Manuscripts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to handwritten documents, and may also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the cases of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made.
Found in 6567 Collections and/or Records:
Mathematics textbook, undated, in the hand of the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale., 3rd quarter of 17th century- [before 1713].
Item
Identifier: MS.14797
Dates:
3rd quarter of 17th century- [before 1713].
‘Matter and energy’ published under the pseudonym B L L (London, 1887), with numerous revisions and additional notes by Alexander Philip., 1887, 1904.
File
Identifier: MS.10307
Scope and Contents
A letter, 1904, of Cargill Knott is inserted (folio 2).
Dates:
1887, 1904.
Maxwell of Monreith family papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7111
Scope and Contents
Including rentals, 1700-1726, natural philosophy notes, circa 1700, archaeological notes, commonplace books, and literary manuscripts, circa 1882-1930, of Sir Herbert Maxwell.
Dates:
circa 1700-1930.
Maxwell of Monreith papers, comprising family and estate correspondence, financial papers, and bound estate papers; with early charters of Maxwells and of Blair of Adamton. Includes general and literary correspondence, and some literary manuscripts, of Sir Herbert Maxwell.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7043/1—Adamton/18
Scope and Contents
This archive constitutes the bulk of the surviving family and estate papers of the Maxwells of Monreith. It gives a clear picture of Maxwell family life, and the running of the Monreith estate from the early 18th century to 1920, with some later estate material. Some of the papers go back to the early 17th century, but the formal estate books begin in 1779, and from then on increase steadily in number and comprehensiveness until from 1893 to 1920 there is scarcely a detail of estate...
Dates:
Majority of material found within [1296]-1947, undated.
Medical and scientific manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey., [1580, or after]-17th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5773-5776
Dates:
[1580, or after]-17th century.
Medical manuscript in Gaelic.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.13
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.Folios 1-8 (first layer):This part of the manuscript is written by a strong and slightly angular hand varying in size from small to average. Decoration and colour (red and brown) are profuse. In support of the premise that the first and second layers of the manuscript were bound together at an early stage, marginalia which look as if they are by a common hand are found at folios 1 recto (‘Meisi’), 2 recto (‘Meisi m’), 10 verso (‘Mar as c’),...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Medical manuscript in Gaelic.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.10
Scope and Contents
The text is a commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates. The text-hand, crabbed in appearance, is generically similar to hand 75 of Adv.MS.72.1.2. Capitals are coloured red, but much of the pigment has dissolved and spread. A preliminary sketch has been made for a decorative initial at folio 3 recto. At folio 2 recto the missing matter is supplied in the bottom margin, parts of it two or three times. Here and at folios 2 verso, 3 recto and 5 verso emendations appear in two or three hands...
Dates:
15th 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 manuscript in Gaelic consisting of two independent layers, but the text in both containing part of book two of the commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.14
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.Folios 1-8 (first layer):In this part of the manuscript, the main text-hand, is an attractive one with elliptical curves, also appearing at Adv.MS.72.1.26, folio 7 recto, where it alludes to a Mac Maol-tuile, and at Adv.MS.72.1.10, folios 2 recto, 2 verso, 3 recto, and 5 verso, where it emends a copy of book 1 of the present tract. This suggests an origin in east Connacht. A less remarkable hand begins the layer (to folio 1 recto, column b,...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Medical manuscript in Gaelic containing Isidore’s commentary on the Aphorisms of Johannes Damascenus (Mesue).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.23
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in a hand of medium size and generally angular in appearance; another takes over in places at folios 4 verso-5 verso.The contents are as follows.On Isidore’s commentary on Aphorisms of Damascenus, cf. Adv.MS.72.1.13, folio 1 recto, column a, line 1. Beginning (acephalous) ‘...rainig a les cuisli ⁊ da tucaid leigheas’ = Adv.MS.72.1.13, folio 8 verso, column b, line 1. First complete section beginning ‘Cum nulla de quo ccon inter aqu[a]m et...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Medical manuscript in Gaelic containing Isidore’s commentary on the Aphorisms of Johannes Damascenus (Mesue).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.22
Scope and Contents
The text of the manuscript is written in a bold slightly angular hand and is generally above average size. The only marginalium, ‘Amo Deus, bene literat, amen dico vobis’ (folio 1 verso) may be by the same hand although in a different ink. Capitals are coloured in red. The contents are as follows. On Isidore’s commentary on Aphorisms of Johannes Damascenus (Mesue), cf. Adv.MS.72.1.13, folio 1 recto, column a, line 1. Beginning (acephalous) ‘ata an triacla do beith uair and’ = Adv.MS.72.1.23,...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Medical manuscript in Gaelic containing various short medical texts, chiefly scholastic in nature.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.27
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written by the following hands. 1. Text, folios 1 recto, column a, line 1-5 recto, column a, line 22. Perhaps more than one hand, akin to those of Dáibhí Ó Cearnaigh, the Ó Ceannamháins and John Beaton in Edinburgh University Library MS. Laing III 21 and British Library MS. Add. 15,582: generally small and functional, but with distinct variations in style (e.g. folio 3 recto), size (folio 4 recto) and quality (folio 4 verso). Capitals coloured red to folio 2...
Dates:
16th century.
Medical manuscript in Gaelic containing versions of John of Gaddesden’s ‘Rosa Anglica’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.20
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written probably in Leinster, 1549 (cf. folio 6 verso, column b, line 9).The manuscript is written in the following hands.1. Text. Hand 1 of Adv.MS.72.1.12.2. Folio 6. Lúcas Ó Maol-Tuile, 1679. Cf. Royal Irish Academy MS.23 M 5, page 209.3. Folio 6 verso the Reverend John Beaton, 1690. He here writes in a pale yellow ink almost invisible to the naked eye.The texts from folio 4 verso begin with citations from the...
Dates:
1549.
Medical manuscript in Gaelic on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.21
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in a small and precise hand, akin to that of Adv.MS.72.1.10 but strongly seriffed. There may be an Ó Siaghail connection, cf. folio 5 recto. It begins with a large decorated initial; capitals coloured red to folio 2 recto. Two further hands appear in marginalia, one at folios 2 verso and 5 recto, the other elsewhere as listed below; there are also some obscure marks or scrawls (folios 3 recto, 4 recto). The marginalia include three love-charms, all beginning ‘Bran...
Dates:
?15th century.
Medical manuscript in Gaelic written by Donnchadh Ó Conchubhair (Duncan O’Conacher, 1571-1647).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.22
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written under MacDougall’s patronage in Lorne and Ossory, 1596-1600, by Donnchadh Ó Conchubhair (Duncan O’Conacher, 1571-1647) at the behest of Ollamh Osraige, Donnchadh Óg Ó Conchubhair, and with the help of Cathal mac Cuinn Uí Dhuinnshléibhe (the scribe of Royal Irish Academy 23 N 16), Giolla Pádraig mac Donnchaidh Óig Uí Chonchubhair, Niall Mac Iomhair, and others. When writing in Ireland Donnchadh uses the distinguishing epithet Albannach. His pedigree, Donnchadh mac...
Dates:
1596-1600.
Medical manuscript in Gaelic written by Feargus Ó Caiside.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.11
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written by Feargus Ó Caiside in the house of Énrigh Ó Caiside, perhaps at a place called Faithche Caorach in County Monaghan or Fermanagh (folio 4 recto, column a, line 34; cf. “Éigse”, volume 2, page 165). His hand is simple, small and neat. The sole marginalium, ‘amen’, (folio 4 recto), may be by another hand. Due to the illegibility of folio 4 verso through staining and rubbing, the account of it below is in some respects tentative.With the manuscript is a...
Dates:
?16th century.
Medical treatise covering illnesses of various parts of the body, recipes, and a work on the significance of thunder in the twelve signs of the zodiac., 14th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.9(v), folios 81-156
Scope and Contents
Medical treatise in French covering illnesses of various parts of the body, incipit ‘Euporiston est celt liure apele ceo est a dire bien esproue` (folio 81). The first part of this text is published in ‘Documents manuscrits de l’ancienne littérature de la France conservés dans les bibliotèques de la Grande-Bretagne’, page 111. There are frequent marginal additions.Folios 147 verso-148 blank.Recipes in French in several hands (folio 149).On the significance...
Dates:
14th century.
Medieval fragment recovered from binding of P Bellon, "De Arboribus Coniferis" (Paris, 1553).
Item
Identifier: Acc.3502
Dates:
15th century.
Medieval fragments recovered from bindings of printed books.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.3482
Dates:
12th century to 15th century.
'Meditations' by Anne Lady Halkett., Mid 17th century-late 17th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6489-6502
Scope and Contents
Anne Lady Halkett was a daughter of a cadet of the Murray of Tullibardine family and lived from 1622-1699. She was the second wife of Sir James Halkett of Pitfirrane who died in 1670. Lady Halkett was a royalist and author of religious meditations. There are now extant fourteen bound volumes of the 'Meditations', out of a series of twenty-one, namely, numbers v-vii, ix-x, xii-xiii, xv-xxi according to the numbering in an appendix to ‘The life of the Lady Halkett’ (Edinburgh, 1701). The...
Dates:
Mid 17th century-late 17th century.
'Meditations', [v], by Anne Lady Halkett., Mid 17th century-late 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.6489
Dates:
Mid 17th century-late 17th century.