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

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Volume entitled Buchananus De Sphaera: George Buchanan, with commentary by Adam King, covering key aspects of mathematical, natural philosophical, and astronomical knowledge from antiquity to the early modern period, from the Christian West and the Islamicate and pre-Islamic East, and from Copernicus to Galileo and Kepler. Bound with this is a second manuscript containing poetry by King.

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Buchanan, George. "De jure requi apud Scotos", English translation.

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,...

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Manuscript copy of 'A vindication of Mr. George Buchanan in two parts' prepared for press by the author Rev John Love (1695-1750). Contains bookplate of Alexander Thomson of Banchory (1798-1868) and note on the flyleaf saying the manuscript was found with the papers of the late Dr. Hamilton of Aberdeen.

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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.

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Likely to be a duplicate copy of an engraving. Portrait of George Buchanan, 1506 - 1582, (historian and classical scholar; tutor (preceptor) to King James VI, late sixteenth century). Buchanan was a supporter of the Reformation. See Dictionary of National Biography for more information. Engraved by Robert Scott from an original picture in the Library of the University of Edinburgh. Published by Khull, Blackie and Company, Glasgow and A. Fullarton and Company, Edinburgh, around 1826.

Scope and Contents Likely to be a duplicate copy of a stippled engraving on paper by Samuel Freeman as an illustration to Robert Chambers' "A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen" (1834). Portrait of George Buchanan, 1506 - 1582, (historian and classical scholar; tutor (preceptor) to King James VI, late sixteenth century). Buchanan was a supporter of the Reformation. See Dictionary of National Biography for more information. From the original portrait in the University of Edinburgh. Published by Blackie...

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Likely to be a duplicate copy of an engraving by Edward Scriven. Likely to be a duplicate copy of an engraving. Portrait of George Buchanan, 1506 - 1582, (historian and classical scholar; tutor (preceptor) to King James VI, late sixteenth century). Buchanan was a supporter of the Reformation. See Dictionary of National Biography for more information. From a picture by Francis Pourbus Senior in the possession of The Royal Society.

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Likely to be a duplicate copy of an etching. A portrait of George Buchanan, 1506 - 1582, (historian and classical scholar; tutor (preceptor) to King James VI, late sixteenth century). Buchanan was a supporter of the Reformation. See Dictionary of National Biography for more information. Artist unknown.

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Duplicate copy of Coll-1167/B/8/4. A duplicate copy of an engraving. Portrait of George Buchanan, 1506 - 1582, (historian and classical scholar; tutor (preceptor) to King James VI, late sixteenth century). Buchanan was a supporter of the Reformation. See Dictionary of National Biography for more information. Artist unkown.