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Coats of arms of the Nine Worthies, British and foreign royal houses, Kings of Scotland and their consorts from John Baliol to James VI, and the Scottish nobility and gentry.
At the beginning, on different paper, is a treatise, 'Scotica Nobilitas. Per Archibaldum Harbartum. Scotum. 1602' dedicated to the Bishop of Norwich.
The volume also contains lists of nobles and notes.
Collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.
Copies, 17th century, of documents relating to heraldry.
Copies, 1727 or before, in various hands, of papers concerning Mary Queen of Scots and her reign, apparently collected by James Anderson.
Copies of historical works of Alexander Hume, preceded by a Latin treatise.
Copy, 1821, of ‘De antiqua Atheniensium religione’, ?16th century, transcribed from an anonymous manuscript treatise in the Royal Library at Hanover.
Copy of Adv.MS.31.3.18, documents relating to heraldry, made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist.
Translations have been provided with the material in Latin.
English translation of Leonhard Christoph Sturm, "Vollständige Mühlen Baukunst" (A Complete Treatise on the Construction of Mills).
Five 13th-century medical manuscripts, possibly written in England, with additions of the 14th and 15th centuries.
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.
Italian manuscript of Books 1-5 of 'De consolatione philosophiae' by Boethius.
‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of very miscellaneous papers on ecclesiastical history.
According to the folio catalogue (F.R.186) the volumes were originally marked ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’.
The description of the manuscripts in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.5.7.7-10.
Legal treatise concerning to forms of process in Scottish criminal cases.
Manuscript containing various legal works, compiled in 1704.
Manuscript material from the 5th Earl of Rosebery's library at the Durdans, Epsom.
Manuscript of 'Oculus Sacerdotis' by William of Pagula.
Manuscript of the translation by Jacobus Venetus of the 'Analytica Posteriora' by Aristotle, with contemporary and later gloss.
Manuscript, written in South France or Spain in the first half of the 12th-century, containing medical treatises.
Microfilm of 11th and 12th century manuscripts.
Microfilm of assorted 17th-century manuscripts.
Microfilm of Chronicle of England, and theological works.
Microfilm of collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.
Microfilm of copies, 17th century, of treaties and other documents, 13th-16th century, concerning France and Scotland.
Microfilm of documents concerning the Highlands of Scotland, including a history of the Macdonalds.
Microfilm of genealogical material.
Microfilm of 'Liber taxarum' of the Papal Chancery; and, ‘Meroure of Wyssdome’ by John Ireland.
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript produced in 1484, a 'Liber taxarum' of the Papal Chancery (Adv.MS.18.2.1);
‘Meroure of Wyssdome’ by John Ireland, ?1490 (Adv.MS.18.2.8).