Accession number
PML 3364
Published
Dobuaileadh so agclo indún Edin : Le Roibeard Lekprevik, darab comhainm dún monaidh an 24 la don mhis Aipril. 1567.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, not before 1906.
Notes
Colophon, leaf Q5r, reads: Do buaile adh so agclo an dun Edin Le Roibeart Lekprevik 24. Aprilis. 1567.
Original edition of Knox's liturgy translated into Gaelic by John Carswell.
Signatures: A-Q⁸; leaves Q6-8 blank. C2 signed G2.
Contains two liturgical items not found in any other edition, namely, 'A short prayer before sermon' and 'The manner of blessing a ship on going to sea' (Cowan). The catechism is not that of John Calvin.
PML copy missing 4 leaves: A8, supplied in print facsimile, and Q6-8 (blanks); quire N inverted in binding (i.e. leaves N5-8 bound before N1-4).
Original edition of Knox's liturgy translated into Gaelic by John Carswell.
Signatures: A-Q⁸; leaves Q6-8 blank. C2 signed G2.
Contains two liturgical items not found in any other edition, namely, 'A short prayer before sermon' and 'The manner of blessing a ship on going to sea' (Cowan). The catechism is not that of John Calvin.
PML copy missing 4 leaves: A8, supplied in print facsimile, and Q6-8 (blanks); quire N inverted in binding (i.e. leaves N5-8 bound before N1-4).
Description
[126] leaves ; 13 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Discovered at Taymouth before 1798; John Campbell of Carwhin, 4th earl of Breadalbane (1762-1834), presented to: John Campbell, 5th duke of Argyll (1723-1806); unidentified bookplate (Breadalbane or Argyll?), removed (front pastedown); Sotheby's London, 4 Dec. 1902, lot 1157 to McConvory for £500, followed by Sotheby's London, 27 June 1906, lot 920 to McGregor for £305 (see Book Prices Current); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased not before 1906.
Binding
18th-century(?) Scottish dark blue calf, with dark blue leather chemise.
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