Account of the Scots Benedictine abbey at Ratisbon, copied apparently in 1684 for the abbot, Placid Fleming, by Andrew Cook, one of the monks.

Item

Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.1

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Scope and Contents

The text is an excerpt from ‘Ratisbona religiosa’, the fourth (and largest) volume of ‘Ratisbona dioecesis illustrata’, a work in 7 volumes on the diocese of Ratisbon, written about 1660 by its chancellor, Eberhard Wassenberg. The work, which is little more than a catena of excerpts mostly from printed sources, was never published.

Dates

Creation: Circa 1660.

Extent

1 Volumes (ii folios + 107 pages. Quarto.)

Language of Materials

Latin

Additional Description

Custodial History

Former pressmark: A.6.1.

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 Copies

Microfilm available: Mf.Sec.MSS.301.

Related Materials

Adv.MS.17.1.9: Collection of letters, notes and poems written to Sir John Scot, Lord Scotstarvet, by Scottish and continental writers and scholars.

For James Dennistoun’s transcript of this item, see Adv.MS.19.2.25, folio 202.

Bibliography

For details of this manuscript, and the former erroneous attribution to Robert (in religion, Boniface) Strachan, the greater part of whose letter of 1641 to Sir John Scot, Lord Scotstarvet is quoted at pages 44-52 (the original is at Adv.MS.17.1.9, folios 225-228), see ‘Two Ratisbon Manuscripts in the National Library of Scotland’ by G M Dilworth, in ‘Bibliotheck’, volume 5, number 1 (1967), pages 24-32.