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:
Letters of Jane Carlyle Aitken, four of her daughter, Mary, and others of the Carlyle family.
File
Identifier: Acc.6267
Scope and Contents
With a copy of "The Saints` Everlasting Rest (1833), inscribed by Thomas Carlyle, and an engraved portrait of him.
Dates:
1833, 1858-? 1866, and undated.
Manuscript, 15th century, of a copy of the `Expositio symboli apostolorum` by Joannes de Marienwerder.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.15
Scope and Contents
The main text (folio 10) is preceded (folio 1) by the anonymous `Tabula expositionis` (see ‘Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi’, numbers 4780 and 4780.1), and followed (folio 142 verso) by ` De octo beatitudinibus` (‘Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi’, number 4780, 1.1). The latter appears to be incomplete, breaking off after the third Beatitude.The manuscript is in one hand throughout, with the exception of folio 146. Written in brown ink with large initials, headings and chapter...
Dates:
15th century
Manuscript and marked proofs, "The State in its relations with the Church", by William Gladstone., 1838.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42266-42267
Scope and Contents
'The State in its relations with the Church' was written by William Gladstone and published by John Murray in 1838. It proved popular, going through four editions by 1851. The manuscript for this work is heavily annotated, with many deletions, insertions and corrections. The proofs are likewise marked by Gladstone.
Dates:
1838.
Manuscript chiefly concerning alchemy., 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.5776
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Two poems about alchemy, in different hands, entitled 'Amen his huntinge of the Green Lyon' (an account of an experiment with green vitriol), and 'The vision of Sir George Ripley, Chanon of Bridlington' (folios 1, 4);(ii) Directions for alchemical experiments to find the quintessence of wine, honey, sugar, blood, etc., taken from 'the first part of the vegetables of Mr Isaac of Holland, philosophe' and others of his works (presumably...
Dates:
17th century.
Manuscript containing various legal works, compiled in 1704.
File
Identifier: MS.9248
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Abridgement of ‘Jus Feudale’ by Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton. The text is in a considerably shorter form than the usual epitomes (for which see MS.1950 and Adv.MSS.25.6.1-2, 28.3.14), and omits book i, 11 and 13, book ii, 5 and 15, and book iii, 4 and 7. (Folio 1.)(ii) "Inventory of ane Burges's airship moveables". (Folio 88.) (iii) Latin mottoes. (Folio 90.)(iv) Notes on land measures in Scotland and weights...
Dates:
[1704, or before.]
Manuscript entitled ‘Traite du Blazon’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.19
Scope and Contents
The treatise is in thirty-five chapters and is followed (folio 105) by explanatory notes to the illustrations, and (folio 127) by the illustrations themselves, which are in trick. It is preceded (folio 1 verso) by a diagram of the divisions of a field.Three folios which probably contained the title page and dedication have been removed from between folios 2 and 3. Offsets of the dedication survive, from which it appears that the author`s name was Bonin, and that he presented his...
Dates:
1678.
Manuscript, "Foreign Politics", by William Gladstone., ? 1860.
Item
Identifier: MS.42270
Scope and Contents
The title of the manuscript has been taken from the spine of the binding.
Dates:
? 1860.
Manuscript, "Huskisson on currency", by William Huskisson., 1810.
Item
Identifier: MS.42306
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...
Dates:
1810.
Manuscript material from the 5th Earl of Rosebery's library at the Durdans, Epsom.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10217-10241
Dates:
1657-1919.
Manuscript of a treatise, 1579 on the reform of the Calendar, dedicated to "Marc'ant[oni]o Justiniano" and signed 'M.M.', and a discussion of the dangers of a Turkish attack on Venice, ?1564-1576., ?1564-1576, 1579.
File
Identifier: MS.5734
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.
Dates:
?1564-1576, 1579.
Manuscript of a treatise on horsemanship., Late 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.10222
Scope and Contents
The manuscript lacks the beginning of chapter 1.
Dates:
Late 18th century.
Manuscript of `A Treatise on Taste` by Robert Wallace, Minister of West St. Giles, Edinburgh, and writer on population.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.18(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
This work was prepared for the press by Robert Wallace`s son, George Wallace, Advocate, and includes numerous corrections in his hand. It was never published.
Dates:
Mid 18th century.
Manuscript of `A Treatise on Taste` by Robert Wallace, Minister of West St. Giles, Edinburgh, and writer on population, volume 1., Mid 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.18(i)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This work was prepared for the press by Robert Wallace`s son, George Wallace, Advocate, and includes numerous corrections in his hand. It was never published.
Dates:
Mid 18th century.
Manuscript of `A Treatise on Taste` by Robert Wallace, Minister of West St. Giles, Edinburgh, and writer on population, volume 2., Mid 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.18(ii)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This work was prepared for the press by Robert Wallace`s son, George Wallace, Advocate, and includes numerous corrections in his hand. It was never published.
Dates:
Mid 18th century.
Manuscript of 'De oratore' and the 'Orator' by Cicero.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.16
Scope and Contents
(i) Cicero. `De oratore`. i. 1-9 ‘philoso]phiam’ are lost (folio 1).(ii) Cicero, `Orator`. 155 ‘quod erat usitatum’ to 173 ‘redundans and 235 ‘nec res’ to the end are lost. Folio 137 should stand before folio 131 (folio 110 verso).This is one of the many indirect copies of the `codex Laudensis`, the ancient manuscript of Cicero`s rhetorical works found at Lodi in 1421 and lost again in 1428. It is a good copy, related to O (Ottobon.2057) and P (Vat.Pal.1469). Space...
Dates:
15th century.
Manuscript of 'Oculus Sacerdotis' by William of Pagula.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.6
Scope and Contents
The text (folio 12) contains the three sections of the treatise, ‘Pars Oculi`, `Dextera Pars` and `Sinistra Pars`, but cap. 26 to the end of the `Sinistra Pars` is missing. The text is preceded by:(i) Four short works on diet and blood-letting in English, beginning ‘Here seyth galian ye leche and thecheth of metes and drinkes’. At the end is a rubric ‘Secundum Robertum[?] Grant de Everton’ (folio 1 verso).(ii) Remarks on the qualities of the Virgin...
Dates:
14th century.
Manuscript of 'Secretum secretorum' by Pseudo-Aristotle, 'De excidio Troiae' by Dares Phrygius, and 'Historia regum Britannie' by Geoffrey of Monmouth; written by a 13th- or 14th-century hand of uncertain origin.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Pseudo-Aristotle, 'Secretum secretorum' (edited by R. Steele, in 'Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi', fascicule V, pages 25-172). This manuscript contains the letter of Philip, a list of chapters, and the text in seven books (the headings for i, iv, and vi are omitted). It is of the common class, omitting all the test passages of Gilson and Steele (cf. 'Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi', pages xxv-xxvi); further omissions are...
Dates:
13th century-14th century.
Manuscript of the late 11th and early 12th century containing: the 'Paradisus' of Heraclides; the 'Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae sub Geiserico et Hunrico regibus Wandalorum' of Victor Vitensis; 'De corpore et sanguine Domini' of Paschasius Radbertus (attributed to Rabanus Maurus); 'De corpore Domini contra Berengarium' of Guitmund; and two sermons of St Augustine of Hippo.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.3
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Manuscript of the late 11th and early 12th century, written in England and containing various theological works. The manuscript has been dated to the early 12th century by Borland, Ker, Schenkl, Paul, and Römer. In private correspondence with the National Library of Scotland Michael Gullick has stated that folios 1-122 were written at Durham, probably in the 1090s, but definitely before 1096. He further suggests that folios 123-149 were added to the manuscript sometime in the late 11th or...
Dates:
Late 11th century - early 12th century.
Manuscript of the translation by Jacobus Venetus of the 'Analytica Posteriora' by Aristotle, with contemporary and later gloss.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.6
Scope and Contents
Subscription, folio 36 verso: 'Explicit liber posteriorum simul cum tota nova logica'.Calligraphic initials in red and blue with elaborate scrollwork. Sentence and paragraph marks in red or blue. Marginal ink drawings of geometrical shapes (folios 19 verso, 20 recto), a dog (folio 28 verso) and a besieged castle (folio 29 recto).On the inside top cover is written '14/[ ] a/-'; on folio i verso in an 18th-century hand 'Ce petit traité sur aristote Manuscrit et [sic] de...
Dates:
14th century.
Manuscript of the treatise 'Illustrations of Popular Delusion in the Superstitions of the Werwolf, the Sabbaths of the Serfs, and the Séances of Spirituology. London, 1871', by John Sobieski Stuart; with related material., 1871, [1871, or before].
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2173-2174
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From the Series:
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Dates:
1871, [1871, or before].
Manuscript, of uncertain origin written in the 12th or 13th century, containing medical treatises.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.13
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Gariopontus, `Passionarius Galeni`, in seven books. The author`s name is not given; the title in the incipit is `liber Galieni ad Glaucum nepotem` (cf. British Library, Royal MS.12 E.XX, folio 33), in the explicit `liber Galieni Passionarius`. (Folio 1.)(ii) `Antidotarius particularis`, incipit `Aurea alexandrina antidotum facias ad reuma` (cf. ‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column...
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Manuscript, "The State in its relations with The Church", by William Gladstone., 1838.
Item
Identifier: MS.42266
Scope and Contents
Title on the spine of the binding : "Gladstone`s Church and State. M S."
Dates:
1838.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers of and concerning William Gladstone.
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Manuscripts by William Gladstone.
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Manuscript and marked proofs, "The State in its relations with the Church", by William Gladstone.
Manuscript titled ‘A breife treatise concerning the mint or coyning hous in Scotland. Reduced and drawen in method 10 Nouember 1626’., 1611, 1626.
File
Identifier: MS.172
Scope and Contents
Includes copies of two letters from the Earl of Salisbury to the Earl of Dunfermline on the subject, 12 October and 13 November 1611.
Dates:
1611, 1626.
Manuscript, written in Italy in the 15th century, of works by or attributed to Lactantius.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.4
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `De ira Dei` (folio 1). The text is similar to that printed in, ‘Patrologiae Cursus Completus ... Latina’, volume vii, 79-148, but contains 24 chapters (cf. ‘Patrologiae Cursus Completus ... Latina’, volume vii, 146, note). There are several lacunae which suggest that the scribe may have copied a damaged exemplar: part of chapters 16 and 17 is missing (folio 16 recto) and blank spaces have been left for two passages in chapter 18...
Dates:
15th century.
Manuscript, written in Italy, of 'De Lingua Latina' by Varro, containing books v to x.54 (‘contra in eo’).
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.15
Scope and Contents
Headings in red. Initials of books v, vi, viii, and x have been cut out. Written in a small, round humanistic hand. Greek words are omitted or added by a later hand. What was probably an ownership inscription at the foot of folio 1 has been cut out. On the lower pastedown is written ‘1452 vezudo p(er) mi Zohane de ipescadun [?]’. The same note, dated 1451 or 1452, is found in other manuscripts: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud.Lat.48, Add.A2, D’Orville 36 and Canon.Misc.486 (see ‘Catalogue of...
Dates:
Mid-fifteenth century; before 1452.