Tracts. Documents.
Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:
‘1467 MS’ written by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail and the Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’, written by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín.
Album containing copies of religious tracts, at least one of which is of John Livingstone, Minister of Ancrum, in the same hand as the 'Life' of Livingstone in Adv. MS.34.5.19.
‘Babes of Grace, or Cure for Cant, Delusion, Enthusiasm, & Fanaticism. By a Lover of Truth & Reason, 1828’, being a tract against Evangelicalism in England, written apparently with intent to publish., 1828.
Chronicle of England, and theological works., 14th century.
Copies, in an eighteenth-century hand, of Jacobite tracts, in a book containing Thomas Ruddiman's bookplate and a list of contents in his autograph.
Copies, late seventeenth century, of anti-religious tracts, ‘Cymbalum mundi ceu symbolum sapientiae’ and 'De tribus impostoribus’.
1. ‘Symbolum sapientiæ, hoc est doctrina solida de Religione et vulgo sic dicta S. scriptura, superstioni Paganæ, Iudaicæ, Christianæ et Muhammedanæ opposita ex M.S. autoris Itali ... Eleutheropolis Anno 1678';
2. ‘De tribus impostoribus’, juxta exemplar impressum 1598.
Copies of letters, tracts and other papers concerning the troubles in Scotland during the reign of Charles I.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.5.6.9.
Copy, 17th century, of five prose tracts of William Drummond, of Hawthornden, the poet, written between 1638 and 1642 about the time of Rebellion and Civil War in the reign of Charles I.
Copy, in a 17th-century hand, of several prose tracts of the poet William Drummond of Hawthornden, written at the time of the Civil War.
Copy of an apparently unpublished work entitled 'Practical Tracts of Artillery', written by Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald, Fellow of the Royal Society.
The work was written by John Macdonald when he was Captain Commanding the Artillery at Fort Marlborough, [Sumatra]. The text is preceded by a letter to the Governor and Council of the Military Department there, an introduction to the work, and a letter to the Governor-General and the Supreme Council at Fort William.
'Disputationes in octo libros physicorum' a volume of lecture notes taken from lectures on mathematics, physics, and astronomy, given by George Sinclair, Professor of Mathematics at Glasgow University., 1660-1661.
The name most often recorded in the book is that of Alexander Hamilton, possibly of Dalzell. The names of John Shaw and James Hamilton also appear. In addition to the main lectures on Aristotle's ‘Physics’, there is also part of a tract on anatomy (folios 119-125), and a short poem, 'The abstract of melancholie' (folio 105). This volume is discussed by Hugh Kearney in ‘Scholars and gentlemen, universities and society in pre-industrial Britain, 1500-1700' (London, 1970) pages 136-137.
John Riddell`s interleaved copy of his ‘Tracts, Legal and Historical’ (Edinburgh, 1835), containing some notes and additions in his hand., 1835.
MacDougall genealogy in Gaelic, with 19th century transcript.
Microfilm of Chronicle of England, and theological works.
Microfilm of miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Microfilm of miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Microfilm of three Gaelic manuscripts of religious and medical texts.
The contents are as follows:
‘1467 MS.’ written by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail and the Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’, written by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín, [circa 1425, circa 1467], (Adv.MS.72.1.1);
Manuscript, 16th century-17th century, containing a medical compendium, in Gaelic, asembled by the Mull Beatons (Adv.MS.72.1.2);
‘Materia medica’, 15th century, formerly belonging to the Beaton family of physicians (Adv.MS.72.1.3).