Treatises.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Formal and systematic written expositions of the principles of a subject, generally longer and more detailed than essays.
Found in 286 Collections and/or Records:
Miscellaneous law tracts.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.3.4
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows.(i) Copies of various Royal patents, gifts, and commissions, 1642-1669 (the majority from the early 1660s). Most are in a 17th-century hand; an early 18th-century hand has added two, on pages 125 and 532. A detailed list is given on pages 536-540, and they have been fully indexed. (Page 1.)(ii)-(xiii) are copies, in an 18th-century hand, of sections of Adv.MS.6.2.2.(ii) = Adv. MS. 6.2.2(xii): `The Retour ... of the...
Dates:
16th century-17th century.
Miscellaneous legal papers in a volume bearing the name 'Spotiswoode' and the date 1701., 1540-1701.
File
Identifier: MS.2941
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'The remanent of Mr. David Ayttoune of Kingglassie his Prackties, 1540', copy. The leaves are much decayed. (Folio ii verso.) (ii) Balfour's ‘Practicks’, copied, 1645-1646, by Thomas (?)Veatche. (Folio 1.)(iii) 'Ane minit of the airship goods and geir pertaineinge to ane burgess as if the defunct had the samen in his possession in the tyme of his deceise'. (Folio 179 verso.)(iv) 'Ane short treatise and forme of...
Dates:
1540-1701.
Miscellaneous manuscripts, chiefly theological and political., 1590-18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2201
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'The Compt of the Cunze', a record of coins minted from 1588 to 1590, Edinburgh, 1590; endorsed in 1592 by John Mawer, a clerk in the Exchequer. (Folio 1.)(ii) Latin treatise on kingship and foreign policy, citing instances of French kings, in a hand of the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century. Leaves are missing at the beginning, after folio 32, and perhaps at the end. On folio 29 is the name of Dame Mergarit Petfoure. (Folio...
Dates:
1590-18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Miscellaneous smaller manuscripts, single letters, small collections, etc., now made up into volumes, the property of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Miscellaneous material, mostly of a religious nature.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `A Testamentary Memoir written by Theophilus, in which his own dearest concerns are Ingenuously Narrated, and sundry of a more publick Nature are also touched, all Addressed to his surviving friends`, early 18th century. This is similar in style to the ‘Memorial` of James Hog, and the hand is probably the same as that of Adv.MS.32.3.8. The author appears to have written other memorials and a short history of the Covenanters based...
Dates:
18th century.
Miscellaneous official papers, including a treatise on the history of Westphalia, notes on Mesmer's discoveries, and a printed copy of the treaty of Kutchuk Kainardji., 1772-1774.
File
Identifier: MS.13017
Dates:
1772-1774.
Miscellaneous papers, chiefly relating to lands and families of the north-east of Scotland, collected by William Rose., 1580-18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.49.7.3
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Papers concerning Rothes and Aikenway, 1684, 1689, and the 8th Earl of Rothes, 1710, and undated, with especial reference to an agreement with William Duff of Dipple (Inv. LX, Mac. 59) (folio 1).(ii) Excerpts, taken by Rose, of the household accounts of the Duke of Lennox during his residence at Holyrood and his journeys as High Commissioner, 1607 (Inv. LXI, Mac. 53) (folio 19).(iii) `Memorandum for the Laird of Monymusk,...
Dates:
1580-18th century.
Miscellaneous papers collected by James Burnett, Lord Monboddo., 18th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.24593-24595
Dates:
18th century.
Miscellaneous papers of the Ker family., 1575-early 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5442-5461
Dates:
1575-early 19th century.
Miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries., 12th century-13th century.
File
Identifier: MS.6122
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Part of the 'Historia scholastica' of Petrus Comestor, containing the history from II Maccabees ii to the end of the 'Historia evangelica', beginning 'Mortuo Simone qui ultimus quinque filiorum'; printed in ‘Patrologia Latina’, volume cxcviii, 1525-1644. (Folio 1.)(ii) Commentary on the books of Kings, Tobit, Judith, Esther, Daniel, and Maccabees, beginning ‘Ozia lepra percusso in fronte'. It is apparently complete, but like Corpus...
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
'Navigation a treatise. by David Ewen in Saltcoats in the 13th year of my age ... 1732', with numerous detailed diagrams.
File
Identifier: MS.9593
Dates:
1732.
Notebook kept by the 6th Marquess of Lothian, chiefly concerning the service in Ireland of the Midlothian Fencible Cavalry Regiment, of which he was Colonel., 1797-1799.
Item
Identifier: MS.5750
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains copies of correspondence, orders, etc., a report of the Regiment's movements in the 1798 rebellion, and, inter alia, a treatise, 1801, on the etymology of military words (folio 68 verso), two stories (folios 103 verso, 136 verso), and notes on military theory.
Dates:
1797-1799.
Notes and notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas, advocate., 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.6.1-80.6.14
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts are either in the hand of George Dundas, or bear evidence of his ownership.
Dates:
18th century.
Notes of George Dundas of Dundas: treatise on mathematics., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.6.6
Notes of George Dundas of Dundas: treatise on music by – Bayne, prefaced by verses headed `The Master of Stormont to his freind Mr. Bayne on his Treatise of Musick.’, 18th century.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.80.6.9
Notes on natural philosophy, written at King`s College, Aberdeen.
Item
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.
'On emigration from the Scottish Highlands and Isles', an apparently unpublished treatise.
Item
Identifier: MS.9646
Scope and Contents
A pencil note on folio 1 attributes the treatise to Edward Satchwell Fraser of Reelig (died 1835). It was probably written early in 1803.
The writer discusses the extent of and reasons for emigration, and suggests some remedies.
Dates:
[?1803.]
'Opiscula theologica', a manuscript of uncertain origin, written in Greek in the 16th-century, containing various works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.14
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) St Ephraem Syrus, on Joseph (‘Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca’ 2200; ‘Opera omnia Graece et Latine’, ii.21) (folio 1).(ii) St John Chrysostom, on pity (‘Codices Chrysostomici Graeci’, Appendix 7) (folio 21).(iii) Extract from ‘Chronicon’, iv.229, by Georgios Hamartolos, (‘Patrologia Graeca’, cx.836) (folio 28 verso).(iv) On an unworthy priest (‘Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca’ 1449e, with...
Dates:
16th century.
Palimpsest, made up of at least five English manuscripts of the 8th to 11th centuries, overwritten in England in the late 11th century and belonging to Thorney Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.8
Scope and Contents
Underwriting: Such identification as has been achieved is due to N R Ker, in ‘Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions’, iii, 169 and what follows; and E A Lowe, ‘Codices Latini Antiquiares’, supplement. Ultra-violet photographs of folios 1 + 8, 4 + 5, 9 + 16, 28 + 31, 19 + 22, 3, 30 recto, and 26 + 33 are in MS.8494, folios 1-15.Folios of the manuscripts (i), (ii), (iv), and (v) have generally been turned sideways and folded to form sheets of the new volume;...
Dates:
8th century-11th century.
Pañcadaśī of Vidyāraṇya, an exposition of Vedantic philosophy, with Brahmānanda commentary by Rāmakṛṣṇa on the first three of four books.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.14
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is in Devanāgarī script.Side margins ruled in red, daṇḍas mainly in red (represented by red in transcription). Basic text in centre, inset from margins, surrounded by 2-5 lines of commentary top and bottom.Colophon (commentary, folio 270 recto): iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrībhāratītīrthavidyāraṇyamunivaryakiṃkareṇa śrīrāmakṛṣṇākhyaviduṣā viracite brahmānande viṣayanaṃdī nāma pañcamo dhyāyaḥ ॥ 15 ॥ ॥ pañcadaśaprakaraṇasamāptaḥ ॥ ॥...
Dates:
Undated.
Paper titled 'Agriculture,' by Henry Fletcher of Saltoun, including also drawings for farm buildings and a hexagonal church., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.17830
Dates:
18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning science.
Paper titled 'Arithmetick,' by Henry Fletcher of Saltoun., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.17827
Dates:
18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning science.
Paper titled 'Elements of Geometry’, by Henry Fletcher of Saltoun., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.17828
Dates:
18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning science.
Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning law ., 17th century-18th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17807-17825
Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning science., 18th century-early 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17826-17849