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15th-century manuscript written in the Low Countries, containing various works attributed to, or written by, St Bernard.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.9
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Extracts from the `Vita beatissimi Malachie`, caps. 1-25. See ‘Patrologia Latina’ 182, 1073-1104 (folio 1 verso).(ii) Notes on vipers with reference to Aristotle (folio 8 verso).(iii) `De conversione ad clericos`, cap. 3. ‘Patrologia Latina’ 182, 856-857 (folio 9).(iv) `Bernardus de servitute vitiorum et incertitudine mortis` (folio 10).(v) Anonymous commentaries on the Song of...
Dates: 15th century.

`Annotationes in Aristotelis physicam`: a volume of lecture notes taken by James Barclay from lectures by Robert Barron at St Salvator`s College, St Andrews.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.1
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The notes are followed by `Tractatus continens doctrinam Astronomicam` (folio 189), verses on the death of Henry, Prince of Wales, in 1612 (folio 199 verso), and `Solutio quorundam problematum ad elementorum explicationem pertinentium` (folio 201).

Dates: 1620-1621.

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.

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Identifier: MS.1007
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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.

Dates: ?1st quarter of 17th century.

Compendium of medical treatises in Gaelic written by Angus Beaton.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.10
Scope and Contents The compendium of medical treatises was written 1611-1614 by Angus Beaton. He gives only his patronymic, Aonghus mac Fearchair mhic Aonghuis (pages 126, 192, 260), but this is sufficient to identify him as of the Beatons of Husabost in Skye. Apart from one visit to Skye (Trumpan, page 66), and a meeting or consultation with Cameron of Lochiel at a place called Dunán Eachain (page 106), Angus’ line-fillers and other notes indicate that the manuscript was written on circuit in the contiguous...
Dates: 1611-1614.

Copies, 1727 or before, in various hands, of papers concerning Mary Queen of Scots and her reign, apparently collected by James Anderson.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.19
Scope and Contents Although not published in the work, James Anderson appears to have collected the material comprising this manuscript for his ‘Collections Relating to the History of Mary Queen of Scotland’ (Edinburgh and London, 1727-1728). A draft of articles of co-partnery between Anderson, his son-in-law John Leitch, and his son Patrick, to publish the Collections is at folio 21. Among the papers copied are:the marriage articles of Mary and François II, 1558 (folio 13 verso);...
Dates: 1558-1620.

Copies of historical works of Alexander Hume, preceded by a Latin treatise.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.3
Scope and Contents The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.7.18.The contents are as follows:(i) ‘De foedere Dei cum homine’, ‘Arminianorum abjectiones adversus hanc doctrinam’, 1653 (folio 1); (ii) ‘Rerum scoticarum compendium in usum scholarum, per Alexandrum Humium’, 1660 (folio 72); (iii) ‘Clavis in Buchananum, hoc est, nomi num propriorum aliorumque elucidatio’, undated (folio 165).At the end of the volume are some...
Dates: 1653, 1660, undated.

Copy, 16th century, of `Recueil des Principaux Seigneurs qui passerent la Mer avec Guillaume Conquereur d`Angleterre`, a treatise on the genealogy and heraldry of the English nobility written by Jean Benard in 1567.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.2
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The manuscript is similar to the autograph manuscript of 1572 (Bibliotheque Nationale, MS. français 19000), but lacks the dedicatory letter to Charles IX and has no miniatures. The decoration consists of paintings of flowers and fruit, borders and armorial bearings, with some decorated initials. There is a note, ‘Southampton`s Genealogies`, in a 17th-century hand on folio iii.

Dates: 1567.

Copy of a work written by Alexander Dickson in support of the claims of James VI of Scotland to the crown of England in reply to ‘A Conference about the next succession to the crowne of Ingland’.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.8
Scope and Contents ‘Conference about the next succession to the crowne of Ingland’ was published in 1594 under the pseudonym R Doleman by a number of authors including chiefly Sir Francis Englefield and Cardinal William Allen: Robert Parsons, Society of Jesus, to whom the work has often been ascribed, was a minor contributor (see ‘Recusant History’, volume 4, page 126). Dickson, who had been a supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots, appears to have become a servant of James VI shortly before he began this reply,...
Dates: 1598.

Copy of ‘Discourse of coin and coinage’ by Rice Vaughan.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.4
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The dedication by Henry Vaughan and the tables and additional material at the end of the published text are omitted.

On folio iv are two inscriptions `for the right honourable the Lord Roberts Lord Privie Seale of England`, and, in another hand, notes about waste land in Ireland with a reference to Sir William Petty.

Dates: 17th century.

Copy of ‘Περὶ μέτρων ποιητικῶν’, a Byzantine medical treatise by Isaac Monachus.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.9
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The manuscript includes marginal notes. The number XVIII is on the inside top board, £1-11-6 on folio i.

Dates: 1780.

Five 13th-century medical manuscripts, possibly written in England, with additions of the 14th and 15th centuries.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.1
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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.

Dates: 13th century.

`Fondament van de Geometry`, a practical treatise with propositions and proofs from Euclid.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.7
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The text is followed (folio 43) by remarks on surveying. The inverted folios contain mathematical and geometrical problems.

The front cover has the letters A O and the date 1705.

Dates: 18th century.

Fragments of at least 7 and perhaps 8 manuscripts on medicine and astrology, some, if not all, English.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.11A-H; (former binding)
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A and E may be in the same hand and from the same manuscript.

Dates: 14th century-15th century.

Heraldic collection of Sir David Lindsay.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.20
Scope and Contents Material copied in the late 16th and early 17th centuries apparently for Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Lord Lyon King of Arms from 1591 to 1620. It is closely related to John Scrymgeour`s manuscript (Adv.MS.31.5.2) in that some of its contents are apparently taken from Adam Loutfut`s manuscript (British [Museum] Library Harleian MS.6149), and the same order of arrangement is followed as by Scrymgeour; but there is also some additional material. Loutfut`s manuscript is described in ‘The...
Dates: Late 16th century-early 17th century.

‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of very miscellaneous papers on ecclesiastical history.

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Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.5.8-11
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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.

Dates: 17th century-18th 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.

Lectures on philosophy, possibly taken down at Marischal College, Aberdeen by John Mair, a student at the college, 1718-1722, and later minister of Forbes and Rayne.

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Identifier: MS.9859
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The signature 'John Mair, 1725' occurs on one of the front leaves, and the covers are gilt-stamped 'I.M. 1725'.

The lectures may have been delivered by Mair’s regent, Patrick Hardie.

There are three treatises in the volume: 'Metaphysicæ Synopsis' (page 1); 'Pneumatologie Mantissa' (page 53); 'Introductio ad Ethicam' (page 81).

Dates: [?1718-?1722.]

Manuscript, 15th century, of a copy of the `Expositio symboli apostolorum` by Joannes de Marienwerder.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.15
Scope and Contents The main text (folio 10) is preceded (folio 1) by the anonymous `Tabula expositionis` (see ‘Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi’, numbers 4780 and 4780.1), and followed (folio 142 verso) by ` De octo beatitudinibus` (‘Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi’, number 4780, 1.1). The latter appears to be incomplete, breaking off after the third Beatitude.The manuscript is in one hand throughout, with the exception of folio 146. Written in brown ink with large initials, headings and chapter...
Dates: 15th century

Manuscript containing various legal works, compiled in 1704.

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Identifier: MS.9248
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Abridgement of ‘Jus Feudale’ by Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton. The text is in a considerably shorter form than the usual epitomes (for which see MS.1950 and Adv.MSS.25.6.1-2, 28.3.14), and omits book i, 11 and 13, book ii, 5 and 15, and book iii, 4 and 7. (Folio 1.)(ii) "Inventory of ane Burges's airship moveables". (Folio 88.) (iii) Latin mottoes. (Folio 90.)(iv) Notes on land measures in Scotland and weights...
Dates: [1704, or before.]

Manuscript entitled ‘Traite du Blazon’.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.19
Scope and Contents The treatise is in thirty-five chapters and is followed (folio 105) by explanatory notes to the illustrations, and (folio 127) by the illustrations themselves, which are in trick. It is preceded (folio 1 verso) by a diagram of the divisions of a field.Three folios which probably contained the title page and dedication have been removed from between folios 2 and 3. Offsets of the dedication survive, from which it appears that the author`s name was Bonin, and that he presented his...
Dates: 1678.

Manuscript of 'Oculus Sacerdotis' by William of Pagula.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.6
Scope and Contents The text (folio 12) contains the three sections of the treatise, ‘Pars Oculi`, `Dextera Pars` and `Sinistra Pars`, but cap. 26 to the end of the `Sinistra Pars` is missing. The text is preceded by:(i) Four short works on diet and blood-letting in English, beginning ‘Here seyth galian ye leche and thecheth of metes and drinkes’. At the end is a rubric ‘Secundum Robertum[?] Grant de Everton’ (folio 1 verso).(ii) Remarks on the qualities of the Virgin...
Dates: 14th century.

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