Copy, made by Andrew Cook, of ‘Germania Christiana’ by Robert (in religion, Boniface) Strachan, Benedictine monk at Ratisbon.

Item

Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.20

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Scope and Contents

This copy was made by Andrew Cook, a fellow monk, in or before 1684, when, according to the inscription at folio 1, it was sent as a present by the Abbot, Placid Fleming, to Christopher Irvine, physician and philologist. The work was intended by Strachan as volume 1 of a work in two volumes (see Adv.MS.17.1.9, folio 225, his letter to Sir John Scot, Lord Scotstarvet, in 1641), but no more was ever written, nor was this part published.

The pagination of this manuscript, which is faulty, has been ignored.

Dates

Creation: 1684, or before.

Extent

1 Volumes (i + 137 folios.)

Language of Materials

Latin

Additional Description

Custodial History

The manuscript was acquired by the Advocates’ Library apparently before 1705. Former pressmark: A.6.2.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

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

Related Materials

Adv.MS.17.1.9.

Other copies of the work in manuscript are known, as well as copies of the preface, entitled ‘Praefatio sive Velitatio in Irlandos’ (for example Adv.MS.34.2.6 and Wod.Qu.III, folios 1-15).

Bibliography

For details of this work, see G M Dilworth, ‘”Germania Christiana": a seventeenth-century trilogy`, in ‘Innes Review’, volume xviii (1967), pages 116-140.