Treatises.
Found in 189 Collections and/or Records:
Copies of historical works of Alexander Hume, preceded by a Latin treatise.
Copy, 16th century, of `Recueil des Principaux Seigneurs qui passerent la Mer avec Guillaume Conquereur d`Angleterre`, a treatise on the genealogy and heraldry of the English nobility written by Jean Benard in 1567.
The manuscript is similar to the autograph manuscript of 1572 (Bibliotheque Nationale, MS. français 19000), but lacks the dedicatory letter to Charles IX and has no miniatures. The decoration consists of paintings of flowers and fruit, borders and armorial bearings, with some decorated initials. There is a note, ‘Southampton`s Genealogies`, in a 17th-century hand on folio iii.
Copy, 18th century, of the title-page and pages 881-889 of ‘Opus de Obligationibus Justitiae, Religionis, et Charitatis’ (Lugduni, 1608) of Fernando Rebello, containing Liber 18, `de promissionibus et donationibus`.
Copy, 1821, of ‘De antiqua Atheniensium religione’, ?16th century, transcribed from an anonymous manuscript treatise in the Royal Library at Hanover.
Copy, early 18th century, of `A Discourse concerning the three Unions betwixt Scotland and England’, an apparently unpublished work, written circa 1670.
The affairs which are discussed include James VI’s succession to the English throne, the proposals for a more entire union of Scotland and England made early in James`s reign and the proposals for a legislative union made in 1669-1670 by Charles II.
Copy in an unidentified hand of ‘Memorial offered to the Honourable Commissioners of Excise concerning the Mensuration of Tuns or Backs that have some irregularity in the Figure and Situation of the Bottom ... To which is added a Method of correcting the common Tables, and some new Theorems` by Colin Maclaurin.
There is a pen drawing of a ship on folio vi. This is a work of applied mathematics written in order to enable customs officers to gauge the contents of molasses barrels used in the port of Glasgow.
Copy, late 17th century, of `A Discourse concerning the three Unions of Scotland and England`, written circa 1670 and apparently unpublished.
Copy, late 17th century, of a treatise on sea laws by Alexander King, Judge Admiral of Scotland, circa 1590, entitled `Tractatus Legum et Consuetudinum Navalium quae apud omnes fere Gentes in usu habentur; Omnia Nautica et quaecumque ex causis marinis in judicium veniunt succincte definiens in certos Titulos ... methodice distinctos. Authore Alexandro Regio`.
The last Titulus (`De Piratis`) is in Scots, as is the appendix on `The forme and Maner of holding of Courts of Admiralitie and processe led befoir Them` which follows.
Copy of a work written by Alexander Dickson in support of the claims of James VI of Scotland to the crown of England in reply to ‘A Conference about the next succession to the crowne of Ingland’.
Copy of Adv.MS.31.3.18, documents relating to heraldry, made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist.
Translations have been provided with the material in Latin.
Copy of Alexander Philip, "The Improvement of the Gregorian Calendar", with notes by the author.
Copy of ‘Discourse of coin and coinage’ by Rice Vaughan.
The dedication by Henry Vaughan and the tables and additional material at the end of the published text are omitted.
On folio iv are two inscriptions `for the right honourable the Lord Roberts Lord Privie Seale of England`, and, in another hand, notes about waste land in Ireland with a reference to Sir William Petty.
Copy of Henry Calderwood, "The Philosophy of the Infinite; with Special Reference to the Theories of Sir William Hamilton and M Cousin", with notes by Sir William Hamilton.
With two letters of Hamilton and Calderwood, concerning the work.
Copy of William Gregory, "On a Post-tertiary Sand containing Diatomaceous Exuviae from Glenshira, near Inverary" (1854), with associated letter, undated, of author to the Duke of Argyll.
Copy of ‘Περὶ μέτρων ποιητικῶν’, a Byzantine medical treatise by Isaac Monachus.
The manuscript includes marginal notes. The number XVIII is on the inside top board, £1-11-6 on folio i.
'Discourse between a Writer and his Apprentice', possibly by William Campbell of Crawfordton, Writer to the Signet, concerning heritable and movable rights.
In his introduction (page 7), the author states that the work was compiled for his own use during his apprenticeship. It is preceded by forms of notarial attestations, and followed by a few legal accounts of 1822-1823.
‘Discourse of the High Courte of Parliament of the authoritie of the same and of the forme of proceedings therein called out of the common lawes of this lande and other good authors’.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.5.15.
English translation of Leonhard Christoph Sturm, "Vollständige Mühlen Baukunst" (A Complete Treatise on the Construction of Mills).
Fair copy in a contemporary hand of `De Hominio Disputatio` by Sir Thomas Craig.
Craig wrote this work in 1603 to show that Scotland had never done homage to England, in reply to strenuous claims to the contrary in the 1587 edition of Holinshead`s ‘Chronicles’ (`in manibus hominum his sexdecim annis` - folio i verso).
Fair copy in a contemporary hand of ‘De jure successionis andc regni Angliae Libri duo’ by Sir Thomas Craig.
Five 13th-century medical manuscripts, possibly written in England, with additions of the 14th and 15th centuries.
The manuscripts had been bound into one volume by the 15th century. The contents are: (i) translation, by Constantinus Africanus, of 'De gradibus simplicum' by Isaac and the end of an unidentified work, with recipes added in later hands; (ii) Gerard, 'De modo medendi', with recipes and notes added by later hands; (iii) a work on digestion; (iv) seven works on medical subjects; (v) the end of an unidentified work on the degrees of medicine, with added recipes in French.
`Fondament van de Geometry`, a practical treatise with propositions and proofs from Euclid.
The text is followed (folio 43) by remarks on surveying. The inverted folios contain mathematical and geometrical problems.
The front cover has the letters A O and the date 1705.
Four copies of George Combe, "An Inquiry into Natural Religion" (Edinburgh, 1853), with author`s ammedments.
Four or five medical manuscripts of the 14th century, with additions of the 14th and 15th centuries.
The volume has been heavily trimmed, leading to the partial loss of some headings and marginal notes.
Fragments of at least 7 and perhaps 8 manuscripts on medicine and astrology, some, if not all, English.
A and E may be in the same hand and from the same manuscript.