Scotia illustrior, seu, Mendicabula repressa
By: modesta parecbasi Thomae Dempsteri I.C. à Muresck, Scoti, Bononiae humanitatis professoris eminentis. ; qua libelli famosi impudentia detegitur; mendacia ridicula confutantur; Scotiae Sancti sui vindicantur, ac bona fide asseruntur
Publisher: Apud Petrum Ronsier
Published: 1620
Place of publication: Lugduni
Language: lat
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: Celtic Christian saints; Church history
Other titles: Scotia illvustrior, seu, Mendicabvula repressa; Mendicabula repressa; Scotia illustrior; Mendicabula repressa
Notes: Argues that various early Celtic saints were Scottish, in response to David Rothe's Brigida thaumaturga and Henry Fitzsimon's Catalogus praecipuorum sanctorum Hiberniae recognitus sanctus. Cf. Allison & Rogers. Engl. Counter-Reformation.

Dedication dated Oct. 1620 (p. [5] at front). This is accepted by Allison & Rogers as date of publication.

Signatures: ã⁴ A-L⁴ (ã4 blank).

Error in paging: 81 misnumbered 79.

Head-pieces; initials.

Two anti-Irish satirical poems at end: "Votum pro omnibus Hibernis", signed Willy Kynmond; and "Cenotaphium mendicabulorum Hibernicorum", signed Archy Armestrang. Both are presumably by Dempster.

"Errata"--P. [87].

Includes bibliographical references.

Allison & Rogers. Engl. Counter-Reformation, I, 296.

Sweeney, T. Ireland and the printed word, 1939.

BM STC French, 1601-1700, D320.

Allsion & Rogers. Engl. Counter-Reformation, I, 296