Treatises.
Found in 97 Collections and/or Records:
`The old and ancient Gothish Sea Lawes made at Wisbuy`.
The manuscript is in the hand of Robert Mylne, and his initials are recorded on the inside front cover. The latest document is dated 1706, and the manuscript was probably written soon after that date. On the flyleaf a contemporary hand has written `This Book Considering the Valuable Miscellanies therein cannot be sold under ten dollars at least [[ … ]] I.V.G.`
"The Poet`s Journal" of George Crabbe., 1779-1780.
Title taken from the `Index of English Literary Manuscripts`, volume 3, part 1, page 296 (London : Mansell, 1986), which has a full description of the contents of the notebook.
`The Roman sea lawes Translated from the Corpus Iuris`, extracts on Roman and Rhodian maritime law.
The manuscript is in the hand of Robert Mylne, and his initials are recorded on the inside front cover. The latest document is dated 1706, and the manuscript was probably written soon after that date. On the flyleaf a contemporary hand has written `This Book Considering the Valuable Miscellanies therein cannot be sold under ten dollars at least [[ … ]] I.V.G.`
`The Roole or Sea Lawes of Oleron.`, 1st half of 17th century.
The manuscript is in the hand of Robert Mylne, and his initials are recorded on the inside front cover. The latest document is dated 1706, and the manuscript was probably written soon after that date. On the flyleaf a contemporary hand has written `This Book Considering the Valuable Miscellanies therein cannot be sold under ten dollars at least [[ … ]] I.V.G.`
Theological works of Saints Jerome, Augustine, and others, written in the 12th century., 12th century.
Transcript, early-mid twentieth century, of Habbakkuk Bisset’s ‘Rolment of Courtis’., [1626.]
Translation, by Constantinus Africanus, of 'De gradibus simplicum' by Isaac (Isḥāq ibn Sulaiman al-Isrā’li), and the end of an unidentified work., 13th century.
Translation into Gaelic, in an early seventeenth-century hand, of 'Lilium medicinæ' of Bernard de Gordon of Montpellier., [1574, or before]-1784.
Treatise in three volumes on a union between Great Britain and Ireland, volume 1., 1798.
Treatise in three volumes on a union between Great Britain and Ireland, volume 2., 1798.
Leaves are cut or torn out after folios 107 and 151, and a bifolium (folio 226), formerly tipped in, has been placed inside a pocket inside the back cover.
Treatise in three volumes on a union between Great Britain and Ireland, volume 3., 1798.
Leaves are cut or torn out after folios 239 and 243.
'Treatise of Actions', with notes on process, compiled by Lord Milton., Early 18th century-mid 18th century.
The treatise appears to be an abbreviated version of the work of Sir George Mackenzie of which a copy is in Adv.MS.25.2.11.
On the inverted folios are various notes.
Treatise on logic, written probably in the second quarter of the 18th century., 1725-1750.
`Treatise on the Provincial Dialect of Scotland` by Sylvester Douglas: volume 1., After 1775.
`Treatise on the Provincial Dialect of Scotland` by Sylvester Douglas: volume 2., After 1775.
Treatises on Oriental languages, chiefly in the hand of Robert Melvill., 17th century.
Two manuscripts bound in a volume of seventeenth-century printed sermons: a sermon, undated, preached by James Fergusson, Minister of Kilwinning (died 1667); and a treatise, 1717, entitled 'A vindication of set forms in generall and of the English service in particular', apparently by Thomas Law., 17th century, 1717.
These are the more substantial of the letters, papers and notes found in the Lauriston Castle Collection of printed books, whether pasted or inserted loosely into volumes or as inscriptions written in books.
Two works on Islamic theology, copied, 19th century, in a coarse West African script, with interlinear and marginal notes., 19th century.
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.
Unidentified legal treatise., 17th century.
The first leaf of the treatise, along with most of the second and third and some others have been lost. The text is arranged in 85 tituli. No cases later than the 1630s appear to be cited. This is followed (folio 94) by a selection from Haddington's ‘Practicks’ and by some extra, un-numbered tituli. Loosely inserted (folios 105-106) is a copy of an act concerning the highway through Inveresk.
Unpublished treatises of John Sobieski Stuart (John Hay Allan), calling himself Count d'Albanie, with materials collected for them., 19th century.
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.
Work on digestion, incipit 'Premissis quibusdam que certa corpus humanum'., 13th century.
Initials are alternately blue and red.
At the end are added a note from Henry of Huntingdon, book 6, and a list (incomplete) of battles between the English (`nos`) and Scots from 1307 to 1385 (late 14th century, folio 31 verso).