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Writings of Savonarola, translated into English, in the hand of Alexander Falconar, Advocate, who added some comments in the margins, late seventeenth or early eighteenth century.

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Identifier: MS.3859
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Contains: ‘De Simplicitate Christianae Vitae’, preceded by the ‘Epistola’, as in the Cologne edition (1550), and followed by a sermon on John, iv, I, preached on 9 June 1495 (folio 101).

There are notes on the manuscript and its writer on folios i and iii.

Dates: Late 17th century-early 18th century.

'ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΟΝ ΔΩΡΟΝ [BASILIKON DORON], ò Instruciones, compuestos por ... Jaymes ... Rey de Ingalaterra ... Traduzidado de Ingles en Romance vulgar, y dirigido a la misma Magestad por su ... vassallo Juan Pemberton, gentilhombre, natural de la insigne Ciudad de Londres.'

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Identifier: MS.3855
Scope and Contents

According to a note inside the end cover, the translator may have been a citizen and grocer who was a brother of Sir James Pemberton, Lord Mayor of London, 1611.

Dates: Early 17th century.

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Balfour, James, Sir, 1st Baronet of Denmilne and Kinnaird (antiquary) 7
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 7
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 5
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 5
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 4
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Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 4
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 4
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 4
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 3
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 3
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 3
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 3
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 3
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 3
Thorkelin, Grímur Jónsson (Scholar) 3
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 2
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 2
Boog, Robert (Minister of Paisley Abbey) 2
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 2
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 2
Farquhar, George Taylor Shillito, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1857-1927 2
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 2
Harper, Edward, composer, 1941-2009 2
Henderson, Hamish, poet and folklorist, 1919-2002 2
Jamieson, Robert Alan, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1958 2
Justinian I, Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 2
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 2
Lochhead, Liz, poet and playwright, b 1947 2
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 2
Magnússon, Finnur (Scholar) 2
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 2
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 2
McArthur, William, playwright, fl 1940-1961 2
McLellan, Robert, playwright, 1907-1985 2
Muir, Wilhelmina Johnston, née Anderson, author, pseudonym 'Agnes Neill Scott' , 1890-1970 2
Pow, Thomas Campbell, poet, b 1950 2
Ross, Walter (Lawyer and Writer to the Signet) 2
Sibbald, Robert, Sir, Knight (physician and Geographer Royal) 2
Sinclair, Henry (Bishop of Ross) 2
Smith, David Nichol, literary scholar, 1875-1962 2
St Clair, William, 14th Baron of Rosslyn (Lord Chief Justice of Scotland) 2
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 2
Turner, William Price, author, 1927-1988 2
Watson, Roderick, poet, b 1943 2
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 2
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 2
Abulafia, John, writer and director, b 1947 1
Accursius (Jurist) 1
Adrianus Carthusiensis (Prior and author) 1
Aitken, Thomas, Medical Superintendent, District Asylum, Inverness, fl 1867-1880 1
Akros, literary magazine 1
Althaus, Friedrich, Professor at University College, London, 1829-1897 1
Antonius de Butrio (Jurist) 1
Apostolic Chancery (dicastery of the Roman Curia) 1
Bartolus de Saxoferrato (Jurist) 1
Beattie, William, Librarian of the National Library of Scotland, 1903-1986 1
Bellany, John (artist) 1
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 1
Blaikie, Walter Biggar, historian, civil engineer and publisher, 1847-1928: collector 1
Blair, Robert, Minister of Athelstaneford, 1699-1746 1
Bochanan, Dùghall, poet, 1716-1768 1
Bold, Alan Norman, poet, writer, critic and artist, 1943-1998 1
Boyd, Edward, playwright and scriptwriter, 1916-1989 1
Broom, John L, librarian, d 1992 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Brown, Ivor John Carnegie, theatre critic and writer, 1891-1974 1
Buchan, Anna Masterton, author, pseudonym O Douglas, 1877-1948 1
Buchan, Anna Masterton, author, pseudonym O Douglas, 1877-1948: recipient 1
Buchan, Susan Charlotte, Baroness Tweedsmuir, née Grosvenor, 1882-1977 1
Cameron, John, of Fassifern, c 1699-1785 1
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 1
Cameron, family, of Fassiefern 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Chapman, Scotland, literary magazine 1
Charles II, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1630-1685 1
Charterhouse of Vallis Virtutis (Perth) 1
Clark, Ronald William, author, 1916-1987 1
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 1
Cope, Sir John, Knight, Lieutenant-General, 1690-1760 1
Craig, Robert, Principal of University of Rhodesia, 1917-1995 1
Cronin, Archibald Joseph, novelist, 1896-1981 1
Cruikshank, George, caricaturist, 1792-1878 1
Dalrymple, James, 1st Viscount Stair, 1619-1695 1
Dark, Richard, teacher and writer, 1876-1952 1
Davie, George Elder, Reader in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, 1912-2007 1
Douglas, James, composer, b 1932 1
Drysdale, George John Learmont, composer, 1866-1909 1
Duncan, Archibald Alexander McBeth, Professor of Scottish History, University of Glasgow, b 1926 1
Edinburgh International Festival 1
Eveling, Harry Stanley, playwright, 1925-2008 1
Fell, Alison, poet and novelist, b 1944 1
Fermor, Joan Leigh (photographer, née Eyres Monsell, formerly Rayner) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Ferrières, Guillaume de (Cardinal) 1
Fidler, Kathleen Annie (afterwards Goldie, author and headmistress) 1
Forbes, James David (natural philosopher) 1
Frame, Ronald William Sutherland, author and playwright, b 1953 1
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 1
Galsworthy, John, author, 1867-1933 1
Gibb, Andrew Dewar, Professor of Law, University of Glasgow, 1888-1974 1
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