Georgii Buchanani Scoti Poemata in tres partes digesta :. Pars prima Psalmorum Davidis paraphrasis poetica Jephthes sive votum, tragoedia. Baptistes sive calumnia, tragoedia. Pars secunda. Franciscanus & fratres. Elegiarum liber. Sylvarum liber. Hendecasyllab[o]n liber. Jamb[o]n liber. Epigrammatum libri III. Miscellaneorum liber. De sphaera mundi. Lib. V. Pars tertia Euripidis Medea ejusdem Alcestis utraque Latino carmine reddita. G. Buchanani vita ab ipso scripta biennio ante mortem. Adjecta sunt Paraphrasi Psalmorum argumenta singulis Psalmis praefixa. Item collectanea quibis vocabula & modi loquendi tam poetici quàm aliàs difficiliores, & minùs vulgo obvii, perspicuè explicantur. Etiam diversa carminum genera margini adjecta. Operâ & studio N. Chytraei. His accedunt nunc primùm variae lectiones & conjecturae in partem secundam.
George Buchanan (1506-1582)
Category
Books
Date
1686
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3190864
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 601, [11] p. ; 12mo. Provenance: eighteenth century manuscript inscription "Davenport Talbot", i.e. William Davenport Talbot, 1764-1800, on recto of second free end-paper. Seventeenth? century manuscript inscription ""87", possibly a previous shelfmark, on front pastedown. Binding: eighteenth? century plain and sprinkled calf; blind stamped to a panel design; gilt tooling on edges of boards; manuscript title label reading "Buchanan's Poems" in an eighteenth century italic hand on spine; text block edges sprinkled red and brown.
Makers and roles
George Buchanan (1506-1582) Nathan Chytraeus (1543-1598) Nathan Chytraeus (1543-1598) Euripides (484-480-406 BC)