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Bound Volume titled "Scottish Manuscripts from The Drummond Collection 1572-1618", 1572-1618
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Identifier: De.1.12
Scope and Contents
Bound Volume titled "Scottish Manuscripts from The Drummond Collection 1572-1618", 1572-1618.
Dates:
1572-1618
Fragments of a commentary on a variety of court cases, mid/late 14th-early 15th century
Part
Identifier: MS 182/ff. 1r-2v; 4r-v; 26r-v
Scope and Contents
This section ctains fragments of a legal commentary in French. The four folios are all pricked and lined on both sides, the recto side of the current first folio of the collection being quite dirty and almost entirely illegible. The text itself appears to represent a discussion of a number of very varied court cases or, possibly, even a record of the arguments put forward during those cases. Certain names, possibly those of the persons putting forward those arguments, or deciding the case in...
Dates:
mid/late 14th-early 15th century
La Roche de Chandieu, A. called Sadeel. Letter to James VI of Scotland, 1587
piece
Identifier: De.1.12/8
Scope and Contents
This is a letter from the French Reformed theologian, poet, diplomat and nobleman Antoine de la Roche Chandieu, also known as Saddel, to James VI of Scotland
Dates:
1587
La.III.440: Esther Inglis, "Livret traittant de la grandeur de Dieu et de la cognoissance qu’on peut avoir de luy par ses oeuvres", 1592
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Identifier: La.III.440
Scope and Contents
This manuscript is a decorative copy of Pierre Du Val’s De la grandeur de Dieu et de la cognoissance qu’on peut avoir de luy par ses oeuvres, first published at Paris in 1553. Written by Esther Inglis in 1592, when she was around 22 years old, it forms part of a group of manuscripts produced between 1586 and 1592 which show her early experiments calligraphy and print imitation. The other manuscripts in this group are now British Library, MS Sloane 987 (...
Dates:
1592
Mary, Queen of Scots. Copy of a letter from Mary to Elizabeth, Later copy of letter dated 1582
piece
Identifier: De.1.12/6
Scope and Contents
This is a copy letter from Mary, Queen of Scots to Elizabeth I, in which she justifies her actions. The original was dated 8 November 1582.
Dates:
Later copy of letter dated 1582
MS 160: Les Ordonnances de la Toison d'Or, late 15th century
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Identifier: MS 160
Contents
This manuscript contains the ordinances of the Order of the Golden Fleece, a Roman Catholic order of chivalry founded in Bruges by Philip the Good in 1430. The Order still exists in Spain and Austria. This is a late medieval copy in French of the document that determined the practices and rules of this royal Order.ContentsTable of contents I: the title on f. 1r reads: Sensuit la table de ce present...
Dates:
late 15th century
MS 161: Ordinances of the Order of Saint Michael, 15th century
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Identifier: MS 161
Contents
This manuscript contains the ordinances of the Order of Saint Michael, a French dynastic Order of Chivalry founded by Louis XI of France on 1 August 1469 and abolished after the Revolution of 1830. This is a copy of the document that determined the practices and rules of this royal Order.ContentsTable of contents: the title on f. 1r reads: Table des Chappitres du livre de lordre. Starts on f. 1r...
Dates:
15th century
MS 171: Livre de Phisique et Cirurgie, 15th century
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Identifier: MS 171
Contents
This manuscript contains an anonymous book on medicine and surgery written in Middle French in the 15th century, in which we find common topics of medieval medicine such as astrological medicine and the theory of humours. Five folios are missing: ff. I, XXXII, XXXIII (according to the original foliation) and two folios of the index at the end.ContentsText: starts imperfectly on f. 1r with the following words: ...
Dates:
15th century
MS 172: Livre de Receptes , 15th-16th century
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Identifier: MS 172
Contents
This manuscript contains a book of recipes for different ointments and medicines for common illnesses and injuries, including several recipes for treating the plague.The text starts on f. 1r with the title: Recepte pour faire le Baulme, followed by the words: Prenez une once de mastic. And ends on f. 21r with the title: Resepte pour les plez venene dc madamoiselle...
Dates:
15th-16th century
MS 187: L’Arbre des Batailles by Honoré Bonet , 15th century
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Identifier: MS 187
Contents
This manuscript contains the book L’Arbre des Batailles by Honoré Bonet (c. 1340 – c. 1410), a Benedictine and prior of Salon near Embrun. He studied at the University of Avignon and wrote about philosophy, law, politics, and Heraldry. L’Arbre des Batailles is one of his most important works. It was written around 1382-87 in the form of a scholastic dialogue and deals with war and the laws of war. The work is composed of four...
Dates:
15th century