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Virgil's Aeneis / translated into Scottish verse, by the famous Gawin Douglas Bishop of Dunkeld.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio PA6807.A5 D63 1710
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Virgil.
- Standardized Title:
- Aeneis English. 1710
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Penn Provenance:
- Parsons, Coleman O. (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 19 pages, 1 unnumbered page, iv pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 236 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 241-486 pages, 96 unnumbered pages ; 32 cm (folio)
- Edition:
- A new edition, wherein the many errors of the former are corrected, and the defects supply'd, from an excellent manuscript, to which is added a large glossary, explaining the difficult words, which may serve for a dictionary to the old Scottish language, and to the whole is prefix'd an exact account of the author's life and writings, from the best histories and records.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Printed by Mr. Andrew Symson, and Mr. Robert Freebairn, and sold at their shops, 1710.
- Notes:
- Includes the 13th book translated from Maffeo Vegio.
- The glossary is by Thomas Ruddiman, the life of Douglas by John Sage.
- Signatures: pi⁴(-pi4) [superscript pi]A-F², *² A-3N² 3O⁴ 3P-5G² 5G*1 5H-6F², 2A-2A².
- Leaves 3O1-4 numbered 237-240.
- "Various readings": last two leaves.
- Contains:
- Vegio, Maffeo, 1406 or 1407-1458. Aeneidos liber XIII. English. 1710.
- OCLC:
- 6516774
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