Scotorum historiae a prima gentis origine, : cum aliarum & rerum & gentium illustratione non vulgari: praemissa epistola nu[n]cupatoria, tabellisq[ue] amplissimis, & non poenitenda Isagoge quae ab huius tergo explicabuntur diffusius..
Boece, Hector,1465?-1536.
Stevenson, Alexander,rector of Forvie, Aberdeenshire,active 1548,former owner.StEdNL: RB.m.227
Stuart, John,of Dowallie (?),former owner.StEdNL: RB.m.227.
Sotheby, M.,former owner.StEdNL: RB.m.334
Lumsden, Charles, minister of Duddingston,-1630,former owner.StEdNL: RB.m.227
Grant, Alexander Thomson,former owner.StEdNL: RB.m.334
Smith, David Baird,former owner.StEdNL: RB.m.334
Randolph, Thomas,1523-1590,former owner.StEdNL: RB.m.334
Carnegie, Patrick,16th century,former owner.StEdNL: RB.m.334
Annand, James,active 1549-1605,former owner.StEdNL: SBA.Add.1
Burghley, William Cecil,Baron,1520-1598,former owner.StEdNL: RB.m.276
Petau, Alessandre,former owner.StEdNL: Ry.II.a.11
Grolier, Jean,1479-1565,former owner.StEdNL: Ry.II.a.11
MacCalzean, Thomas,1520-1581,Former owner.StEdNL: H.33.b.9
Richmond, Ludovic Stuart,Duke of,1574-1624,Former owner.StEdNL: H.33.b.9
Stuart, John,Keeper of Dumbarton Castle,Former owner.StEdNL: H.33.b.9
St Benedict's Abbey (Fort Augustus, Scotland).Library,former owner.StEdNL: SBA.Add.1
Dilighem (Premonstratensian abbey : Jette, Belgium),former owner.StEdNL: H.33.b.8
[Paris] : Quae omnia impressa quidem sunt Iodoci Badii Ascensii typis & opera: impensis autem nobilis & praedocti viri Hectoris Boethii Deidonani: a quo sunt & condita & edita.,
[1527].
Prefatory letter to Alexander Leo on CC6v ends: Ex Parrhisioru[m] Academia celeberrima ad idus Martias. MDXXVII. ad calculu[m] Romanum.
With woodcut ornaments and initials.
With ink annotations, 16th century, throughout.
Final leaf of text has lengthy ink manuscript note on Boece.
Adams
Index Aureliensis
With early ink inscriptions on title-page: Bibliothecae Diligemensis 1616.
With ink inscriptions, 16th and 17th century, on various pages, especially AA2v, AA3, z3v, Z6v, Z7v. On Z7v: [L]iber magistri alexandri stevinsoun rectoris a forvey Ex dono principalis [m]agistrj hectoris boecij doctoris in theologia in collegio aberdonensi et cetera.  See Durkan & Ross p.147. On z3v.: Per me magistrum Joannem Steuart de duaillie".
Title-page with ink inscription: Gulielmus Cecilius (William Cecil, Lord Burghley).
The verso of the front free endpaper is inscribed "Sotheby m.". There are two provenance inscriptions on the recto of the  following leaf, "Ex Libris Alexandri Thomson Grant" in a 19th century hand and below that  "David Baird Smith" in a 20th century hand. The title page contains several Latin inscriptions: "ex libris magistri patricij carnegey", "magist(er) patricius carnegius" and "Tho:Randolphi pro Thoma filio" all in 16th century hands. The last leaf (i.e. CCCLXVIII) is also inscribed "Ex libris magistri patricij carnegey". There are numerous marginalia notes in Latin throughout.
Armorial binding, from the library of Jean Grolier; spine has monogram of Alessandre Petau, whose signature also on front free endpaper.
Formerly owned by James Annand, chancellor of Orkney. Ink inscription, 16th century, at bottom of title page: Annandaeus. Inscription on verso of back-free endpaper: M Iacobus Annandaeus Sperabo. Annand family coat of arms on title page. Gilt lettering on both boards of binding: Sperabo.  Subsequently in the library of St. Benedict's Abbey at Fort Augustus.
Manuscript inscription at the head of the title page "Bibliothecȩ Diligime[n]s[is] 1616.".  The inscription "Bibliotheca Diligimensis" appears below that in a different apparently 16th century French hand.
Manuscript signature at the head of folio I "Ex libris m Thom[a]e Makcalzane". Marginal manuscript insciptions in the same hand on the leaves following folio I. Manuscript signature at the foot of folio CLIII "Sir Lodovick Stuart aught this book". Below that in the same hand "Sir Lodovick Stuart". To the right of this in a different hand "Miaster John Stuart".
Bound in later red morocco, gold-tooled, with marbled endpapers; all leaf edges gilt.
Vellum binding stamped with 'C L'.
Bound in calf, gold-tooled, with lettering 'Io. Grolierii et amicorum.' and with arms and monogram of Alessandre Petau on the spine.
In a contemporary gold-tooled binding with the motto 'Sperabo' of James Annan.  All leaf edges gilt and gauffered.