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Work entitled `Buchanan Revis`d [:] Annotations or Animadversions on Buchanan`s Historie and his Dialogue, etc.` consisting of criticisms of George Buchanan’s ‘Return Scoticarum historia’ (folio 7) and his ‘De Jure Regni apud Scotos’ (folio 64) by Sir James Turner, preceded by various items of introductory and explanatory matter.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.14

Scope and Contents

Although the author details the circumstances in which he began, lost, rewrote and revised his criticisms and had them bound, a period ranging from 1643 to 1679, his name nowhere appears; but he has been identified as the soldier and author Sir James Turner.

The criticisms are followed (folio 64) by two satirical writings by Turner purporting to be a letter of Don Francesco Gomez de Quevedo Villegas with the impossible date of 1506, and a letter, 1582, of ‘Philander of Sitwald’. The preface to the first `letter` which should have been written at folio 85 verso is written on a separate sheet (folio 3). At the end (folio 101) are Turner`s `observations` on Roderic O`Flaherty`s `late Irish chronologie` ‘Ogygia, seu rerum Hibernicarum chronologia’. Turner`s criticisms are unpublished but an extract from his preliminary writings (folio 5) is printed as appendix II in ‘Memoirs of his own life and times by Sir James Turner’, page XVI.

Dates

  • Creation: 1643-1679.

Extent

0.00 Linear metres (113 folios. Folio.)

Language of Materials

English

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Bound in a contemporary binding, with remains of ties.

Custodial History

The manuscript was bought by the Advocates’ Library in 1791.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.

Bibliography

O`Flaherty, Roderic. ‘Ogygia, seu rerum Hibernicarum chronologia’ (1685).

‘Memoirs of his own life and times by Sir James Turner’ (Bannatyne Club, 1829).
Title
National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
Author
National Library of Scotland
Date
09 07 2015
Description rules
Finding Aid Prepared Using Local Descriptive Rules
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

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