[Marci Annaei Lucani Pharsalia]
Lucan,39-65.
Whytlaw, James,active 1657,former owner.StEdNL
Shanon, J.,active 1679,former owner.STEdNL
Suttie, George,Sir,1715-1783,former owner.StEdNL
[France?]
[ca 1510]
Unidentified edition
Armorial bookplate of Sir George Suttie on the front pastedown. Extensive manuscript inscriptions and marginalia, apparently in a number of different hands, of which some appear nearly contemporary with the book (one of these may be a German hand), and others seem to be of the seventeenth century, are written on all the leaves as far as H2 verso. These include, on the first surviving page: "Johannes Whytlew" in a 17th-century hand, with Johannes then struck through and corrected to "Jacobus" in a lightly later hand, and"Jacobus Whytlau" in the same later hand below; "Edinbr. 1679 J. Shanon[?]" on the first page. The verso of Tt3 includes manuscript inscriptions: "Jacobus Whytlau" and "In my defenc[e] god will defend James Whytlau And bring my soul to ane good end Anno dom[ini] 1657". At the head of the recto of Tt4 is a manuscript inscription, "In my defence god will defend", repeated; "Edin. 1679. J. Shanon."; and at the foot of that page a short Latin verse signed "Ja Whytlau". Numerous manuscript inscriptions--mainly Latin verses--on the verso of Tt4, including "M Jacobus Whytlau est huius libri legitimus possessor Anno domini 1657".
Latin poetry.