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:
Microfilm of manuscript of English text of 'Atlas Scoticus, or Description of Scotland ancient and modern' by Sir Robert Sibbald, with originally inserted maps, and two versions of a treatise, by Sibbald.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.330
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, [circa 1682], of the English text of the 'Atlas Scoticus, or Description of Scotland ancient and modern' by Sir Robert Sibbald (Adv.MS.15.1.1);Maps, 1595-[circa 1682], originally inserted in Adv.MS.15.1.1: Manuscript of the English text of the 'Atlas Scoticus, or Description of Scotland ancient and modern' by Sir Robert Sibbald. (Adv.MS.15.1.2);‘A Defence or Vindication of the Scottish History and of the Scottish Historians...
Dates:
1595-[circa 1682].
Microfilm of manuscript written in 1503, of 'De civitate Dei' of St Augustine
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.74
Dates:
1503.
Microfilm of manuscripts containing the six plays of Terence.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.789
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript written in Italy in 1438, containing the six plays of Terence (Adv.MS.18.2.10);
Manuscript, 12th century, of plays by Terence, and part of a grammatical treatise on ‘exigentia’ (Adv.MS.18.7.2).
Dates:
12th century, 1438.
Microfilm of medical manuscript of undetermined origin.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.507
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Microfilm of medical treatise, titled ‘An enquiry into the principal cause of the wide destruction of mankind in time of war, and of the slow ineffectual progress and permanency of military and naval operations in general’, exemplified by reference to various campaigns, long voyages and colonizations.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.523
Dates:
[1780, or before.]
Microfilm of miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.304
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Microfilm of miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.870
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Microfilm of 'On emigration from the Scottish Highlands and Isles', an apparently unpublished treatise.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.858
Dates:
[?1803.]
Microfilm of palimpsest, made up of at least five English manuscripts of the 8th to 11th centuries, overwritten in England in the late 11th century and belonging to Thorney Abbey.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.836
Dates:
8th century-11th century.
Microfilm of pharmacological treatise entitled ‘De Viribus Medicamentorum’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.121
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Microfilm of pseudo-Aristotle, ‘Secretum secretorum, ‘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.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.481
Dates:
13th century-14th century.
Microfilm of ‘The Castilian proiect against England with advertisements for preuentinge thereof’, addressed to James I.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.240
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Microfilm of theological works of Saints Jerome, Augustine, and others, written in the 12th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.851
Dates:
12th century.
Microfilm of three Gaelic manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.654
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, 17th-18th century, of bardic fragments, containing a strong element of MacMhuirich poetry (Adv.MS.72.2.2);
Donald Smith’s Irish miscellany, [circa 1798] (Adv.MS.72.3.2);
Part of a Gaelic grammatical treatise, 17th century, (written in the traditional character) giving the paradigms of a number of nouns and verbs.(MS.1745).
Dates:
17th century-[circa 1798].
Microfilm of three notebooks, undated, of William Motherwell, the first containing 'The crust of comfort being a short treatise expressly written for the instruction and edification of Old Maids by Jacob Ebenezer Jogtrot B.A. of Brazen Nose College Oxford', the other two miscellaneous poems, copies of ballads, and other notes.
Item
Identifier: MS.15546 [Mf.MSS.25] MISSING
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Microfilm of topographical surveys, 1793-1801; ‘Some remarks on the Highland clans and methods proposed for civilising them’, early 18th century; and, account book, 1750-1754, of James Erskine.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.439
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Topographical surveys, 1793-1801 (Adv.MS.16.1.13);
‘Some remarks on the Highland clans and methods proposed for civilising them’, early 18th century (Adv.MS.16.1.14);
Account book, 1750-1754, of James Erskine, Lord Alva, Senator of the College of Justice (Adv.MS.16.1.15).
Dates:
Early 18th century-1801.
Microfilm of ‘Transactions of Scotts army in Ireland from 1643 to Junii 1648’, a collection in a contemporary hand of copies of letters, instructions and commencing with the treaty ‘concerning the Reducing of the Kingdom of Ireland’ and ending with a minute dated Carrickfergus 27 June 1648.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.325
Dates:
1643-1648.
Microfilm of ‘Treaties at Newcastle and London 1640-1641’; and, church papers chiefly concerning the Glasgow Assembly.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.805
Dates:
1640-1641.
Microfilm of ‘Treatise concerning the clans, in two parts’, a fair account of the state of the Highlands about the beginning of the 18th century, with many suggestions for their improvement.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.966
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Microfilm of 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.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1251
Dates:
1472-1480.
Microfilm of various Gaelic manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1365
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, 1462, known as the ‘Emanuel Manuscript’, containing 'An Cath Cathardha', written by Tadhg Ó Cianáin (Adv.MS.72.1.46);Gaelic version of classic epics, 14th-15th century (Adv.MS.72.1.8);Continuation of Adv.MS.72.1.43: 17th century copy of Foundation of Knowledge of Ireland; or History of Ireland. A narrative history by Geoffrey Keating (Adv.MS.72.2.1);Compendium of medical treatises, 1611-1614, in Gaelic written by...
Dates:
14th century-17th century.
Microfilm of works of Robert Mylne, Alexander Hume and William Drummond.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.196
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Index, early 18th century, to ‘Mercurius Aulicus’ for 1641-1661, in the hand of Robert Mylne, ‘as also to the large vol. of Mercurius’ (Adv.MS.13.2.1);Copies of historical works of Alexander Hume, preceded by a Latin treatise. Includes ‘De foedere Dei cum homine’ by Alexander Hume, 1653 (Adv.MS.13.2.3);Copy, 17th century, of five prose tracts of William Drummond, of Hawthornden, the poet, written between 1638 and 1642 about the time of...
Dates:
1638- early 18th century.
Microfilm of various Gaelic manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1391
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, 18th century, containing a collection of tales by an anonymous Irish scribe (Adv.MS.72.2.6);Composite manuscript, 18th century, of miscellaneous Gaelic texts (Adv.MS.72.2.8).Compendium of medical treatises, 1611-1614, in Gaelic, written by Angus Beaton (Adv.MS.72.2.10); Cath Fhionntragha, Gaelic manuscript, 18th century, of folk-tales, in the hand of Alexander MacDonald (Alasdair Mac Mhaighistir Alasdair)...
Dates:
1611-18th century.