Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) 'Institution of the Colledge of Justice', describing the foundation of the College, its procedure and personnel (page i), preceded by an index (folio ii); it appears to have been written after 1613;(ii) Hope's ‘Minor practicks’ (page 45), preceded by an index (page 41);(iii) 'Practiques observed befor The Lords of Sessione Collected alphabeticallie be (?)rj from 1627 to 1637' (page 141), preceded by an index (page 133);...

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...

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The contents are as follows:

(i) Compendium relating to kirklands, teinds, stipends, etc., and containing abstracts, practiques, copies of decisions, and correspondence of the reign of Charles I, commencing with a list of the religious houses in Scotland, with their district, order, and founder (folio i);

(ii) Miscellaneous law-notes, citing decisions from 1666 to 1675 (page 295) with an index (page 551).

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) 'Sinclair, Maitland, Culroes, decisions MS’, to which Thomas Ruddiman has prefixed a note which informs us that it was a copy from the originals in the library of Sir Alexander Seton of Pitmedden, who has himself explained the collection;(ii) Subjoined to it is ‘a compend of decisions by an uncertain author’;(iii) Transcript of the manuscript inventory of pious donations from James I’s reign to that of James VI....

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The contents are as follows: ‘1467 MS.’ written by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail and the Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’, written by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín, [circa 1425, circa 1467], (Adv.MS.72.1.1);

Manuscript, 16th century-17th century, containing a medical compendium, in Gaelic, asembled by the Mull Beatons (Adv.MS.72.1.2);

‘Materia medica’, 15th century, formerly belonging to the Beaton family of physicians (Adv.MS.72.1.3).

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Manuscript, 1462, known as the ‘Emanuel Manuscript’, containing 'An Cath Cathardha', written by Tadhg Ó Cianáin (Adv.MS.72.1.46);Gaelic version of classic epics, 14th-15th century (Adv.MS.72.1.8);Continuation of Adv.MS.72.1.43: 17th century copy of Foundation of Knowledge of Ireland; or History of Ireland. A narrative history by Geoffrey Keating (Adv.MS.72.2.1);Compendium of medical treatises, 1611-1614, in Gaelic written by...

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The subjects include a family pedigree with chart and blazonings, accounts of income and expenditure, estate accounts and other business, receipts from the Principality of Scotland, prices, journeys, from Edinburgh to London, politics and elections, household recipes, verses.

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The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (a.7.46).

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The manuscripts are lettered RA-RK (RC missing) and some also have Roman numerals.

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Edmund Wingate's textbook ‘Arithmetique made easie’ went through several editions in the seventeenth century. This compendium by Thomas Ruddiman, though undated, presumably belongs to his youth.

The manuscript is labelled ‘RD, II’.