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15th-century manuscript of 'Le livre des meurs du gouvernement des seignieurs', a translation of the pseudo-Aristotelian 'Secretum secretorum'.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.4
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in England containing a translation into French of the the Pseudo-Aristotelian 'Secretum Secretorum', or 'Secret of Secrets'. The Secret of Secrets is a translation of the Arabic 'Kitab sirr al-asrar', ostensibly a letter to Alexander the Great from Aristotle. The work is intended as a didactic piece in the 'Mirror for Princes' tradition and covers a range of topics including statecraft, alchemy, magic, astronomy, and ethics.The manuscript is the...
Dates:
15th century.
15th-century manuscript of the chartulary of Arbroath Abbey, known as the 'Registrum nigrum'.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.3
Scope and Contents
Chartulary produced in Scotland, known as the 'Registrum Nigrum' of the Tironensian Abbey of Arbroath. The work was compiled in the 15th century, probably the early part thereof, and is written in a variety of hands. The material in the manuscript covers the years 1288 to circa 1500, with the bulk of the material belonging to the later part of this time span. The manuscript is a register of leases, recording the administration of the lands, churches and tithes of the abbey. For a full list...
Dates:
15th century.
15th-century manuscript of the chartulary of Scone Abbey.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.28
Scope and Contents
Chartulary produced in Scotland containing documents relating to the Augustinian Abbey of Scone, covering the 12th to the 15th centuries. The chartulary is incomplete, but does contain copies of 148 royal, papal, episcopal and other charters and documents.The documents are written in a variety of hands which appear to be contemporary, or near-contemporary, with one another, with 29 lines to a page. Davis has dated the manuscript to the 15th and 16th centuries. Borland and Innes...
Dates:
15th century.
15th-century manuscript of the 'Filostrato' of Giovanni Boccaccio.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.14
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in Italy containing the 'Filostrato' of Giovanni Boccaccio, a poem on the loves of Troilus and Criseida in 713 stanzas of ottava rima. The manuscript is the work of one scribe, written in an Italian round hand by a Florentine scribe.The work itself is preceded by a paragaph explaining the meaning of the name 'Filostrato', followed by an introductory epistle to 'Phylomena'.The text is written with 4 stanzas to a page. The...
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
15th-century manuscript of the 'Jónsbók', containing the laws of Iceland.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.21.8.3
Scope and Contents
Manuscript, probably produced in Iceland, containing a set of Icelandic laws known as 'Jónsbók'. The manuscript has been dated to the 14th century by Thorkelin, and to the 15th century by Þorkelsson, specifically circa 1420-1460. Ólafur Halldórsson has dated the manuscript to circa 1450. Þorkelsson has also identified this manuscript as based on an older codex of the 'Jónsbók' due to the inclusion of Icelandic court orders of 1294, 1305, and 1314, with a distinct lack of orders...
Dates:
15th century.
15th-century manuscript of the 'Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ', a translation by Nicholas Love of the Pseudo-Bonaventure 'Meditationes Vitae Christi'.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.1.7
Scope and Contents
15th-century manuscript produced in England, probably London. The volume contains the 'Myrrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ', a translation by Nicholas Love, Prior of Mount Grace Charterhouse in Yorkshire, of the Pseudo-Bonaventure 'Meditationes vitae Christi'. The work dispenses meditative and doctrinal comment on scripture and is made up of 63 chapters in 7 sections, each representing a day of the week. The manuscript was produced for Edmund Grey, 4th Baron Grey of Ruthin,...
Dates:
1445 - 1465
15th-century manuscript of the 'Moralia in Job' of Pope Gregory I.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.6
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Scotland containing Books XXIII-XXXV of Pope Gregory I's 'Commentary on Job', also known as the 'Moralia, sive Expositio in Job', or the 'Magna Moralia'.The manuscript was written in the 15th century, before 1483, at which date it was donated to Dunkeld Cathedral. Watermark evidence also suggests a date of the latter half of the 15th century.The work is written in double columns on folios 1r-15v and in a single block of text from folios 16r-187r,...
Dates:
15th century, before 1483.
15th-century manuscript of uncertain origin which contains miscellaneous works, mostly theological
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) A version of the first two parts of the `Secretum Secretorum`. It corresponds to the text published in ‘Opera ... Rogeri Baconi’, fascicle V, pages 38-75, but is a very much shorter version, omitting the whole of caps. ii (the prologue of John), iv and viii, and many passages elsewhere. There are a few insertions and corrections in another hand. Begins `Quando allexander subiugavit sibi perses`. Ends `una vice post aliam et sic...
Dates:
15th century.
15th-century manuscript written in the Low Countries containing devotional texts.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.20.8.3
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Speculum peccatoris` by an unknown author. It has been variously attributed to Saints Bernard and Augustine, Richard Rolle of Hampole, and others. See ‘Writings ascribed to Richard Rolle’, pages 353-354, and ‘Die Handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des heiligen Augustinus’, II/2, page 116. Printed in ‘Patrologia latina’ xi, columns 983-992. (Folio 2.)(ii) Devotions to the Virgin, beginning 'O virgo concipiens et...
Dates:
15th century.
15th-century manuscript written in the Low Countries, containing various works attributed to, or written by, St Bernard.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Extracts from the `Vita beatissimi Malachie`, caps. 1-25. See ‘Patrologia Latina’ 182, 1073-1104 (folio 1 verso).(ii) Notes on vipers with reference to Aristotle (folio 8 verso).(iii) `De conversione ad clericos`, cap. 3. ‘Patrologia Latina’ 182, 856-857 (folio 9).(iv) `Bernardus de servitute vitiorum et incertitudine mortis` (folio 10).(v) Anonymous commentaries on the Song of...
Dates:
15th century.
15th-century transcript of the chartulary of Dryburgh Abbey.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.7
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in Scotland containing the chartulary of Dryburgh, a Premonstratensian Abbey founded in 1150 and dissolved in 1606. Davis, Borland, and Spottiswoode date the manuscript to the 15th century.The manuscript is the work of one hand and has apparently been transcribed from an earlier compilation. The material covers the 12th to the 14th centuries, with the last entry dated 1338. The chartulary is arranged in a roughly topographical order, with copies of...
Dates:
15th century.
16 documents, mostly orders for payment out of the Public Revenue.
File
Identifier: Acc.3709- is now MS.9931, ff 102-125.
Dates:
1625-1668, 19th century.
16 Gaelic manuscripts including the "Book of the Dean of Lismore".
Collection
Identifier: Acc.7764- is now Adv.MSS.72.1.37-50, Adv.MSS.72.2.1-2
Dates:
16th century to 18th century.
16 letters concerning a bridge and a ferry over the Clyde near Lanark.
File
Identifier: Acc.3383- is now MS.10789, ff.141-172.
Dates:
1834-1846.
16 letters of John Aitken Carlyle to William and Archibald Glen.
File
Identifier: Acc.5311
Dates:
1832-1865.
16 letters of John S Blackie, probably to Chapman and Hall.
File
Identifier: Acc.7859
Scope and Contents
Concerning his publications.
Dates:
circa 1875-circa 1877.
16 letters of Laughton Johnston to Duncan Glen, 1967-1975; with a typescript of 'Poems', by Laughton Johnston, no 13 in the 'Parklands Poets' series; and order forms for Akros Publications., 1967-1975.
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Identifier: Acc.7125 Box 7(2)
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Including manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of poems, articles, and reviews, with correspondence and accounts.
Dates:
1967-1975.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including typescripts, proofs and financial records, of Akros Publications, 'Akros' magazine and Duncan Glen.
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Correspondence and papers relating to books published by Akros Publications; for correspondents with surnames beginning 'J-L'.
16 letters to William Blackwood and Sons from poets, including Thomas Moore, thomas Aird, Charles Mackay, and Caroline Anne Bowles.
File
Identifier: Acc.5307- is now MS.30968-30969.
Dates:
1819-1846.
16 mm black and white, silent film entitled ‘Church and Home Life in Chogoria’., 1929-1930.
File
Identifier: Acc.12016/21
Scope and Contents
In a tin.
Dates:
1929-1930.
16 mm black and white, silent film entitled 'The Community and the Development of the Hospital'; endorsed 'broken'., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.12016/22
Scope and Contents
In a tin.
Dates:
Undated.
16 pencil drawings by Alexander Nasmyth for "Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley" (Edinburgh, 1821).
File
Identifier: Acc.11900
Dates:
circa 1821.
16 plans and drawings for the construction of the Royal Border Bridge.
File
Identifier: Acc.6874
Dates:
1847-1850.
16 typescript descriptions of "Motoring by-ways round Edinburgh", illustrated with photographs.
File
Identifier: Acc.8329
Dates:
circa 1950.