Shelfmark
P.Rox.1847
Author
Title
La vraie cronicque d'Escoce : pretensions des Anglois à la couronne de France / diplome de Jacques VI roi de la Grande Bretagne ; drawn from the Burgundian Library by Major Robert Anstruther ; printed for the Roxburghe Club.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : William Nicol, MDCCCXLVII [1847].
Physical description
[12], xviii, 117, [1], 29, [1] p. : facsims. ; 27 cm.
Series statement
(Roxburghe Club)
Note
Quarter brown leather binding over paper covered boards.
Note
Facsimile.
Note
Barker, no. 65.
Note
Ascribed by the editor to John Lindsay Lord Menmuir, Secretary of State to James VI.
Note
The manuscripts, now in the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, are listed in its Catalogue des manuscripts, 1901- as 4633 (cf. t.7, p. 42-43) and 6990 (no. 34) (cf. t.10, p. 169) or mss. 9469-70, and 12566 in the Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale des ducs de Bourgone, 1842.
The "Diplome de Jacques VI ... en qualite de roi d'Ecosse renouvelant les anciens traités avec la France" lists treaties from 791 to 1549.
Provenance
Edward Craven Hawtrey's copy (bookplate on front pastedown and ms. inscription on front endpaper).
Subject
James, 1566 - 1625 I, King of England,
Added entry--name
Anstruther, Robert, 1805 - 1856 editor.
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Hawtrey, Edward Craven, 1789 - 1862 former owner.
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William Nicol publisher.
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Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
fre
Identifier
B35214