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Collection name. Bellenden's Boece

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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Copy 'Written be Me Richard Moir schoolemaister at Campsie 1636' of 'The Historie and chronicles of Scotland', John Bellenden's translation of Hector Boece's ‘Scotorum historiae’ in seventeen books.

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Identifier: MS.21244
Scope and Contents

It appears to have been copied, with substantial differences in places, from the first edition which was printed at Edinburgh about 1536. The chronicle is continued, as Books xviii-xxii (folio 321), by the 'Historie and chronicles of Scotland' by Robert Lindesay of Pitscottie to the year 1566. This is followed (folio 447), as Book xxiii, by another continuation, in considerably less detail, as far as the year 1604 and (folio 463) 'Some late accidentes', a list of events from 1612 to 1637.

Dates: 1536-?1637.

Manuscript of 'The history and chronicles of Scotland', John Bellenden's translation of Hector Boece's ‘Scotorum historiae’.

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Identifier: MS.5288
Scope and Contents Most of the manuscript is, with slight alterations, similar to the first printed edition of John Bellenden's translation (circa 1536), but in places it differs substantially from that and from other texts; it contains only chapters 2 and 3 of 'The cosmographie and discription of Albion' which precedes the main work, but is otherwise complete.Bellenden's chronicle is continued at folio 313 without a break by Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie's 'Historie and chronicles of Scotland' to...
Dates: 17th century.

Yule collection, chiefly of Scottish manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but including a Book of Hours and some Persian manuscripts.

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Identifier: MSS.3134-3185
Scope and Contents

Many of the papers are accompanied by transcripts or summaries by Alexander Macdonald.

Dates: 1552-19th century