The essayes of a prentise, in the diuine art of poesie..
JamesVI,King of Scotland,1566-1625.
Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste,seigneur,1544-1590.Uranie.English & French.1584.
White, James Cathcart,1852-1943,donor.StEdNL: H.38.d.36
Dickson, William Kirk,1860-1949,associated name.StEdNL: H.38.d.36
Christie-Miller, Sydney Richardson,1874-1931,former owner.StEdNL: H.38.d.36
Inglis, John Bellingham,1780-1870,former owner.StEdNL: H.38.d.36
Imprinted at Edinburgh, : By Thomas Vautroullier.,
1585..
By James VI, whose name (Jacobus Sextus) is given in an acrostic on A1r.
Pages are unnumbered. Signatures: *1-*4, A1-P4.
In verse, mostly in Scots, but including some French and Latin.
At foot of title: Cum priuilegio regali.
'The Uranie' is a translation of 'L'Uranie, ou muse celeste' by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, with French and English on facing pages.
With an engraved portrait of James VI inserted  opposite title-page.
The twelf sonnets of inuocations to the Goddis -- The Vranie or heauenly muse translated -- The metaphoricall inuentioun of a tragedie, callit Phoenix -- A paraphrasticall translatioun out of the Poëte Lucane -- A treatise of the airt of Scottis poësie -- The CIIII. Psalme of Dauid, translated out of Tremellius -- A poeme of tyme.
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Aldis, H.G. Scotland,
Aldis, H.G. Scotland,
20th-century letter tipped in, from J. Cathcart White presenting book to W. K. Dickson, Keeper, Advocates Library, Edinburgh; known to have been purchased at the Christie-Miller library at Britwell Court Sale, 1924 (lot 449) and before that to have been in the possession of John Bellingham Inglis.