Prayers
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
15th-century manuscript of uncertain origin which contains miscellaneous works, mostly theological
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) A version of the first two parts of the `Secretum Secretorum`. It corresponds to the text published in ‘Opera ... Rogeri Baconi’, fascicle V, pages 38-75, but is a very much shorter version, omitting the whole of caps. ii (the prologue of John), iv and viii, and many passages elsewhere. There are a few insertions and corrections in another hand. Begins `Quando allexander subiugavit sibi perses`. Ends `una vice post aliam et sic...
Dates:
15th century.
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Archives and Manuscripts
15th-century manuscript written in the Low Countries containing devotional texts.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.8.3
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Speculum peccatoris` by an unknown author. It has been variously attributed to Saints Bernard and Augustine, Richard Rolle of Hampole, and others. See ‘Writings ascribed to Richard Rolle’, pages 353-354, and ‘Die Handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des heiligen Augustinus’, II/2, page 116. Printed in ‘Patrologia latina’ xi, columns 983-992. (Folio 2.)(ii) Devotions to the Virgin, beginning 'O virgo concipiens et...
Dates:
15th century.
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Archives and Manuscripts
15th-century manuscript written in the Low Countries, containing various works attributed to, or written by, St Bernard.
Item
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.
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Archives and Manuscripts
Account, 1834, of missionary voyage to Canada by representatives of the Catholic Apostolic Church.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8813
Arabic astrological text, ? 19th century.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8889
Scope and Contents
With Burmese prayer woven on a tape, roll containing a poem, an inscription, and a painting by Ch`êng Chih-You, with accompanying ink blocks, all undated.
Dates:
? 19th century and undated.
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Archives and Manuscripts
Bible, written in France.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.1.2
Scope and Contents
The order of contents (from folio 3) is that usually found in French bibles of the period, with the common set of 64 prologues (see ‘Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries’, pages 210-212). The biblical books are followed (folio 412) by the interpretations of Hebrew names beginning ‘Aaz apprehendens` (see ‘Repertorium Biblicum medii aevi’, number 7709). Leaves containing II Maccabees 8, verses 22-10, verse 30 and 14, verse 5 - Matthew 1, verse 11 are missing.There are...
Dates:
2nd half of 13th century.
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Archives and Manuscripts
'Bohun Psalter' made in England in the late 14th-century for Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Calendar in black, blue and red (folio 3). Entries in red include Saints Edward (18 March) and Dunstan (19 May), `Depositio sancti Augustini` (26 May), ordination of St Gregory (3 September) and translations of Saints Hugh (6 October) and Edward (13 October).(ii) Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary for Advent (folio 9) and from Christmas to the Purification (folio 11 verso).(iii) Confession, attributed in the...
Dates:
Late 14th century.
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Archives and Manuscripts
Calligraphic page, written in miniature by Matthew Buchinger (1674-1739), a German calligrapher who had neither hands nor feet.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.4
Scope and Contents
The page contains the Lord`s Prayer, the Apostle`s Creed and the Commandments, within an ornamental border composed of parts of St John`s Gospel, chapter xviii.
Dates:
1722.
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Archives and Manuscripts
Collection of prayers to the Virgin and various saints, including Takla Hāymānōt., Late 16th century-early 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.95
Dates:
Late 16th century-early 17th century.
Correspondence and other papers of John Dowden, Bishop of Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.171
Dates:
1858-1940, and undated.
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Archives and Manuscripts
Lectures and notes by James Moor, Professor of Greek at Glasgow University.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.5.8
Scope and Contents
The principal contents are:(i) A lecture on ‘Tabula’ by `Cebes`, delivered to the Glasgow Literary Society on 1 March, 1754, and printed in ‘Essays’, pages 33-123. There is a short gap (corresponding to pages 39-40) between folios 2 and 3. (Folios 1-20.)(ii) A lecture on historical composition, delivered to the Glasgow Literary Society on 6 February, 1752, and printed in ‘Essays’, pages 125-178. The beginning (corresponding to pages 127-132) is missing. (Folios...
Dates:
1749-1765.
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Archives and Manuscripts
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.221
Dates:
1177, 15th century-1924.
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Archives and Manuscripts
'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.
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Archives and Manuscripts
Miscellaneous items.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.12
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Abstract in English of Gerard Goris`s treatise on mercury, ‘Mercurius Triumphator’, probably made from the Leyden edition of 1717. Written in three hands of the early 18th century (folio 1).(ii) `The Dyet of Poland, A Satyr. Lib. J.H. Aug. 27. 1705.` A copy in two hands, of Daniel Defoe`s verse satire, published anonymously in London (with the false imprint `Dantzick`) in 1705 (folio 20). It is followed (folio 41) by a...
Dates:
16th century-18th century.
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Archives and Manuscripts
Miscellaneous manuscripts, chiefly theological and political., 1590-18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2201
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'The Compt of the Cunze', a record of coins minted from 1588 to 1590, Edinburgh, 1590; endorsed in 1592 by John Mawer, a clerk in the Exchequer. (Folio 1.)(ii) Latin treatise on kingship and foreign policy, citing instances of French kings, in a hand of the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century. Leaves are missing at the beginning, after folio 32, and perhaps at the end. On folio 29 is the name of Dame Mergarit Petfoure. (Folio...
Dates:
1590-18th century.
Notebook containing notes on theological disputes, especially arminianism (folio 1); `Valuatione The Shyre of Mearnes as it was Revalued by the Commissioners of Assessment in Anno 1657` (folio 22), and various notes, receipts, prayers, etc. (Inv. LVII, Mac. 69) (folio 31)., Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.49.7.17
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Notebook of Anne C Bonar (possibly daughter of Archibald, Minister of Cramond).
Item
Identifier: Acc.10167
Dates:
1826.
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Archives and Manuscripts
"Prayers and Religious Meditations", 1733-1736.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6062
Scope and Contents
With engineering notes and sketches, circa 1824, loosely inserted.
Dates:
1733-1736, circa 1824.
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Archives and Manuscripts
Transcription, 19th century, of a transcription, 1740, attributed to a Mrs Ruddiman, of prayers from the "Book of Common Prayer" (1686).
Item
Identifier: Acc.12268
Dates:
19th century.
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Archives and Manuscripts
Two 13th-century English medical manuscripts, bound together from an early date, each in the hands of two scribes.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.5
Scope and Contents
(i) Serapion (ibn Sarābī). `Liber aggeratus in medicinis simplicibus`, translated by Simon of Genoa and Abraham Tortuosiensis, incipit `Postquam vidi librum Dyascoridis et librum Galeni in medicinis` (folio 1).(ii) Alī ibn al-`Abbās al-Mağūsī. `Pantegni`, translated by Constantinus Africanus (folio 123). The text is sometimes attributed to Isaac (Isḥāq ibn Sulaiman al-Isrāeli) and was printed in his ‘Opera’. This is the earliest version of Constantinus` translation; it contains...
Dates:
13th century.
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Archives and Manuscripts
Volume of prayers in German.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.20
Scope and Contents
There were originally two volumes containing prayers to be said throughout the liturgical year, but the second volume is missing. This manuscript contains prayers from the Sunday before Advent until Easter. Incipit `Hier hebet sich an Ein Andechtig Buchlein mit etzlichenn gutenn Ubungenn durch das iar` (folio 1). Some prayers to be said at New Year, which should follow folio 114, were omitted and copied later by the scribe (folios 309-322).
Dates:
Circa 1600.
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Archives and Manuscripts