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The works of John Bellenden ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR2211 .B5 1822 3 v. (v.1-3)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bellenden, John, approximately 1495-approximately 1548.
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Scotland--History--To 1603.
- Scotland.
- History.
- Rome--History.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Penn Provenance:
- Parsons, Coleman O. (donor)
- Chalmers, Patrick (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm (4to)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Printed for W. and C. Tait, 1822.
- Contents:
- v. 1-2. The history and chronicles of Scotland: written in Latin by Hector Boece ... and translated by John Bellenden ...
- v. 3. The first five books of the Roman history: translated from the Latin of Titus Livius by John Bellenden ...
- Notes:
- Colophon: ... Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. ...
- Each volume has special t.p.
- Special title pages of vols. 1 and 2 have imprint: Edinburgh : Reprinted for W. and C. Tait, 1821.
- Vol. 1 includes facsim. of original Boece t.p. (1536), with coat of arms of Scottish kings; v. 2 has facsim. of Boece colophon, with woodcut representing the Crucifixion on verso.
- Contains:
- Boece, Hector, 1465?-1536. Scotorum historia. English
- Livy. Ab urbe condita. Book 1-5. English.
- OCLC:
- 13609109
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