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13th-century manuscript of 'Aurora' by Peter Riga.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.4
Scope and Contents
The text is that of the third mediaeval version (see Paul E Beichner`s edition, volume 1, page xix), but like Notre Dame University Library MS.2, does not include the Liber Iob and Cantica Canticorum. The author`s name is given in a colophon to the Evangelium (folio 155 recto).The manuscript has been misbound, and folios 89-104 should precede folio 81. One passage in III Kings, which Beichner (volume 1, page 300, lines 13-66) attributes to the first recension of Aegidius, is...
Dates:
13th century.
13th-century prayer book from France, probably according to the Use of Paris
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.22
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Noted masses from the Nativity to Holy Innocents (folio 1). Leaves following the epistle for Holy Innocents are missing.(ii) Capitula for the Sanctorale and Common of Saints (folio 11). Leaves are missing at the beginning: the surviving text starts with the feast of Saints Peter and Paul.(iii) Collects for the Temporale, Sanctorale and Common of Saints (folio 16). There are lacunae between the Octave of...
Dates:
Late 13th century.
14th-century manuscript of the `Historia Anglorum` of Henry of Huntingdon.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.2
Scope and Contents
It contains prologue (folio 1) and books 1-10 (folios 2, 17, 29 verso, 46 verso , 60 verso, 75, 91, 106, 128 verso, 142); the end of book 9 is missing (from page xxvi, paragraph 19, 1.6 in T Arnold’s edition, who prints only extracts of this book), and of book 10 only a single leaf remains (page 276, paragraph 20, 1.10-page 279, paragraph 3 in Arnold).The text is written by one hand as far as folio 131; the remainder is by another contemporary, smaller hand, who uses a different...
Dates:
14th century.
14th-century manuscript of the 'Historia Anglorum' of Henry of Huntingdon.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.4
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains prologue (folio 1) and books 1-7 (folios 2, 12 verso, 23 verso, 38 verso, 50 verso, 64, 76 verso), ending in the year 1138, the first 11 paragraphs of the later book 8 being included in book 7 (cf. Arnold, pages xii, xxxix note 3). Book-numbers are added at the tops of folios 315 and 24 only.There are initials throughout; that of the prologue is zoomorphic, and that of book 1 more elaborate than the rest. On folios 1-20 they are in red and/or green, with a...
Dates:
14th century.
15th-century manuscript written in the Low Countries, containing various works attributed to, or written by, St Bernard.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Extracts from the `Vita beatissimi Malachie`, caps. 1-25. See ‘Patrologia Latina’ 182, 1073-1104 (folio 1 verso).(ii) Notes on vipers with reference to Aristotle (folio 8 verso).(iii) `De conversione ad clericos`, cap. 3. ‘Patrologia Latina’ 182, 856-857 (folio 9).(iv) `Bernardus de servitute vitiorum et incertitudine mortis` (folio 10).(v) Anonymous commentaries on the Song of...
Dates:
15th century.
`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.
File
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.
Calendar of Holyrood Abbey: a bifolium containing the entries for July to October.
Item
Identifier: MS.5048
Scope and Contents
The entries are written in red, blue, green, and black. There are several additions and deletions in later hands, and a sixteenth-century marginal note concerning writs of property.
Dates:
13th century.
Charters collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.18
Scope and Contents
The great majority of the charters concern St Andrews Cathedral or Priory; smaller groups relate to the Abbeys of Dunfermline and Lindores and the House of Friars Preachers in Aberdeen; and there is a miscellaneous secular remnant. There are 17 of the twelfth century, 36 of the thirteenth, 18 of the fourteenth, 23 of the fifteenth, and 9 of the sixteenth.Balfour pasted the charters into a book (which he had previously intended to use for genealogies, having written headings on...
Dates:
12th century-1553, 1627 or after-18th 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.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3591
Scope and Contents
With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.
Dates:
14th century-19th century.
Compendium of texts or lecture notes on philosophical subjects, probably written in France in the 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14312
Content Description
A compilation of texts, possibly lecture notes, on philosophical subjects, written in a continental humanistic hand possibly of the late 16th or early 17th century. There are leaves missing at the beginning and end, and two leaves have been torn out in the middle after page 284. The watermark, located at the top edge of the leaves and cropped down to a fragment throughout, seems to be of a bunch of grapes with a thick stem. A number of possible matches are French and date from...
Dates:
17th 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.
File
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.
Composite volume of 15th-century manuscripts of miscellaneous works by four hands bound together, with an incunable, in the 16th-century or earlier.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.8
Scope and Contents
The collection has been in one volume since the 16th century at least. The contents are as follows:[(i) A printed book: Johannes de Hildesheim, ‘Liber de gestis ac translatione trium regum’, etc., ([Cologne], 1478) = National Library of Scotland Inc.43 (B.M.Cat. IB 4236) (folio 1)]. Folio 56 blank.(ii) Baebius Italicus (?), `Ilias latina` (‘Poetae latini minores’ ii.3; this manuscript is not included in the list given by P Vollmer in ‘Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen...
Dates:
15th century.
Composite volume of English origin containing two manuscripts of the 12th and 13th century; the 'Thebaid' of Statius, and the 'Aeneid' of Virgil
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.12
Scope and Contents
(i) Statius, 'Thebaid' (folio 1). There is a prose argument on folio v verso, and verse arguments to books ii-v, vii-ix, and xii. The text of this manuscript belongs to Boussard's group σ⁴ (Paris.lat.8280, Vatican Barb.lat.106, Vatican Pal.lat.1692, Florence Laur.pl.58.7 - all 13th century; and Milan Ambros.H.21 inf., 14th-15th century), as omitting x.104-105 and 112-117, having the interpolation before x.131, and having varying readings in the other test passages (x.62 'pudorem', s.1....
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Composite volume of English origin, containing works of Ovid ('Fasti') and Claudian (major poems), the former of which belonged to Leicester Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.13
Scope and Contents
In the margins of both parts (folios 26 verso, 46 verso, 63 verso, 102 recto and verso) are written English proverbs in the same 16th-century hand.Pastedowns and flyleaves from an earlier binding consist of two bifolia folded in half and used sideways, containing in a 14th-century hand part of an unidentified commentary on Isaiah, dealing at length with 19.1 to 21.5, and to be read in the order viii recto + vii verso, viii verso + vii recto, ii recto + v verso, ii verso + v...
Dates:
Late 12th century-13th century.
Copies, 19th century, and original papers collected by Sir William Fraser, 16th century-1793.
File
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.
Copy of "Fabularum Aesopicarum Delectus" (Edinburgh, 1710), with manuscript notes of James Maule, possibly 4th Earl of Panmure.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3933
Dates:
1710.
‘Exercitationes Physicae’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.7
Scope and Contents
The work consists of an introduction and four `exercitationes` divided into chapters. Mention is made of authors such as Gerard Vossius, Descartes and Gassendi. There are a few diagrams dealing with astronomy. The work is followed (folio 131) by theological notes in English and Latin, including part of an attack on the philosophy of Descartes.
Dates:
17th century.
Extracts and copies of historical works, collected by Sir James Balfour, 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.7
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Epitome Codicis Sconensis ... ex libro M.S. Magni Mackculloche` (folio 1). Material in Latin and English, taken from the `Scotichronicon` for 1057 to 1436, with a supplement (folio 34) for 1199-1263. This was the basis of the early part of Balfour`s ‘Annales of Scotland’. ‘The Scottish historical library’, pages 92-93, refers to this manuscript.(ii) Extracts from ‘Scotorum historiae’ by Hector Boece (folio 39)....
Dates:
1440-1642.
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.
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.
Greek poetry; a volume consisting of three printed books, with manuscript notes and annotations in Latin in an 18th-century hand.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.8.4
Scope and Contents
The printed books are:(1) Reiske, Johann J. ‘Anthologiae Graecae a Constantino Cephala conditae libri tres’, 2 parts (Leipzig, 1754);(2) an unidentified Ανθόλγια;(3) Μόσχου καὶ βιῶνος εἰδὐλλια, edited by A van Meetkercke (Bruges, 1565). The first part of (1) (except the preface) has been interleaved and several leaves have been added at the end of (2). On these leaves, on the last page of (3), and on the lower paste-down are manuscript...
Dates:
1565, 18th century.
Late 15th-century manuscript, probably written in Italy, containing the 'Quaestiones' of Ugo Benzi (Hugo de Siena) and a medical work described as the sixth in a series of 'sermons', possibly related to the works of Nicolaus de Florentia.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.12
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) The ‘Quaestiones’ of Ugo Benzi (Hugo de Siena). This text contains those `de complexionibus (folio 1), `de equali ad pondus’ (folio 5 verso), ‘de etate consistendi` (folio 10), `de modo augmentationis` (folio 16 verso), ‘de malitia complexionis diverse` (folio 20), `utrum virtutes anime distinguantur ab invicem et ab anima` and `per obiecta` (folio 30; the two are not here separated), `de secundo modo equalitatis` (folio 31) and...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Lecture notes in the form of Latin disputations on natural philosophy.
File
Identifier: MS.8491
Dates:
1662-1663.
Lindsay Armorial: the armorial register of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Lyon King of Arms from 1542 to 1555.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.3
Scope and Contents
In 1630 the armorial was formally recognised by the Privy Council as an official register and a note to that effect, signed by Sir James Balfour, Lord Lyon, and Thomas Drysdale, Islay Herald, is on folio 110 verso.The manuscript was shown in the Heraldic Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1891 (see ‘Memorial Catalogue’, number 663).The contents are as follows:(i) Latin verses on and a painting of the royal arms (folio 1 verso).(ii) Arms of mythical...
Dates:
16th century-17th century.