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:
Glossary to Icelandic laws, and treatise on Icelandic topography.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.4.6
Dates:
18th century.
‘Grant manuscript.’
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.2 (1)-(2)
Scope and Contents
The description is taken from the “Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. III. History” (F.R.186).
Dates:
1494-1593, 17th 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.
Henri Legludic, "Notes et Observations de Médecine Légale", with two letters of the author to André Raffalovich.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5593
Dates:
1896.
Heraldic collection of John Scrymgeour.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.5.2
Scope and Contents
The material was copied by John Scrymgeour of Myres, presumably for his own use, possibly from Adam Loutfut`s heraldic manuscript (British [Museum] Library, Harleian MS.6149). Some of the items in Loutfut`s manuscript have been omitted, and the rest occur in a different order.Loutfut`s manuscript is described in ‘The Book of the Ordre of Chyvalry’, pages xxvi-xxix. (In the following description, ‘Loutfut MS.1-19` refers to the various sections of the manuscript as listed...
Dates:
1st half of 16th century.
Heraldic collection of Sir David Lindsay.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.20
Scope and Contents
Material copied in the late 16th and early 17th centuries apparently for Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Lord Lyon King of Arms from 1591 to 1620. It is closely related to John Scrymgeour`s manuscript (Adv.MS.31.5.2) in that some of its contents are apparently taken from Adam Loutfut`s manuscript (British [Museum] Library Harleian MS.6149), and the same order of arrangement is followed as by Scrymgeour; but there is also some additional material. Loutfut`s manuscript is described in ‘The...
Dates:
Late 16th century-early 17th century.
Illuminated manuscript of `De civitate Dei` [The City of God] by St Augustine.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.2
Scope and Contents
A manuscript of the City of God, executed in Paris in 1503 for the Cardinal d’Amboise, Archbishop of Rouen, and probably intended for presentation to his brother, Louis, Bishop of Albi. The manuscript was originally in two volumes, with the division at the end of Book X. As a result of this division, folios 149v-150v are left blank, but have been lined and ruled. There are two folios missing, so that the beginning of Book X is wanting. Laborde states that the work was probably written by a...
Dates:
1503.
Institutiones Grammaticae.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.3
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is not listed in ‘A Census of medieval Latin grammatical manuscripts’ by G L Bursill-Hall (Stuttgart, 1981). The text refers to Priscian and other authors, and sometimes gives examples of grammatical usage in Italian. Incipit ‘Cum de gramatica sit ad presens sermo.` It ends with a series of Italian phrases and their Latin equivalents, followed (folio 185 verso) by paragraphs on prosody and on Greek, Hebrew and Latin letters.Written in one humanistic hand...
Dates:
15th century.
‘Institutionum Chemicarum Pars Prima`; a treatise on chemistry in two parts, including comments on other writers on the subject.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.6
Scope and Contents
Mention is made of Nicolas Lemery`s work, published in Paris, `hoc Anno 1713` (folio 10 verso). There are a few small pencil sketches of pieces of equipment, and the work is followed by an index.
Dates:
1713.
Interleaved copy, with numerous manuscript annotations, of ‘Fundamentum Logica vel, Introductio in terminorum cognitionem, in libros Logicorum Aristotelis’ by Jodocus Clichtoveus.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.8
Dates:
2nd half of 16th century.
Italian manuscript of Books 1-5 of 'De consolatione philosophiae' by Boethius.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.14
Scope and Contents
The text ends on folio 105 verso; on folios 106-107 recto in the same hand is a note 'Ad sciendum de vita et morte Boetii Notandum ...'; folios 107 verso and 108 are blank.The text is written in a round Italian gothic hand. There are initials in red and blue, infilled and framed with red and green, at the beginning of each book (folios 1, 15 verso, 35, 63 verso, 87 verso). There are plain initials (some shaded) at the beginning of each section, alternately red and blue; within...
Dates:
Late 15th 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.
John Riddell`s copy of his ‘Inquiry into the Law and Practice in Scottish Peerages’ (Edinburgh, 1843), volume 1: pages i-xlvi, 1-555., 1843.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.40
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.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
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Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.
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Printed Books from the Riddell Collection.
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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.
John Riddell`s copy of his ‘Inquiry into the Law and Practice in Scottish Peerages’ (Edinburgh, 1843), volume 2: pages 556-1095., 1843.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.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.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
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Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.
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Printed Books from the Riddell Collection.
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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.
‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of papers on ecclesiastical history, originally marked ‘C’., 17th century-18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.10
Scope and Contents
The contents include the following:
(i) The history of the Episcopal See of St. Andrews till 1689, written after 1704;
(ii) A transcript of Balcarras’ memoirs;
(iii) A collection of papers chiefly concerning the troubles of the Church in the middle of the 17th century;
(iv) Copies of sew charters & other writs of subjects in Anstruther;
(v) Several papers regarding the death and character of Mr James Melville;
(vi) Devotional poetry;
(vii) Notes for sermons or lectures;
(viii) Religious...
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of very miscellaneous papers on ecclesiastical history.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.5.8-11
Scope and Contents
According to the folio catalogue (F.R.186) the volumes were originally marked ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’.
The description of the manuscripts in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.5.7.7-10.
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Late 13th-century manuscript of the 'Compendium theologicae veritatis', attributed to Robert Grosseteste but probably by Hugh Ripelin of Strasbourg.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.1
Scope and Contents
Late 13th-century manuscript containing the seven books of the 'Compendium theologicae veritatis' of Hugh Ripelin of Strasbourg. The manuscript is written in littera textualis with 26 to 29 lines to a page.The 'Compendium' is believed to have been compiled by Hugh towards the end of his life, from circa 1260 onwards. The work is divided in to seven books: I The Nature of God; II The Creation; III On Sin; IV The Incarnation; V On Grace, the Virtues, the Beatitudes and the Ten...
Dates:
Late 13th century.
Late 15th-century manuscript containing 'Moralium dogma philosophorum' attributed to Guillaume de Conches, bound with 3 incunabula.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.5
Scope and Contents
15th-century manuscript produced in Italy containing the 'Moralium dogma philosophorum' attributed to Guillaume de Conches. The script and watermark evidence suggest that the manuscript is a work of the late 15th century, probably 1470 and after. The manuscript is the work of one scribe using an Italian humanistic script with 26 lines to a page.The contents of the volume are as follows:Pasted to the inner of the front board is a letter from J. B. Oldham, Librarian,...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Late 15th-century manuscript, probably written in Italy, containing the 'Quaestiones' of Ugo Benzi (Hugo de Siena) and a medical work described as the sixth in a series of 'sermons', possibly related to the works of Nicolaus de Florentia.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.12
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) The ‘Quaestiones’ of Ugo Benzi (Hugo de Siena). This text contains those `de complexionibus (folio 1), `de equali ad pondus’ (folio 5 verso), ‘de etate consistendi` (folio 10), `de modo augmentationis` (folio 16 verso), ‘de malitia complexionis diverse` (folio 20), `utrum virtutes anime distinguantur ab invicem et ab anima` and `per obiecta` (folio 30; the two are not here separated), `de secundo modo equalitatis` (folio 31) and...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Lectures on philosophy, possibly taken down at Marischal College, Aberdeen by John Mair, a student at the college, 1718-1722, and later minister of Forbes and Rayne.
File
Identifier: MS.9859
Scope and Contents
The signature 'John Mair, 1725' occurs on one of the front leaves, and the covers are gilt-stamped 'I.M. 1725'.
The lectures may have been delivered by Mair’s regent, Patrick Hardie.
There are three treatises in the volume:
'Metaphysicæ Synopsis' (page 1);
'Pneumatologie Mantissa' (page 53);
'Introductio ad Ethicam' (page 81).
Dates:
[?1718-?1722.]
Legal treatise concerning to forms of process in Scottish criminal cases.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7785
Dates:
circa 1733.
Letter book, 1775-1787, of the Reverend Andrew Ross.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7740
Scope and Contents
Containing correspondence and copies of documents concerning his attempt in 1775 to abjure his subscription of the Westminster Confession of Faith.
With a memorandum, 1885, of Andrew Ross, and a shorthand treatise, "An Esssay on the Being and Attributes of God".
Dates:
1775-1787, 1885.
Letters and papers, mostly concerning the Church of Scotland., 1231-1641.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.8
Scope and Contents
The subjects include the case brought by John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, against Robert Wallace; the ‘Second Book of Discipline’; the Act of Revocation; and the protests against the Service-book. Most of the papers concerning the Covenant have been published more than once, and some appeared as contemporary pamphlets.Copy of a charter, 1360, granted by David II to the Bishop of Aberdeen; in Latin (folio 1). - This was printed from Adv.MS.16.1.10 in ‘Registrum episcopatus...
Dates:
1231-1641.
Letters in English from the Reverend Donald MacQueen of Kilmuir (died 1785) to the Reverend Dr John Stuart of Luss.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.21
Scope and Contents
The letters consist of the Reverend Donald MacQueen’s detailed comments on the Reverend Dr John Stuart’s Gaelic translation of part of the Old Testament with antiquarian excursi including quotations in Gaelic. The principal such excursi are noted below. (i) Letter of the Reverend Donald MacQueen to the Reverend Dr John Stuart, dated 27 November 1777. Genesis. Cf. ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 36 (1931-1933), page 364. (Folio 1.)(ii) Letter...
Dates:
[Before 1785.]