Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Foirm na nvrrnvidheadh agas freasdal na sacramuinteadh, agas foirceadul an chreidimh Christuidhe andso sios. Mar ghnathuighear an eagluisibh alban doghradhuigh agas doghlac soisgel dileas dé tareis an fhuar chreidimh dochur ar goul ar na dtarraing as Laidin, & as Gaillbherla in Gaoidheilg le M. Seon Carusuel Ministir Eagluise dé agcriochaibh earragaoidheal darab comhainm easbug indseadh gall.

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).
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.
Classification
Department