[Primus (secundus) tomus operum D. Basilii ... nunc postremo accurata collatione ad fidem codicis Graeci per Godefridum Tilmannum ... recognitus ac restitutus, etc.]
Basil,Saint, Bishop of Caesarea,approximately 329-379.
Atchinson, John,active 1672,former owner.StEdNL
Blair, Hew,Minister of Rutherglen,1633-1694.former owner.StEdNL
Beaton, James,1517-1603,former owner.StEdNL
Haddington Library (Scotland),former owner.StEdNL
[Parisiis : Ex officina C. Guillard,
1547?]
On the front pastedown there is a bookplate for Haddington Library. The recto of the front flyleaf is inscribed "Empt[us] a Joanne at[c]hinson Glasguae June 18.1672 pretio 3lb.". The first page of the epistle dedicatory is inscribed "Hugo Blar[us]" in a seventeenth century hand.
The boards are gilt-stamped with the bookstamp of James Beaton, Archbishop of Glasgow and Glasgow College. Fragments of a vellum bifolia, apparently of French 16th century provenance, are used as binding strips.