Scope and Contents ‘Registrum Monasterii de Cambeskenneth’. A formal transcript of all the charters of the Abbey which were in danger of destruction from its damp situation, obtained by Abbot Alexander Myln (the first president of the Court of Session) under the confirmation of the great seal, and with the attestation of Sir James Foulis, Clerk of Register affixed to each charter.The foundation charter of David I occurs at folio 6.The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue...

Scope and Contents Manuscript produced in Scotland containing the Register of Dunfermline Abbey, a Benedictine house founded circa 1070 and dissolved in 1593. The material in the register covers the 12th to the 16th centuries.The manuscript is a composite register compiled at various stages through the 13th to the 16th centuries. Davis and Broun state that the original portion of the manuscript was created sometime between 4 February 1254 and the early part of 1255. The work is multi-scribal and...

Scope and Contents Chartulary produced in Scotland for the use of the Tironensian Abbey of Kelso, founded at Selkirk in circa 1113, removed to Kelso in 1128, and dissolved in 1607. The contents are generally arranged topographically. Copies of the foundation charters are found at the beginning. The other royal, episcopal and papal charters are mainly grouped at the end. Witness lists are often omitted from the documents. The manuscript is multi-scribal and displays various charter hands of the 14th and 15th...

Scope and Contents Chartulary produced in Scotland containing documents and charters concerning Paisley Abbey. The contents are arranged according to subject matter, and in part topographically. The volume includes copies of royal, papal and episcopal charters, with a contemporary table of contents at the front.Davis has dated the manuscript to the 1520s. Scott suggests that part of the manuscript may have been started around 1505, but that the presence of a group of texts dated to 1522 supports...

Scope and Contents Chartulary compiled in Scotland containing a selection of transcripts of charters, deeds, and acts of the Bishopric of Moray, covering the 13th to the 16th centuries. The manuscript is also known as the 'Red Book of the Church of Moray'. Davis dates the manuscript to the 16th century. Borland suggests that the manuscript can be dated to circa 1540, with later 16th-century additions. This suggestion is certaninly true of the later portion of the chartulary, but the first 94 folios were...

Scope and Contents Manuscript produced in Scotland, containing the older chartulary of the Bishopric of Moray. The manuscript is a composite register and contains material written at different times in various hands, from the latter half of the 13th century down to the late 16th century. The material covers the 12th to the 16th centuries.The bulk of the manuscript, folios 1-114, was possibly brought together in the late 14th century after the destruction of the Cathedral. There are later additions...

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The charters, which are not in chronological order, cover the period 1162-circa 1330. They are followed by a copy of Cranstoun`s notarial instrument concerning the making of the chartulary (folio 25) and copies of two charters of 1426 and 1440 in different hands (folio 26 verso).

Some of the initials have simple penwork decoration by the scribe, whose notarial sign is also given (folio 25 verso).

Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Table of the sons and grandchildren of St. Louis (folio 1)(ii) `Scala mundi`: historical and genealogical tables from the Creation (folio 1 verso). A similar manuscript of this text is in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS. 645. The chronology goes up to 1519, but apart from a few additions in later hands, the last entry is the accession of Albert the Great in 1438. The tables include lunar and solar years, the dates of...

Scope and Contents (i) 'Liber antiquarum definitionum', i-iv, omitting ii.1-2 ('Nomasticon Cisterciense', pages 367-400). Section i is the 'Carta caritatis', the original rule of the order (folio 1).(ii) 'Constitutio Benedicti Papae XII' ('Nomasticon Cisterciense', pages 473-495; different numbering of chapters), with an index prefixed (folio 19).(iii) 'Liber antiquarum definitionum', ii.1-2, iii-xiii, omitting iii.2 and xii.1 ('Nomasticon Cisterciense', pages 376-378, 395-457) (folio...

Scope and Contents Of the bulls, numbers 1-2, 4-7, 11-13, 17-23, and 25 concern the Bishopric and/or the Church of St Andrews; numbers 3, 8, 10, and 14 Dunfermline Abbey; number 9 the ransom of David II; number 15 the erection of the Collegiate Church of Seton; and numbers 24 and 26 appointments to the benefices of Cruden and Largo. Number 16 is a petition for indulgences on behalf of Henry Lauder, advocate of Mary Queen of Scots. The majority are of the thirteenth century. A more detailed...

Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘The Hunting of the Hare` (‘The Index of Middle English Verse’, 973) (folio 1), followed by a mock sermon in prose (folio 7 verso) and nonsense verses (folio 10 verso) (the latter ‘The Index of Middle English Verse’, 3425, both printed in ‘Reliquiae Antiquae’, volume 1, pages 82-84). See ‘The “Hunting of the Hare” in the Heege Manuscript’. Written by Richard Heeg.(ii) `Sir Gowther` (‘The Index of Middle English Verse’,...

Scope and Contents (i) Commentary on ‘Isagoge’ on Galen’s ‘Tegni`, by Johannicius (Honein ben Ishak), incipit `Cum inter omnia animalia humanum corpus` (Thorndike-Kibre, col. 311). Frequent quotations from the text of Johannicius are included, incipit `Medicina diuiditur in duas partes idest in theoriam and practicam` (folio 1). Folio 49 verso blank.(ii) Commentary on Hippocrates, `Aphorisms’, by Oribasius, incipit ‘Afforismorum Ypocratis huius noue editionis ea causa extitit`...

Scope and Contents Composite manuscript produced in Scotland and compiled in the late 15th century, probably circa 1500, by James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane and secretary to William Scheves, Archbishop of St Andrews. The manuscript is a commonplace book and consists of a variety of religious, historical, legal, and literary material. There are several hands evident throughout the manuscript. Anderson states that folios 1r-24v are written by very similar hands, and could...

Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) `Synonyma` by Pseudo-Cicero, beginning in the middle of the article `Domuit`. This manuscript differs considerably, both in number of articles and verbally, from the printed texts. On folios 10-11 is an 18th-century note on the bibliography of this work. (Folio 2.)(ii) Fragment of a mediaeval work on logic, listing types of argument (intrinsecus: a comparatione, a parte, a nota; extrinsecus: a coniugatis, a genere, a...

Scope and Contents The collection has been in one volume since the 16th century at least. The contents are as follows:[(i) A printed book: Johannes de Hildesheim, ‘Liber de gestis ac translatione trium regum’, etc., ([Cologne], 1478) = National Library of Scotland Inc.43 (B.M.Cat. IB 4236) (folio 1)]. Folio 56 blank.(ii) Baebius Italicus (?), `Ilias latina` (‘Poetae latini minores’ ii.3; this manuscript is not included in the list given by P Vollmer in ‘Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen...

Scope and Contents (i) Statius, 'Thebaid' (folio 1). There is a prose argument on folio v verso, and verse arguments to books ii-v, vii-ix, and xii. The text of this manuscript belongs to Boussard's group σ⁴ (Paris.lat.8280, Vatican Barb.lat.106, Vatican Pal.lat.1692, Florence Laur.pl.58.7 - all 13th century; and Milan Ambros.H.21 inf., 14th-15th century), as omitting x.104-105 and 112-117, having the interpolation before x.131, and having varying readings in the other test passages (x.62 'pudorem', s.1....

Scope and Contents In the margins of both parts (folios 26 verso, 46 verso, 63 verso, 102 recto and verso) are written English proverbs in the same 16th-century hand.Pastedowns and flyleaves from an earlier binding consist of two bifolia folded in half and used sideways, containing in a 14th-century hand part of an unidentified commentary on Isaiah, dealing at length with 19.1 to 21.5, and to be read in the order viii recto + vii verso, viii verso + vii recto, ii recto + v verso, ii verso + v...

Scope and Contents A manuscript containing two works of St Bonaventure. The 'Breviloquium' is of the 13th century, and the 'Formula noviciorum', here attributed to St Bonaventure, is of the 14th century.Both works are written in double columns. The 'Breviloquium' is the work of one scribe, written in littera textualis with 39 lines to a page. The 'Formula noviciorum' is the work of a different scribe, written in a rotunda script with between 32 to 36 lines to a page.The contents are as...

Scope and Contents (i) List of contents (folio 1).(ii) Guillaume du Breuil, `Stylus curie Parlamenti` (folio 5). This manuscript was known to Félix Aubert who edited the ‘Stilus curie Parlamenti’ (Paris, 1909). It belongs to Aubert`s second family of manuscripts; chapter 25 follows chapter 21, and chapter 37 item 39 is omitted. There are many inaccuracies and the scribe made a number of additions in the margin.(iii) `Sequuntur ordinationes adiunctiones et statuta parlamenti` (folio...

Scope and Contents This copy was made by Andrew Cook, a fellow monk, in or before 1684, when, according to the inscription at folio 1, it was sent as a present by the Abbot, Placid Fleming, to Christopher Irvine, physician and philologist. The work was intended by Strachan as volume 1 of a work in two volumes (see Adv.MS.17.1.9, folio 225, his letter to Sir John Scot, Lord Scotstarvet, in 1641), but no more was ever written, nor was this part published.The pagination of this manuscript, which is...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar in red and black (folio 1). Entries in red include Saints Thomas Aquinas (7 March), Servanus (1 July), and Ninian (16 September), and in black, Saints Margaret of Scotland (19 June), Findoce (13 October) and the usual Cistercian saints. The calendar was published in ‘Kalendars of Scottish saints’, pages 53-64.(ii) Psalter and Canticles (folio 7). The Te Deum is omitted.(iii) Litany, including Saints Servanus, Blaan,...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Rotae, dated 1499, for finding the Golden Number, Indiction and Dominical Letter. (Folio 1 verso.)(ii) Calendar in red and black. (Folio 4.) Entries in red include Saints Palladius (6 July) and Machar (12 November), 'Dedicacio ecciesie cathedralis aberdonensis' (3 November) and the obits of Elizabeth Lauder, 1494 (11 June) and Master Robert Brown, 1460 (23 December). A note in red concerns the mission to Rome in 1497 of Master James...

Scope and Contents The volume contains a 19th-century description and transcription of manuscript Chart. A 590, held in the Forschungsbibliothek Gotha. Chart. A 590 contains the German translation of the French romance 'Pontus and Sidonia', and according to a scribal colophon was written in 1465 by Nicolaus Huber, presbyter in Brixen. The German translation has been attributed to Eleanor of Austria (1433-1480), daughter of King James I of Scotland and wife of Sigismund, Archduke of Austria. The...

Scope and Contents (i) Calendar in French in gold, blue and red (folio 1). It includes Saints Lubin, bishop of Chartres (14 March and 15 September), Pavasce (16 June), Mello (22 October) and Maclou (15 November).(ii) Sequences of the Gospels (folio 7).(iii) `Obsecro te` and ‘O intemerata` (folio 10 verso).(iv) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary, according to the use of Rome (folio 15). Matins of the Hours of the Cross and of the Holy Spirit are inserted between Lauds and...

Scope and Contents From verse 53.1 ‘armis’ (page 411, 12 Usani) to the end is lost.The manuscript has an inscription (overwritten) of the Rochester type at the foot of folio 2, ‘… H.de Hoo[?] [*]’, and is written in the Rochester variety of the Christ Church script (cf. ‘Medieval libraries of Great Britain’, pages 161, 298; ‘English manuscripts in the century after the Norman Conquest’, page 25 and what follows).Headings are in red or red and purple. The first two words of the text of...