| Evidence: | [Marginalia]: has pencil annotations, opposite the title page and inside front cover, relating to the history and purchase of the book "Mr Heber certifies to me, that this is very/ faithfully reprinted from the rare Dort edit: ? [?]/ so rare that I know not of a perfect copy. / Nor have I seen more that 4 copies of it imperfect [?]"[2nd para deals with another Dort. publication]; "Bought from Blackwood's cat. Edinburgh 1796 [?] ..."; and a pen annotation on the inside back cover, a 8 line quote from a poem, by Walter Quin on Bernard Stuart, Lord d'Aubigni praising Bruce. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Anon |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
| Occupation: | unknown |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | unknown |
| Country of experience: | unknown |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | Has a provenance but currently illegible, dated 1807 |
| Author: | Patrick Gordon |
| Title: | Famous history of the renown'd and valiant prince, Robert sirnamed, the Bruce, King of Scotland, ... A history both pleasant and profitable, set forth and done in heroic verse, by Patrick Gordon, Gentleman, The |
| Genre: | History, Poetry, Biography |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Edinburgh: At Dort, printed by George Waters, 1615. Re-printed at Edinburgh, by James Watson, 1718 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 6959 | |
| Source - | Manuscript | Other |
| Author: | Book with annotations in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Gordon, Patrick, "The famous history of the renown'd and valiant prince, Robert sirnamed, the Bruce, King of Scotland, ... A history both pleasant and profitable, set forth and done in heroic verse, by Patrick Gordon, Gentleman.", (Edinburgh, 1718), various pages, [DH LIB 691]., |
| Citation: | Book with annotations in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Gordon, Patrick, "The famous history of the renown'd and valiant prince, Robert sirnamed, the Bruce, King of Scotland, ... A history both pleasant and profitable, set forth and done in heroic verse, by Patrick Gordon, Gentleman.", (Edinburgh, 1718), various pages, [DH LIB 691]., http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6959, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
| It is possible that the annotations are by John Drummond Erskine as it is clear from other items in the library that he did not always put his name in books he used. The writing style and dates do not exclude this being his work despite the other provenance dated 1807. |
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