Johannis de Fordun Scotichronicon genuinum, . una cum ejusdem supplemento ac continuatione. E codicibus Mss. eruit ediditque Tho. Hearnius, ...
John Fordun (d.1384?)
Category
Books
Date
1722
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3029355
Summary
Bibliographic description
5v. (CCXLIII,[1],161,[1]; [2],165-491,[1]; [2],495-926,[2]; [2],931-1366; [2],1371-1640p.),[4] folded plates . ill.. (metal cut) . 8vo. Old Wimpole shelfmarks: G/6 [pencil]; I.2.41-43 and I.3.44-45 [black ink, vols. 1-3 changed to I.3.41-43]. Pencil manuscript"253" on vol. 1 pastedown. Provenance: manuscripton vol. 1 title page verso: P: Yorke, 1722. 5 Tom: Donum Sam: Mead Ar'. Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754) in vol. 1: Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf over boards, gilt spine tooling, double gilt fillet and two border rolls on covers, gilt roll on board edges, blind roll on board inners, gilt edges. Spine labels missing.
Makers and roles
John Fordun (d.1384?) Thomas Hearne (1678-1735)