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`Adversaria`, being miscellaneous notes and copies of correspondence of Sir Robert Sibbald, with scholars such as William Nicolson, Edward Lhuyd and John Smith of Durham on Scottish history and antiquities.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.19
Scope and Contents
Smith`s letters (folios 47-61), some of which are originals, concern the records of Scottish history surviving at Durham. Other contents are as follows:(i) Notes on historical manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library (folio 2).(ii) The life of Robert Morison copied from his ‘Plantarum Historiae Universalis Oxoniensis’, part 3, with notes on the same volume (folio 4 verso).(iii) `A list of Gold Scotch Coyns` (folios 13 verso, 18).(iv) `The...
Dates:
Circa 1682-1706, and undated.
Bible, probably written in Italy in the 13th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.19
Scope and Contents
The order of contents is the usual one (see ‘Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries’, ii, pages 210-212), except that the Prayer of Solomon is included at the end of Ecclesiasticus (folio 193). The prologues are as listed in ‘Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries’, with the following exceptions: 2 Chronicles, no prologue; Job, Stegmüller 349; Psalms, Stegmüller numbers 430, 10470, and 1833, 1; Proverbs has two additional prologues, Stegmüller 456 and 455; Jeremiah has two additional...
Dates:
Mid 13th century.
Collection of twenty-one documents relating to the Stuart family and the French royal family.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.368
Dates:
1543-19th century.
Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.15
Scope and Contents
Each volume has a contents list (folios 1, 77) and the second volume has its own foliation added in an apparently later hand.The first volume (folios 1-74) consists of copies (in the same hand), made apparently in or about 1585, of the following:(i) ‘Discorso del Priore d`Inghilterra a Papa Pio V circa la Riduttione di quel Regno’ (folio 2), being an account by Sir Richard Shelley, Grand Prior of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, written apparently early in 1570,...
Dates:
1537-1606.
Copies, 19th century, and original papers collected by Sir William Fraser, 16th century-1793.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.25
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Latin legal abbreviations, 16th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Speech in Latin addressed to `domine doctissime coeterique commilitones mei suavissimi`, in praise of modesty. Late 16th or early 17th century. (Folio 2.)(iii) Transcript, 19th century, of the Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3 February, 1590, concerning the slaughter of David Taillor by William Spottiswood of that Ilk and others. Cf. ‘The...
Dates:
16th century-1793.
Copies, apparently by Alexander Ross, of Johannes Ferrerius "Historiae Compendium de Origine et Incremento Gordonias Familiae", 1545, and of his own "Suthirlandiae Comitum Annales", 1625.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11085
Scope and Contents
Indluding:
1. "Vera Narratio...Victoriae...quod Auinum Amen [Glenlivet]... Anno Dmi 1594", with ownership inscription of Robert Gordon and Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
2. incomplete charter, undated, of John, Earl of Sutherland
3. letters, 1605, 1623 and undated
4. two fragments of a writing excercise, undated
5. poems, undated, mostly of Robert Southwell, with a photocopy of typescript on the poems.
Dates:
16th century to 17th century.
Late 14th-century manuscript of part of the 'Chronicle' of Walter of Guisborough.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.3
Scope and Contents
The manuscript now ends in the middle of the year 1297, page 297, 1.7 of H Rothwell`s edition; the remainder is British Library,Cotton MSS. Vesp. A.ix, folios 122-153, and Calig. A.xiii, folios 5-16. `Finis` has been substituted on folio 171 verso for the original catchword `Quidam Scottorum`. A letter of Felix Liebermann, 1887, on the relation of this and Cotton Vesp. A.ix is tipped in at folio iii.In the first three gatherings initials and headings are in red,...
Dates:
Late 14th century.
Manuscript containing copies of supplications of various dignitaries of the Scots Church to the Court of Rome concerning contested matters of an ecclesiastical nature; with copies of the responses which were made to the supplications.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.26
Dates:
Mid 16th century.
Manuscript containing: (i) copies of correspondence, with related papers, between the `Catholic Remainder of the British Church` (the non-juring Bishops) and the Orthodox Church, concerning a scheme for union between these bodies, 1716-1725; (ii) copies of letters of Thomas Brett to Archibald Campbell, Bishop of Aberdeen, 1722-1725.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.17
Scope and Contents
(i) The negotiations between the non-juring Bishops and the Orthodox Church were initiated during the stay in London of Archbishop Arsenius of Thebais, and conducted largely through the Russian Court; they end on the death of Peter the Great. See ‘A History of the Non-Jurors’, pages 309-361, and ‘The Orthodox Church of the East in the Eighteenth Century’.The original letters and papers from the Orthodox side in these negotiations (with English or Latin translations when these are...
Dates:
1716-1725.
Manuscript of ‘Meteorologicae Peripateticae adversus Aristotelem Liber singularis’ by Constantyn Huygens, together with letters to Huygens from various people.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.15
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Manuscript, apparently autograph, of ‘Meteorologicae Peripateticae adversus Aristotelem Liber singularis’ by Constantyn Huygens, 1636, printed in his ‘Momenta Desultoria’, 2nd edition, pages 119-131, and in ‘De Gedichten van Constantijn Huygens’, edited by J A Worp, volume 3, pages 15-26. This manuscript stands between ‘Momenta Desultoria’ and the manuscripts used by Worp; details of the variants have been placed before the...
Dates:
1627-1644, 1660-1684.
Manuscript of 'Secretum secretorum' by Pseudo-Aristotle, 'De excidio Troiae' by Dares Phrygius, and 'Historia regum Britannie' by Geoffrey of Monmouth; written by a 13th- or 14th-century hand of uncertain origin.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Pseudo-Aristotle, 'Secretum secretorum' (edited by R. Steele, in 'Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi', fascicule V, pages 25-172). This manuscript contains the letter of Philip, a list of chapters, and the text in seven books (the headings for i, iv, and vi are omitted). It is of the common class, omitting all the test passages of Gilson and Steele (cf. 'Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi', pages xxv-xxvi); further omissions are...
Dates:
13th century-14th century.
Manuscript, probably written by Giovan Marco Cinico, of the Latin translation by Francesco Griffolini (formerly attributed to Francesco Accolti) of the spurious letters of Diogenes and Phalaris.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.10
Scope and Contents
The volume is now confused and imperfect, but it is clear that originally there were two compilations: Diogenes with prefatory material (sections (i), (ii), (v), (vi)), and Phalaris with prefatory material (beginning lost, sections (iv), (iii)). The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Elegy dedicating the translation of Diogenes to Pius II, beginning `Ad uaticani praeclara palatia petri` (folio 1).(ii) Title of the translation of Diogenes (folio 3...
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.221
Dates:
1177, 15th century-1924.
Miscellaneous notes, letters and other items.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.17
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Notes of decisions of the Court of Session, 1714-1721. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies, early 18th century, of letters of and to George Buchanan, 1573-1581, and undated, with notes on others of his letters, mostly in Thomas Ruddiman`s hand; these are Epistolae XXVII, XV, XII, XXXI, XXIV, XL, XXXVII in Ruddiman`s edition of Buchanan`s Works, and Ruddiman`s introductory notes to Epistolae XI, XVI, VIII, XII, XX, XXVIII, XXXI, XXXIV,...
Dates:
17th century-1912.
Papers of John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, concerning lead and copper mining in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.24
Scope and Contents
Lord Menmuir was appointed Master of the Metals and Minerals for life in 1592.The papers are part of the Balcarres collection. They were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that they belonged to the collection.The contents are as follows:(i) Observations of Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston on the Act of Parliament concerning metals, 1592. ‘Early records relating to mining in Scotland’, 73. Cf. Adv.MS.29.2.9, folio 17. (Folio 1.)(ii)...
Dates:
1567-1596, and undated.
Transcript of Adv.MS.15.1.26 by Professor R K Hannay: a letter from the General Council of Basle to the bishops and other councillors of James II of Scotland, covering a letter to James II in which the Council asks him to revoke his decree of non-recognition and return to the attitude of his father James I.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.26A
Dates:
1442.