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13th-century manuscript containing Books 1-24 of the 'Digestum vetus' of Justinian, with glosses in several hands.
13th-century manuscript of the 'Institutes' of Justinian with the 'Glossa Ordinaria' of Accursius, and a fragment of the 'Lectura Institutionum' of Guillaume de Ferrières.
14th-century manuscript of Books 1-5 of the 'Consuetudines Normanniae', the laws and customs of Normandy from the 13th and 14th centuries.
15th-century manuscript containing 'De remediis utriusque fortunae' of Adrianus Carthusiensis, incorporating passages from the 'De remediis utriusque fortunae' of Petrarch.
15th-century manuscript containing various legal works: an index to the works of Bartolus de Saxoferrato; the 'Allegationes' of Lapo da Castiglionchio the Elder, abbreviated by Anthonius de Butrio; the 'Canonum Collectio' of Pseudo-Isidore.
15th-century transcript of the chartulary of Dryburgh Abbey.
16th-century manuscript containing a register of charters and leases of St Andrews Priory, Pittenweem Priory and the archbishopric of St Andrews, covering the years 1553-1574.
16th-century manuscript containing the Accounts of the Archbishopric of St Andrews, covering the years 1539-1549.
Abbreviated version of the ‘Scotichronicon’ by Walter Bower.
Abridgement by Patrick Russell, prior of the Charterhouse of Perth, of a work by Walter Bower known as the 'Book of Cupar Angus'.
`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.
'Bohun Psalter' made in England in the late 14th-century for Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester.
Chartulary of the bishopric of Moray, 16th century.
Collection of manuscript material transferred from printed theses collection, 1637-late 19th century, chiefly consisting of German academic papers, but including a small cache of Scottish legal papers, 19th century.
With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.
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.
Composite volume of 15th-century manuscripts of miscellaneous works by four hands bound together, with an incunable, in the 16th-century or earlier.
Copies, 19th century, and original papers collected by Sir William Fraser, 16th century-1793.
Copies of miscellaneous papers.
‘De unione Britanniæ, dialogi tres.’
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.6.penult.
‘In primo agitur de jure successionis Regum apud Britannos. In secundo de regnorum Anglie et Scotiæ unione, et de vero Angliæ successore. In terti de remotis Angliæ Regni heredibus et de designando successore.’
The manuscript is in a hand of the period and with the initials of King James VI on the boards, and Latin hexameters at the end.
Early 15th-century manuscript containing copies of English law statutes, including the 'Magna Carta' and the 'Statuta Lincolni'; 'Prerogativa regis'; 'Consuetudines Londoni'.
Early 16th-century manuscript of the accounts of the Bishopric of Dunkeld, covering the years 1506-1517.
‘Elucidatio exemptionis et jurisdictionis sacri ordinis Cristerciensis’ by Hilger Burghoff.
Fifteenth-century manuscript of the 'short version' of the 'Polychronicon' of Ranulph Higden.
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.