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Add MS 34275
- Record Id:
- 032-002025308
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002025308
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000054.0x00019b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163532589.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 34275
- Title:
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Catalogue of the library of King James VI of Scotland, 1573-1583
- Scope & Content:
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Lists of books belonging to the library of King James VI of Scotland, c. 1573-1583. In the hand of Peter Young, (1544–1628), royal tutor and diplomat. With autograph notes and exercises by King James VI on the flyleaves.
ff. 1v-2v: Notes by Peter Young, including classical extracts and commonplaces, with several ‘Apophthegmata Regis’, or remarks made by King James VI.
f. 3r: Copy-book exercise by King James VI. Two copies of a maxim of Cato the Censor, quoted by Aulus Gellius (Attic Nights, XVI.1). With a partial third copy. With the royal sign-manual.
ff. 4r-9r: List of books, many of which are priced. Arranged by printer, e.g. Wechel, Robert Estienne, Colines, Tiletanus, Oporinus, and Frosehover, with others ‘ex catalogo librirum prohibitorum’. These books do not appear to have formed part of the royal library. The titles are extracted ‘des catalogues empruntez de Mr And. Melvin’, i.e. Andrew Melville, who returned to Scotland from Geneva in 1574.
f. 10r: ‘Livres de la Royne [Mary, Queen of Scots] que je receuz de passementier par le commandement de Monsieur le Regent [James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton]’. 1 July 1573. Signed ‘P. Yowng’.
f. 10r: ‘Bukes gottin fra My Lord of St. Jhone [James Sandilands, Lord Torpichen]’. October 28 1573.
f. 10r: ‘Extract of ane Inventaire maid [by] Mr Jhone Wode [John Wood, son of Andrew Wood, Laird of Largo]’. 15 November 1569. With marginal note ‘Thir art not as lit gottin’.
f. 10r: ‘Bukis gottin be me fra my lord Regentis grace at sundry tymes’. No date.
f. 10v: ‘Buikes brocht furth of Sterling to Halyrud house’. 11 November 1583.
f. 11r: ‘Bukes gottin fra Arthur Wode [Arthur Wood, brother of John, above (f. 10r)]’. 18 March 1577/8.
f. 11v: List of books bought or presented in 1575-1578. With names of donors.
f. 12r-12v: Books delivered by Arthur Wode, ‘as being of the Quenis bukes borrowit be his brother Mr Jhone’. No date.
ff. 12v-14v: Continuation of the list of books above (f. 11v).
ff. 15r-18v: ‘Index librorum Regis’. A list of around 200 volumes, with details on whether a book was bought or presented, whether it came from the library of Mary, Queen of Scots, and whether it was subsequently given away by the king.
f. 18v: Lists of bows, arrows, ‘golf cloubbis’, and other miscellaneous articles given to the king.
f. 19r: Copy-book exercise by King James VI. Copied alphabet, in majuscule and minuscule italic. With the sign-manual in Latin, French, and English.
ff. 19v-20v: Continuation of the notes by Peter Young above (ff. 1v-2v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002025308
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002025308
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100163532589.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1568
- End Date:
- 1588
- Date Range:
- c 1573-c 1583
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 255 x 195 mm.
Foliation: ff. xxix + 21.
Binding: Pre-1600. Limp vellum covers stamp with a small gilt crown between the initials ‘I R’.
Script: Secretary, italic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Scotland
Provenance:
Peter Young (1544–1628), royal tutor and diplomat: former owner.
Transferred from the Department of Printed Books, 31 December 1892.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum, 1894), pp. 281-82.
Ferguson, F.S., ‘Relations between London and Edinburgh Printers and Stationers (-1640)’, The Library, vol. 4, issue 2 (1927), 145-98.
Inventaires de la Royne Descosse Douairiere de France: Catalogues of the Jewels, Dresses, Furniture, Books, and Paintings of Mary Queen of Scots 1556-1569 (Edinburgh: Printed for the Bannatyne Club, 1863).
Thomson, Thomas, ed., A Collection of Inventories and Other Records of the Royal Wardrobe and Jewel House (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1815).
Warner, George F., ed., The Library of James VI 1573-1583, Publications of the Scottish History Society, 15 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1893).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)