Psalmorum Dauidis paraphrasis poetica, . nunc primùm edita, authore Georgio Buchanano, Scoto, poetarum nostri saeculi facilè principe. Eiusdem Dauidis Psalmi aliquot à Th. B.V. versi. Psalmi aliquot in versus ite[m] Graecos nuper à diuersis translati.
George Buchanan (1506-1582)
Category
Books
Date
1565
Materials
Place of origin
Switzerland
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3038921
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],277,[3];46,[2]p. . 8vo.. With copious manuscript annotations on leaves at beginning and end, in several hands, mostly sixteenth-century. Includes: calligraphic inscription on flyleaf 'Is sciat se profecisse in sacris, quem davidica carmina consolantur. ...'; notes on the metre of the verse on endpapers. With an engraved portrait of Buchanan bound in, with letterpress verse signed 'Petrus Scriverius': engraving signed C.S.Visichem scul. et excud. I.C.W. pinx. With printed prayers bound in at end, beginning 'Mane post somnum. Domine, quoniam oportete praevenire solem ad bendeictionem tuam ...': catalogued separately. Old Wimpole shelfmarks: S/6 [pencil]; R.1.9 [dark blue ink]. Pencil catalogue? number, on flyleaf '527'.. Provenance: In ink on flyleaf in eighteenth-century hand 'Ld Hardwicke frequently read Buchanan's Psalms in this Book & had it always on his Table. H.'. Binding: Nineteenth-century grained blue morocco, gold and blind tooled with marbled endpapers and flyleaves. Gilt edges.
Makers and roles
George Buchanan (1506-1582) Theodore de Beze (1519-1605) Henri Estienne (1531-1598) Robert Estienne (1530-1571)