Medulla historiae Scoticae: being a comprehensive history of the lives and reigns of the kings of Scotland, from Fergus the First, to Our gracious Sovereign Charles the Second. Containing the most remarkable transactions, and observable passages, ecclesiastical, civil, and military, with other observations proper for a chronicle; faithfully collected out of authors ancient and modern. To which is added, a brief account of the present state of Scotland, the names of the nobility, and principal ministers of church and state, the laws criminal: a description of that engine with which malefactors are tortured, called the boot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alexander, William, active 1685-1704.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nobility--Scotland--Registers--Early works to 1800.

Nobility.

History.

Kings and rulers.

Scotland.

Scotland--Kings and rulers--Early works to 1800.

Scotland--History--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Registers (Lists)

Penn Provenance:

Bellamy, John (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

14 unnumbered pages, 233 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 1 leaf of plate. : portrait ; 16 cm

Other Title:

Being a comprehensive history of the lives and reigns of the Kings of Scotland, from Fergus the First, to Our gracious Sovereign Charles the Second

Fingerprint:

A.t, nges t.he leth (3) 1685 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Randal Taylor, near Stationers Hall, 1685.

Notes:

Title within double-ruled border.

Dedication to James, Earl of Perth inserted between t.p. and A2.

Dedication signed: W.A., i.e. William Alexander.

Page 186 incorrectly numbered 116.

With 2 final advertisement leaves.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. annotations.

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of John Bellamy, 1736.

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed., 1994), A917

ESTC, R21197

OCLC:

15210652