De titulo et iure serenissimae principis Mariae Scotorum Reginae, quo regni Angliae successionem sibi iustè vendicat, libellus
Subtitle: simul & regum Angli[a]e à Gulielmo Duce Normandi[a]e, qui Conquestor dictus est, genealogiam & successionis seriem in tabula descriptam: Competitorum quoque à Lancastrensi & Eboracensi familijs descendentium historiam summatim complectens
By: opera Io. Leslaei Episcopi Rossensis Scoti, dum pro eadem serenissima Principe iampridem in Anglia oratorem ageret, patrio primùm, nunc verò Latino sermone in lucem editus. Accessit ad Anglos & Scotos, vt qui temporis bellorúmque iniuria iam diu distracti fuerunt, tandem aliquando animis consentiant, & perpetua amicitia in vnum coalescant, Paraenesis. Post varias caedes, vnita Britannia tandem florebit, pace & relligione pia
Publisher: Excudebat Ioannes Fognaeus, sub Leone
Published: 1580
Place of publication: Rhemis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 70
Subjects: Kings and rulers; Succession; History
Work titles: Treatise touching the right, title, and interest of the most excellent Princess Marie, Queen of Scotland
Notes: Translation of: A treatise touching the right, title, and interest of the most excellent Marie, Queen of Scotland.

Title page ornamental border, head- and tail-pieces, initials.

With, as presumably issued, the author's De illustrium foeminarum ... authoritate, Libellus ..., Rhemis : Ioannes Fognaeus, 1580.

Manuscript notes: presentation inscription to Joachim Bassewitz, member of the Mecklenburg aristocracy and legate to Scotland of Ulrich III, Duke of Mecklenburg. Inscriptions dated Calends of August and November 1594, Holyrood Palace and Stirling Castle; signed by James Maccartnay, possibly a physician to James VI; John Skene, advocate royal of James VI and Anne of Denmark; and Adam Crause Megapolitanus, possibly an ambassador for the Duke of Brunswick. Cf. Special Collections Info. File.

Signatures: ʹa⁴ ʹe⁴ A-B⁴ C² D-P⁴ Q² R⁴ b⁴ c⁴ ( -c₄). ʹa₄, ʹe₄ and Q₂ blank; R₂ signed a₂.

Bound in contemporary vellum.

8], 60 ([1] blank leaf between l. 59 and 60), [9] leaves (leaf 62 numbered), [1] leaf of folded plate : ill., folded geneal. table ; 22 cm. irst published in English under pseudonym Morgan Philippes in 1571, with title: A treatise concerning the defence of the honour of ... Marie queene of Scotlande and dowager of France. Signatures: a? (a? blank), e?? (e?? blank),A?-B?, C, D?-P?, Q (Q? blank), a?-b?, c. "Ad Anglos et Scotos, vt qui temporis bellorumque iniuria iam diu distracti fuerunt, tandem aliquando animis consentiant, & perpetua amicitia in vnum coalsecant, paraenesis": leaves 60-[69]. Plate from The Library, St. Benedict's Abbey, Fort-Augustus, Scotland (stamp filled in pencil "Biographica. Section: Annexe., shelf: E10") Purchased with funds from the a| Douglas Huntley Gordon Endowed Book Fund, 2011.

Adams, L-5432

BM STC French, 1470-1600, p. 264

Grässe, IV, 176