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Rerum Scoticarum historia / auctore Georgio Buchanano Scoto.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio DA775 .B92 1582
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buchanan, George, 1506-1582
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Scotland--History--To 1603--Early works to 1800.
- Scotland.
- Penn Provenance:
- Fletcher, Andrew, 1655-1716 (autograph) (RBC copy)
- Wall, Nicholas (bookplate) (RBC copy)
- Craigie, Elnna(?) (autograph) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered leaves, 85 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf, 74-249 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf ; 30 cm (folio)
- Other Title:
- Rervm Scoticarvm historia
- Fingerprint:
- t.l. usi) x-b* bepr (3) 1582 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Edimburgi : Apud Alexandrum Arbuthnetum typographum regium, Anno MDLXXXII [1582]
- Notes:
- Signatures: (3*)⁴ A⁴ B-M⁶ N-P⁴ Q⁴(-Q4) R⁴ S-2Z⁶ (leaf 2M6 blank).
- Leaf 2L2 signed L2, 2N3 signed N3, 2R1 signed R1, and 2R4 signed R4.
- Errors in foliation: leaf 36 numbered 35, 58 numbered 57, 76-77 (1st count) numbered 74-75, 80 (1st count) numbered 81, 166 numbered 169, 168 numbered 172, 171 numbered 175, 222 numbered 223, and 235 numbered 236; a variant: leaf 58 correctly numbered.
- Woodcut title vignette, initials and tail-pieces.
- Title within border of type ornaments; type ornament tail-pieces.
- Errata on leaf 2Z6r.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rare Books Acquisition Fund in Honor of Dean Rebecca Bushnell.
- RBC copy: leaf 58 numbered 57.
- RBC copy has a few early ms. marginal notes in brown ink in text and on back free endpaper; portion of early ms. letter signed "I am your loving sister elnna[?] Craigie" laid in.
- RBC copy has early autograph ("Fletcher") of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun in brown ink at head of title leaf; modern ms. inscription ("1st edn Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun's copy") in pencil on front free endpaper.
- RBC copy has bookplate ("Nicholas Wall Sometime his book") of Nicholas Wall (b. 1945) on back pastedown.
- RBC copy bound in full early parchment; evidence of two fore-edge ties; evidence of spine label.
- RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries from Bloomsbury auctions in 2015.
- Cited in:
- ESTC S107152
- STC (2nd ed.) 3991
- Aldis, H.G. Scotland 182
- OCLC:
- 4624509
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