Evidence: | [Marginalia]: has a ms annotation (of 4 lines) on each inside cover, one in Latin and one possibly in Persian. These may or may not be related to the text. On various pages there are ink marks within the text, all of the same format, ex. p. 84 '- - |-vv-|-vv-|vv/--|-vv-|vv [with the numbers]123/4 [to the right]' |
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Century: | 1700-1799, 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1800 and 1836 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland or India | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | John Drummond Erskine |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | Apr 1776 |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | East India Company writer, later landowner |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | Scotland or India |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | Identity of reader is tentatively inferred from only provenance in the item |
Author: | Horace |
Title: | Quinti Horatii Flacci opera. Interpretatione et notis illustravit Ludovicus Desprez, ... Huic editioni accessere vita Horatii cum Dacerii notis, ejusdem chronologia Horatiana, & praefatio de satira Romana |
Genre: | Classics |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Editio undecima, prioribus longe emendatior, Londini: Impensis, T. Longman, B. Law, T. Pote, J. Johnson, W. & W. Ginger [and 11 others in London],1793 |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 7270 | |
Source - | Manuscript | Other |
Author: | Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Horace, "Quinti Horatii Flacci opera. Interpretatione et notis illustravit Ludovicus Desprez, ... Huic editioni accessere vita Horatii cum Dacerii notis, ejusdem chronologia Horatiana, & praefatio de satira Romana", (London, 1793), various pages, [DH LIB 872], |
Citation: | Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Horace, "Quinti Horatii Flacci opera. Interpretatione et notis illustravit Ludovicus Desprez, ... Huic editioni accessere vita Horatii cum Dacerii notis, ejusdem chronologia Horatiana, & praefatio de satira Romana", (London, 1793), various pages, [DH LIB 872], http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7270, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
The most likely annotator is John Drummond Erskine and though there are, in the collection, volumes of classics he used as a child this is in his adult style. It is possible however that the ink annotations were by one of his brothers. |
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