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:
Copy of ‘Discourse of coin and coinage’ by Rice Vaughan.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.4
Scope and Contents
The dedication by Henry Vaughan and the tables and additional material at the end of the published text are omitted.
On folio iv are two inscriptions `for the right honourable the Lord Roberts Lord Privie Seale of England`, and, in another hand, notes about waste land in Ireland with a reference to Sir William Petty.
Dates:
17th century.
Copy of Henry Calderwood, "The Philosophy of the Infinite; with Special Reference to the Theories of Sir William Hamilton and M Cousin", with notes by Sir William Hamilton.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6758
Scope and Contents
With two letters of Hamilton and Calderwood, concerning the work.
Dates:
1854.
Copy of William Gregory, "On a Post-tertiary Sand containing Diatomaceous Exuviae from Glenshira, near Inverary" (1854), with associated letter, undated, of author to the Duke of Argyll.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6535
Dates:
1854 and undated.
Copy of ‘Περὶ μέτρων ποιητικῶν’, a Byzantine medical treatise by Isaac Monachus.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.9
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes marginal notes. The number XVIII is on the inside top board, £1-11-6 on folio i.
Dates:
1780.
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.
'Discourse between a Writer and his Apprentice', possibly by William Campbell of Crawfordton, Writer to the Signet, concerning heritable and movable rights.
Item
Identifier: MS.14282
Scope and Contents
In his introduction (page 7), the author states that the work was compiled for his own use during his apprenticeship. It is preceded by forms of notarial attestations, and followed by a few legal accounts of 1822-1823.
Dates:
1759.
‘Discourse of the High Courte of Parliament of the authoritie of the same and of the forme of proceedings therein called out of the common lawes of this lande and other good authors’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.5.12
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.5.15.
Dates:
17th century.
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.
Item
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.
English translation of Leonhard Christoph Sturm, "Vollständige Mühlen Baukunst" (A Complete Treatise on the Construction of Mills).
Item
Identifier: Acc.11196
Dates:
late 18th century.
Fair copy in a contemporary hand of `De Hominio Disputatio` by Sir Thomas Craig.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.1.2
Scope and Contents
Craig wrote this work in 1603 to show that Scotland had never done homage to England, in reply to strenuous claims to the contrary in the 1587 edition of Holinshead`s ‘Chronicles’ (`in manibus hominum his sexdecim annis` - folio i verso).
Dates:
1603.
Fair copy in a contemporary hand of ‘De jure successionis andc regni Angliae Libri duo’ by Sir Thomas Craig.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.1.1
Scope and Contents
This was one of several works written in reply to ‘A Conference abovt the next svccession to the crowne of Ingland’ written in 1594 by `N. Doleman` (a pseudonym for a group of Recusant exiles led by Sir Francis Englefield, but then and long afterwards thought to be of Robert Parsons, Society of Jesus).The dedication of the work, to King James VI of Scotland, is dated 1 January 1603: the peaceful accession of James to the throne of England later that year was probably deemed by...
Dates:
Circa 1603.
Five 13th-century medical manuscripts, possibly written in England, with additions of the 14th and 15th centuries.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.1
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts had been bound into one volume by the 15th century. The contents are: (i) translation, by Constantinus Africanus, of 'De gradibus simplicum' by Isaac and the end of an unidentified work, with recipes added in later hands; (ii) Gerard, 'De modo medendi', with recipes and notes added by later hands; (iii) a work on digestion; (iv) seven works on medical subjects; (v) the end of an unidentified work on the degrees of medicine, with added recipes in French.
Dates:
13th century.
`Fondament van de Geometry`, a practical treatise with propositions and proofs from Euclid.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.7
Scope and Contents
The text is followed (folio 43) by remarks on surveying. The inverted folios contain mathematical and geometrical problems.
The front cover has the letters A O and the date 1705.
Dates:
18th century.
Four copies of George Combe, "An Inquiry into Natural Religion" (Edinburgh, 1853), with author`s ammedments.
File
Identifier: Acc.4881
Dates:
1853.
Four or five medical manuscripts of the 14th century, with additions of the 14th and 15th centuries.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.9(i)-(v)
Scope and Contents
The volume has been heavily trimmed, leading to the partial loss of some headings and marginal notes.
Dates:
14th century.
Fragments of at least 7 and perhaps 8 manuscripts on medicine and astrology, some, if not all, English.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.11A-H; (former binding)
Scope and Contents
A and E may be in the same hand and from the same manuscript.
Dates:
14th century-15th 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.
'General view of fortification', a treatise based partly on the work of seventeenth-century French authorities, such as the Comte de Pagan, the Chevalier de Ville and the Maréchal de Vauban.
Item
Identifier: MS.10690
Scope and Contents
The treatise contains numerous diagrams. The manuscript is undated, but there is a note by an eighteenth-century owner inside the front cover: 'Wrote in ye year 1738'.
Dates:
[?1738.]
Gilbert Burnet, "Exercitationum seu Quaestionum Philosophicarum Tomus Prior"
Item
Identifier: Acc.4179
Dates:
17th century.