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Prayerbook in Latin and French
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1313
Scope and Contents
The volume has 72 leaves, and measures 160mm by 100mm. Original leather over pasteboards.
Dates:
1600-1699
Record of Cases taken in the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, Preparations from the Pharmacopeia of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and Baffin Voyage Journal
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-891
Scope and Contents
The manuscriptCases taken in the Royal Infirmaryis by no means unique. A range of student copies of Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE) casebooks have survived. Some contain copies of remedies from pharmacopoeias of either the RIE or the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE). This casebook is from 1820-1821. The mansucript also contains a copy of preparations from the pharmacopoeia of the RCPE. The 'Baffin' voyage journal contains a record of the experiences of...
Dates:
1820-1824
Remission for carrying arms, for William Scott, Edinburgh, 5 June 1621
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1743
Content Description
Remission for carrying arms, for William Scott, Edinburgh, 5 June 1621, together with translation by Dr. Jean Dunlop, Edinburgh, and covering letter referring to same dated 16 December 1957.
Dates:
5 June 1621
Revenues or patrimony of the Crown, Edinburgh c. 1655
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1481
Scope and Contents
The bound manuscript volume begins with a paragraph in Latin, thereafter it is in English. The 'revenues or patrimony' are listed by 'county' or other, beginning with 'Berwyck Shyre' with 'property', and 'observations' noted. Then follows 'Shyre of Selkirk', 'Roxburgh Shyre', 'Peebles Shyre', Dumfriece Shyre', 'Lanark Shyre', Kirkcudbright Stewartrie', 'Wigtoune Shyre','Chamberlane of Galloway', 'Air Shyre', 'Bailliarie of Carrick', 'Bailliarie of Kyle', Dumbrittane Shyre', 'Bute Shyre',...
Dates:
1603-1655
Student notes on natural philosophy taken by George Dalgliesh
Collection — Box: CLX-A-1677
Identifier: Coll-2012
Content Description
This notebook contains lectures on the works of Aristotle, dictated by Thomas Craufurd, Regent of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, and taken down by student George Dalgliesh. The lectures cover the third and fourth years of Dalgliesh’s degree, and, besides logic and metaphysics, deal with scientific subjects such as physics, astronomy, and anatomy. The notes are embellished with humorous doodles.
Dates:
1660-1662
The Young Medals
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-540
Scope and Contents
The medals are the Edinburgh University class medals: geology and mineralogy, 1899-1900; practical geology and mineralogy, 1900-1901; practical botany, 1901 (Edinburgh School of Medicine); practical zoology, 1901-1902; and petrology, 1902. The collection also includes the British Association Medal, 1923, for scientific research in South Africa, and the Draper Medal of the Geological Society of South Africa, 1935.
Dates:
1899-1935
Thomas Charles Hope: Notes from lectures given by John Robison
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1371
Scope and Contents
5 volumes of notes taken at the lectures given by John Robison.
Dates:
c1780s
University of Edinburgh Charter
Fonds — Box: EUA GD4; EUA CA10
Identifier: EUA GD4
Scope and Contents
The document is not strictly a charter of foundation. It confirmed and extended a previous charter signed by James's mother, Mary, Queen of Scots, on 13 March 1567, which had granted the Town of Edinburgh all the lands, buildings, and revenues formerly belonging to the monastic orders abolished during the Scottish Reformation of 1560. These were to be used for the support of the city's clergy and the poor. King James's charter ratified Mary's gift but also authorised the Town Council to spend...
Dates:
1582
Volume of philosophical tracts, in Latin
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-978
Identifier: Coll-1315
Scope and Contents
This is a manuscript volume, written on paper, and has 231 leaves, measuring 240mm by 170mm. It is bound in contemporary vellum over pasteboards.
Dates:
1649
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