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:
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.]
Item
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.
Compendium of medical treatises in Gaelic written by Angus Beaton.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.10
Scope and Contents
The compendium of medical treatises was written 1611-1614 by Angus Beaton. He gives only his patronymic, Aonghus mac Fearchair mhic Aonghuis (pages 126, 192, 260), but this is sufficient to identify him as of the Beatons of Husabost in Skye. Apart from one visit to Skye (Trumpan, page 66), and a meeting or consultation with Cameron of Lochiel at a place called Dunán Eachain (page 106), Angus’ line-fillers and other notes indicate that the manuscript was written on circuit in the contiguous...
Dates:
1611-1614.
Composite manuscript containing a short treatise intended for the guidance of kings, and a short account of Ḥaleb.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.3(i)- Adv.MS.18.7.3 (ii)
Dates:
1581, 1584.
Composite volume, of uncertain origin, containing two manuscripts of works by St Bonaventure, the 'Breviloquium' and the 'Formula noviciorum'.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.7
Scope and Contents
A manuscript containing two works of St Bonaventure. The 'Breviloquium' is of the 13th century, and the 'Formula noviciorum', here attributed to St Bonaventure, is of the 14th century.Both works are written in double columns. The 'Breviloquium' is the work of one scribe, written in littera textualis with 39 lines to a page. The 'Formula noviciorum' is the work of a different scribe, written in a rotunda script with between 32 to 36 lines to a page.The contents are as...
Dates:
13th century, 14th century.
Contemporary copies of state papers, concerning the negotiations between Charles I and the Covenanters, which led up to the Pacification of Berwick and the Covenanters` protestation of 1 July.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.17
Scope and Contents
Also included are the petition of the Scots living in Ireland to the Lord Deputy and Council of Ireland, 1639 (folio 9), and an incomplete treatise `A distinction betweene the Ecclesiasticall Lawe and the Common Lawe`, undated (folio 18).
Dates:
May-June 1639.
Copies, 17th century, of documents relating to heraldry.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.18
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) A treatise on heraldry in 28 chapters, with particular reference to the Court of the Lord Lyon, 1661 (page 1). The last chapter is a copy of the proclamation, 1447, of Arthur, Constable of France and later Duke of Brittany. See Adv.MSS.31.5.2, folio 1, and 31.3.20, folio 1.(ii) `Kinges of armes and heraulds in Ingland 1628` (pages 75, 79). This has been numbered Cap.29 in continuation of (i). The work has been printed,...
Dates:
1385-1661.
Copies, 1727 or before, in various hands, of papers concerning Mary Queen of Scots and her reign, apparently collected by James Anderson.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.19
Scope and Contents
Although not published in the work, James Anderson appears to have collected the material comprising this manuscript for his ‘Collections Relating to the History of Mary Queen of Scotland’ (Edinburgh and London, 1727-1728). A draft of articles of co-partnery between Anderson, his son-in-law John Leitch, and his son Patrick, to publish the Collections is at folio 21. Among the papers copied are:the marriage articles of Mary and François II, 1558 (folio 13 verso);...
Dates:
1558-1620.
Copies of historical works of Alexander Hume, preceded by a Latin treatise.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.3
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.7.18.The contents are as follows:(i) ‘De foedere Dei cum homine’, ‘Arminianorum abjectiones adversus hanc doctrinam’, 1653 (folio 1);
(ii) ‘Rerum scoticarum compendium in usum scholarum, per Alexandrum Humium’, 1660 (folio 72);
(iii) ‘Clavis in Buchananum, hoc est, nomi num propriorum aliorumque elucidatio’, undated (folio 165).At the end of the volume are some...
Dates:
1653, 1660, undated.
Copy, 16th century, of `Recueil des Principaux Seigneurs qui passerent la Mer avec Guillaume Conquereur d`Angleterre`, a treatise on the genealogy and heraldry of the English nobility written by Jean Benard in 1567.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.2
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is similar to the autograph manuscript of 1572 (Bibliotheque Nationale, MS. français 19000), but lacks the dedicatory letter to Charles IX and has no miniatures. The decoration consists of paintings of flowers and fruit, borders and armorial bearings, with some decorated initials. There is a note, ‘Southampton`s Genealogies`, in a 17th-century hand on folio iii.
Dates:
1567.
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, 18th century, of the title-page and pages 881-889 of ‘Opus de Obligationibus Justitiae, Religionis, et Charitatis’ (Lugduni, 1608) of Fernando Rebello, containing Liber 18, `de promissionibus et donationibus`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.1.5
Dates:
18th century.
Copy, 1821, of ‘De antiqua Atheniensium religione’, ?16th century, transcribed from an anonymous manuscript treatise in the Royal Library at Hanover.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.7.3
Dates:
?16th century.
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, early 18th century, of `A Discourse concerning the three Unions betwixt Scotland and England’, an apparently unpublished work, written circa 1670.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.7
Scope and Contents
The affairs which are discussed include James VI’s succession to the English throne, the proposals for a more entire union of Scotland and England made early in James`s reign and the proposals for a legislative union made in 1669-1670 by Charles II.
Dates:
Circa 1670.
Copy in an unidentified hand of ‘Memorial offered to the Honourable Commissioners of Excise concerning the Mensuration of Tuns or Backs that have some irregularity in the Figure and Situation of the Bottom ... To which is added a Method of correcting the common Tables, and some new Theorems` by Colin Maclaurin.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.13
Scope and Contents
There is a pen drawing of a ship on folio vi. This is a work of applied mathematics written in order to enable customs officers to gauge the contents of molasses barrels used in the port of Glasgow.
Dates:
1735.
Copy, late 17th century, of `A Discourse concerning the three Unions of Scotland and England`, written circa 1670 and apparently unpublished.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.13
Dates:
Circa 1670.
Copy, late 17th century, of a treatise on sea laws by Alexander King, Judge Admiral of Scotland, circa 1590, entitled `Tractatus Legum et Consuetudinum Navalium quae apud omnes fere Gentes in usu habentur; Omnia Nautica et quaecumque ex causis marinis in judicium veniunt succincte definiens in certos Titulos ... methodice distinctos. Authore Alexandro Regio`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.4.7
Scope and Contents
The last Titulus (`De Piratis`) is in Scots, as is the appendix on `The forme and Maner of holding of Courts of Admiralitie and processe led befoir Them` which follows.
Dates:
Circa 1590.
'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.
Copy of a work written by Alexander Dickson in support of the claims of James VI of Scotland to the crown of England in reply to ‘A Conference about the next succession to the crowne of Ingland’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.8
Scope and Contents
‘Conference about the next succession to the crowne of Ingland’ was published in 1594 under the pseudonym R Doleman by a number of authors including chiefly Sir Francis Englefield and Cardinal William Allen: Robert Parsons, Society of Jesus, to whom the work has often been ascribed, was a minor contributor (see ‘Recusant History’, volume 4, page 126). Dickson, who had been a supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots, appears to have become a servant of James VI shortly before he began this reply,...
Dates:
1598.
Copy of Adv.MS.31.3.18, documents relating to heraldry, made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.22
Scope and Contents
Translations have been provided with the material in Latin.
Dates:
1385-1661.
Copy of Alexander Philip, "The Improvement of the Gregorian Calendar", with notes by the author.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6760
Dates:
1918.