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Identifier: MS 27/ff. 1r-482v
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This is a Sarum Breviary with a full Sarum Litany, and a Kalendar with an unclear provenance. The occurrence of specific saints days (Saint Botulph, Saint Frideswyde, and Saint Hugh, specified as Bishop of Lincoln) may point to Lincoln diocese. Relating to the dating of this text, the presence of the Feast of Relics on 15 September places it before 1319, while external evidence also seems to suggest the early years of the 14th century. There are no marks of Scottish origin, but from the many...
Dates:
early 14th century
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Identifier: MS 27ff. ir-iiv, 231v-232v
Contents
The first section of this Scottish chronicle, rendered by a 15th century hand, is contained on ff.i-ii and covers the years 1056-1355. Of this section of the chronicle, the period 1058-1154 is nearly an exact copy of the Chronicle of Melrose. However, the remainder of the chronicle from 1154-1401 is an entirely unique account and does not seem to follow any of the existing chronicles from medieval Scotland. The period 1356-1401 is contained in the margins on ff.231v-232v which picks up where...
Dates:
early 15th century
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Identifier: MS 208/ff. 154r-168r
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This section contains a miscellaneous collection of Civil Law texts titled De Tutelis. It is divided into four books:Book One starts on f. 152r.Book Two starts on f. 156v.Book Three starts on f. 160v.Book Four starts on f. 164v.This section ends on f. 168r. Writing This...
Dates:
1496
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Identifier: MS 190/ff. 1r-42v
Contents
The first text by Sallust contained in MS 190 is the De coniuratione Catilinae, or the 'Conspiracy of Catiline'. Catiline, a contemporary of Sallust, was a a Roman senator who staged two attempts to seize power in Rome. The second conspiracy, in 63 BC is the most infamous, and is the topic of Sallust's work. In this text, Sallust covers the corruption and political strife in Roman politics in the first century BC. Sallust condemns Catiline in his account,...
Dates:
1462
Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/GOV/CRT/Da.21/1
Scope and Contents
The register contains the discipline and rules for the College of Edinburgh. In the back of the volume, written upside down, are notes made by Mackie on European and Scottish family trees, both royal and landed families, history of parts of Europe including more detail on Scottish and English history, with listings of significant events.
It is almost certainly a later copy: this is definitely so if it was written by Mackie.
Dates:
1644
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Identifier: MS 198/ff. 85v-124r
Contents
The final text in MS 198 is Horace's Epistles. Published in two books, Horace's epistles were perhaps inspired by his increasing age, and are more reflective than his earlier work. The epistles are letters addressed to correspondents, such as the Emperor Augustus (in Book II). Book I generally deals with contemporary issues facing the Roman empire, while Book II has a literary focus.The text of Book I begins on f. 85v, with the line ...
Dates:
late 15th century
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Identifier: Coll-205/4/2 (Dc.2.37)
Scope and Contents
Extracts chiefly from Sir Robert Sibbald's books and MSS on natural history in the Advocates' Library. Subjects include minerals, antiquities (e.g., Roman epigraphy, bones in medieval battlefields), sea and animal life, native customs (magical scarves that cattlemen's wives once wore), geographic curiosities (a cliff that shines in the sun, a natural hole of unsoundable depth, there being no frogs in Getland, etc.) Approximately 178 handwritten pages. Authorship not known with...
Dates:
c1770
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Identifier: Coll-205/4/3 (Dc.2.38)
Scope and Contents
1761 descriptive list of 146 important titles in natural history; notes on 'Boece's Chronology' [of kings of the Scots back to BC 330]. 'Boece' is probably Dundee-born historian Hector Boethius (c.1465 - 1536). Approximately 80 handwritten pages.
An eighteenth-century hand denotes this 'M.S. Vol. 37'. The leaf holding pages 3 and 4 has been excised.
Dates:
c1770
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Identifier: MS 186/ff. 338r-342v
Contents
There are four sets of lists contained on ff. 338r-342v. Ff. 338r-v is 'de romanis pontificis' ('Roman popes'); ff. 339r-v is 'de romanorum Imperatoribus' ('Roman generals'); ff. 339v-341v records 'Sedes episcopales' ('Episcopal seats'); ff. 341v-342r contains a 'Tabula monasteriorum Scocie' ('Table of monasteries in Scotland'), and f. 342v covers 'Vicecomitatus Scocie' (Sheriffdomes in Scotland').
Dates:
1510
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Identifier: La.III.75
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains a prose religious treatise, copied by Esther Inglis as a gift for Sir David Murray of Gorthy (1567-1629), her friend and companion to the Prince Henry. Sir David Murray was the recipient of three of Inglis’ manuscripts, with this being the first; the others are a Book of Psalms prepared in 1612 (now Wormsley Library, Oxfordshire, BM 1851), and a miniature illuminated manuscript of the Quatrains of Guy du Faur (now British Library, MS...
Dates:
1608 (dated)
