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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 286 Collections and/or Records:

`Summa magistri Walteri de Agelon facta de dosis medicinarum`, and a list of symptoms., 14th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.9(iii), folios 59-68
Scope and Contents `Summa magistri Walteri de Agelon facta de dosis medicinarum`, incipit `Medicinarum uero quedam sunt simplices quedam composite` (‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column 860) (folio 59).A list of symptoms, incipit `Significat solutionem se acute mediante fluxu sanguinis a naribus’ (folio 65 verso).Vacant spaces are filled in by different hands of the 14th and 15th centuries with recipes (folios 65, 68 verso, some of the latter in...
Dates: 14th century.

`The Customs of Amsterdam Concerning assurances`., 1598.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.2(ix), folios 77v-81
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: 1598.

`The Jurisdiction off the Admiralitie off France Both in tyme off peace and warre.`

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Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.2(v), folios 40v-47
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.

`The old and ancient Gothish Sea Lawes made at Wisbuy`.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.2(iii), folios 27v-33
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.

"The Poet`s Journal" of George Crabbe., 1779-1780.

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Identifier: MS.42067
Scope and Contents

Title taken from the `Index of English Literary Manuscripts`, volume 3, part 1, page 296 (London : Mansell, 1986), which has a full description of the contents of the notebook.

Dates: 1779-1780.

`The Roman sea lawes Translated from the Corpus Iuris`, extracts on Roman and Rhodian maritime law.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.2(i), folios 1-20
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.

`The Roole or Sea Lawes of Oleron.`, 1st half of 17th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.2(ii), folios 21-27r
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: 1st half of 17th century.

Theological works of Saints Jerome, Augustine, and others, written in the 12th century., 12th century.

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Identifier: MS.6121
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Commentary on St Mark's Gospel by the pseudo-Jerome (folio 1). See ‘Repertorium Biblicum medii aevi’, number 3436. The commentary is printed in, J P Migne, ‘Patrologiae Cursus Completus ... Latina’, volume xxx, 589-644.(ii) 'Continuatio veteris et novi testamenti', a rhymed version of pseudo-Hegesippus, 'De bello iudaico' (folio 18); beginning 'Contion of pseudo-Hegesippus, 'De bello iudaico' (folio 18); beginning 'Continuare volumus...
Dates: 12th century.

Theological works of St Bernard of Clairvaux and others, probably from a Cistercian house.

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Identifier: MS.9153
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) The 'De consideratione' of St Bernard. Printed by J P Migne in ‘Patrologia Latina’, volume clxxxii, 727-808. (Folio 2 verso).(ii) Four sermons of St Bernard on Luke I, 26-38. Printed in ‘Patrologia Latina’, volume clxxxiii, 55-88. (Folio 85).(iii) Hugh of St Victor, 'Soliloquium de arrha animae'. The prologue and 'confessio’ are in a shorter version than that printed in ‘Patrologia Latina’, volume clxxvi, 951-970. (Folio...
Dates: 13th century.

Transcript, 18th century, of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’, and other material.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.6
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:Transcript of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’: a copy of Adv.MS.33.3.25 (page 1);‘Addenda ex exemplari Anglico impresso’ (page 41);The ‘Relationes Arnaldi Blair’ copied from Adv.MS.35.6.10 (page 44);‘Addenda alia e chronico Melrosensi impresso’ (page 51);Copies of letters, 1563, of Queen Mary to the Council of Trent in Latin, and to the Cardinal of Lorrain and the Pope in Italian (page 65);...
Dates: 12th century-1683.

Transcript of “Discourse en forme de lettres sur le gouvernement de Geneve et sur l’affire du sieur Micheli du Crest copié a Lyon en 1734.”

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Identifier: Adv.MS.29.4.1
Scope and Contents

Copies of papers concerning the judgement of the Council of Two Hundred of Geneva against Jacques-Barthélemi Micheli du Crest.

At the end is a printed notice, 1736, of the “consultations” of the Parliament of Paris on the same subject.

Dates: 1734, 1736.

Translation, by Constantinus Africanus, of 'De gradibus simplicum' by Isaac (Isḥāq ibn Sulaiman al-Isrā’li), and the end of an unidentified work., 13th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.1(i), folios 1-6
Scope and Contents End of an unidentified work, explicit `De ueconia si quis ante prandium sumpserit non ebrius fiet`. (Folio 1.)`De gradibus simplicum` by Isaac (Isḥāq ibn Sulaiman al-Isrā’li), translated by Constantinus Africanus. The author is not named and the title is given as `liber gradum`, incipit `Absinthium calidum vel siccum in 1º gradu` (cf. ‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column 11). (Folio 1.) Initials and headings are in red....
Dates: 13th century.

Translation into Gaelic, in an early seventeenth-century hand, of 'Lilium medicinæ' of Bernard de Gordon of Montpellier., [1574, or before]-1784.

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Identifier: MS.2076
Scope and Contents The 'Lilium' is followed by Rémacle Fuchs's ten tables of common prescriptions (folio 342) and a portion of Gordon's ‘De decem ingeniis curandorum morborum’ (folio 352).The margins bear relevant notes in Gaelic and Latin in various hands; on folio 338 verso are pious sentences in English; the date 1702 appears on folio 94. There are notes of the Earl of Buchan on folios i, iii verso.The manuscript is incomplete at the end and the last leaves are much broken; otherwise...
Dates: [1574, or before]-1784.

Treatise against drunkenness.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.17
Dates: Late 17th century-early 18th century.

‘Treatise concerning the clans, in two parts’, a fair account of the state of the Highlands about the beginning of the 18th century, with many suggestions for their improvement.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.32.4.6
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: 1st part: ’Some remarks on the Highland clans; 2nd part: ‘Methods proposed for civilizing the clans’.

Dates: [Early 18th century.]

Treatise in three volumes on a union between Great Britain and Ireland.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.5.1(i)-31.5.1(iii)
Scope and Contents The work was written apparently in October 1798 (Adv.MSS.31.5.1(ii), folio 11, 31.5.1(iii), folio 4). The writer does not identify himself, but, as a pencil note inside the front cover of Adv.MS.31.5.1(i) makes clear, was Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbarvie.A plan of the proposed work is given at Adv.MS.31.5.1(i), folios 1-4, but the author does not adhere rigorously to it.The leaves are written on the rectos, the versos being used as necessary for additions and...
Dates: 1798.