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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.
Collection of twenty-one documents relating to the Stuart family and the French royal family.
Commentary on ‘Isagoge’ on Galen’s 'Tegni', by Johannicius (Honein ben Ishak); and, commentary on the 'Aphorisms' of Hippocrates by Oribasius, both written by the same scribe in the 12th century and bound together at least from the 15th century.
"Commission by King Charles the first to Sir Robert Anstruther as Ambassador to the Emperor and States of Germany mett at Nurremburgh, anno 1627."
Common-place book of medical, chemical and alchemical recipes and experiments.
Commonplace book of James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane.
Compendium of texts or lecture notes on philosophical subjects, probably written in France in the 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.
Composite volume containing four fragmentary manuscripts of the 12th and 13th centuries, all of uncertain origin.
Composite volume of 15th-century manuscripts of miscellaneous works by four hands bound together, with an incunable, in the 16th-century or earlier.
Composite volume of English origin containing two manuscripts of the 12th and 13th century; the 'Thebaid' of Statius, and the 'Aeneid' of Virgil
Composite volume of English origin, containing works of Ovid ('Fasti') and Claudian (major poems), the former of which belonged to Leicester Abbey.
Composite volume, of uncertain origin, containing two manuscripts of works by St Bonaventure, the 'Breviloquium' and the 'Formula noviciorum'.
Confirmation by Thomas de Galwethia, Earl of Atholl, and Isabel, Countess of Atholl, his wife, of a charter of Malcolm, Earl of Atholl, and Henry his son in favour of the monks and church of the Holy Trinity, Dunfermline.
Copies, 19th century, and original papers collected by Sir William Fraser, 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.
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.
Copies of miscellaneous papers.
Copy, 1802, of verses of Sir John Harington, Queen Elizabeth I`s godson, written in 1602 to accompany a New Year`s gift of a dark lantern to James VI.
The present manuscript was copied by the poet John Leyden. An inscription at the end of the verses states that he had made the transcription `from the original in the University Library, Edinburgh, March 26, 1802`. The verses, written in Latin and English, are preceded by a detailed description of the lantern.
The verses are apparently unpublished.
Copy, eighteenth century, of ‘Arcanum hermeticae philosophiae opus’.
‘Arcanum hermeticae philosophiae opus in quo occulta Naturae et Artis circa Lapidis philosophorum materiam et operandi modum canonicé et ordinatè fiunt manifesta. muarto editio emendata et aucta 1647’.
Copy, late 15th or early 16th century, of material, early 14th century-1364, concerning the Parlement de Paris.
Copy, made by Andrew Cook, of ‘Germania Christiana’ by Robert (in religion, Boniface) Strachan, Benedictine monk at Ratisbon.
Copy of "Fabularum Aesopicarum Delectus" (Edinburgh, 1710), with manuscript notes of James Maule, possibly 4th Earl of Panmure.
'Culross psalter', made for Richard Marshall, Cistercian abbot of Culross.
‘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.