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Collection of romances and religious material, mostly in verse, written in the North Midlands by Richard Heeg with some items by James Hawghton and additions in other hands.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.1
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’,...
Dates:
Circa 1480.
'Famous Tippermallochs System of Physick’, being a manuscript, written in 1710, of the collection of medical recipes compiled by John Moncrieff of Tippermalloch.
Item
Identifier: MS.3772
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement of this manuscript corresponds fairly closely with that found in the printed editions, but the manuscript contains several recipes which do not appear in them, and vice versa; there are also differences in the details of recipes. The manuscript contains some additional material at the end.The contents are as follows. Tippermalloch's Recipes (pages 1-181); The following note by the writer of the manuscript: 'The End Of the Famous...
Dates:
1710.
Five 13th-century medical manuscripts, possibly written in England, with additions of the 14th and 15th centuries.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.1
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
13th century.
Four or five medical manuscripts of the 14th century, with additions of the 14th and 15th centuries.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.9(i)-(v)
Scope and Contents
The volume has been heavily trimmed, leading to the partial loss of some headings and marginal notes.
Dates:
14th century.
Fragments of at least 7 and perhaps 8 manuscripts on medicine and astrology, some, if not all, English.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.11A-H; (former binding)
Scope and Contents
A and E may be in the same hand and from the same manuscript.
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Manuscript of a 'materia medica' in Gaelic, with some specifics and a calendar.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.3
Scope and Contents
A materia medica, with some specifics (prescriptions) and a calendar. Text, decoration and certain of the hands all bear comparison with John Rylands Library MS. Ir. 35, a manuscript of Scottish provenance for which see Ingliston MS. A.i.9, number 50, and ‘The Academy’, volume 49, page 405.The manuscript is written by the following hands:1. Text, folios i-33, 36-39. A very fine hand bearing similarities to that of Domhnall Albanach Ó Troighthigh, British...
Dates:
?15th century.
Manuscript, of uncertain origin written in the 12th or 13th century, containing medical treatises.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.13
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Gariopontus, `Passionarius Galeni`, in seven books. The author`s name is not given; the title in the incipit is `liber Galieni ad Glaucum nepotem` (cf. British Library, Royal MS.12 E.XX, folio 33), in the explicit `liber Galieni Passionarius`. (Folio 1.)(ii) `Antidotarius particularis`, incipit `Aurea alexandrina antidotum facias ad reuma` (cf. ‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column...
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Manuscript on botany, entitled `Manuel de botanique ou Principes pour connoitre les Plantes que la nature produit leurs Noms, Caracteres, Et Vertus. MDCCXXXVI’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.5.12
Scope and Contents
Under each plant, there is a brief note about its habitat, but most of the entry concerns its medicinal uses. The text is followed (folio 215) by an appendix, indices of names in Latin and French, and an index of diseases. Folios 272-279 contain miscellaneous medical recipes, some of which have been written on loose sheets of paper and inserted.The inscription `J.B.M. Guidi scripsit anno 1757 et 1758` occurs on folio 271 verso, and the title-page (folio 1) bears his initials and...
Dates:
1757-1758.
Microfilm of four or five medical manuscripts of the 14th century, with additions of the 14th and 15th centuries.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.300
Dates:
14th century.
Microfilm of medical manuscript of undetermined origin.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.507
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
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).
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1052
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Moral sentences, written as specimens of penmanship, by Esther Inglis, 17th century (MS.2197); Book of recipes, 1st half of 17th century-1735, 1879, started by Anna, Lady Elcho (died 1649), and continued by her daughter Jean, Countess of Sutherland (MS.3031); 'Pseaumes de David. Escrits a Londres par Esther Inglis pour son dernier adieu, ianvier, 1.1615', a calligraphic copy of the Psalms from the Geneva version of 1588, with a...
Dates:
17th century-1735, 1879.
Miscellaneous manuscripts formerly in the possession of the Reverend John Stirton.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1879-1887
Dates:
1623-19th century.
Papers of the Skene family of Hallyards in Midlothian.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.10
Scope and Contents
Most of the documents belonged to John Skene (died 1644), the second son of Lord Curriehill, and to his son John, 2nd of Hallyards (died before 1699).The subjects include estate matters (in particular, the teinds of Hallyards) and political matters such as the sequestration of goods in the second half of the 17th century, and the raising and quartering of troops. The elder Skene was a Clerk of Session, and a number of legal papers are included in the volume, one of which (folio...
Dates:
1563-1710.
Volume of historical and literary works, 13th century, written in England in the early 14th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.9
Scope and Contents
Sections iv-vii are in the same hand. Folios 33 verso-34 verso are blank. There are a few pen drawings of faces in the margins.
Fragments of a 13th-century contents list from a collection of sermons have been used as binding strips; other fragments from the same source are in Adv.MS.18.2.4 and 18.4.5.
Dates:
14th century.