Hamilton, Gavin (Bookseller and Bailie of Edinburgh)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1704 - 1767
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
16th-century manuscript containing the 'Vie de saint Louis' of Jean de Joinville.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.16
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in France containing the Life of Saint Louis by Jean de Joinville. The work was probably written circa 1550, certainly after 1547. It appears to be a presentation copy, with the text corresponding to the 1547 edition by Antoine Pierre de Rieux. As in the printed edition, the main text of the manuscript is introduced by prefaces by Antoine Pierre de Rieux and Guillaume de La Perrière.The text is the work of one hand, written in a gothic littera bastarda script...
Dates:
Circa 1550.
Letter of Gavin Hamilton to William Strahan., 1762.
Item
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 77-78
Scope and Contents
Concerns Hamilton`s abandonment of bookselling and his continued interest in paper making.
Dates:
1762.
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