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Aerial oblique view of Segusium, c.1640, c.1914
Item
Identifier: Coll-1167/A/4/8
Scope and Contents
Aerial oblique view of Segusium (later known as Susa), Italy, c.1640 by Johannes Blaeu. Inscription reads "'Prima ad alpidbus cotiis civitas' Amstelodami, ex Johannes Blaeu". Showing armorial bearing above a numbered key to buildings shown in plan, bottom left-hand corner.
Dates:
c.1914
Aforismi Ypocratis, 12th century
Part
Identifier: MS 163/ff. 73r-118v
Contents
The final 45 folios of MS 163, ff. 73-118, contains a copy of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates. This text was also part of the medieval medical reference volume, the 'Articella'. It contains a set of propositions on diagnosis and symptoms of diseases, and also guidance on healing.The text begins on f. 73r with the famous first sentence of this text: Vita brevis ars vero longa, "Life is short, but art is...
Dates:
12th century
Agreement whereby Sir Richard Siuuarde, Lord of Kelli, grants pasturage to Sir Richard Chamberlain, Lord of Gibbotistun, and Dame Johanna, his spouse, 3rd April 1266
Item
Identifier: La.V/19
Scope and Contents
Agreement made in the presence of Adam, Earl of Karrick, appointed in place of Sir Alexander Cumyn, Earl of Buchan, justiciar of Scotland, and a full court of Fiffe and of Fothref, in the moor of Pethcorthin, between Sir Richard Siuuarde, lord of Kelli, on one part, and Sir Richard Chamberlain, lord of Gibbotistun, and Dame Johanna, his spouse, on the other part, whereby Siuuarde, for himself and his heirs, grants to Chamberlain and Dame Johanna and their heirs, that they shall have common...
Dates:
3rd April 1266
Alan Greenwood's Doctor of Science certificate from the University of Edinburgh, 22 July 1925
Item — Box CLX-D-15: Series Coll-1057/1, Box: data_value_missing_5563c0cc3ac86c019d5ff748e46ef2a1, Box: data_value_missing_46a2ab11f9ec79a932ceacebca70f9e8
Identifier: Coll-1057/1/4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Contains Janet Vera Alison Crockett's matriculation and Bachelor of Arts certificates from the University of Melbourne, and Alan Greenwood's degree certificates in Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Science from the University of Melbourne and Doctor of Science from the University of Edinburgh.
Dates:
22 July 1925
Alchemic prescriptions by Laurentius Luti, 1478
part
Identifier: MS 103/ff. 75r-82v
Contents
A collection of alchemic prescriptions attributed to Laurentius Luti (the manuscript erroneously reports Buti), identified by Dorothea Waley Singer as the chronicler Lorenzo da Lutiano, active around 1408 (see bibliography). According to the rubric which introduces the text, however, Laurentius obtained the text from an unnamed bishop of Cervia (near Ravenna) just before the latter's death and gave it to a cleric called Bartolomeo (is qualifed as ...
Dates:
1478
Alchemic recipe, 15th century
part
Identifier: MS 121/f. 123r
Contents
An alchemic recipe which begins with the words Primo purga pone and ends with argenti fixi et funde in ca[...] et habebis.
Dates:
15th century
Alchemic writing (later addition)
part
Identifier: MS 131/ff. 175v-177r
Contents
It begins on f. 175v with the words Haec infra scripta extraxi ex vetustissimo libro. Summum et probatissimum experimentum et efficax; it ends on f. 177r with the words uta demum fortem ignem ne fundatur exibe hoc erit elixir mutans. So eris in lunam finam. Writing There is a change of hand and the writing corresponds to the hand responsible for some of the marginal notes...
Dates:
1478
Alexander, King of Scots, confirming that gift which John de Monteforti made to Alexander de Monteforti, 19th August 1252
Item
Identifier: La.V/12
Scope and Contents
Charter by Alexander [the Third], King of Scots, confirming that gift which John de Monteforti made to Alexander de Monteforti, his brother, for homage and service, of fifty acres of land in the territory of Elstaneford of his lordship, which is called Dremmesfeld, as far as the rivulet which divides between Drem and Elstaneford, and of ten acres of cultivated land which lies on the north side of church, and of two tofts of cottars ('cottariorum ') near the house of the nuns of Hadyngton...
Dates:
19th August 1252
'Algorismus' by Alexander of Villedieu, also known as Carmen de Algorismo
part
Identifier: MS 215/ff. 1r-6r
Contents
This section of the manuscript contains Carmen de Algorismo by Alexander of Villedieu (born c. 1175, also known Alexander de Villa Dei), a French Franciscan author, teacher, and poet, who wrote textbooks in verse, including Doctrinale Puerorum, for which he achieved some fame. The Carmen de Algorismo is a short treatise in verse on arithmetic. This version has extensive commentaries on the text...
Dates:
15th century
Alphabetical word list 'Auctoritates et Flores secundum ordinem alphabeti.', c 1455
Part
Identifier: MS 138/ ff. 98r-167v
Contents
The text begins with the word Artifex on f. 98r and ends with Velox on f. 167v.
Dates:
c 1455