th century.
‘Antidotarium` by Nicolaus., 14th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.9(i), folios 1-48
Scope and Contents
The text is preceded by a list of medicines mentioned (folio 1). On folios 43 verso-48 are recipes in several 14th- and 15th-century hands.
Initials are in red or blue with tracery in the other colour.
Dates:
14th century.
Assamese ‘parabaik’, or folding manuscript, bearing magical drawings and written charms., Undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.1899
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:
Undated.
Chronicle of England, and theological works., 14th century.
File
Identifier: MS.6125
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'Cronica de regibus et pontificibus Anglie', compiled by a Franciscan and based mainly on the works of Ralph de Diceto. It begins with a description of Britain and its marvels (cf. Diceto, ‘Opera Historica’, volume i, pages 30, 10-15), followed (folio 3 verso) by Diceto's 'De partitione provinciae', which is printed in Thomas Gale, ‘Historiae Britannicae ... scriptures XV’, volume i, pages 560-562. The first part of the chronicle (folio 4 verso) is...
Dates:
14th century.
Collection of theological works by or attributed to Saint Augustine, with a number of letters, chiefly of Saints Augustine and Jerome, written, probably in North Italy, in the fifteenth century., 15th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3056
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Pelagius, Liber de vita Christiana ('Patrologia Latina', xl, 1031-1046; E Dekkers and A Gaar, ‘Clavis Patrum Latinorum’, number 730), here attributed to Saint Augustine. (Folio 1.)(ii) Augustine, Sermo de contemptu temporalium return (‘Patrologia Latina’, xlvi, 971-980). (Folio 17.)(iii) Augustine, De bono conjugali (‘Patrologia Latina’, xxxii, 639-640, xl, 373-396). (Folio 21.)(iv) Augustine, Enchiridion ad...
Dates:
15th century.
Collection of works, mainly theological, written in Germany in the early fifteenth century., Early 15th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2739
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) An exposition of the Canon of the Mass, beginning 'Videte quomodo caute ambuletis. . . . Ita scribitur ad Ephesios'; ends 'cuius nomen in secula sit benedictum. Amen. Explicit hoc dictum’. For a work with a similar ‘initium’, from the library of the Benedictines at Erfurt, see Bodleian Library, MS.Hamilton 17, folio 227. (Folio 3 verso.)(ii) Sermons, from Advent to the first Sunday after Easter, beginning 'Emitte manum tuam de alto,...
Dates:
Early 15th century.
Commonplace book of Robert Edward., [?1635-?1670.]
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Identifier: MS.9450 [Manuscript]
Scope and Contents
The book originally belonged to Robert Edward's father, Alexander, a Dundee merchant, and a business account dated 1622 is on folio 1. The volume chiefly consists of songs, psalms, notes, and instrumental items, several of which appear twice or with parts separated, scraps on the history of music, and poetical items alone. Many of the pieces are of Scottish origin but English and Continental composers appear, as well as both pre- and post-Reformation music.The...
Dates:
[?1635-?1670.]
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 historiae in genealogia Christi` by Peter of Poitiers, Chancellor of Paris., 13th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.16(i)
Scope and Contents
This manuscript was not known to Philip S Moore (‘The Works of Peter of Poitiers’, pages 97-117). It is imperfect, beginning with Manasses and Alexander of Macedon, and ending with Saints Paul and Barnabas. The second section of the roll contains part of Richard of Wedinghausen’s treatise on the canon of the Mass (‘Patrologia latina’ 177, column 455 and what follows, where it is attributed to John of Cornwall). The manuscript attributes it to Innocent III. The text breaks off in...
Dates:
13th century.
Copy, 18th century, of ‘Ane Account of the Origine and Succession of the Familie of Innes’ by Duncan Forbes of Culloden, 1698; and a treatise on the patronage of schools and churches, ecclesiastical goods and revenues, parish schools, and universities, with special reference to Turriff, 1731., 1698, 1731.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.49.7.1
Scope and Contents
The ‘Account of the Origine and Succession of the Familie of Innes’ (Inv. IV, Mac. 47) is followed on folio 24 verso by notes in William Rose`s hand on the destruction of the house of Innes by storm and fire in 1736 and 1739.
The treatise (Inv. XXII, Mac. 48) begins on folio 47.
Dates:
1698, 1731.
Copy, dated Edinburgh, 1680, of a treatise, circa 1590, on general maritime law entitled 'Tractatus legum et consuetudinum navalium quae apud omnes fere gentes in usu habentur, omnia nautica et quaecunque ex causis marinis in judicium veniunt succincte definiens. Auctore Alexandro Regio', ie., Alexander King, Advocate and Judge Admiral of Scotland., 1680.
File
Identifier: MS.1948
Scope and Contents
The treatise is followed by 'The form & maner of holding of Courts of Admiralitie & proces led before them' (in Scotland) (page 151); specimens of documents, etc. (page 167); and an index to the law of Scotland (not maritime) (page 189).
Dates:
1680.
'Copy of a Memoire or paper upon Lime, read in a Meeting of the Philosophical Society at Edinburgh Aug: 2[d] 1739 containing an Account of the Materials of which it is made, the way of burning or calcining Limestone, and the Nature [and] Properties and uses of Lime by Mr [Alexander] Lind [of Gorgie] Member of the Said Society.', [1739, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.17834
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
[1739, or after.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning science.
Correspondence and papers of John Wilson, missionary in Bombay., 1826-1875, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.8955
Scope and Contents
The principal contents are: letters (with typescript copies) of John Wilson as secretary of the Edinburgh Association of Theological Students (folio 1); his plans for missionary work (folio 36); letters to him from various orientalists and politicians (folio 46); papers on George Strachan (folio 116); ninth-century accounts of India (folio 122); notes on Indian history (folio 134); a translation by Aviet Aganoor of Eznik's treatise against the Parsis (folio 159); and a paper (imperfect at...
Dates:
1826-1875, undated.
'De modo medendi' by Gerard, incipit 'De modo medendi vel ordine cum corpus sit purgandum'., 13th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.1(ii), folios 7-23
Scope and Contents
Initials are in red and green.
At the end in three hands are added recipes and notes, one in French (`La confexion de Noygages`) (14th century, folio 23 verso).
Dates:
13th century.
Diplomatic papers of Hugh Elliot., 1772-1802.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13017-13022
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Hugh Elliot was British ambassador successively in Munich and Ratisbon, Berlin, Copenhagen, Paris, Dresden and Naples, then governor of the Leeward Islands, and finally of Madras.
Elliot was partly educated in France, and from 1770 until his withdrawal from Naples in 1806 he was almost permanently on the Continent. His diplomatic papers, especially those relating to the Copenhagen and Naples embassies, are rich in material for the general political history of Europe. He also enjoyed wide...
Dates:
1772-1802.
Draft of a treatise on the Sermon on the Mount by Henry Fletcher of Saltoun., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.17771
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning religion and morals.
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Drafts of a treatise on the Sermon on the Mount by Henry Fletcher of Saltoun.
Draft of a treatise on the Sermon on the Mount by Henry Fletcher of Saltoun., 18th century.
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Identifier: MS.17772
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning religion and morals.
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Drafts of a treatise on the Sermon on the Mount by Henry Fletcher of Saltoun.
Drafts of a treatise on the Sermon on the Mount by Henry Fletcher of Saltoun., 18th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17771-17772
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning religion and morals.
End of an unidentified work on the degrees of medicine, explicit 'et passionario et protinus aliis libris ut modicam pararet ualitatem'., 13th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.1(v)
Scope and Contents
There is no ornament.
At the end are added recipes in French (15th century, folio 156 verso).
Dates:
13th century.
Fragments of ‘Secretum secretorum’ by pseudo-Aristotle., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.11F, folios 50-65
Scope and Contents
(i) A paragraph from ‘Secretum secretorum’ by pseudo-Aristotle, incipit `Reges sunt quatuor: Rex largus sibi` (‘Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Bacon’, fascicle v, pages 42-43) (folio 50).(ii) The medical and physical sections of ‘Secretum secretorum’ by pseudo-Aristotle, incipit `Nunc vero plus [sic] tradere volo doctrinam medicinalem` (‘Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Bacon’, fascicle v, pages 64-99, 123-140) (folio 51). There is a gap after folio 58, corresponding to ‘Opera...
Dates:
15th century.
‘Grant manuscript’, volume 2., 1583-1593, 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.2 (2)
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) A treatise of the office and duties of the High Treasurer of Scotland; (ii) ‘De charta, ejus partibus et clausulis' (page 6);(iii) De warda (page 12);(iv) De maritagio (page 14);(v) De Relevio (page 15);(vi) De nonintroitu (page 16);(vii) De modo tenendi terras nomine cani (page 16);(viii) De diversis generibus chartarum (page 17);(ix) De partibus cartæ...
Dates:
1583-1593, 17th century.
Jâmi‘ al-Kamâlât, being a short treatise intended for the guidance of kings., 1584.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.3(i)
Scope and Contents
The manuscript written in good Nasta‘lîq is on tinted paper. The frontispiece is illuminated with gold, and throughout the manuscript there are gold ornaments and gold lining around the columns. It is also illustrated with portraits on folios 7b and 28a. The manuscript is dated, and was compiled in Constantinople, A.H.992 (A.D.1584) according to a chronogram, during the reign of Sulṭân Murâd III, (A.H.982-1003, A.D.1574-1595), upon whom numerous praises have been lavished. It is divided into...
Dates:
1584.
John Riddell`s copy of his ‘Inquiry into the Law and Practice in Scottish Peerages’, 2 volumes (Edinburgh, 1843), containing a few notes in pencil in his hand., 1843.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.8.40-25.8.41
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Printed books owned by John Riddell, consisting of standard works of Scottish genealogical reference, volumes of printed session papers, collections of papers in peerage and other claims, and copies of some of Riddell`s published works.
Dates:
1843.