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‘Historia Ecclesiae Scoticanae’, a copy, early 18th century, of the history of the Church of Scotland, covering the years 1558-1625 (the Reformation to the death of James VI and I), written in Latin by Archibald Simson, minister of Dalkeith.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.1.3
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is in the hand of a copyist who frequently worked for Robert Wodrow [Wodrow copyist (1)].
Dates:
Early 17th century.
‘Historia Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ’, a copy, late 17th or early 18th century, of the history of the Church of Scotland, covering the years 1558-1625 (the Reformation to the death of James VI and I), written in Latin by Archibald Simson, minister of Dalkeith.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.16
Dates:
Early 17th century.
‘Historia Gentis Picticæ’: Sir Robert Sibbald’s history of the Picts, in his own hand.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.17
Dates:
[After ?1706.]
'Historia literaria gentis Scotorum in qua Dei Literariae Status ostenditur, a prima gentis origine...'.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.21
Dates:
Undated.
History of Scotland from the earliest times to the Roman invasion, by an unknown hand.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.7
Scope and Contents
Inscription on last page: 'Hacc in praesentia habui, quae de Satorum antiquihate dicerem breviher, quod Scotia sen Albium primo... crynita.'
Dates:
18th century.
History of the Reformation of religion in the Palatinate.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.5
Dates:
17th century.
Illuminated calligraphic manuscript of Esther Inglis, forming a summary of St Matthew`s Gospel, "Argumenta singulorum capitum Evangelii Matthaei Apostoli, per tetrasticha manu Estherae Inglis exarata Londini XXVI Ianuari, 1607".
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Identifier: Acc.11821
Dates:
1607.
Illuminated manuscript of `De civitate Dei` [The City of God] by St Augustine.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.2
Scope and Contents
A manuscript of the City of God, executed in Paris in 1503 for the Cardinal d’Amboise, Archbishop of Rouen, and probably intended for presentation to his brother, Louis, Bishop of Albi. The manuscript was originally in two volumes, with the division at the end of Book X. As a result of this division, folios 149v-150v are left blank, but have been lined and ruled. There are two folios missing, so that the beginning of Book X is wanting. Laborde states that the work was probably written by a...
Dates:
1503.
'Imago mundi' by Honorius of Autun, 'Speculum regum' by Godfrey of Viterbo, and an anonymous poem 'De laude civitatis Laudae'. A manuscript written in Italy in the late 13th or early 14th century.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) The `Imago mundi` of Honorius (folio 1), here entitled `Mappa mundi`, and attributed in both the title and the colophon to Isidore of Seville.(ii) `Speculum regum` by Godfrey of Viterbo (folio 23 verso). It contains the preface, list of chapters, and list of popes, but not the poem itself.(iii) ‘De laude civitatis Laudae’ (folio 38). An anonymous poem. Written in an Italian littera textualis...
Dates:
Late 13th century-early 14th century.
"Index of works cited in Bach's 'Historia Jurisprudentiae Romanae', Leipzig 1754."
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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.16
Dates:
[After 1753.]
Institutiones Grammaticae.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.3
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is not listed in ‘A Census of medieval Latin grammatical manuscripts’ by G L Bursill-Hall (Stuttgart, 1981). The text refers to Priscian and other authors, and sometimes gives examples of grammatical usage in Italian. Incipit ‘Cum de gramatica sit ad presens sermo.` It ends with a series of Italian phrases and their Latin equivalents, followed (folio 185 verso) by paragraphs on prosody and on Greek, Hebrew and Latin letters.Written in one humanistic hand...
Dates:
15th century.
Instrument in favour of Andrew Law, burgess of Anstruther, for lands in Anstruther Easter.
Item
Identifier: Ch.868
Dates:
1629.
Instrument of sasine by John Melville of Carnbee to Henry Halket of Pitfirrane, of the lands of [?Carnytoune] in Fife.
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Identifier: Ch.866
Dates:
1501.
'Iona Psalter'.
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Identifier: MS.10000
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Calendar in black, red and blue. The KL initials, and the entries for the major festivals and for the feast of St Columba (9 June), probably intended to have been in gold, have not been completed. The feasts are fully graded with two entries for Saints Benedict, Augustine and Frideswide (12 February and 19 October). There are a number of English saints and also entries for the Scottish Saints Felan (8 January), Ciaran (4 March) and Finan (7 April)....
Dates:
4th quarter of 12th century-1st quarter of 13th century.
Italian manuscript of Books 1-5 of 'De consolatione philosophiae' by Boethius.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.14
Scope and Contents
The text ends on folio 105 verso; on folios 106-107 recto in the same hand is a note 'Ad sciendum de vita et morte Boetii Notandum ...'; folios 107 verso and 108 are blank.The text is written in a round Italian gothic hand. There are initials in red and blue, infilled and framed with red and green, at the beginning of each book (folios 1, 15 verso, 35, 63 verso, 87 verso). There are plain initials (some shaded) at the beginning of each section, alternately red and blue; within...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Italian manuscript of the second volume of the 'Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard' by Duns Scotus.
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Identifier: Acc.14195
Content Description
A stray volume probably from a four-volume set. The text begins, 'Incipit secu[n]dus liber se[n]tentiar[um] ad inte[n]tione[m] doc. subtilis Scoti.'
Written by two or three different scribes who shared the work in gatherings, with catchwords at the end of each gathering and with several blank leaves at the end of some of the gatherings. Some of the blank leaves bear drawings and scribbles in a later hand.
With a table of the 'Distinctions' at the end.
Dates:
1568
John Rose, full score of "Spem in alium".
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Identifier: Acc.13935
Content Description
Full score including choir part. Entitled "Spem in alium nunquam habui, motet for chorus (dir.), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tympani (4) and organ". In the composer's hand, with corrections. Paginated by him, 2-42. Dated at end: 12th June 2001.
Dates:
12 June 2001
Late 10th-century manuscript, produced in England, which contains a selection of the poetry of Coelius Sedulius, with glosses in Latin and Old English.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.7
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains prefatory matter (‘Hoc opus Sedulii` etc., J Huemer in ‘Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum’, x, page vii note; ‘Sedulius epistola ... utilitati`, Huemer, page xi; `istud sequens` etc., Huemer, page xxii; poem of Turcius Rufus Asterius, Huemer, page 307, and ‘Anthologia Latina’ 491; `Sedulius versificus` etc., Huemer, page viii note; `mos est poetarum` etc., Huemer, page xxii); the letter to Macedonicus; the preface of the `Carmen paschale`, called...
Dates:
Late 10th century.
Late 12th-century manuscript containing the 'Panormia' of Ivo, Bishop of Chartres; with two diagrams of consanguinity, and short excerpts of Pope Alexander III.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.6
Scope and Contents
Manuscript containing the 'Panormia' of St Ivo of Chartres, divided into eight books.Dolezalek suggests that the manuscript was produced in England, while Szuromi suggests that it was written in France. Both base their conclusions on the script and style of decoration.The work has been dated to the 12th century by Borland and Szuromi; to the late 12th century by Brett; and to the early 13th century by Michael Gullick. The manuscript is written in a...
Dates:
Late 12th century.
Late 13th-century manuscript known as the 'Sprouston Breviary'.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.13B
Scope and Contents
This manuscript was produced in Scotland in the late 13th century, probably sometime between 1285 and 1300 according to Hair and Knott. Borland, Frere and McRoberts have suggested that it may be of the early 14th century, but most scholars agree that it was written sometime around 1300. The manuscript contains musical services as well as the text of Church services according to the Use of Sarum. The work is written in littera textualis in double columns of unequal length....
Dates:
Late 13th century.
Late 13th-century manuscript of the 'Compendium theologicae veritatis', attributed to Robert Grosseteste but probably by Hugh Ripelin of Strasbourg.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.1
Scope and Contents
Late 13th-century manuscript containing the seven books of the 'Compendium theologicae veritatis' of Hugh Ripelin of Strasbourg. The manuscript is written in littera textualis with 26 to 29 lines to a page.The 'Compendium' is believed to have been compiled by Hugh towards the end of his life, from circa 1260 onwards. The work is divided in to seven books: I The Nature of God; II The Creation; III On Sin; IV The Incarnation; V On Grace, the Virtues, the Beatitudes and the Ten...
Dates:
Late 13th century.
Late 14th-century manuscript of part of the 'Chronicle' of Walter of Guisborough.
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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.
Late 15th-century manuscript containing 'Moralium dogma philosophorum' attributed to Guillaume de Conches, bound with 3 incunabula.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.5
Scope and Contents
15th-century manuscript produced in Italy containing the 'Moralium dogma philosophorum' attributed to Guillaume de Conches. The script and watermark evidence suggest that the manuscript is a work of the late 15th century, probably 1470 and after. The manuscript is the work of one scribe using an Italian humanistic script with 26 lines to a page.The contents of the volume are as follows:Pasted to the inner of the front board is a letter from J. B. Oldham, Librarian,...
Dates:
Late 15th 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.
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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.
Latin Bible written in France in the second half of the 13th century.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.10
Scope and Contents
The order of contents is that usually found in French bibles of the period, with the common set of 64 prologues (see ‘Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries’, ii, pages 210-212). The biblical books are followed (folio 511) by the interpretations of Hebrew names beginning `Aaz apprehendens` (‘Repertorium Biblicum medii aevi’, number 7709). A leaf containing Psalms 23-29 is missing after folio 238.There are illuminated initials throughout: preceding the first prologue and at the...
Dates:
2nd half of 13th century.