Copy, made apparently in or about 1704 by Thomas Ruddiman, Keeper of the Advocates` Library, of (i) a letter written by James V in 1528 to the authorities of the town of Ratisbon (now Regensburg) in favour of the Scots monks there (folio i); and (ii) the preface, entitled `Praefatio, sive Velitatio in Irlandos`, of the `Germania Christiana` of Robert (in religion, Boniface) Strachan, Benedictine monk at Ratisbon (folio 1, where his name is wrongly recorded as Bonaventure).

Item

Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.6

Dates

0.00 Linear metres (i folio + 25 pages. Folio.)

English

The manuscript was bought by the Advocates’ Library at the sale of Sir Robert Sibbald`s library, 1723.

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

For another, early 18th-century copy of the letter and the preface, see Wod.Qu.III, folios 1-15; for a copy of the complete work see Adv.MS.33.7.20.

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