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Buchanan, George, 1506-1582 (Scottish expatriate, historian and scholar, anti-absolutist and satyrist of clerical vice)

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Manuscript text in two volumes entitled "Commentarius Critico Philogicus Georgi Buchanani in Scoti Celeberrimi Davidicorum Psalmorum Paraphrasin Poeticam", by Sir Henry Munro of Foulis, Baronet, c 1750

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Identifier: La.III.823
Scope and Contents From the Series: Bound volumes constitute Section III of the Laing Collection with shelfmarks La.III. This long series of bound volumes includes copies of the scriptures and portions of the scriptures on vellum; breviaries and missals on vellum; treatises, discourses, sermons and notes on theological matters; and, treatises and notes on philosophical matters. There is historical, legal, and biographical material, and also letters. Within the series too there are some well known Scottish musical texts, poems,...
Dates: c 1750

Papers on anticlericalism, 1705-1706

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [030]
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This is a Latin transcription of a sixteenth-century satire on the morals of the clergy, probably by George Buchanan, glued onto a more recent catalogue of clerical vice, of unclear authorship.

Dates: 1705-1706

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Scotland, History, The Union, 1707 1