Poetarum Scotorum Musæ Sacræ

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Full title: Poetarum Scotorum Mus æ Sacræ : sive Quatuor Sacri Codicis Scriptorum, Davidis & Solomonis, Jobi & Jeremi æ, Poëtici Libri , Per totidem Scotos, Arct. Jonstonum & Jo. Kerrum, P. Adamsonum & G. Hog æ um, Latino carmine redditi: Quibus, ob argumenti similitudinem, adnectuntur alia, Scotorum itidem, opuscula sacra. Summo qu æ que studio recognita, & ad fidem optimorum exemplarium expressa . 2 vols. in 8vo. f. [1] (blank), [1] (plates), pp. xiii, lxxviii, 208, f. [1] (blank); f. [1] (blank), [1] (plates), pp. xxviii, 209-520, f. [1] (blank). Signatures: a-l 4 m 2 A-2C 4 ; a-c 4 d 2 2D-3T 4 . Modern tooled calf. Marbled endpapers, red edges. Printer's device on title page. Head- and tailpieces, engraved initials. Frontispieces Arthur Johnston [Jonston]; and King David reciting the psalms: line engraving by Richard Cooper the elder, after George Jamesone , signed "Geo. Jamison pinxit. R. Cooper Sculp." Signatures of A. Thomson and G[eorge] Dyer on title pages, later booklabels of Manuel Maria Mosquera. Volume 2 has no general title page and is entitled: " Poetarum Scotorum Musae Sacrae sive Patricii Adamsoni, Sancti-Andreae in Scotia Archiepiscopi, Jobi, Threnorumque seu Lamentationum Jeremiae, ac Decalogi, Paraphrasis poëtica." Each volume, and the last piece in volume 2 (Poeticum duellum) have special title pages. The unenthusiastic reception of this edition in which the Scots Latinist William Lauder (c.1710–c.1771) unsuccessfully championed the neo-Latin verse of Arthur Johnston over that of George Buchanan as a set text for Scottish schools is said to have inspired Lauder’s campaign against John Milton. See English Short Title Catalogue Online, T68039 . Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.