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Manuscript volume entitled "The History of Anatomy Containing a Brief Account of Its Rise and Progress From the Earliest age of the World to the present times"
Fonds — Volume: Dk.5.1
Identifier: Coll-2185
Scope and Contents
Manuscript volume entitled: "The History of Anatomy Containing a Brief Account of Its Rise and Progress From the Earliest age of the World to the present times", continuing: "Wherein mention is made of the several authors who made Considerable Discoveries or Improvements in this Science, and likewise a Character Given of their Writings. Together with an Appendix Concerning the use of Anatomy in the Several Arts and Sciences, with ane [sic] Index to the whole Being the Publick Lectures of Mr...
Dates:
c 1740
Manuscript volumes of lectures entitled "Prelectiones theologicae" by William and Robert Hamilton
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2906
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of five volumes of notes in Latin from the lectures of William Hamilton, Professor of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh in 1709-1732, and of his son, Robert Hamilton, Professor of Divinity at the same University in 1754-1779. Vols. I, III, IV, and V are from the lectures of Robert Hamilton, and Vol. II from the lectures of William Hamilton.
Dates:
1709-1779
Manuscript volumes of Rev. William McCulloch
Fonds
Identifier: MS MCC 6
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of three manuscript volumes of notes and sermons by Rev. William McCulloch, Minister of Cambuslang, dated 1732-34 and 1742.The 1732-34 volume (MS MCC 6.1) is labelled "Rev McCulloch / Sermons Notes / 1732" on the spine, and starts with an index entitled "In this volume are 24 Sermons preached mostly at Sacrament - occasions; the Texts, Time, and Place as follows; where note, they were all preached in the year 1732...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1732-1742
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Manuscripts and printed matter from the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland Library (1843-1902)
Fonds
Identifier: MS BOX 32.6
Scope and Contents
See External Documents (below) for details.
Dates:
1843-1902
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Manuscripts by Henry Guthry (1600-1676), Bishop of Dunkeld
Fonds
Identifier: MS GUT 2
Scope and Contents
Three notebooks relating to Henry Guthry, Bishop of Dunkeld (1600-1676)1. Observations upon the ryse [and] progress of the late rebellion against King Charles the first in so far as it was caryed on by a malecontented faction in Scotland under the pretext of the reformation. Quarto volume, 172 pages, in a loose secretary hand. 19th century binding, titled 'Bishop Guthrie's Historie, 1636-1649' on the spine. Signature of John Jaffray, Edin[burgh] 1849 on the front flyleaf....
Dates:
17th century
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
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Manuscripts from the William Drummond of Hawthornden Collection
Collection
Identifier: De
Scope and Contents
This collection is some of the manuscripts that William Drummond of Hawthornden collected and is the proportion donated to the University of Edinburgh.
Dates:
1482 to early 17th century
![Detail of page from the Compendium of Chronicles by Rashid al-Din. Shows text with central miniature depicting the Sultan Luhrasp seated on a throne, surrounded by attendants. [Please click twice to see the full manuscript]](https://images.is.ed.ac.uk/MediaManager/srvr?mediafile=/Size3/UoEsha-4-NA/1009/0003552c.jpg)
Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia
Collection
Identifier: Or Ms
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of over 700 manuscripts pertaining to the Islamicate world and South Asia, dating from the 10th to 19th centuries C.E. (the majority being post-1500). Chiefly bound paper codices, it includes sacred texts of importance to the Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh faiths, Qur’anic commentaries, Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and the Shi’i Imams, works treating Islamic law, world history, the history of India, medicine,...
Dates:
10th-19th centuries C.E. (bulk: post-1500 C.E.)
Manuscripts on ecclesiastical affairs collected by Robert Mylne (c.1643-1747), writer of pasquils and antiquary
Fonds
Identifier: MS MYL
Scope and Contents
Composite volume on ecclesiastical affairs, 1645-1708. Manuscripts collected by Robert Mylne (1643-1747).Item 1: Manuscript copies of Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, proclamations, and other public statements, 1645-1661. Spans 712 numbered pages, in a neat secretary hand.Item 2: 2: A series of official letters, addressed to numerous recipients and signed by multiple authors. Notable...
Dates:
1644-1710
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Manuscripts relating to the parish of Arbuthnott
Fonds
Identifier: MS BOX 36.8
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
1659-1815
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Manuscripts relating to Vadstena Monastery, Sweden
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-417
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts are:Regula S. Patris nostri Aurelii Augustini ...with its Capitullum 1-24;Additiones ad regulum Sancti Salvatoris et R. P. Petri ...with its Caput 1-55;Sequuntur revelations quas R. P. Petrus;Capitulu generale Watstenensewith its Articulus 1-52; and,Consuetu dines antiquae Watstenenseswith its Consuetudo 1-64.
Dates:
15th century