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Translation by Thomas Cochrane of ‘Cotispectus medicinae theoreticae’ by James Gregory.

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Identifier: MS.9737
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The edition used was probably the sixth, published in Edinburgh in 1818, but the translation omits James Gregory's preface. The manuscript also includes translations of short passages from Homer, Xenophon, and Virgil (folios 3-23). Thomas Cochrane appears to have been a pupil at Oakham House School, near Dudley.

Dates: 1832-1833.

Translation into English by Andrew Purves of 'Eachunn nan Cath' (Glasgow: Gairm, 1979) by Ailein Friseal.

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Identifier: Acc.13597
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Contains:

Acc.13597/1: an A4 notepad in which the translation covers 143 + [2] pages;

Acc.13597/2: a copy of `Eachunn nan Cath` (Glasgow: Gairm, 1979) by Ailean Friseal / Allan Henry Hector Fraser.

Dates: 1988.

Translation into English by Thomas Ross (later the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross of Lochbroom) of parts of James Macpherson’s concocted originals as published in Sir John Sinclair’s ‘Poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.4
Scope and Contents Copious notes face part of the text, beginning at verso of folio xiii and ending at folio 33 verso. Thomas Ross submitted at least part of the manuscript to the Highland Society of London (see his letter to their secretary, folio iii). His hand was similar to Ewen MacLachlan’s, and in notes at folio 24 verso Sir John Sinclair attributes his work on ‘Temora’ to the latter. The manuscript is watermarked 1804.The contents are as follows.(i) Letter of the Reverend W...
Dates: 1807-1809, 1894, undated.

Translation of Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas, ‘La premiere sepmaine’.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.11
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Hebdomadis de Cleatione Mundi Di VII. The old marking extends to page 181, but pages 86-87 are bifurcated and pages 143-144 are omitted. The volume contains in all 92 leaves. The work is a free translation of ‘The Seven Days’ of the French poet Du Bartas, with Latin verse.

Dates: Late 16th century-early 17th century.

Translations from Icelandic literature into English, chiefly from Grimur Thomsen's ‘Udvalgte Sagastykker’, and apparently all made by him.

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Identifier: MS.3853
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With letters of Grimur Thomsen to David Douglas, regarding his publications in the ‘North British Review’ and elsewhere, and other correspondence, 1866-1870, 1901. The translations are in very faulty English. Some are on paper watermarked 1847.

Dates: [1846, or after], 1866-1870, 1901.

Translations into Latin verse of Hippocrates, ‘Aphorisms’ by James Macartney.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.4
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‘Hippocratis aphorismi Latinis versibus redditi per Jacobun Macartreum medicum Edinburgensem.’.

Dates: 1690.

Treatise on land-holding and transfer.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.3.2
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Contains English laws and illustrative instances especially in reference to land.

Dates: Early 18th century.

Treatises on medicine, astronomy and astrology written by Francisco Argilagues of Valencia, mostly while he was studying medicine at Siena in 1472-1473, with an addition made at Padua in 1480.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.2
Scope and Contents From the subscriptions and the physical make-up of the volume it appears that there were originally four booklets, bound together a century later.The contents of the volume are as follows:- Written in 1472 with additions in 1480:`Sermo de conservatione sanitatis` by Filippe Bandini of Arezzo (‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column 1294). The beginning is lost but author (Philip de Roderia) and title (`Regimen...
Dates: 1472-1480.

‘True present state of the principality of Scotland with the means how the same may be … augmented’, in the hand of Sir James Balfour.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.13
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The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.7.31.

Dates: 1st half of 17th century.

‘True relatione of the proceidings of those matters which concernes the Kirk of Scotland fra the first of August 1637’ by John Leslie, Earl of Rothes.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.12
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This manuscript is probably the original or the earliest extant copy of the work.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the references: Jac.v.7.23 and ‘A’.

Dates: 17th century.

‘True relatione of the proceidings of those matters which concernes the Kirk of Scotland fra the first of August 1637’ by John Leslie, Earl of Rothes; with two related papers by Sir George McKenzie, first Earl of Cromarty.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.6
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The volume, written under the direction of James Erskine, Lord Justice Clerk, contains the follows:

(i) ‘True relation of the proceedings which concern the Kirk from 1 August 1637’ by the Earl of Rothes, copied from a copy of the original (page 1);

(ii) 'A vindication of our reformation from the charge of tumult & rebellion' (page 349);

(iii) A notice, 1708, regarding the preservation of the volumes of the Records of the General Assemble (page 382).

Dates: 17th century-18th century.

Two 13th-century English medical manuscripts, bound together from an early date, each in the hands of two scribes.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.5
Scope and Contents (i) Serapion (ibn Sarābī). `Liber aggeratus in medicinis simplicibus`, translated by Simon of Genoa and Abraham Tortuosiensis, incipit `Postquam vidi librum Dyascoridis et librum Galeni in medicinis` (folio 1).(ii) Alī ibn al-`Abbās al-Mağūsī. `Pantegni`, translated by Constantinus Africanus (folio 123). The text is sometimes attributed to Isaac (Isḥāq ibn Sulaiman al-Isrāeli) and was printed in his ‘Opera’. This is the earliest version of Constantinus` translation; it contains...
Dates: 13th century.

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