Histoire abbregee de tous les roys de France, Angleterre et Escosse, mise en ordre par forme d'harmonie: contenant aussi vn brief discours de l'ancienne alliance, & mutuel secours entre la France & l'Escosse.  Plus, l'epitome de l'histoire romaine des papes & empereurs  y est adioustè, & celle d'iceux roys augmentee selon la mesme methode. ... Le tout recueilli & mis en lumiere, auec la recerche tant des singularitez plus remarquables concernant l'estat d'Escosse : que de la succession des femmes aux biens, & gouuernement des empires & royaumes. /
Chambers, David,Lord Ormond,1530?-1592.
Boyd, Mark Alexander.StEdNL: RB.s.82
Boyd family,former owner.StEdNL: RB.s.82
Kingston, Alexander Seton,Viscount,1621-1691,former owner.StEdNL: RB.s.82
Seton family,former owner.StEdNL: RB.s.82
Erskine, David,-1791,former owner.StEdNL: RB.s.82
A Paris, : Chez Robert Coulombel, ruë S. Iean de Latran, à l'enseigne d'Alde.,
1579..
Leaf 66 wrongly numbered 69; leaf 120 wrongly numbered 220; leaf 129 wrongly numbered 128; leaf 136 wrongly numbered 137.
Includes two separate titles: La recerche des singularitez plus remarquables, concernant l'estat d'Escosse, and Discours de la legitime succession des femmes aux possessions de leurs parens.  Both have the same imprint.
With the only known early printed text of Mark Alexander Boyd's 'Sonet' (Fra banc to banc) pasted on the first flyleaf and calligraphic transcripts of the Latin and Greek dedications to King James VI from Boyd's Epistolae on subsequent flyleaves.  At the end of the volume is an early 17th-century manuscript work in an English hand, 18 leaves, entitled Exceptions out of a litle thin booke in octavo entituled A memorial of monarchs, from Brute to King Charles.
The RB.s.82 copy is fully described in the following essay, from which much of the provenance information has been taken: Robert Donaldson "'M. Alex: Boyde.' the authorship of 'Fra banc to banc'" in The Renaissance in Scotland (Leiden: Brill, 1994).
Bought by the Library 3 February 1965 with the aid of a grant from the Friends of the National Libraries. For some time before it was acquired by the Library it was in the possession of the Boyds of Penkill. NLS MS 25417, folios 144-5 contain a transcription of Boyd's sonnet, dated 20 January 1787 and seemingly in the hand of Lord Hailes, and notes that it is in the possession of David Erskine Esqr Clerk to the Signet.
In limp vellum, possibly (given the conjectured date of the 18 leaves of manuscript) second quarter of the 17th century, gilt stamped with the Seton arms on front and back (possibly for Alexander Seton) and with title written on spine in 19th-century hand. Pasted to rear pastedown is a strip of paper with an inscription in a Scots hand of the 16th-century: [rem?] ainit thare with a great part of his army. On the reverse is written: aforesaid [h?]e [made?] them to be kept [am...?]. Below rear pastedown is a fragment of the penultimate leaf of the entry captioned Infirmitas from Johannes de Bromyard's Summa praedicantium. Nuremberg : Anton Koberger, 29 June 1485 (ISTC ij00261000). There is presumably another fragment of this work below the front pastedown.
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