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Account of the Scots Benedictine abbey at Ratisbon, copied apparently in 1684 for the abbot, Placid Fleming, by Andrew Cook, one of the monks.
The text is an excerpt from ‘Ratisbona religiosa’, the fourth (and largest) volume of ‘Ratisbona dioecesis illustrata’, a work in 7 volumes on the diocese of Ratisbon, written about 1660 by its chancellor, Eberhard Wassenberg. The work, which is little more than a catena of excerpts mostly from printed sources, was never published.
`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.
Charters collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne.
Chartulary of the Hospital of the Holy Trinity at Soutra, written in 1399 by William de Cranstoun, notary public.
The charters, which are not in chronological order, cover the period 1162-circa 1330. They are followed by a copy of Cranstoun`s notarial instrument concerning the making of the chartulary (folio 25) and copies of two charters of 1426 and 1440 in different hands (folio 26 verso).
Some of the initials have simple penwork decoration by the scribe, whose notarial sign is also given (folio 25 verso).
Cistercian rules, copied by Alexander Scot, monk of the Cistercian Abbey of Newbattle.
Collection of twenty-one documents relating to the Stuart family and the French royal family.
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.
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.
Early 16th-century manuscript copy of the work known as 'Liber Pluscardensis', a chronicle of the history of Scotland founded mainly on the 'Chronica gentis Scotorum' of John of Fordun, and the 'Scotichronicon' of Walter Bower.
Extracts and copies of historical works, collected by Sir James Balfour, 17th century.
Fifteenth-century manuscript of the 'short version' of the 'Polychronicon' of Ranulph Higden.
‘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.
The manuscript is in the hand of a copyist who frequently worked for Robert Wodrow [Wodrow copyist (1)].