BIB_ID
126168
Accession number
MA 293
Creator
Moysie, David, 1573-1630.
Display Date
1603 or later.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (165 p.) ; 19.3 cm
Notes
"Mr. Thomson" is penciled on a preceding flyleaf. This may be Thomas Thomson, Esq., Vice-President of the Bannatyne Club in 1830.
Contemporary foliation.
Paragraph from fol. 35v beginning "Vpone the XV day of Maij, the King maid the bancket to all his nobilitie..." reproduced in facsimile in the 1830 edition.
Scots dialect and orthography evident throughout.
Contemporary foliation.
Paragraph from fol. 35v beginning "Vpone the XV day of Maij, the King maid the bancket to all his nobilitie..." reproduced in facsimile in the 1830 edition.
Scots dialect and orthography evident throughout.
Provenance
Formerly in the library of Robert Hamilton, 8th Lord Belhaven and Stenton, at Wishaw House; possibly lot 1293 in an old Sotheby's sale; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1906.
Summary
Giving a history of Scotland during the reign of King James VI, from 1577 to 1603. Final entry stating "Vpone the [blank] day of m[er]che 1603. His Ma[ies]tie tuik Iorney towardes Ingland to be crouned King heareof q[uhai]r he wes met w[i]th sundrie nobles and conuoyit to the chairterhouse of Londoun etc."
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