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Fragments.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Portions of something that are torn, broken off from, or dislocated from their original whole.

Found in 371 Collections and/or Records:

'Spicelegia Antiquitatis Græcae; sive ex veteribus poætis Græcis deperditis fragmenta, collecta a J.C.D.C.A., 1755', volumes II-V., 1755.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2152-2155
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.

Dates: 1755.

Store book of Colonel [John] Adlecron's Regiment, 39th Foot, kept by Stephen Julian and Edward Forde, successive quartermasters, when the regiment was based in the Carnatic at Fort St David and Fort St George.

 File
Identifier: MS.6291
Scope and Contents Copies of other documents of a military nature have been added. The volume has been damaged and several pages are missing, particularly at the end.The contents are as follows:(i) Quarterly records of stores issued for the use of the regiment, September 1754, to March 1759 (folio 1);(ii) Copy of 'Instructions for the Commanding Officer of Train of Artillery attending His Majesty's Forces ordered to the East Indies', dated 21 February 1754 (folio 30...
Dates: 1744-1778.

Strip of vellum cut horizontally from an unidentified formal document., 16th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.30
Scope and Contents

The fragment was recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark Milc.3.10) of ‘Commentarii grammatici’ (Parisiis, 1537), by Joannes Despauterius, where it had been used as a binding strip inside the back cover.

Dates: 16th century.

“Swinton’s kirk MSS’, a collection of copies of Scottish historical documents, originally labelled ‘Kirk manuscripts A’., 17th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.18
Scope and Contents The manuscript contains copies of the following: (i) ‘The contraversie concerning the validitie of the obligation of the tendes for union in one commonwealth, discussed’; (ii) Part of a paper respecting the controversy between Resolutioners & Protesters; (iii) Continuation of section (i): ‘The contraversie concerning the validitie of the obligation…’ (folio 11); (iv) Continuation of section (i): ‘The contraversie concerning the validitie of the obligation…’ (folio 20); (v) Reasons...
Dates: 17th century.

“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents

The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).

Dates: 17th century.

The Chronicle of Fortingall, a 16th-century manuscript written in Highland Perthshire, Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: MS.50300
Scope and Contents A manuscript of varied contents, written by a group of scribes in Fortingall, Perthshire, mostly in the third quarter of the 16th century. The volume chronicles deaths and other events mainly in Highland Perthshire and other Highlands areas, but it also occasionally includes events of national concern, such as those surrounding the forced abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots. The chronicle entries are mainly in Latin, sometimes with Scots words used instead Latin terms, but a number of...
Dates: ca. 1550-1579

'The descent probative, branches, and relations of R.M., engr. in Edr.', i.e., Robert Mylne, son of the antiquary, 'by the mother ... Collected from a great many . . . authentick documents in my own custody', with additions and corrections by the father., 1728.

 File
Identifier: MS.2094
Scope and Contents

The families chiefly described are those of Govean or Govan (page 1), Forrester of Denovan (page 29), Rind (page 37), Row (the reformer and his descendants) (page 43), Geddie (page 57), and Avery (page 101); detailed accounts are given of some individuals, with extracts from their correspondence. At the beginning (folio ii) is a fragment of an account of Mr John Govean, Minister of Campsie, followed by a list of contents. At the end are miscellaneous notes.

Dates: 1728.

Thirty-one vellum fragments from at least two bifolia of an unidentified work., 12th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.48
Scope and Contents

Apart from six longer strips, two of which are blank, the fragments are shorter than 80 millimetres in length. The text is written in single columns without ornamentation.

The fragments had been used to strengthen the binding of a copy (pressmark A.91.c.1-2) of ‘Germania topo-chrono-stemmato-graphica sacra et profana (etc.)’ (Augusta Vindelicorum, 1655, 1662), by Gabriel Bucelinus.

Dates: 12th century.

Three fragments of vellum, apparently from French formal documents, although little writing can be seen., ?17th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.36
Scope and Contents

The fragments had been used to strengthen the binding of a copy (pressmark ξ.3/1) of ‘Élémens de l`architecture navale’ (Paris, 1752), by Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau.

Dates: ?17th century.

Three letters, 1712, of William Nicolson to Archibald Campbell.

 File
Identifier: Acc.5915
Scope and Contents

With notes and fragments mainly of Alexander Jolly.

Dates: 1712 and undated.

Three parchment leaves, presumably taken from the Sanctorale of a missal, possibly from the Low Countries; with two paper fragments., 15th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.12
Scope and Contents

The parchment leaves (one of which is cut into two parts) contain collects from masses to various saints, but the saints` names do not appear to have been written in any discernible order.

The leaves were recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark K.54.g) of ‘Expositio analytica and brevis in universum Q. Horatii Flacci poema’ (Parisiis, 1582), by Petrus Gualterius.

Dates: 15th century.

Three vellum fragments, two from a missal or breviary, one from a book of hours; with three paper fragments., ?15th century-?early 16th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.9
Scope and Contents The fragments were recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark L.2.b) of ‘The Holye Byble: that is to saye, (etc.)’ (1539).(i-ii) Two discontiguous vellum fragments apparently from the same mediaeval religious manuscript, possibly a 15th-century missal or breviary, though not one recorded in ‘Patrologia Latina’. The notation and corresponding text is written in double columns: the notation is in black on a red four-line stave; the text in black below the stave. The rubrics...
Dates: ?15th century-?early 16th century.

Two almost contiguous parchment fragments from a noted missal or breviary., 15th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.8
Scope and Contents The fragments appear to belong to a leaf from the winter portion of the missal or breviary, possibly from Advent. The notation and corresponding text is arranged in double columns: the notation black on a red four-line stave; the text in black below the stave. The rubrics are in red; the capitals variously in blue and red.The fragments were formerly used as binding strips in a copy (pressmark Claud.4.9) of ‘De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis’ (1546) by Joannes...
Dates: 15th century.

Two apparently unrelated parchment fragments recovered from the binding of the same work., Late 14th century or early 15th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.6
Scope and Contents The fragments were recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark Jac.I.3.1) of ‘Illustrium Maioris Britanniae Scriptorum ... Summarium, in quinque partes divisum’ (1548), by John Bale, in which they had been used as pastedowns.The fragment recovered from the front pastedown is part of a leaf possibly from a work on moral theology, but not one recorded in ‘Patrologia Latina’. The text is written in double columns in a hand of the late 14th or early 15th century. On the side...
Dates: Late 14th century or early 15th century.

Two collections of writings of Allan Ramsay, in his hand.

 File
Identifier: MS.2233
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Drafts of poems, of a prose treatise in defence of the theatre (fragmentary, but not ‘Some Few Hints in Defence of Dramatic Entertainments’), and of a letter to a lady, containing a poem. Some of the poems appear to be unpublished; others differ greatly from the printed version. On folio 10 there are marginal references, apparently contemporary, to the pages of ‘Poems by Allan Ramsay’ (Edinburgh, 1728), volume ii. Some of the leaves are paginated,...
Dates: Early 18th century.

Two contiguous parchment fragments, apparently from a book of styles of papal letters., 15th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.7
Scope and Contents

The text of the fragments is in a 15th-century hand and is arranged in double columns. The rubrics are in red, and the capitals in green and silver, the latter now oxidized.

The work of which the fragments form part of a leaf is not recorded in ‘Patrologia Latina’.

The fragments were recovered from a copy (pressmark K.37.g) of ‘Homeri Ilias’ (Venetiis, 1524), in which they had been used as binding strips.

Dates: 15th century.

Two contiguous parchment fragments forming the end of a printed document of English provenance, apparently banns of marriage, and signed by one Thomas Hunt., 1633.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.41
Scope and Contents

The fragments had been used as binding strips in a copy (pressmark FF.1/2.16) of ‘Commentariorum in suam concordiam ac totam historiam’, partes iiii (Lugduni, 1606), by Cornelius Jansenius, Bishop of Ghent.

With the two parchment fragments are a paper fore-edge label, apparently of contemporary provenance, and a memorandum of a theological character, also on paper, previously loosely enclosed in the volume. Also included is a corner of a vellum folio.

Dates: 1633.

Two contiguous parchment fragments from a religious work, possibly a volume of sermons., 15th century or 16th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.10
Scope and Contents

The text is written in double columns. On the higher fragment Matthew 13, 47 is quoted.

The religious work of which the fragments form part is not recorded in ‘Patrologia Latina’.

The fragments were formerly used as binding strips in a copy (pressmark EE.7/2.24) of ‘Christianae iurisprudentiæ epitome’ (Neostadii in Palatinatu, 1586), by Conradus Heresbachius.

Dates: 15th century or 16th century.

Two contiguous vellum fragments, cut vertically from a leaf from the sanctorale of a rubricated missal or breviary of folio size., 14th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.28
Scope and Contents The text is written in double columns; together the fragments form the greater part of a right-hand column, with the centre margin and isolated letters of the left-hand column also preserved. One side of the combined fragment contains the epistle of the Vigil of the Birthday of St John the Baptist (23 June); the writing on the other side cannot be read.The fragments were recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark E.190.a.1(1)) of ‘F. Alfonsi de Castro ... adversus omnes...
Dates: 14th century.

Two contiguous vellum fragments of what appears to be an English legal document, possibly an inventory, to which several corrections have been made., ?Late 16th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.37
Scope and Contents

Together the fragments form a fragment of approximately 3 x 7 inches. They had been used as binding strips in a copy (pressmark DD.2/1.11) of ‘S.P.N. Eustathii … in Hexahemeron commentarius (etc.)’ (Lugduni, 1629), by Saint Eustathius, Bishop of Antioch.

Dates: ?Late 16th century.