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Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
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.
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.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Manuscript on botany, entitled `Manuel de botanique ou Principes pour connoitre les Plantes que la nature produit leurs Noms, Caracteres, Et Vertus. MDCCXXXVI’.
Microfilm of works, 17th century, of Esther Inglis and a book of recipes, 1st half of 17th century-1735, 1879, started by Anna, Lady Elcho (died 1649).
Miscellaneous historical and topographical tracts, copied in the 17th and early 18th centuries.
There is a list of contents (folio i) in the same 19th-century hand which drew up the contents list in Adv.MS.22.2.10.