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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Condensed, orderly arrangements of data, especially those in which the data are arranged in columns and rows.

Found in 154 Collections and/or Records:

Manual of mathematics, evidently for the use of a military officer, compiled by James Douglas.

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Identifier: MS.3939
Scope and Contents The manual, compiled in 1698 (dates on pages 334a, 401), contains arithmetic, based on E Cocker's ‘Arithmetick’, with some rules for extracting roots by algebra and logarithms; "the doctrine of decimall fractions takne out of Mr. Coker's Decimall Arithmetick", (page 156); and 'the doctrine of plain triangles, or ... plain trigonometry' (page 334a), with rules for ascertaining heights, etc., with instruments.The words 'Heir endeth so much of the arithmetick as a souldier ought...
Dates: 1698.

Manuscript of "Cours de I'Histoire Général" by Claude François Henry.

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Identifier: MS.17999
Scope and Contents

A work intended as a universal history from the earliest times to the French Revolution, but which, from the 11th century onwards, is confined to the history of France. The text begins (folio 28) with a description of the work and material on the planetary system and world geography. It is preceded by geographical and chronological tables (folio 2). The work was compiled while Henry (1773-1820), a French army officer, was a prisoner of war near Jedburgh.

Dates: [Circa 1815.]

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.

Manuscript of the English text of the 'Atlas Scoticus, or Description of Scotland ancient and modern' by Sir Robert Sibbald., [Circa 1682.]

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Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.1
Scope and Contents

The manuscript contains the material outlined in ‘An account of the Scotish atlas’, pages 4-8:

(i) the general description of Britain (folio 2);

(ii) ancient Scotland (folio 3);

(iii) the description of the shires beginning with the Merse (folio 44).

At the end are tables of `The Longitudes and Latitudes of the most remarkable places` (folio 230 verso).

Dates: [Circa 1682.]

Manuscript of the ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, statutes, ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, written soon after the middle of the 15th century, and belonging to the Charterhouse at Perth.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.10
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘Quoniam attachiamaenta’ (folio 1). Folios 7 verso and 8 are blank. ‘Acts of the Scottish Parliament’, i, pages 281-295.(ii) `Modus seu processus breuium`, elsewhere the last chapters of the `Quoniam attachiamenta` (folio 10). Only the title of the last one is written on folio 12 recto.Folio 12 verso blank.(iii) `De exceptionibus` (folio 13).(iv) `Modus procedendi in itinere...
Dates: 14th century-3rd quarter of 15th century.

Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, baron court laws, burgh and guild laws, and some other legal texts, some in Scots, written by George Cuyk (later clerk of the Privy Seal) in 1528.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.11
Scope and Contents The manuscript is incomplete at the end.The contents are as follows:(i) `The baroun Lawis. Modus tenendi curias` in 61 chapters (modern numbering), in Scots (folio 2). The explicit is followed by four lines, beginning `Haec faciunt causas festis tractare diebus` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xvi).(ii) `Regiam Maiestatem` in 4 parts of 212 continuously numbered chapters (36, 74, 34, and 68 in each part) with table at the beginning (folio...
Dates: 14th century-early 17th century.

Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, statutes, and burgh laws, written in 1439.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.13
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Table for the volume (folio 1). The sections appear in the order (ii)-(iv), (vi), (v), (vii). Single leaves are lost before folio 1 (for section (ii), part 1 and part 2, chapters 1-9) and folio 12 (for section (v), chapters 109-154).(ii) `Regiam Maiestatem` in 3 parts of 34, 114, and 64 chapters (folio 13). ‘Acts of the Scottish Parliament’, i, pages 233-277.(iii) ‘Quoniam attachiamenta` in 95 chapters (not...
Dates: ?14th century-1439.

Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, statutes, burgh laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, mostly in Scots, written in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century. Sections (xxv)-(xxvii) are a slightly later addition.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.15
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Regiam Maiestatem` in 4 books of 191 continuously numbered chapters (34, 74, 26, and 57 in each book respectively) with table at the beginning (folio 1). The end of chapter 6 to the beginning of chapter 14 is lost. ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 233-277.(ii) `Quoniam attachiamenta` in 61 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 60 verso). Chapters 11-24 are lost. ‘Acts of the Parliament of...
Dates: 14th century-15th century.

Manuscript of the Regiam Maiestatem, Quoniam attachimenta, burgh and guild laws, forest laws, De judicibus, statutes, and other legal texts, one in Scots, written by David Baldovy, vicar of Guthrie., [Circa 1500], mid 16th century.

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Identifier: MS.16497
Scope and Contents The manuscript was written about 1500. Section xxii is an addition of the mid-sixteenth century.The scribe gives his initials D (or David) de B in explicits on folios 14, 52, and 57, and writes his name out 'David Baldovy' on a stub after folio 202.The contents are as follows: (i) 'Ad componendum cartas'. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Exceptiones contra cartam. (Folio 1 verso.)(iii) 'Expositiones quorundam vocabulorum'. (Folio 2.)(iv) 'Regiam...
Dates: [Circa 1500], mid 16th century.

Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, baron court laws, burgh and guild laws, and some other legal texts, all in Scots, written by one A de D probably in the 1470s.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.7
Scope and Contents The manuscript is imperfect at the end; and sections (i) and (ii), which belong after section (xvii), have been misbound.The contents are as follows:(i) `Statuta regis Jacobi secundi` (folio 1). The beginning is lost; see section (xvii). ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, ii, pages 31-52.(ii) `Ye statutis of ye law of march mayd be erll villȝham of Douglas`, 1448 (folio 3). ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page 350.folio 5 verso...
Dates: 14th century-15th century.

Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh and guild laws, ‘De judicibus’, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, forest laws, and other smaller legal texts, a few in Scots, written in the early 16th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.12
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) ‘Ad componendum cartas’, ‘Exceptiones contra cartas’, and ‘Expositiones quorundam vocabulorum’ (folio 1).(ii) 11 verses, beginning ‘Hoc trahit ad lumen antiqua statuta volumen’ (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xv), and table for section (iii) (folio 4).(iii) ‘Regiam Maiestatem’ in 4 books of 36, 75, 34, and 68 chapters (table in section (ii)) (folio 10). ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i,...
Dates: ?14th century-early 16th century.

Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh and guild laws, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, a few in Scots, mostly written by John Bannatyne in 1520, with some later additions.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.9
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Regiam Maiestatem` in four books of 209 continuously numbered chapters (34, 72, 34, and 69 in each book), with table at the beginning (folio 2). This is preceded (folio 1 verso) by a couplet beginning `Me legat antiquas qui vult proferre loquelas` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xxvi) and 11 verses beginning `Hoc trahit ad lumen antiqua statuta volumen` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xv). ‘Acts of...
Dates: 14th century-16th century.

Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh and guild laws, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots, mostly written by James Monynet in 1488, with some later additions.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.6
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Table of sections (iii) and (v)-(vii) (folio vi).(ii) ‘Brevis ordo judiciarius,` maxims and procedures in 12 chapters, in a later hand (folio x verso).(iii) `Regiam Maiestatem,` in four books of respectively 35, 74, 35, and 68 chapters (folio 1). In addition to this numbering (in red) there is a continuous numbering of the chapters to ccxi. Prefixed are 11 lines beginning `Hoc trahit ad lumen antiqua...
Dates: 1248-15th century.

Miscellaneous letters and papers concerning the 1st Earl of Minto., 1791-1814, undated.

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Identifier: MSS.11726-11727
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Copy of a memorandum, 1806, unsigned, addressed to Sir George Hilaro Barlow, Acting Governor-General, proposing the institution of public libraries and reform of the Hindu College at Varanasi (folio 1); (ii) Letter of Sir James Mackintosh, 1807, with a printed copy of his ‘Plan of Comparative Vocabulary of Indian Languages, read at the Literary Society of Bombay on the 26th May 1806’, Bombay, 1806, and related papers (folio 10); (iii) Memorandum of William...
Dates: 1791-1814, undated.

Miscellaneous letters and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto., 1791-1810, undated.

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Identifier: MS.11726
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Copy of a memorandum, 1806, unsigned, addressed to Sir George Hilaro Barlow, Acting Governor-General, proposing the institution of public libraries and reform of the Hindu College at Varanasi (folio 1); (ii) Letter of Sir James Mackintosh, 1807, with a printed copy of his ‘Plan of Comparative Vocabulary of Indian Languages, read at the Literary Society of Bombay on the 26th May 1806’, Bombay, 1806, and related papers (folio 10); (iii) Memorandum of William...
Dates: 1791-1810, undated.

Miscellaneous papers of and concerning the Military Department., 1794-1815.

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Identifier: MS.11605
Scope and Contents

The papers include tables of the establishment, pay and allowances of the Body Guard of the Governor-General, 1802, 1805 (folio 1), comparative statements showing the number of companies of regular native infantry at each army station under the Presidency of Bengal, 30 April 1794, and 1 August 1811 (folio 7), and memorandum of Captain (later Lieutenant-Colonel) George Herbert Gall concerning provisions for native troops on board transports, 1812 (folio 10).

Dates: 1794-1815.

Miscellaneous Traill family papers., 1670-1863, undated.

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Identifier: MS.19399
Scope and Contents

The papers include geographical notes and tables; a list of guests at the wedding of Robert Omond and Mary Eliza Traill, 1838; extracts from the journal of Thomas Rickman, the architect, concerning Professor Thomas Stewart Traill, 1811-1819; papers of Traill's executors, 1862-1863; and notes by Traill on fossil fishes found at Skaill, Orkney, published in ‘Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’, volume XV, part 1, 1841.

Dates: 1670-1863, undated.

'Newe Testament', a Middle English manuscript of the New Testament, in the earlier version of the Wycliffite Bible, written in England in the late 14th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.7
Scope and Contents The text is mostly the earlier version of the Wycliffite Bible; see the edition by Josiah Forshall and Sir Frederic Madden, where this is manuscript Q of the earlier version and manuscript Z of the later version. It is described in volume 1, page lix, number 145; see also ‘The manuscripts and versions of the Wycliffite Bible’, pages 333-347, and ‘The earlier version of the Wycliffite Bible’, volume 7.The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Table of Gospels...
Dates: Late 14th century.

Notebook containing information and statistics regarding the population of Newfoundland., 1827-1828

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Identifier: MS.2352
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates: 1827-1828