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History, 17th century (England)

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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Esther Inglis, "Les Quatrains du Sieur de Pybrac", 1607 (dated)

 Item
Identifier: La.III.439
Scope and Contents This manuscript contains the popular religious and moral Quatrains written by Guy du Faur, Seigneur de Pybrac. This calligraphic copy of the Quatrains was produced by Esther Inglis as a gift for the New Year ("pour ses estrennes"), offered to Robert Cecil (1563-1612), 1st Earl of Salisbury. It is one of Esther Inglis’ floral, illuminated manuscripts, which she produces between 1600 and 1608. Within her corpus of...
Dates: 1607 (dated)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Laing Collection / Section III. Bound volumes
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Esther Inglis, "Vincula Unionis sive scita Britannicae id est De Unione insulae Britannicae tractatus secundus. Per David Humium Theagrium", 1605

 Item
Identifier: La.III.249
Scope and Contents The manuscript is a presentation copy of Book 2 of the ‘Treatise on Union’ composed by David Hume of Godscroft (1558-c.1630), intended for King James VI/I and Prince Henry Frederick. Hume was an important humanist scholar, political theorist, and Neo-Latin poet in Jacobean Scotland. His De Unione insulae Britannicae advocates for the closer political union of England and Scotland, and the formation of a new Britain. As seen on the title-page of this...
Dates: 1605
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Laing Collection / Section III. Bound volumes
Melville, Andrew. A. Melvinus H. R[ollo]co, no. 14
Melville, Andrew. A. Melvinus H. R[ollo]co...

Manuscripts from the William Drummond of Hawthornden Collection

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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of David Playfair (D. P.) Heatley

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-243
Scope and Contents The papers of D. P. Heatley include, at Dk.6.5-7, manuscripts of unpublished works on political science, these being on the subjects of :"The mind of Britain in politics"; "Britain, the USA, and the comity of nations"; "The politics of Richard Hooker"; "Shakespeare and Bacon on human nature and politics"; and "A humanist view of a political classic". There is also some material for a memoir.At Gen. 825/1-2 there are certificates mainly for classes taken at the University of...
Dates: 1880-c 1944
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections