Subject (Topic): Presbyterian Church--Doctrinal and controversial works

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Published / Created:: [ca. 1640]
Call Number:: Osborn b25
Image Count:: 31
Abstract:: Manuscript, in a single secretary hand, of a collection of several dozen Scottish Presybterian tracts in English and verses in Latin. The collection includes David Hume's De unione tractatus secundus, 1605; William Bradshaw's Treatise of the nature and use of things indifferent, 1605; John Knox's Sermons, 1563; the Recantation of Master Patrick Adamson, 1598; and other short pieces against the authority of bishops addressed to the king. The manuscript also includes Latin poetry on similar religious and political subjects, by such authors as George Buchanan and Joseph Juste Scaliger.
Description:: Binding: limp parchment; leather ties., In Latin and English, often with Scottish spellings., and Stitching loose and some pages missing; incomplete at end.
Subject (Geographic):: Scotland--Politics and government--1625-1649 and Scotland--Religious life and customs
Subject (Name):: Hume, David,--1560?-1630?, Knox, John,--1505-1572, and Scaliger, Joseph Juste,--1540-1609
Subject (Topic):: Latin poetry, Presbyterian Church--Doctrinal and controversial works, and Presbyterian Church--Scotland
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Collection of Scottish Presbyterian tracts and Latin verses, ca. 1563- 1635, Scotland], [ca. 1640].