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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:

Notes on astronomy, from the lectures of Professor William Law at Edinburgh University, by John Erskine.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.3
Scope and Contents

The notes consist of commentaries on Ptolomy`s ‘Almagest’ and descriptions of the rotations of the planets, with several sketches. There is also part of a lecture on biology (‘De Corpore Animato`, folio 79); some pages are missing at the end of the latter lecture.

Dates: 1693.

Notes on English history, in several hands., Early 19th century.

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Identifier: MS.2684
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) 'A brief account of the parliamentary petitions ... now extant in the Tower of London, from the Reign of Edward the 1st to the end of Edward the fourth, lately inspected by W Illingworth under the direction of [?Samuel Lysons]'. (Folio 2.)(ii) A critique of a work entitled, 'Expeditionis Billarum Antiquitas' (folio 24), signed, 'J. F. April 1808'. It is followed by other papers on the subject, including a letter (folio 50) of Sir Thomas...
Dates: Early 19th century.

Notes on funerary trappings and the order of a funeral procession, by Sir James Balfour., 1633.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.16(iv)
Scope and Contents

This is a continuation of the notes at the end of 34.4.16(iii), which became detached. There are two sketches of hearses.

Dates: 1633.

Notes on Herodotus and Livy, apparently written from lectures in 1732-1733 by someone called Erskine (`Erskine` and the dates November 11, 1732, December 2, February 10, March 17 and April 7 are at the end of each section).

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.6.2
Scope and Contents

The notes are on passages, sometimes consecutive but often widely separated, of Herodotus book 1, and Livy books 1-4, chapter 6; the manuscript is incomplete at the end. They are explanatory of the subject-matter, in Herodotus especially proper names, in Livy especially constitutional matters; other ancient authors are freely cited, and once (folio 6 verso) Abraham Crawley is quoted.

Dates: 1732-1733.

Notes on logic by Robert Johnstone of Wamphray (Master of Arts, 1695), probably from the lectures of Regent Andrew Massie at Edinburgh University.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.5
Scope and Contents

The date is taken from folio 17.

Some pages at the end of the notebook are missing.

Dates: 1695.

Notes on logic, from the lectures of Regent Andrew Burnet at Glasgow University, by Sir Charles Erskine of Alva.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.6.1
Scope and Contents

The name Alexander Dundas also appears.

The lectures are in two parts: a ‘Compendium Logicæ` (folio 1), and ‘Disputationes Logicæ’ (folio 77).

Dates: 1659-1660.

Notes on logic, from the lectures of Regent Andrew Massie at Edinburgh University, by James Erskine (Master of Arts, 1687).

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.1
Scope and Contents

Several pages at the beginning of the volume are missing.

Dates: 1685.

Notes on logic, from the lectures of William Law, Regent, and later Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University, by John Ershine.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.2
Scope and Contents

The notes consist of a short introduction to logic, followed by the first part of Law`s course of lectures (folio 14 to `finis prima partis logico`, folio 81). There are also some notes on the derivation of square roots, with six problems for calculation (folios 82-84), and scraps of poetry and Latin proverbs on the fly-leaves.

Dates: 1691.

Notes on natural philosophy, written at King`s College, Aberdeen.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.15
Scope and Contents The original series of notes were written in 1662 by John Barclay, `son to the lady Johnstoune`, probably from the lectures of his Regent, George Gordon, later 1st Earl of Aberdeen. They deal with commentaries on Aristotle, `De Generatione et Corruptione` (page 1); `De Anima` (page 82); `De Caelo` (page 144); and the `Meteoroligica` (page 150); with a short tract on metaphysics (page 162), and some notes on astronomy (page 178). The notebook passed to Alexander Irvine, who added a treatise...
Dates: 1662, 1694.

Notes on part of a series of lectures on Scottish Law given by David Hume, Baron of the Exchequer, probably in 1803, which is apparently the latest date quoted in the text (folio 200); the fifth (folio iii) of a series of six or more volumes.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.6.42
Scope and Contents

The notes are written on one side of the leaf only (watermark dated 1798), in an unidentified hand: brief additions are written in pencil on the versos of a few of the leaves by `WRR` (folio 38 verso), apparently William Rose Robinson of Clermiston, who was admitted advocate in 1804, and who was no doubt the next owner of the notes. A summary index of the subjects covered in the volume is written in the original hand at folio iii.

Dates: ?1803.

Notes on philosophy and physics, written probably from the lectures of Regent Charles Erskine at Edinburgh University by Patrick Wilkie (M.A., 1704), later minister of Haddington.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.20.7.1
Scope and Contents

The notes consist of lectures on moral philosophy [`Pneumatologia` (folio 4), and `Elementa Philosophia Moralis seu Ethicae’, (folio 85)], and on physics [`Annotationes in Joannis Clerici Physicam’, (folio 133)].

Dates: 1703.

Notes on philosophy, from the lectures of Professor William Law at Edinburgh University, by William Haldane.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.4
Scope and Contents

The name David Smyth also appears.

There are three courses of lectures in the notebook: ‘Tractatus Metaphysicus` (folio 2); `Pneumatologia` (folio 23); and `Elementa Philosophia Moralis` (folio 49).

Dates: 1699-1700.

Notes on philosophy, written from the lectures of Regent Andrew Burnet at Glasgow University, by Sir Charles Erskine of Alva.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.6.5
Scope and Contents

The lectures comprise disputations on metaphysics (folio 1), and a separate series of disputations on ethics (folio 63); they are regularly dated and complete, excepting the front page of the first series.

Dates: 1661.