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:
Treatise in three volumes on a union between Great Britain and Ireland, volume 1., 1798.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.5.1(i)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
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.
Treatise in three volumes on a union between Great Britain and Ireland, volume 2., 1798.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.5.1(ii)
Scope and Contents
Leaves are cut or torn out after folios 107 and 151, and a bifolium (folio 226), formerly tipped in, has been placed inside a pocket inside the back cover.
Dates:
1798.
Treatise in three volumes on a union between Great Britain and Ireland, volume 3., 1798.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.5.1(iii)
Scope and Contents
Leaves are cut or torn out after folios 239 and 243.
Dates:
1798.
Treatise, "Logistica, Arithmetica, Geometrica, Algebraica et Logarithmetica", including notes on the Scottish Mint.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7422
Dates:
circa 1647.
'Treatise of Actions', with notes on process, compiled by Lord Milton., Early 18th century-mid 18th century.
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Identifier: MS.17820
Scope and Contents
The treatise appears to be an abbreviated version of the work of Sir George Mackenzie of which a copy is in Adv.MS.25.2.11.
On the inverted folios are various notes.
Dates:
Early 18th century-mid 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 law .
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Works concerning law compiled by Lord Milton.
Treatise on alchemy titled ‘Een oog water voor de verkeerde chymise wegwysers’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.4.9
Dates:
1738.
Treatise on heraldry, closely related to ‘A System of Heraldry’ by Alexander Nisbet, but very much shorter.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.2.2
Scope and Contents
The treatise was compiled in the reign of James VII, 1685-1701 (see folio 38) and quotes from authorities such as Menestrier, Guillim and Sir George Mackenzie.
Engraved plates illustrating various arms have been inserted, most of which examples are to be found in ‘A System of Heraldry’, by Alexander Nisbet.
Dates:
1685-1701.
Treatise on land-holding and transfer.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.3.2
Scope and Contents
Contains English laws and illustrative instances especially in reference to land.
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Treatise on logic, written probably in the second quarter of the 18th century., 1725-1750.
Item
Identifier: MS.24595
Scope and Contents
There is no title page, but apart from that the manuscript has the appearance of being intended for publication. After prefatory material the text is in two books. The first, described at its end (folio 205 verso) as τῆς λογικῆς πραγματεία is in five sections: περὶ ἁπλῆς ἐννοίας (folios 7; 4 chapters), περὶ ἀμφισβητήσεως (folio 61; 3 chapters), περὶ τῆς κατὰ διάνοιαν κρίσεως (folio 83; 4 chapters; πρῶτον in the heading as an error for τρίτον), περὶ διανοίας ἢ περὶ συλλογισμοῦ...
Dates:
1725-1750.
Treatise ‘On nobility’ by Sir James Balfour.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.2.14
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Treatise on prelacy.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.7
Scope and Contents
‘Ane inquirie into that now so much debated case viz. whether it be the duty of the Lords people in Britain & Ireland to hear such as have submitted to the prelatical government as to join with them in the exercise of such acts as belong to the pastoral office’.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.195) includes the reference: Jac.V.5.2.3.
Dates:
[Circa 1670.]
Treatise on Scots law.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.5
Scope and Contents
A collection of notes on points of law; at the end is an abridgement of Acts of Parliament from Thomas Hope’s ‘Major practicks’.
Dates:
2nd half of the 17th century.
Treatise on the jurisdiction and form of proceeding in the High Court of Star Chamber, written in the reign of James I.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.4.4
Dates:
1630.
Treatise on the law relating to pupils and minors and their tutors and curators.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.12
Scope and Contents
‘The tutors guide or the principle of the civil and municipal laws and curators relating to pupils and minors and their tutors and curators laid down in an easy and natural method in three parts viz (i) of tutors; (2) of curators; (3) of things common to both’.
The manuscript is in the hand of John Chalmers, written about 1732.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (W.5.20).
Dates:
Early 18th century.
`Treatise on the Provincial Dialect of Scotland`, a work in two volumes by Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.23.7.18-23.7.19
Scope and Contents
The two volumes contain Book I, Chapters 1-4: it is not known if the work proceeded any further. It is a didactic work, intended not only to describe the ways in which Scottish usage and pronunciation differ from English but also to recommend adherence to English usage, and it draws upon French and Italian as well as English authors. It is undated: the latest datable reference in the text appears to be to Thomas Sheridan`s ‘Lectures on the Art of Reading’ which was published in 1775, and...
Dates:
After 1775.
`Treatise on the Provincial Dialect of Scotland` by Sylvester Douglas: volume 1., After 1775.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.18
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The two volumes contain Book I, Chapters 1-4: it is not known if the work proceeded any further. It is a didactic work, intended not only to describe the ways in which Scottish usage and pronunciation differ from English but also to recommend adherence to English usage, and it draws upon French and Italian as well as English authors. It is undated: the latest datable reference in the text appears to be to Thomas Sheridan`s ‘Lectures on the Art of Reading’ which was published in 1775, and...
Dates:
After 1775.
`Treatise on the Provincial Dialect of Scotland` by Sylvester Douglas: volume 2., After 1775.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.19
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The two volumes contain Book I, Chapters 1-4: it is not known if the work proceeded any further. It is a didactic work, intended not only to describe the ways in which Scottish usage and pronunciation differ from English but also to recommend adherence to English usage, and it draws upon French and Italian as well as English authors. It is undated: the latest datable reference in the text appears to be to Thomas Sheridan`s ‘Lectures on the Art of Reading’ which was published in 1775, and...
Dates:
After 1775.
Treatises on alchemy.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.8.1
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) 'Conpositum de Conpositis abstractis a philosophis'. See 'Catalogue of Latin and vernacular alchemical manuscripts', number 290, which ascribes the work to 'magistri Parisii'. For a summary of the contents and discussion of possible authorship, see ‘History of magic and experimental science’ (London, 1923-1958), volume iii, page 133-135. A colophon gives the place and date of compilation of the treatise as Paris, May, 1331, and...
Dates:
14th century.
Treatises on medicine, astronomy and astrology written by Francisco Argilagues of Valencia, mostly while he was studying medicine at Siena in 1472-1473, with an addition made at Padua in 1480.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.2
Scope and Contents
From the subscriptions and the physical make-up of the volume it appears that there were originally four booklets, bound together a century later.The contents of the volume are as follows:- Written in 1472 with additions in 1480:`Sermo de conservatione sanitatis` by Filippe Bandini of Arezzo (‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column 1294). The beginning is lost but author (Philip de Roderia) and title (`Regimen...
Dates:
1472-1480.
Treatises on Oriental languages, chiefly in the hand of Robert Melvill., 17th century.
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Identifier: MS.1940
Scope and Contents
The volume includes a Hebrew grammar (folio 1); 'Linguae Chaldaicae brevis institutio' (folio 23); Syriac and Hebrew vocabularies (folios 27 verso, 30 verso); "Solomon's Song resolved" (folio 44); Oriental alphabets (folio 95); 'A Manuduction to the utter porch of the Arabick Grammar Schoole' (folio 97 verso); 'Chronologia sacra' (inverted folios 139 verso-135 verso, 122 verso-104, 88 verso-83 verso); also Latin elegies on persons associated with Fife and Kinross (inverted folios 133-131)...
Dates:
17th century.
'Treaty of surnames in general, but especially those of Scotland’ by Sir James Balfour, Lyon King of Arms.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.28
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (A.7.29).
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Two collections of writings of Allan Ramsay, in his hand.
File
Identifier: MS.2233
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Drafts of poems, of a prose treatise in defence of the theatre (fragmentary, but not ‘Some Few Hints in Defence of Dramatic Entertainments’), and of a letter to a lady, containing a poem. Some of the poems appear to be unpublished; others differ greatly from the printed version. On folio 10 there are marginal references, apparently contemporary, to the pages of ‘Poems by Allan Ramsay’ (Edinburgh, 1728), volume ii. Some of the leaves are paginated,...
Dates:
Early 18th century.