THE LIBRARY OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, &c. AMONG the "Jowellis, Pleniffingis, Artaillierie and Munitioun being within the caftell of Edinburgh, pertening to our Soverane Lord and his hienes derreft Moder," and delivered in Inventory to the King at Stirling Caftle in March 1578, framed by Commiffioners appointed by his Majefty for receiving the fame, there is the following fcanty but not incurious lift of Books faved from the general wreck of what had been the Royal Library of Scotland in the reign of Queen Mary. BUIKIS. IN THE FIRST the faxt and laft volume of the auld cronicles of England in Frenche1 The fecound volume The fyft volume The fourt volume Lucan Sueton and Saluft in Frenche Le sixiesme et dernier volume des anciennes croniques D'Angleterre auquel est contenu lacheuement des aduentures merueilleuses dudit mises a fin par pays le preux cheualier Gulifer yssu du sang du noble roy Perceforest,-nouuellement imprime a Paris, Mil Cinq Cent xxviii. The first volume of the catologe of Sanctis in Frenche Giron Curtas. The third volume of Titus Livius The werkis of Allane Charter • 2 Ane oratioun to the king of Franche of the Quenis awin hand write The ellevint buik of fanct Auguftine The first buik of fanct Auguftine The firft buik of Rolland amoreufe The governament of Princes writtin in perchement Ane parte of Plutarche in Frenche Foure volumes of la mere des hiftoreis coverit with quhite perchement 8 2 Cathalogue des Saincts et Sainctez, translaté nouvellement du Latin en Francoys par Pierre des Natalles, Evesque de Venise. Paris, Galliot du Pre, 1523-4, 2 tom. folio. Romance de Gyron le Courtois. • Les Oeuvres de Maistre Alain Chartier. Paris, 1529. A translation of the "Legenda Aurea" by Jac. de Voragine. • La Mer des Histoires. Paris, 1536, fol. 7 "Vita Christi," by Ludolphus de Saxonia. There were also early impres sions of the work in the French, Catalan, Spanish and Portuguese languages. La Mer des Histoires. Paris, 1536, fol. The explanatioun of the charter of Calice Thre lyves of Alexander the greit and utheris nobles " 9 16 Tua volumes of Lancilot de laik 15 13 Chronique Martinienne; the French edition of the "Cronica Summorum Pontificum," by Martinus Polonus. 10 The Game and Playe of the Chesse, translated out of the French by William Caxton, 1474. 11 Croniqve de Savoye. Par Maistre Guillaume Paradin Chanoyne de Beauieu. A Lyon Par Iean de Tovrnes et Gvil. Gazeav, M.D.LII. This volume is in the possession of Thomas Thomson, Esquire, Deputy Clerk Register, and one of the Members of this Club. There are several works under this title both in French and English. "A translation of the "Historia Alexandri Magni Regis Macedonie de preliis,” &c. of which there are various old editions. 14 Le Décameron de Bocace, trad. d' Italien en Franç. par Ant. Maçon. Paris, 1548, 8vo. 15 Speculum Humanæ Salvationis. The French translation is entitled "La Mirouer de la Redemption de humain lignaige." 1" Le Jardin de Plaisance et fleur de Rhetorique, contenant plusieurs Traités en rime Francoys. Lyon, Olivier Arnoulet." No date. There are various editions of this work. Ane greit volume of cronica cronicorum " 19 Bocas of the geneologie of the goddis 18 Cronicle of the empriouris and kingis of Auftrice 20 The gardin of plefance " Efaias in Greik & Hebrew be Minftar [Munfter] Columell of hiftoreis The prothogall of the chancellarie of France Supplement of devotioun 22 Actis of parliament of king James the fyft " Hiftorie of the tyme prefent be Sanct Fontene» 17 The Latin edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle. 18 Probably "Los xl libros del compendio historial de les chronicas, y universal historia de todos los regnos de Espana, compuestos por Estevan de Garibay. Anvers, Plantin, 1571. 19 Le livre de la Déablerie, par Eloy Damerval? 20 Jardin de Plaisance et fleur de Réthorique, Paris, 1527, 4to. "Jaques Bouchet, Anciennes et Modernes Généalogies des Roys de France "Printed at Edinburgh by Thomas Davidson, 1541, folio. 23 Histoire Catholique et Ecclesiastique de notre temps touchant l'etat de la Religion Chretienne depuis l'an 1517 jusq'en 1548, enrichie de plusieurs choses notables depuis 1546 jusq'en 1550, par Simon Fontaine, Docteur en Theologie, de l'ordre de S. Francois. Paris, Tremes & Anvers, 1558, 8vo. 24 Probably one of the old editions of the translations by R. Whyttington, Poet Laureate. Printed at London in 1533, 34-40, and 1553, 12 mo. |