Apparatus Ad Historiam Scoticam Lib. II. Accesserunt Martyrologium Scoticum Sanctorum DCLXXIX. Scriptorum Scotorum MDCIII

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Full title: Apparatus Ad Historiam Scoticam Lib. II. Accesserunt Martyrologium Scoticum Sanctorum DCLXXIX. Scriptorum Scotorum MDCIII: Nomenclatura. Auctore Thoma Dempstero Barone de Muresk IC Scoto Eminente professore. Opus e peregrinis gentium Historijs collectum, omnia orbis regna pio studio lustrantur, religiosæ S.R.E. familiæ nobilitantur, Historia patria augetur, sectarij admonentur, catholica veritas contra hostes Dei & Scotiæ firmatur. Iusti et parati operis prænuntia. 4to. f. [1] (blank), pp. [16], 152; [16], 40; [8], 28, f. [1] (blank) (pp. 100-104 called 200-204). Signatures: a-b4 [a2 called a] A-T4 a-b4 A-E4 a4 A-C4 D2. Contemporary limp vellum, with bookplate of the Marquess of Tweedale. Manuscript spine title. Manuscript signature dated Paris, Sept. 21, 1674. Manuscript note of purchase. Has a different coat of arms on each of the four title pages, the first three with Cardinal's hats. Head- and tailpieces, initials. Includes index. The 2 volumes of the Apparatus are continuously paged but have separate title pages. Menologium (i.e. Martyrologium cited on the title page of Apparatus), and Scotorum scriptorum nomenclatura have separate title pages, registers and pagination. All title pages have identical imprints. The otherwise brilliant Scottish itinerant Classics professor Thomas Dempster (1579?-1625) wrote these works on Scottish martyrs, a collection of materials rather than history proper, when he had settled down in Bologna, as a subsidiary to a projected large work (see Bib# 4102855/Fr# 328 in this collection). The works received a very critical reception by several Catholic scholars and a Roman Congregation. See M. A. Shaaber, Check-list of Works of British Authors Printed Abroad, in Languages other than English, to 1641. New York, 1975, D40 (incorporating D50 and D58); J. Durkan, “Thomas Dempster: a Scottish Baronius,” in: The Innes Review, 54 (2003), 1, pp. 75-78. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.