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 189 Collections and/or Records:
Treatise on the jurisdiction and form of proceeding in the High Court of Star Chamber, written in the reign of James I.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.4.4
Dates:
1630.
Treatise on the law relating to pupils and minors and their tutors and curators.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.12
Scope and Contents
‘The tutors guide or the principle of the civil and municipal laws and curators relating to pupils and minors and their tutors and curators laid down in an easy and natural method in three parts viz (i) of tutors; (2) of curators; (3) of things common to both’.
The manuscript is in the hand of John Chalmers, written about 1732.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (W.5.20).
Dates:
Early 18th century.
`Treatise on the Provincial Dialect of Scotland`, a work in two volumes by Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.23.7.18-23.7.19
Scope and Contents
The two volumes contain Book I, Chapters 1-4: it is not known if the work proceeded any further. It is a didactic work, intended not only to describe the ways in which Scottish usage and pronunciation differ from English but also to recommend adherence to English usage, and it draws upon French and Italian as well as English authors. It is undated: the latest datable reference in the text appears to be to Thomas Sheridan`s ‘Lectures on the Art of Reading’ which was published in 1775, and...
Dates:
After 1775.
Treatises on alchemy.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.8.1
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) 'Conpositum de Conpositis abstractis a philosophis'. See 'Catalogue of Latin and vernacular alchemical manuscripts', number 290, which ascribes the work to 'magistri Parisii'. For a summary of the contents and discussion of possible authorship, see ‘History of magic and experimental science’ (London, 1923-1958), volume iii, page 133-135. A colophon gives the place and date of compilation of the treatise as Paris, May, 1331, and...
Dates:
14th century.
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: Adv.MS.18.6.2
Scope and Contents
From the subscriptions and the physical make-up of the volume it appears that there were originally four booklets, bound together a century later.The contents of the volume are as follows:- Written in 1472 with additions in 1480:`Sermo de conservatione sanitatis` by Filippe Bandini of Arezzo (‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column 1294). The beginning is lost but author (Philip de Roderia) and title (`Regimen...
Dates:
1472-1480.
'Treaty of surnames in general, but especially those of Scotland’ by Sir James Balfour, Lyon King of Arms.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.28
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (A.7.29).
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Two collections of writings of Allan Ramsay, in his hand.
File
Identifier: MS.2233
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Drafts of poems, of a prose treatise in defence of the theatre (fragmentary, but not ‘Some Few Hints in Defence of Dramatic Entertainments’), and of a letter to a lady, containing a poem. Some of the poems appear to be unpublished; others differ greatly from the printed version. On folio 10 there are marginal references, apparently contemporary, to the pages of ‘Poems by Allan Ramsay’ (Edinburgh, 1728), volume ii. Some of the leaves are paginated,...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Two English medical manuscripts of the 12th century (each with later additions), bound together probably in the medieval period; the second at least belonged to a monk of Peterborough.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.16
Scope and Contents
A. (i) 'Macer Floridus, de viribus [so in title, 'virtutibus' in explicit] herbarum' by Odo of Meung(?). There are marginal headings throughout and two glosses on folio 1. A slightly later hand has added English equivalents of the plant-names (and also started to list them on folio 93 verso). A contents-list in a court-hand of the 13th century is on folio 39 verso. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Liber de virtutibus lapidum’, i.e. 'De lapidibus' by Marbod. (Folio 40.)(iii) Medical...
Dates:
12th century.
Two manuscripts bound together, containing the burgh laws, ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam Attachiamenta’, statutes, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.14
Scope and Contents
The first part, sections (i)-(xv), contains the burgh laws, ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam Attachiamenta’, statutes, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots, written by G H about the middle of the 15th century; the second, sections (xvii)-(xxi), contains the burgh laws, statutes, and other smaller legal texts, in Scots, written at the same period. Sections (xxii)-(xxiii) are a slightly later addition. Section (xvi) is an 18th-century copy.(i) `Leges et consuetudines quatuor...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Volume containing a fair copy (possibly the original) of `Ane treatise of the Happie and Blissed Vnioun, betuixt the tua ancienne realmes of Scotland and England ... ` by John Russell (folio 1), followed by `Ane wther treatise, contiening the deuty and office, of ane Christiane prince, ...` (folio 21).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.7
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is the earlier of two known copies, the other being in the British Library, Royal MS 18.A.LXXVI. This copy appears to have been written between May and October 1604: the other, which contains numerous differences, appears to have been written after October 1604, and probably in 1605, and was probably presented to King James.
Dates:
1604.
Volume containing inter alia translations or copies, 1706 or after, of treatises on maritime law, chancery styles, and Crown patrimony, an index to Stair’s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, and copies of Scottish patents, 16th and 17th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.2
Scope and Contents
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.`
Dates:
16th century-1706.
Volume of miscellaneous papers concerning genealogy and religion which belonged to Robert Mylne, the antiquary.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.1
Scope and Contents
Sections (i), (ii), (v), and (vi) are written by Mylne himself; (iii) and (iv) by another late-seventeenth- or early-eighteenth-century hand; the last addition in (vi) is by an eighteenth-century hand. Sections (i), (ii), (iii)-(iv), and (vi) originally had separate paginations: Mylne has overwritten these in paginating throughout. An instruction to his binder survives on folio 75. There is the beginning of an index on folios 177-178, deleted and with the note that `the index is in loos...
Dates:
1st quarter of 15th century-1st half of 18th century.