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Academic medal awarded to Alexander Falconer Giles in Honours Latin, 1902

Item — Box CLX-A-367: Series Coll-1828/3

Identifier: Coll-1828/4

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Academic medal awarded to Alexander Falconer Giles in Honours Latin, 1902

Dates: 1902

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Accession of Peter I of Russia, 27 April 1682

Item

Identifier: DM/13

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Accession of Peter I of Russia.

Obverse: bust of Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov (Peter I of Russia) (Peter the Great)(1672-1725). Legend: PETRUS. ALEXII. FILIUS.D.G.TZAR. ET. MAGNUS. DVX. TOTIVS. RUSSIAE.

Reverse: two human figures; a man is leading a woman to the top of a mountain, where a castle is. Legend: MEA. MECUM. ASCENDES. IN ALTUM.

Exergue: IMPERII. HABENAS. CAPESSIT. XXII. APRILIS. CIכIכCLXXXII (27 Apr 1682).

Dates: 27 April 1682

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Accounts, 15th century

Part

Identifier: MS 175/f. 190v

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The final page of the mansucript contains an account, which mentions a physician from Città di Castello.

Dates: 15th century

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Acro's Commentary on the Sermones (works) of Horace, vellum, illuminated. 15th Century. Has the Breadalbane Arms inside the board., 15th Century

Item

Identifier: La.III.445

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This manuscript is now known as MS 200. A detailed description is available here.

Dates: 15th Century

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Ad guttam et arenulam secundum Magistrum Jacobum, 15th century

Part

Identifier: MS 175/ff. 149v-150v

Contents The text contained on ff. 149-150 has not been identified, but like the few texts that come before it in MS 175, it deals with treating and preventing stones of the bladder and kidneys.The short work begins with a rubricated title: Ad guttam arenulam secundum Magistrum Jacombum. The text follows in the next line, beginning with Regimen vestrum in comedendo sit regimen...The text ends on f. 150v with...

Dates: 15th century

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Ad Stagirium a Daemonio Vexatum by John Chrysostom, 15th century

part

Identifier: MS 84/ff. 167r-190v

Contents This part of the manuscript contains the text Ad Stagirium a Daemonio Vexatum by John Chrysostom (c. 349-407), one of the Great Church Fathers. The text is divided in three books, which correspond to three letters sent to his friend Stagirius, who was tormented by the Devil. It was originally written in Greek. This is a Latin translation probably done by Ambrosius Traversarius.Preface: starts on f.167r with the following words:...

Dates: 15th century

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Ad sublimandum marchasitam, 1478

part

Identifier: MS 131/f. 73r

Contents

An anonymous alchemic recipe for the sublimation of marcasite, a mineral also known as white iron pyrite.

Dates: 1478

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Additiones super quinque libros Decretalium, by Giovanni d'Andrea, 15th century

Part

Identifier: MS 141/ ff. 6r-116v

Contents MS 141/ff. 6r-116v contains Giovanni d'Andrea's 14th-century commentary on the influential text of canon law, 'Decretales Gregorii IX', commissioned by Pope Gregory IX in the mid-13th century. D'Andrea's commentary is made up of five books, all present in the version contained in MS 141. Following introductory lines ('Casus summarii super decretalibus Andio Joanne Andrea...'), Liber i begins on f. 6r, with the words Gregorius servus servorum dei. In hoc...

Dates: 15th century

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Adelphi, late 14th century

Part

Identifier: MS 196/ff. 23v-24v

Contents The final play by Terence in MS 196 is his Adelphi, perhaps his greatest work. It is a play that explores the best form of fatherhood and child-rearing: the strict authoritarian Demea or the democratic and permissive fatherhood of Micio. Ultimately, both sons choose the strict rule of Demea.There are only a few lines of Adelphi in MS 196. On f. 23v, lines 1-12. On ff. 24r, lines 1-19 of the Prologue, and on f. 24v,...

Dates: late 14th century

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Aeneidos Liber XIII, by Maffeo Vegio, c 1449

Part

Identifier: MS 195/ff. 267v-280r

Contents The final text contained in MS 195 is a work by Maffeo Vegio, a 15th-century Italian poet. Vegio earned a reputation as an author of brief epic poems, of which this 'Book XIII of the Aeneid' is his most famous one. Vegio's continuation to Virgil's 12-book foundation poem for Rome was finished in 1428. The narrative picks up where Virgil's 12th book ends, and in 600 lines 'Book XIII' tells of Aeneas' marriage to Lavinia, and ultimately his apotheosis (attaining a god-like status). Vegio's...

Dates: c 1449

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Academic medal awarded to Alexander Falconer Giles in Honours Latin, 1902

Accession of Peter I of Russia, 27 April 1682

Accounts, 15th century

Acro's Commentary on the Sermones (works) of Horace, vellum, illuminated. 15th Century. Has the Breadalbane Arms inside the board., 15th Century

Ad guttam et arenulam secundum Magistrum Jacobum, 15th century

Ad Stagirium a Daemonio Vexatum by John Chrysostom, 15th century

Ad sublimandum marchasitam, 1478

Additiones super quinque libros Decretalium, by Giovanni d'Andrea, 15th century

Adelphi, late 14th century

Aeneidos Liber XIII, by Maffeo Vegio, c 1449

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