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5 x documents: notarial instruments relating to lands in Nether Carlowrie, west of Edinburgh, and in Invertiel, 1528-1566. Marks of 16th century Scottish notaries
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1747
Scope and Contents
5 x documents - notarial instruments - being:
Invertiel, 13 November 1528
Nether Carlowrie, 23 January 1529
Nether Carlowrie, 22 June 1535
Nether Carlowrie, 23 February 1540
Nether Carlowrie, 19 April 1566At the foot, each document bears a fine penned mark of a 16th century Scottish notary. Old folds, contemporary endorsements.
Dates:
1528-1566
17th century notebook (Heylin / Van Helmont / Gregory)
Fonds — Folder: Coll-1968 (Dk.3.32)
Identifier: Coll-1968
Scope and Contents
Notebook in multiple hands , including "Observations out off Heylin's Cosmographie", "Religio Medici Van Helmont", "Catlogus Lib. Math consulente Gregario". Also, list of seeds, 1690.
Dates:
17th century
Antiphonal of Benedictine use, in Latin
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1316
Scope and Contents
This is a manuscript volume, written on paper, and has 106 leaves, measuring 155mm by 90mm, with rubrics and staves in red. It is bound in original leather over pasteboards.
Dates:
1700-1799
Bibles belonging to Andrew Melville (1545-1622), Principal of St Mary’s College, St Andrews University
Fonds
Identifier: MS MEL2
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
1540-1544
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Bohemian Protest
Fonds — Box: Coll-1698
Identifier: Coll-1698
Scope and Contents
Vellum document surrounded by the seals of the Bohemian nobility in protest at Hus’ treatment at the hands of the Council of Constance.Seals as follows:Left-hand side:
Zigismundus De Mileszoniz
Wenczeslaus De Ostro
Bonslaus De Kozle
Johannes De Onssow
Theodoricus De Studeny
Johannes De Studeny
Alsico De Martimez
Mladota De Debrawoda
Milota De Bohdancze
Mickziko De Hnorka
Wikerz De...
Dates:
1415
Charter document with seal. A sale of land, between William Ker, Earl of Roxburgh, and Lord Newbottle, 1663
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1744
Content Description
Charter document with seal. A sale of land, between William Ker, Earl of Roxburgh, and Lord Newbottle, 1663.
Dates:
1663
Commentary on 'De Sphaera'
Fonds — Volume: Dk.7.29
Identifier: Coll-1947
Scope and Contents
Volume entitled Buchananus De Sphaera: George Buchanan, with commentary by Adam King, covering key aspects of mathematical, natural philosophical, and astronomical knowledge from antiquity to the early modern period, from the Christian West and the Islamicate and pre-Islamic East, and from Copernicus to Galileo and Kepler. Bound with this is a second manuscript containing poetry by King.
Dates:
c1616
Commission of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland appointing George 17th Earl of Morton as Lord High Commissioner
Fonds
Identifier: MS BOX 5.4
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
1823
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Commonplace book of John Murray Mitchell (1815-1904), missionary, India
Fonds
Identifier: MS MIT4
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
1857-1897
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
"De Microcosmi signatura doctor" by Ioannes Martinus Hispanus Salmanticensis
Collection — Box: CLX-A-1704
Identifier: Coll-2021
Content Description
This is an anthology of manuscript texts relating to astrology and divination, entitled "De microcosmi signatura doctor ioannes martinus hispanus salmanticensis" and dating from 1630. The author could be "doctore ioanne martino hispano salamanticense" as many writings bear the name. This is possibly Juan Martínez Silíceo (1486-1557), who taught at the University of Salamanca, although he is not the scribe of the present volume, which dates from several decades after his death.The...
Dates:
1630
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