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Manuscript material from the 5th Earl of Rosebery's library at the Durdans, Epsom.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10217-10241
Dates:
1657-1919.
Manuscript of `A Treatise on Taste` by Robert Wallace, Minister of West St. Giles, Edinburgh, and writer on population.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.18(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
This work was prepared for the press by Robert Wallace`s son, George Wallace, Advocate, and includes numerous corrections in his hand. It was never published.
Dates:
Mid 18th century.
Manuscript of 'De oratore' and the 'Orator' by Cicero.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.16
Scope and Contents
(i) Cicero. `De oratore`. i. 1-9 ‘philoso]phiam’ are lost (folio 1).(ii) Cicero, `Orator`. 155 ‘quod erat usitatum’ to 173 ‘redundans and 235 ‘nec res’ to the end are lost. Folio 137 should stand before folio 131 (folio 110 verso).This is one of the many indirect copies of the `codex Laudensis`, the ancient manuscript of Cicero`s rhetorical works found at Lodi in 1421 and lost again in 1428. It is a good copy, related to O (Ottobon.2057) and P (Vat.Pal.1469). Space...
Dates:
15th century.
Manuscript of 'Oculus Sacerdotis' by William of Pagula.
File
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.
Manuscript of 'Secretum secretorum' by Pseudo-Aristotle, 'De excidio Troiae' by Dares Phrygius, and 'Historia regum Britannie' by Geoffrey of Monmouth; written by a 13th- or 14th-century hand of uncertain origin.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Pseudo-Aristotle, 'Secretum secretorum' (edited by R. Steele, in 'Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi', fascicule V, pages 25-172). This manuscript contains the letter of Philip, a list of chapters, and the text in seven books (the headings for i, iv, and vi are omitted). It is of the common class, omitting all the test passages of Gilson and Steele (cf. 'Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi', pages xxv-xxvi); further omissions are...
Dates:
13th century-14th century.
Manuscript of the late 11th and early 12th century containing: the 'Paradisus' of Heraclides; the 'Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae sub Geiserico et Hunrico regibus 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.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.3
Scope and Contents
Manuscript of the late 11th and early 12th century, written in England and containing various theological works. The manuscript has been dated to the early 12th century by Borland, Ker, Schenkl, Paul, and Römer. In private correspondence with the National Library of Scotland Michael Gullick has stated that folios 1-122 were written at Durham, probably in the 1090s, but definitely before 1096. He further suggests that folios 123-149 were added to the manuscript sometime in the late 11th or...
Dates:
Late 11th century - early 12th century.
Manuscript of the translation by Jacobus Venetus of the 'Analytica Posteriora' by Aristotle, with contemporary and later gloss.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.6
Scope and Contents
Subscription, folio 36 verso: 'Explicit liber posteriorum simul cum tota nova logica'.Calligraphic initials in red and blue with elaborate scrollwork. Sentence and paragraph marks in red or blue. Marginal ink drawings of geometrical shapes (folios 19 verso, 20 recto), a dog (folio 28 verso) and a besieged castle (folio 29 recto).On the inside top cover is written '14/[ ] a/-'; on folio i verso in an 18th-century hand 'Ce petit traité sur aristote Manuscrit et [sic] de...
Dates:
14th century.
Manuscript, of uncertain origin written in the 12th or 13th century, containing medical treatises.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.13
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Gariopontus, `Passionarius Galeni`, in seven books. The author`s name is not given; the title in the incipit is `liber Galieni ad Glaucum nepotem` (cf. British Library, Royal MS.12 E.XX, folio 33), in the explicit `liber Galieni Passionarius`. (Folio 1.)(ii) `Antidotarius particularis`, incipit `Aurea alexandrina antidotum facias ad reuma` (cf. ‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column...
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Manuscript, written in Italy in the 15th century, of works by or attributed to Lactantius.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.4
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `De ira Dei` (folio 1). The text is similar to that printed in, ‘Patrologiae Cursus Completus ... Latina’, volume vii, 79-148, but contains 24 chapters (cf. ‘Patrologiae Cursus Completus ... Latina’, volume vii, 146, note). There are several lacunae which suggest that the scribe may have copied a damaged exemplar: part of chapters 16 and 17 is missing (folio 16 recto) and blank spaces have been left for two passages in chapter 18...
Dates:
15th century.
Manuscript, written in Italy, of 'De Lingua Latina' by Varro, containing books v to x.54 (‘contra in eo’).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.15
Scope and Contents
Headings in red. Initials of books v, vi, viii, and x have been cut out. Written in a small, round humanistic hand. Greek words are omitted or added by a later hand. What was probably an ownership inscription at the foot of folio 1 has been cut out. On the lower pastedown is written ‘1452 vezudo p(er) mi Zohane de ipescadun [?]’. The same note, dated 1451 or 1452, is found in other manuscripts: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud.Lat.48, Add.A2, D’Orville 36 and Canon.Misc.486 (see ‘Catalogue of...
Dates:
Mid-fifteenth century; before 1452.
Manuscript, written in South France or Spain in the first half of the 12th-century, containing medical treatises.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.11
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) 'Liber febrium' by Isaac (Isḥāq ibn Sulaiman al-Isrā'ili), translated by Constantinus Africanus, in prologue and five books. The author and translator are given in the contents list only (folio 1).(ii) 'Secretum secretorum' by Pseudo-Aristotle, the medical section translated by Joannes Hispalensis, without title (folio 82). See 'Speculum', volume xxxiv, page 24.(iii) 'Micro-tegni' by Galen, translated by...
Dates:
1st half of 12th century.
Manuscripts from the library of St Andrew`s College, Drygrange.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9180
Dates:
18th century to 19th century.
Medical manuscript, in Gaelic, consisting chiefly of a treatise on diets and matters ancillary to medicine, including cosmology and a calendar.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.12
Scope and Contents
Of the four layers, all but the third probably were written by a single scribe; a fifth, written by him in ?Leinster circa 1549, is now Adv.MS.72.1.20.The manuscript is written in the following hands.1. Text, folios 1-9, 17-21. Hand 1 of Adv.MS.72.1.20. Average to poor in quality. Frequent rising ‘d’. Employs even more contractions than is usual in medical manuscripts. The ink has oxidised in places to an indistinct yellow. Rubricated in red. For a photograph of folio...
Dates:
16th century.
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: MS.3718
Scope and Contents
The author, who describes himself in an inscription to Henry Dundas, 1789, as a citizen of Edinburgh, was apparently Alexander Bruce whose son William was a major commanding the 24th Battalion in the Carnatic in 1787-1788 (page 204), and he may have been that Alexander Bruce, leather merchant, at the West Bow, to whom is ascribed, in an unknown hand in a copy of the work in this Library, 'An inquiry into the cause of the pestilence'.Accompanying the volume are two letters of...
Dates:
[1789, or before.]
'Meroure of Wyssdome' by John Ireland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.8
Scope and Contents
The work was written in 1490 for the instruction of James IV, but this may not be the copy intended for presentation to the king. Written in one hand throughout. The text (folio 8) is preceded by a list of contents (folio 1). The colophon (folio 358 verso) is dated 1490 but this may be the date of composition rather than of writing. R J Lyall dated the manuscript on the basis of the watermarks as circa 1492x in `Fifteenth-century Scottish manuscripts: a revised checklist`....
Dates:
?1490.
`Methodus medendi generalis`, a medical treatise with a general survey and three parts, dealing with the head, the chest and the stomach respectively.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.16
Scope and Contents
The date 16 September 1610 occurs on folio 137.The treatise is followed (folio 377 verso) by copies of poems of George Sibbald of Rankeillour, some of which are printed in ‘Regulae bene et salubriter vivendi’ (Edinburgh, 1701). Copies of the rest, with two exceptions, are to be found in Adv.MS.15.2.5. The exceptions (folios 377-381) are an Apology, beginning `Clerice qui fasces et opes virtutibus aequas`, and verses in honour of Catherine, Countess of Haddington (died 1635)....
Dates:
1610.
Microfilm of 11th and 12th century manuscripts.
Item
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'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.245
Dates:
15th century.
Microfilm of assorted 17th-century manuscripts.
Item
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.
Item
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.
Item
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.
Item
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.