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Dictates of James Pillans by Alexander Wilson

 Fonds — Volume: Dc.6.6, OpenShelf: data_value_missing_c90d5d9dc88c227041fe91bcc1e5f797
Identifier: Coll-1751
Scope and Contents Single volume of lecture notes taken down by Alexander Wilson at lectures given by James Pillans.
Dates: 1662

Dictates of James Pillans by Archibald Flint: 'Philosophia Peripatetica'

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1750
Scope and Contents Labelled 'II' and 'III', the location of any other volumes from this series is unknown. Each volume bears a number of illuatrations, largely, though not exclusively, around a theme of motion/impact, which may reflect the nature of the subject of the notes themselves. Flint uses these to decorate title pages and introductory sections, some mimicking as decorated initials within illuminated manuscripts.'Philosophia Peripatetica' is also known as Aristotlean philosophy, referring to a mode...
Dates: 1672-1673

Drawings of a Collection of East Indian Plants

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-478
Scope and Contents The collection consists of drawings from Roxburgh's collection of East Indian plants. These were sent by Nathaniel Wallis (or Wallich) to Robert Wight for the Icones plantarum Indiae orientalis 1840-1853.
Dates: 19th century

Lectures by David Gregory

 Fonds — Volume: Dc.6.12
Identifier: Coll-1608
Scope and Contents Volume consists of teaching material originally produced by David Gregory, here transcribed with numerous drawings by Francis Pringle in Oxford in 1694-1695 and George Wood in St Andrews 1705. The volume's index is in Gregory's hand. The lectures, all by Gregory, are the Institutiones Astronomiae, the Oxford address on professional education he called De Ratione Studii Mathematici Consilium, the Lectiones Opticae, Trigonometria Planorum Angulorum, Geometria Practica, Geometriae de Motu, and the...
Dates: c1694-c1705

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

Material relating to William Black of Aberdeen

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-795
Scope and Contents The material consists of the Physics courseIntroductio ad physicam specialem, in usum juventutis academicae conscripta1696, and a transcript in both Latin and English along with circa 20 copies of sketches.
Dates: 1693-1696

Miniature prayerbook in Latin

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1314
Scope and Contents The item has 263 leaves, and measures 115mm by 75mm. It is in a fine calligraphic bookhand, rubrics and headings in red, black morocco over pasteboards.
Dates: 1600-1699

MS precept of seisin signed by George Durie commendator of Dunfermline Abbey 1544

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Identifier: Coll-1595
Scope and Contents This Latin manuscript in ink - a 'precept of seisin' - on a single sheet of vellum is signed by George Durie and twenty-one monks, being: John Baxter, James Murcheston, Thomas Burne, James Re[?], William Burne, James Thomson, Alexander Hunman, John Spendluff, James Crethorne, John Boswell, Patrick Masoun, James Dundass, Thomas Jamesson, John Tresam, David Dundas, John Murray, Robert Hogh, Andrew Brown, Alexander Mow, Alexander Alkyn, and Thomas Lytilione There is an early...
Dates: 1544

Notes compiled during a course of philosophy, possibly by Francis Scott, 1661-1662

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Identifier: Coll-1458
Scope and Contents Volume of manuscript notes in Latin, ink on paper, quarto. A few initial letters and chapter headings with penwork decoration. Believed to be associated with Francis Scott (Franciscus Scott). The name of Scott and his initials appear in many penned chapter headings throughout the volume. A coat-of-arms of the Scott family of Buccleuch has been penned in one of the margins. The manuscript volume was compiled during 1661 and 1662, and at the time James Pilan was one of the regent...
Dates: 1661-1662

Papers of Andrew Crawford Hume

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Identifier: Coll-1096
Scope and Contents The collection contains:
  1. 1 x degree certificate in the name of Andrew Crawford Hume
  2. 4 x degree/certificates in the name of Thomas Hume
  3. 1 tool-bound volume containingJail hygiene in India, published in Calcutta, 1881, andVaso-motor diseases in India, 1879, which was owned by A. Hume aboard 'HMS Marathon', Bombay, Sept. 1891
Dates: 1873-1927

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Gregory, James, 1638-1675 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh) 2
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Augier, Felix, fl 1649 1
Black, William, fl 1693-1696, Professor 1
Blackadder, Adam (student, University of Edinburgh) 1
Borland, Catherine Robina, d 1946 (manuscript historian) 1
Bruford, Walter Horace, 1894-1988, Professor of German 1
Buchanan, George, 1506-1582 (Scottish expatriate, historian and scholar, anti-absolutist and satyrist of clerical vice) 1
Council of Constance (ecumenical body) 1
Craufurd, Thomas, fl 1626-1662 (Regent of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 1
Cronstedt, Axel Fredrik, 1722-1765 (Swedish chemist) 1
Cullen, William, 1710-1790 (chemist and mettalurgist) 1
Dalgliesh, George, fl 1660-1662 (University of Edinburgh student) 1
Donaldson, Gordon, 1913-1993 1
Durie, George, c 1496-1577 (commendator of Dunfermline) 1
Flint, Archibald (student, University of Edinburgh) 1
Gregory, David, 1659-1708 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh, and Savilian Professor of Astronomy, University of Oxford) 1
Guild, William, 1586-1657 (theologian) 1
Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644 1
Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662 1
Highland Society of Scotland 1
Home, Henry, Lord Kames, 1696-1782 (judge and philosopher) 1
Hope, Thomas Charles, 1766-1844 (Professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 1
Hume, Andrew Crawford, d. 1970 (Veterinary Surgeon) 1
Hume, Thomas, (1852-1890) (Surgeon) 1
Hus, Jan, c 1369-1415 (Czech priest, philosopher, early Christian reformer) 1
James I and VI, 1566-1625 (King of England, Scotland and Ireland) 1
King, Adam, c1560-c1625 (Scottish polymath) 1
King, William, fl17th century (Regent, University of Edinburgh) 1
Kirk, Robert, 1644-1692 (Folklorist and Church minister) 1
Linnaeus, Carl, 1707-1778 (Swedish taxonomist) 1
Mackie, Charles, 1688-1770 (Professor of History, University of Edinburgh) 1
Martínez Silíceo, Juan, 1486-1557 1
Natural History Society of Edinburgh 1
Nimmo, John, d 1827, Doctor 1
Olivia, Franciscus (Italian map maker) 1
Pringle, Francis, fl1705 (physician and professor of Greek, University of St Andrews) 1
Robertson, Margaret, 1895-1987, Teacher 1
Robison, John, 1739-1805 (professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 1
Rollock, Robert, c1555-1599 (Principal of the University of Edinburgh) 1
Ross, James (Student at the University of Edinburgh) 1
Roxburgh, William, 1751-1815 (Botanist) 1
Scott, Francis, fl. 1661-1662 (student?) 1
Suttie, Andrew (Regent, University of Edinburgh) 1
Town Council, Edinburgh 1
University of Edinburgh, Natural History Collection. Natural History Collection (1697-1812) 1
Walker, John, 1731-1803 (professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh and clergyman) 1
Wilson, Alexander (student, University of Edinburgh) 1
Wood, George, fl1705 1
Young, Robert Burns, b. 1874, Scientist 1
Young, Thomas (Baillie, Edinburgh) 1
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