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Commentary on Aristotle, ‘Physica’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.5.7
Scope and Contents
Neat manuscript in a French hand of the 17th century of ‘Commentarius in universam Aristotelis physicam’.
Dates:
17th century.
Commentary on book four of a legal work, chiefly on actions.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.7.10
Dates:
17th century.
Commentary on George Mackenzie’s ‘Institutions of the laws of Scotland’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.3.7
Dates:
18th century.
Commentary on Justinian, ‘Digest’, books 12-24 (attributed to Sir Thomas Hope, Lord Kerse).
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.5.5(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
On the first page is written, ‘This is called Sir Thomas Hope of Kerse or Carse his paratitla in digesta, 2 volumes, but whether complete may be doubted’.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (M.6.20).
Dates:
17th century.
Commentary on Justinian, ‘Digest’, ‘Codex’, and 'Novellae’ in the hand of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.8
Dates:
1602-1605.
Commonplace book, undated, compiled by James Glasford (died 1845).
File
Identifier: MS.8493
Scope and Contents
The contents include: extracts from personal letters, biblical commentaries, poems and translations of poems.
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Copies, mid-17th century-18th century, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, ‘Minor Practicks’, 'Major Practicks', and commentary on Justinian, 'Digest', 'Codex' and 'Novellae'.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.24.1.6-24.1.7
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Correspondence of Alexander Christie, Provost of Montrose, and other material relating to the affairs of the town, with discussions of Christie's religious and political views, copied by Christie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3701-3703
Scope and Contents
The correspondents are mainly notables of Angus, divines, political thinkers, and merchants, and include Alexander Christie's brother William, the Unitarian writer, his son Thomas, the political writer, Sir David Carnegie, Baronet, George Dempster of Dunnichen, David Scott of Dunninald, the Reverend William Dalrymple (subject of "The Kirk's Alarm"), T F Palmer, the reformer, Robertson, the historian, and Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet.
Dates:
1781, 1789-1793.
Fragments of a Latin commentary on Aristotle's ‘Categoriae', including parts of the 'Liber predicabilium' and 'Liber predicamentorum'.
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Identifier: MS.25239
Scope and Contents
The commentary is followed by a fragment of a manuscript in English (folio 34) and part of a vellum leaf from a 13th-century noted service book (folio 36).
Dates:
13th century, 15th century.
Letters and poems of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet; and poetry and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell.
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Identifier: MS.3115
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters, poems, etc., of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet, to Peter Buchan, collector of Scottish ballads, Peterhead, 1828-1850, undated. The letters, which are in Laing's autograph, deal chiefly with literary matters of the day. Most of the poems (folios 4, 6, 10, 19, 23) appear later in published form.(ii) Poems and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell, in his autograph, with one letter to him, 1815-1865, undated. Several of...
Dates:
1815-1865, undated.
Letters in English from the Reverend Donald MacQueen of Kilmuir (died 1785) to the Reverend Dr John Stuart of Luss.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.21
Scope and Contents
The letters consist of the Reverend Donald MacQueen’s detailed comments on the Reverend Dr John Stuart’s Gaelic translation of part of the Old Testament with antiquarian excursi including quotations in Gaelic. The principal such excursi are noted below. (i) Letter of the Reverend Donald MacQueen to the Reverend Dr John Stuart, dated 27 November 1777. Genesis. Cf. ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 36 (1931-1933), page 364. (Folio 1.)(ii) Letter...
Dates:
[Before 1785.]
'Literary Information. Discovery of the remainder of the history of John Bull from the MSS. of his learned and celebrated Biographer, Sir Humphrey Polesworth', in the hand of Sir Walter Scott, being a commentary on the rise and fall of Napoleon and contemporary British affairs.
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Identifier: MS.3775
Scope and Contents
The commentary is bound with a letter, 1826, of Sir Walter Scott to George Hogarth, Writer to the Signet, on financial matters (folio 5).
Dates:
[1821, or before], 1826.
Manuscript of Ewen MacLachlan’s ‘Celtic Analysis’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.4
Scope and Contents
A description by Ewen MacLachlan of fourteen manuscripts sent to him by the Highland Society of Scotland for examination. It was remitted to him by the Society in eight instalments between 26 May 1812 and 3 July 1813, and was intended for use in the compilation of the Society’s Dictionary. Pages 1-152 were therefore forwarded by the society to the Reverend Dr John MacLeod (MacLachlan’s co-adjutor on the Dictionary) on 3 June 1813. On this occasion the five instalments making up pages 1-120...
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Microfilm of commentary on ‘Isagoge’ on Galen’s ‘Tegni`, by Johannicius (Honein ben Ishak); and, commentary on Hippocrates, `Aphorisms’, by Oribasius, both written by the same scribe, apparently originally separate but bound together at least from the 15th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.333
Dates:
12th century.
Microfilm of Gaelic manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.658
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Fragment of a Gaelic manuscript, 15th century, containing scholastic texts (Adv.MS.72.1.7);Manuscript, ?14th-?19th century, containing a commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates in Gaelic and Latin (Adv.MS.72.1.10);Medical manuscript, ?16th century, in Gaelic written by Feargus Ó Caiside (Adv.MS.72.1.11);Medical manuscript, 16th century, in Gaelic, consisting chiefly of a treatise on diets and matters ancillary to medicine,...
Dates:
?14th century-?19th century.
Microfilm of manuscript of a commentary on the `De consolatione philosophiae` of Boethius, written by Michael Miniclardi, probable notary in Dieppe.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1280
Dates:
1443.
Microfilm of miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.304
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Microfilm of miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.870
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Microfilm of ‘Moralia in Job’ of Pope Gregory, 15th century; and, ‘De Trinitate’ of St Augustine, 12th century.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.421
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
15th century manuscript, 'Moralia in Job' of Pope Gregory I (Adv.MS.18.2.6);
12th century manuscript, 'De Trinitate' of St Augustine (Adv.MS.18.2.7).
Dates:
12th century, 14th century.
Microfilm of theological works of Saints Jerome, Augustine, and others, written in the 12th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.851
Dates:
12th century.
Microfilm of various Gaelic manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1390
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Gaelic manuscript, 15th-16th century, containing Irish pedigrees (Adv.MS.72.1.6);Manuscript, 14th century-15th century, containing tales of destruction in Gaelic (Adv.MS.72.1.8);Gaelic manuscript of MacDougall genealogy, 17th century (Adv.MS.72.1.9);Medical manuscript, 14th century-15th century, in Gaelic (Adv.MS.72.1.13);Medical manuscript, 15th century-16th century, in Gaelic consisting of two independent layers,...
Dates:
14th century-?16th century.
‘Relics of Correspondence with Sir Walter Scott, Explanatory Notes, and other Reminiscences, by J. Skene, Edinburgh, 1833’.
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Identifier: MS.965
Scope and Contents
The volume contains:
(i) 92 letters of Sir Walter Scott, chiefly to James Skene, from 1805 to 1832, bound in with Skene's commentary and followed by reminiscences of Mrs Skene (folios 1-281). Most of the material was published as ‘Memories of Sir Walter Scott’ (London, 1909), and it was used by David Douglas in his ‘Familiar letters of Sir Walter Scott’ (Edinburgh, 1894).
(ii) James Skene's correspondence regarding proposals for a memorial to Scott, which includes letters from various...
Dates:
1805-1835.