| Evidence: | [Marginalia]; Several pp of ms notes copied from another related work laid into v.1. Notes are entitled 'Extract from the 1st volume of Voyages et Recherches dans la Grece par le Chev.er P.O. Brondsted de l'Ile de Ceos'. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | county: Fife | ||||||||||
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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 and later landowner |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | Identification of the reader is highly speculative. There is no provenance in the volume but there are two volumes, in the library, by the author of the extract. Both are gifts to JDE from the author. |
| Author: | Bernard de Montfaucon |
| Title: | Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures, by the learned Father Montfaucon, translated into English by David Humphreys, |
| Genre: | Arts / architecture |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Humphreys, David (trans.), London: Printed by J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1721 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 7473 | |
| Source - | Manuscript | Other |
| Author: | Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Montfaucon, Bernard de, "Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures, by the learned Father Montfaucon, translated into English by David Humphreys", (London, 1721), ms notes laid into V.1, [DH LIB 1396]. , |
| Citation: | Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Montfaucon, Bernard de, "Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures, by the learned Father Montfaucon, translated into English by David Humphreys", (London, 1721), ms notes laid into V.1, [DH LIB 1396]. , http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7473, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
| John Drummond Erskine was less known for an interest in arts than his brother James (who was dead by the time the source of the extract was published) but there are a number of arts volumes in the library with his provenance. The notes, if by JDE, would have been done between 1826 and 1836. |
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