Category: Manuscripts
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A Stray Letter and a Unique Book
At a recent workshop in Edinburgh I was comparing notes with two colleagues about which bibliographies of Scottish printing we owned (such are the exciting lives of academics). In the course of the conversation both related their pleasure at having obtained copies of that magnum opus of Scottish book history, the Bibliographia Aberdonensis, a systematic account…
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Cardinal Richelieu’s Scottish Poet
Amongst the many remarkable things preserved in the Scottish Catholic Archives is a small, richly-bound manuscript book: This is the album amicorum or friendship book of George Strachan, a young Scot from the Mearns, who travelled to the continent for his education at the end of the sixteenth century. Strachan’s story is a remarkable one –…
Kelsey Jackson Williams 