A plaine discouery of the whole Reuelation of Saint Iohn: : set downe in two treatises: the one searching and prouing the true interpretation thereof: the other applying the same paraphrastically and historically to the text. /
Napier, John,1550-1617.
Buller, William,1735 or 1736-1796,former owner.StEdNL: Haxton.29
Balcanquhall, Walter,1586?-1645,former owner.StEdNL: H.36.b.17
Dashwood, S. V.,former owner.StEdNL: H.36.b.17a
Macdonald, W. R.,19th century,former owner.NLS: H.36.b.17a
Cooke, Ambrose,17th century,former owner.StEdNL: H.36.b.17a
Duncumb, Amy,17th century,former owner.StEdNL: H.36.b.17a
Baker, Joyce,17th century,former owner.StEdNL: H.36.b.17a
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose,Earl of,1847-1929,former owner.StEdNL: Ry.II.f.48
Bowes, Robert,1535?-1597,donor.StEdNL: Ry.II.f.48
Morton, William,16th century,former owner.StEdNL: Ry.II.f.48
Napier,Lord,former owner.StEdNL: Ry.II.f.48
Lodge, Richard,active 1633,former owner.StEdNL:2RBsRB.s.2945(1)
Thoresby, Ralph,1658-1725,former owner.StEdNL:2RBsRB.s.2945(1)
Barnbougle CastleLibrary,former owner.StEdNL: Ry.II.f.48
Edinburgh : Printed by Robert Walde-graue, printer to the King's Majestie.,
1593..
At foot of title: Cum priuilegio regali.
First 8 leaves contain signature mark 'A' (verso blank), t.p., coat-of-arms, dedicatory letter, preface, verses, errata, and 'A table of the conclusions introductiue to the Reuelation, and proued in the first treatise.' Final 11 pages contain 'To the misliking reader whosoeuer', and 'Certaine oracles of Sibylla.'
The outer leaf of quire B is in 2 settings. In setting A, B1r, line 4 contains the word 'euidentlie'. In setting B, B1r. line 4 contains the word 'euidently'.
P. 26 is misnumbered '62'; p. 229 is misnumbered '239'; p. 258 is misnumbered '358'.
Signatures: A1-T4.
STC (2nd ed.)
Aldis, H.G. Scotland,
ESTC
Ink inscription on title page: Willm Buller.
Manuscript inscription deleted at the top of the title page "walter balcanquall" and below "si deus pro nobis quis contra nos".
Armorial bookplate of S. V. Dashwood on front pastedown. Manuscript inscription on the recto of the front flyleaf "Presented by Mr. W. R. Macdonald". Macdonald's bookplate is on the front free endpaper. Manuscript inscriptions in apparently contemporary hands at the head of the title page "price ij s vj d" and at the bottom "Ambrose Cooke". Manuscript inscriptions in apprently contemporary hands on leaf A3 "Amy Duncumb" and "Joyce Baker".
Armorial bookplate of the 5th Earl of Rosebery on the front pastedown. Manuscript inscription "Gibson Craig Sale 1888" and with the catalogue description pasted below on the verso of the front free endpaper. Stamp of Barnbougle Castle Catalogue at the head of the first flyleaf. Manuscript inscription at the head of the title page "Ex dono mei Roberti Bowes Junioris" and beside that "William Morton" in apparently contemporary hands. Napier's crest has been pasted next to his name at the end of the dedication.
Bound with James the 6th's "Ane fruitfull Meditatioun (Edinburgh, 1588). Inscription on the inserted blank leaf before the title page "Richard Lodge 30th March 1633 / In Hambrough [i.e. Hamburg, Germany]". Manuscript signature "ex libris Rad Thoresby pr 16d" [i.e. Ralph Thoresby, R.R.S. (1658-1725)] at the foot of leaf A3. Manuscript signature "Robt Langley" inside the rear cover. Extensively annotated (both in the text and on thirteen inserted blank pages at the front and seven at the back, plus the last blank page of Ane Fruitfull Meditatioun and the inside of the back cover) in two or three neat early 17th century hands with apocalyptic notes and calculations in Latin and English, plus two notes in German. The main annotations have been made in at least three stages (possibly by two writers, plus a later extract added probably by the last known owner Ralph Thoresby after 1679. The writers had access to a good range of published apocalpytic writings in Latin and English from the late 16th century and the first decade of the 17th, and show a deep study of the subject of the Second Coming of Christ, and the Last Judgement.
Parchment binding with endpapers watermarked 1889.
Black morocco with extensive tooling on front and back boards, gilt rolled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges and marbled pastedowns and endpapers. In a box with gilt stamped spine reading: Logarithmorum descriptio - Joanne Nepero.
Contemporary limp vellum, sewn on three tawed leather bands; remains of two pairs of tawed-leather ties. The vellum is crinkled and darkened.
Bible.
Bible.
Scotland Edinburgh.