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Microfilm of 11th and 12th century manuscripts.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.350
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript of the late 11th and early 12th century containing: the 'Paradisus' of Heraclides; the 'Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae temper Wandalorum' of Victor Vitensis; 'De corpore et sanguine Domini' of Paschasius Radbertus (attributed to Rabanus Maurus); 'De corpore Domini contra Berengarium' of Guitmund; and two sermons of St Augustine of Hippo (Adv.MS.18.4.3);Medical manuscript, 1st half of 12th century, written in South France or...
Dates:
Late 11th century-1st half of 12th century.
Microfilm of assorted 17th-century manuscripts.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.360
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copies of Acts and minutes of sederunt of the second session of the first parliament of King William and Queen Marie, 15 April 1690, in a contemporary hand. (Adv.MS.15.2.12);Heraldic and genealogical material, 2nd quarter of 17th century, in the hand of Sir James Balfour (Adv.MS.15.2.13);Treatise, 1st half of 17th century, ‘On nobility’ by Sir James Balfour (Adv.MS.15.2.14);Description of Italy, its principal towns and most...
Dates:
2nd quarter of 17th century-1655.
Microfilm of Chronicle of England, and theological works.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.867
Dates:
14th century.
Microfilm of collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.458
Dates:
[?1590-?1596], 1671.
Microfilm of copies, 17th century, of treaties and other documents, 13th-16th century, concerning France and Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.527
Dates:
13th century-16th century.
Microfilm of documents concerning the Highlands of Scotland, including a history of the Macdonalds.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.861
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Some remarks on the Highland clans and methods proposed for civilising them’, early 18th century (Adv.MS.16.1.14);‘State of Emigration from the Highlands of Scotland, its extent, causes, and proposed remedy.’ An apparently unpublished treatise, dated ‘London March 21st 1803’ (Adv.MS.35.6.18);Manuscript copy of the English ‘History of the Macdonalds’, ascribed by Donald Gregory to a Hugh Macdonald, [1829, or after] (Adv.MS.73.1.12);...
Dates:
Early 18th century-[1827, or after].
Microfilm of genealogical material.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.28
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Genealogical material, 17th century-18th century, relating to various families in Scotland (Adv.MS.16.2.5);Collection of papers, 16th century, relating to Scottish earldoms, with transcripts, early twentieth century, by Sir Alexander Lawrie, of early charters and other documents (Adv.MS.19.1.18);Copy, 16th century, of `Recueil des Principaux Seigneurs qui passerent la Mer avec Guillaume Conquereur d`Angleterre`, a treatise on the...
Dates:
16th century-18th century.
Microfilm of 'Liber taxarum' of the Papal Chancery; and, ‘Meroure of Wyssdome’ by John Ireland.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.420
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript produced in 1484, a 'Liber taxarum' of the Papal Chancery (Adv.MS.18.2.1);
‘Meroure of Wyssdome’ by John Ireland, ?1490 (Adv.MS.18.2.8).
Dates:
1484, ?1490.
Microfilm of miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.304
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Microfilm of miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.870
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Microfilm of palimpsest, made up of at least five English manuscripts of the 8th to 11th centuries, overwritten in England in the late 11th century and belonging to Thorney Abbey.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.836
Dates:
8th century-11th century.
Microfilm of ‘Transactions of Scotts army in Ireland from 1643 to Junii 1648’, a collection in a contemporary hand of copies of letters, instructions and commencing with the treaty ‘concerning the Reducing of the Kingdom of Ireland’ and ending with a minute dated Carrickfergus 27 June 1648.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.325
Dates:
1643-1648.
Microfilm of works of Robert Mylne, Alexander Hume and William Drummond.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.196
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Index, early 18th century, to ‘Mercurius Aulicus’ for 1641-1661, in the hand of Robert Mylne, ‘as also to the large vol. of Mercurius’ (Adv.MS.13.2.1);Copies of historical works of Alexander Hume, preceded by a Latin treatise. Includes ‘De foedere Dei cum homine’ by Alexander Hume, 1653 (Adv.MS.13.2.3);Copy, 17th century, of five prose tracts of William Drummond, of Hawthornden, the poet, written between 1638 and 1642 about the time of...
Dates:
1638- early 18th century.
Microfilm of various Gaelic manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1391
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, 18th century, containing a collection of tales by an anonymous Irish scribe (Adv.MS.72.2.6);Composite manuscript, 18th century, of miscellaneous Gaelic texts (Adv.MS.72.2.8).Compendium of medical treatises, 1611-1614, in Gaelic, written by Angus Beaton (Adv.MS.72.2.10); Cath Fhionntragha, Gaelic manuscript, 18th century, of folk-tales, in the hand of Alexander MacDonald (Alasdair Mac Mhaighistir Alasdair)...
Dates:
1611-18th century.