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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelItem
Ref NoMS 2308/22
TitleManuscript library catalogue
DateLate 18th century
Extent1 item
DescriptionFolio, quarter calf with marbled boards, containing library catalogue. The pages are ruled into six columns, the main one headed with the section name (see below) containing author and title, and the others headed "Number in the Library", "No. of Vols.", "Size", "Printer and Place" (but only place is listed), and "Year". The first page is a contents list, dividing the books into sections by subject and indicating the relevant pages in the catalogue for each section.
The sections are:
Morality / Greek and Latin / English and French
Law of Nature and Nations
Polity
Law of Different Nations
Civil
Canon
Scotch
English
Physick
Divinity Heb. / Gk. Lat. Fr.
English
Natural Philosophy
Mathematicks
Mercantile
Natural History and Horsemanship
Agriculture
Military. Exercises. Arts. Games.
Cosmography. Geography. Chronology.
Ancient History. G. L. F. Eng.
Poetry Greek
Latin
English
French. Italian.
The catalogue covers 68 pages and includes publications dating from 1491 (Platonis Opera Latine per Ficinum, folio Venice) to 1778.

Rest of volume blank.
Access StatusOpen
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