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:
Papers of the Skene family of Hallyards in Midlothian.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.10
Scope and Contents
Most of the documents belonged to John Skene (died 1644), the second son of Lord Curriehill, and to his son John, 2nd of Hallyards (died before 1699).The subjects include estate matters (in particular, the teinds of Hallyards) and political matters such as the sequestration of goods in the second half of the 17th century, and the raising and quartering of troops. The elder Skene was a Clerk of Session, and a number of legal papers are included in the volume, one of which (folio...
Dates:
1563-1710.
Papers on agriculture and horticulture, the majority by or for Lord Milton, but with some by Henry Fletcher of Saltoun, his wife Margaret Carnegie, and General John Fletcher of Saltoun., 1717-1805, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.17829
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:
1717-1805, undated.
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.
Papers, undated, of Hugh Dalrymple Murray Kynynmound concerning law and politics., Early 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.12810
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) 'Dialogue A & B on Mare liberum & clausum law' (folio 1);
(ii) 'On Pitmeddens treaties of Mutilation & Demembration' (folio 8);
(iii) 'Introduction to a treatise on the Constitution of Scotland' (folio 13);
(iv) 'The hereditary right of the Crown of Scotland asserted' (folio 20);
(v) "On Abercrombie's first volume" (referring to Patrick Abercromby, ‘Martial achievements of the Scots Nation’, volume 1 (Edinburgh, 1711)) (folio 32);
(vi) 'Answers...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Literary papers, music and drawings of various members of the Elliot of Minto family.
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Literary papers, apparently of Hugh Dalrymple Murray Kynynmound of Melgund and Kynynmound (died 1741), Advocate, second son of Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, of Hailes, and father-in-law of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet of Minto.
Part of a Gaelic grammatical treatise (written in the traditional character) giving the paradigms of a number of nouns and verbs., 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.1745
Scope and Contents
Among several citations from bardic verse are one from Tadhg Dali Ó Huiginn (died circa 1591), and one from a poem by Eoghan Mac an Bhaird (died 1609) on the death of Ruaidhri Ó Domhnaill, Earl of Tirconnel, which took place in Rome in 1608.
Dates:
17th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts: part of a Gaelic grammatical treatise, a chronicle of the Kings of Scotland, and answers of John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol, to certain interrogatories put to him concerning his negotiations with Spain for the marriage of Charles I.
Part of a medical treatise tilted ‘Praxis medica’ by Christianus Margravius.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.17A
Scope and Contents
The first part commences at the end of 'Caput octarum'. The second part is entitled 'Praxis medica Dom. Christiani Margravii. M.D.'.
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Pharmacological treatise entitled `De Viribus Medicamentorum.`
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.5
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Photocopies of a transcript of Sir Robert Sibbald, "Account of the Rights of the Professors of Medicine".
Item
Identifier: Acc.4859
Dates:
18th century.
Photocopy of translation of Calvin`s "Institution de la Vie Chretienne", by Queen Elizabeth I.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6250
Dates:
circa 1541-circa 1603.
Photostat of 'De Coniugio Sacerdotum', a treatise by John MacAlpine (Maccabeus), Prior of the Dominicans at Perth and afterwards Professor of Theology at Copenhagen., 16th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.485
Dates:
16th century.
Photostat of 'The Art of Music collecit out of all Ancient Doctouris of Music', and four photographs of the music of Scots Duty, the old drum and fife calls of Scottish regiments in the eighteenth century.
File
Identifier: MS.7196
Dates:
[1635, or before], 18th century.
Photostat of 'The Art of Music collecit out of all Ancient Doctouris of Music' [by a Scotsman], taken from the British Library, Addit. MS.4911., [1635, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.7196, folios 1-257
Scope and Contents
The treatise is divided into three parts.(a) Fifteen chapters with the title 'Quhat is mensural music', containing examples of twenty-five canons with resolutions. This section is called 'the secund part of Music', and it may therefore be presumed that an earlier volume was written by the same author. (Folio 1.)(b) 'Music Mensurall', beginning with five chapters on counterpoint and followed by examples of harmony in three, four and five parts. (Folio 90.)...
Dates:
[1635, or before.]
Photostats of manuscript additions to ‘Ane compendius Tractiue ... ‘ by Abbot Quintin Kennedy (St Andrews, 1558), including copies of two treatises by Kennedy., [Before 1565.]
File
Identifier: MS.8494, folios 43-83
Dates:
[Before 1565.]
Printed Books from the Riddell Collection., 1718-1850.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.8.1-25.8.42
Scope and Contents
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:
1718-1850.
Printed papers and manuscripts concerning the troubles in Geneva.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.6.7
Dates:
1734-1737.
`Request and suite of a true harted Englyshe man wishyng the wealth of his native contrey`; a treatise, written by William Cholmeley, a London grocer, and addressed to Edward VI, proposing that wool should be dyed in England instead of abroad.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.8
Scope and Contents
The manuscript, which was apparently presented to Edward VI, is written in a formal book-hand and contains one large initial in gold, yellow and black on a brown ground.
Dates:
1553.
Rolls containing theological, heraldic and historical material.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.16(i)-(vi)
Dates:
13th century-17th century.
Seven works on medical subjects., 13th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.1(iv), folios 32-151
Scope and Contents
`Practica’ by Bartolomaeus Salernitanus; printed in ‘Collectio Salernitana’, volume 4, page 321). Author and title are not given. (Folio 32.)`Practica` by Joannes Platearius. (Folio 68.) At the end are added a series of recipes (14th century, folios 111-112). There are notes, 15th century, in the lower margins of folios 72, 75 verso, 86, and 111 verso.`Exceptiones de disputatione phisicorum et arte medicorum`. (Folio 112 verso.)`Liber aureus` by Joannes...
Dates:
13th century.
Seven works on medical subjects., 14th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.9(ii), folios 49-58
Scope and Contents
End of an unidentified work, explicit `ad attrahendum hunc (?) sine scarificatione` (folio 49).Matthaeus Salernus, `Tractatus pulsuum`, incipit `Pulsus ut dicit Philaretus est motio cordis` (‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column 1151), headed `De pulsibus` without author (folio 49).`De diebus creticis`, incipit `De criticis diebus tractaturi uideamus` (‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column 370)....
Dates:
14th century.
Short manuscript treatise on landscape gardening.
Item
Identifier: MS.8912
Scope and Contents
Among the subjects discussed are: terraces, lawns, fountains, pleasure grounds, walks, and bowling greens. The writer favours the geometrical arrangement of gardens, and reacts against the 'natural' theories of a former generation.
Dates:
Early 19th century.
'Sibbaldi Fragmenta Historica.'
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.25
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Transcript of the 'Chronicon de Melross';
(ii) Relationes Arnaldi Blair;
(iii) 'Extracta de MS. D. Gul. Cunninghaim de rebus gestis Gul. Vallæ', 1296;
(iv) Dr. Jamieson’s notes upon the ‘Chronicon de Melross’;
(v) Three letters of Queen Mary extracted from a Roman Manuscript;
(vi) Dr Jamieson’s observations on Melville’s Memoirs and on Bede;
(vii) Off the revenue or patrimony of the Crown;
(viii) Bull of Pope Urban Vth Contra Magnqs Societates;
(ix) A Charter...
Dates:
Late 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century.
‘Some remarks on the Highland clans and methods proposed for civilising them’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.14
Dates:
Early 18th century.
`State of Emigration from the Highlands of Scotland, its extent, causes, and proposed remedy.` An apparently unpublished treatise, dated `London March 21st 1803`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.18
Dates:
1803.
Style book of Scots Law forms, of the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century., Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2802-2803
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Many of the manuscripts contain notes, indexes, etc., by George Neilson.
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.