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Microfilm of 11th and 12th century manuscripts.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.350
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript of the late 11th and early 12th century containing: the 'Paradisus' of Heraclides; the 'Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae temper Wandalorum' of Victor Vitensis; 'De corpore et sanguine Domini' of Paschasius Radbertus (attributed to Rabanus Maurus); 'De corpore Domini contra Berengarium' of Guitmund; and two sermons of St Augustine of Hippo (Adv.MS.18.4.3);Medical manuscript, 1st half of 12th century, written in South France or...
Dates:
Late 11th century-1st half of 12th century.
Microfilm of 15th century manuscript, 'De vero et falso bono' of Bartolomeo Platina in the hand of Bartolomeo Sanvito.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.835
Dates:
1471-1472.
Microfilm of 15th century manuscript, 'Le livre des meurs du gouvernement des seignieurs', a translation of the pseudo-Aristotelian 'Secretum secretorum'.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.245
Dates:
15th century.
Microfilm of assorted 17th-century manuscripts.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.360
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copies of Acts and minutes of sederunt of the second session of the first parliament of King William and Queen Marie, 15 April 1690, in a contemporary hand. (Adv.MS.15.2.12);Heraldic and genealogical material, 2nd quarter of 17th century, in the hand of Sir James Balfour (Adv.MS.15.2.13);Treatise, 1st half of 17th century, ‘On nobility’ by Sir James Balfour (Adv.MS.15.2.14);Description of Italy, its principal towns and most...
Dates:
2nd quarter of 17th century-1655.
Microfilm of Chronicle of England, and theological works.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.867
Dates:
14th century.
Microfilm of collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.458
Dates:
[?1590-?1596], 1671.
Microfilm of copies, 17th century, of treaties and other documents, 13th-16th century, concerning France and Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.527
Dates:
13th century-16th century.
Microfilm of documents concerning the Highlands of Scotland, including a history of the Macdonalds.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.861
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Some remarks on the Highland clans and methods proposed for civilising them’, early 18th century (Adv.MS.16.1.14);‘State of Emigration from the Highlands of Scotland, its extent, causes, and proposed remedy.’ An apparently unpublished treatise, dated ‘London March 21st 1803’ (Adv.MS.35.6.18);Manuscript copy of the English ‘History of the Macdonalds’, ascribed by Donald Gregory to a Hugh Macdonald, [1829, or after] (Adv.MS.73.1.12);...
Dates:
Early 18th century-[1827, or after].
Microfilm of four or five medical manuscripts of the 14th century, with additions of the 14th and 15th centuries.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.300
Dates:
14th century.
Microfilm of Gaelic manuscripts.
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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 genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.28
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Genealogical material, 17th century-18th century, relating to various families in Scotland (Adv.MS.16.2.5);Collection of papers, 16th century, relating to Scottish earldoms, with transcripts, early twentieth century, by Sir Alexander Lawrie, of early charters and other documents (Adv.MS.19.1.18);Copy, 16th century, of `Recueil des Principaux Seigneurs qui passerent la Mer avec Guillaume Conquereur d`Angleterre`, a treatise on the...
Dates:
16th century-18th century.
Microfilm of genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.33
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Genealogical notes, [circa 1800], on ancient Scottish families compiled by, and partly in the hand of, George Chalmers. (Adv.MS.16.2.29);Three versions (the third incomplete) of a memorandum, 1826, on the genealogy of the family of Buchanan (Adv.MS.26.2.1);Copy, 18th century, of ‘Ane Account of the Origine and Succession of the Familie of Innes’ by Duncan Forbes of Culloden, 1698; and a treatise on the patronage of schools and churches,...
Dates:
1698-1826.
Microfilm of 'Liber taxarum' of the Papal Chancery; and, ‘Meroure of Wyssdome’ by John Ireland.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.420
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
1484, ?1490.
Microfilm of Manuscript of `A Treatise on Taste` by Robert Wallace, Minister of West St. Giles, Edinburgh, and writer on population.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.820
Dates:
Mid 18th century.
Microfilm of manuscript of English text of 'Atlas Scoticus, or Description of Scotland ancient and modern' by Sir Robert Sibbald, with originally inserted maps, and two versions of a treatise, by Sibbald.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.330
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, [circa 1682], of the English text of the 'Atlas Scoticus, or Description of Scotland ancient and modern' by Sir Robert Sibbald (Adv.MS.15.1.1);Maps, 1595-[circa 1682], originally inserted in Adv.MS.15.1.1: Manuscript of the English text of the 'Atlas Scoticus, or Description of Scotland ancient and modern' by Sir Robert Sibbald. (Adv.MS.15.1.2);‘A Defence or Vindication of the Scottish History and of the Scottish Historians...
Dates:
1595-[circa 1682].
Microfilm of manuscript written in 1503, of 'De civitate Dei' of St Augustine
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.74
Dates:
1503.
Microfilm of manuscripts containing the six plays of Terence.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.789
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript written in Italy in 1438, containing the six plays of Terence (Adv.MS.18.2.10);
Manuscript, 12th century, of plays by Terence, and part of a grammatical treatise on ‘exigentia’ (Adv.MS.18.7.2).
Dates:
12th century, 1438.
Microfilm of medical manuscript of undetermined origin.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.507
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Microfilm of medical treatise, titled ‘An enquiry into the principal cause of the wide destruction of mankind in time of war, and of the slow ineffectual progress and permanency of military and naval operations in general’, exemplified by reference to various campaigns, long voyages and colonizations.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.523
Dates:
[1780, or before.]
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 'On emigration from the Scottish Highlands and Isles', an apparently unpublished treatise.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.858
Dates:
[?1803.]
Microfilm of palimpsest, made up of at least five English manuscripts of the 8th to 11th centuries, overwritten in England in the late 11th century and belonging to Thorney Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.836
Dates:
8th century-11th century.
Microfilm of pharmacological treatise entitled ‘De Viribus Medicamentorum’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.121
Dates:
Early 18th century.