Fair copy in an unidentified hand of apparently early 18th-century provenance of `Buchanan Revis`d [:] Annotations or Animadversions on Buchanan`s Historie and his Dialogue, etc.` by Sir James Turner, along with the rest of the contents of Adv.MS.31.1.14.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.15
Scope and Contents
The transcript of Turner`s `observations` on O`Flaherty`s ‘Ogygia’ is written in the same hand but on slightly smaller leaves.
The copy may have been made for Sir Robert Sibbald who appears to have made a few brief additions at various places.
The volume appears to have been re-bound early in the 19th century.
Dates
- Creation: 1643-1679.
Extent
0.00 Linear metres (114 folios. Folio.)
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
The manuscript was bought by the Advocates’ Library at the sale of Sir Robert Sibbald`s Library in 1723.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.
Existence and Location of Originals
Adv.MS.31.1.14.
Bibliography
O`Flaherty, Roderic. ‘Ogygia, seu rerum Hibernicarum chronologia’ (1685).
‘Memoirs of his own life and times by Sir James Turner’ (Bannatyne Club, 1829).
‘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
Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository
Contact:
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Archives and Manuscript Division
National Library of Scotland
George IV Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1EJ
0131 623 3700
manuscripts@nls.uk