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Add MS 36678
- Record Id:
- 032-002055154
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002055154
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000039.0x00008c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100151955217.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 36678
- Title:
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Fragments of John Bellenden's translation of Livy's Ab urbe condita into Scots English
- Scope & Content:
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Commissioned by James V, king of Scots (1512–1542).
Fragments of corrected drafts, partly in Bellenden's hand, and annotations. The fragments comprise Book I, ch. 5–10, 11–14, 16–21, and Book III, ch. 1–5, fragments of 9, 10, 11 and ch. 15–18. Part of ch. 15–17 of the latter book is in a double draft. A portion of ch. 5, 6 of Book I partly fills a gap in the Edinburgh manuscript, from which Bellenden's translation was printed in 1822.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002055154
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002055154
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100151955217.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1528
- End Date:
- 1538
- Date Range:
- c 1533
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 314 x 230 mm.
Foliation: ff. iv + 44.
Binding: British Museum binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Scotland.
Provenance:
Presented to the British Museum by George Reid, 20 May 1902 (note on recto of second flyleaf).
These fragments were found in the old binding of a book printed at Edinburgh in 1537 (see Geoge F. Warner's notice of their discovery in Athenaeum, 12 July (1902), p. 64. Thomas Rutledge suggests that this book is James Foullis' Strena, probably printed in 1528 rather than 1537.
- Publications:
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John Bellenden, Livy's History of Rome, the First Five Books, Translated into Scots by John Bellenden, 1533, ed. W. A. Craigie, 2 vols, STS (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1901, 1903), vol. 2, Appendix I, pp. 235–329.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1900–1905 (London, 1907), pp. 187–88.
John MacQueen, 'Aspects of Humanism in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Literature', in John MacQueen (ed.) Humanism in Renaissance Scotland (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990), pp. 10–31.
Thomas Rutledge, 'Reading and Writing History: John Bellenden's Livy', in Joanna Martin and Emily Wingfield (eds) Premodern Scotland: Literature and Governance 1420-1589. Essays for Sally Mapstone (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 144–58.
George F. Warner, 'Bellenden's Scots Translation of Livy', Athenaeum, 3898, 12 July (1902), p. 64.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)