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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:

`De Historicis Scotis et Politicis qui vel Scoticae Gentis historiara et politiciam et res gestas vel vitas Scotorum aut aliarum Gentium historias exterorunique res gestas enarrant`, being collections of Sir Robert Sibbald, for a bibliography.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.18
Scope and Contents

The latest entries in the volume are dated 1700. It includes manuscript material, and there are annotations on the contents and history of some of the entries.

Dates: 1700, and before.

'De modo medendi' by Gerard, incipit 'De modo medendi vel ordine cum corpus sit purgandum'., 13th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.1(ii), folios 7-23
Scope and Contents

Initials are in red and green.

At the end in three hands are added recipes and notes, one in French (`La confexion de Noygages`) (14th century, folio 23 verso).

Dates: 13th century.

‘Dello Stato della Regina di Scozia`, written by a Florentine official named Francesco Marcaldi, apparently as propaganda in Mary Queen of Scots’ favour.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.54.2.1
Scope and Contents The preface is dated at Bologna, 2 December 1581, and this autograph copy is addressed to Signor Alberto Cospi, probably the secretary to the Grand Duke of Tuscany.This is one of about 30 copies of the work, each written in Marcaldi`s hand, but each with a different date and a different dedication.In an inserted letter, Professor Karl Pearson, University College, University of London, points out the manuscript’s interest as recording the beliefs of a contemporary...
Dates: 1581.

`Demonstratio plantarum in horto Regio Parisiensi apud St Victor.’ Notes of lectures given in June and July 1670 by Denis Joncquet, physician and teacher of botany at the Jardin Royal.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.5.10
Scope and Contents

The notes consist of a list of plants, giving the alternative names and medicinal uses of each.

A note at the end (folio 67) is signed P M, and is followed by a brief extract from a lecture by Joncquet in 1669. Joncquet`s name is consistently mis-spelled Jouquet.

Dates: 1670.

Depositions of witnesses concerning the lighting of beacons in Roxburghshire, 1804, by which a false alarm of a French invasion reached Jedburgh.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.23
Scope and Contents

An article from the ‘Jedburgh Gazette’, 7 July 1906, based on this material, is included (folio i).

Dates: 1804.