Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 1, Part II

Daryl Green is Associate Director for Heritage Collections and Co-Director of the Centre for Research Collections at the University of Edinburgh. Daryl has worked professionally with manuscripts and early printed books at York Minster Library, the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), the University of St Andrews and Oxford. He has published on early Scottish book ownership, the history of science communication and on professional topics such as exhibition theory and image rights. Alastair Mann in Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Stirling. Previous books include The Scottish Book Trade, 1500-1720 (John Donald, 2000) and James VII: Duke and King of Scots, 1633-1701 (John Donald, 2014). He was co-editor of the three-volume The History of the Scottish Parliament (EUP, 2004-2010). Joseph Marshall is Director of Collections Management at the National Library of Scotland. He trained as a rare books librarian and was Head of Special Collections at Edinburgh University Library for five years. His research interests include the writings of King James VI & I and he co-edited the edition published by Ashgate in 2003. His professional interests include digitisation, preservation and metadata. Emily Wingfield is Professor of English and Older Scots Literature at the University of Birmingham. She specialises in Older Scots romance, manuscript culture, and women’s literary culture, with key publications including The Trojan Legend in Medieval Scottish Literature (2014) and the Saltire-shortlisted Scotland’s Royal Women and European Literary Culture 1424-1587 (2023). She is now working on an Anglophone critical edition and translation of the writings of Mary, Queen of Scots.

This collection wonderfully captures Scotland’s vibrant reading cultures, from the people who patronised book production, to the founding of libraries, to the genres encountered by readers. A must for every historian’s bookshelf.

• List of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsChronologySeries Editor's PrefaceIntroduction: Networks, Collections and GenreDaryl Green, Alastair J. Mann, Joseph Marshall and Emily WingfieldPart V: Individuals, Institutions and Networks5.1 Patrons, Owners and CollectorsRoyal Patronage to 1603Emily WingfieldProfile: The Sinclair ManuscriptsJulia Boffey and A. S. G. EdwardsProfile: Books Belonging to Bishop William Elphinstone (1431-1514)Jane PiriePrivate Libraries: Seventeenth-century Book CollectionsMurray C. T. SimpsonProfile: Book Ownership and Circulation in Scottish Burgh and Notarial Records, 1500-1700Thomas BrochardFemale Book Ownership and Networks from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth CenturyJoanna Martin and Emily WingfieldProfile: Esther Inglis (1570?-1624)Georgianna ZieglerAuction CataloguesKelsey Jackson WilliamsProfile: The Library of James Nairn (1629-78)Murray C. T. SimpsonProfile: William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649), Book CollectorElizabeth Henderson5.2 Institutions and LibrariesThe Ownership of Manuscripts and Printed Books: Institutions and Libraries pre-1603Allan KennedyInstitutional Libraries: Seventeenth-century Book CollectionsMurray C. T. SimpsonProfile: Royal Libraries to 1603Rosalind K. MarshallProfile: Buying a Library for King James VIAlexandra PlaneEarly Lending Libraries: Borrowing Books in Scotland before c. 1700Karen BastonProfile: Robert Leighton and his LibraryGordon WillisScotland’s Library Catalogues of the Seventeenth CenturyMurray C. T. SimpsonPart VI: Key Genres6.1 The Books of Scripture and LiturgyThe Medieval Scottish Devotional BookTom TurpieScripture and Liturgy before 1560Alasdair A. MacDonaldTheology, Sermons and Controversy to 1560Stephen Mark HolmesProfile: The Lost Gaelic BibleRonald BlackScripture and Liturgy, 1560-c. 1700David MullanThe Debate over Faith: Controversy, Theology and Sermons c. 1580-1707David MullanProfile: Greek and Hebrew PrintingKelsey Jackson Williams6.2 History, Chronicles and RomancePre-modern Scottish RomanceRhiannon PurdieHistoriography: Manuscript ChroniclesMichael PenmanScottish Historiography in Print 1500–1707Nicola RoyanProfile: The Manuscripts of Walter Bower’s ScotichroniconKate Ash-Irisarri6.3 From Print to PerformanceMusic and Song to c. 1700David J. ParkinsonProfile: Robert Carver and The Carver ChoirbookJames Cook6.4 Literature and VerseLiterary Anthologies, c. 1500-1603Joanna MartinProfile: David Lyndsay, The WarkisJanet Hadley WilliamsProfile: The Manuscripts of William FowlerAllison SteensonLiterary Anthologies in Manuscript in Seventeenth-century ScotlandDavid J. Parkinson6.5 Science and MedicinePre-Reformation Medicine and ScienceTom TurpieProfile: The Importance of Marginalia: Copernicus’ On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres in ScotlandJohn HenryRenaissance to Restoration: Medical and Scientific BooksHelen Dingwall and John HenryProfile: Peter Lowe’s Discourse: A Pioneering Surgical BookHelen DingwallProfile: John Napier’s Rabdologia (1617)Richard J. Oosterhoff6.6 Law, Philosophy and LearningPhilosophy in Pre-Reformation ScotlandAlexander BroadieThe Law in Manuscript and PrintJohn FinlayProfile: Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh (c. 1636-91)Clare JacksonUniversity BooksIsobel Goodman and Graham Hogg6.7 Politics, Current Affairs and InformationGovernance and Record Keeping in Manuscript and PrintAmy BlakewayPolitical Thought in Early Modern ScotlandAlasdair RaffeProfile: King James VI and I and Basilikon DoronEric LindquistNews and Information PublishingAlastair J. MannCurrent Affairs and Political Dialogue in the Seventeenth CenturyAllan I. MacinnesA Century of Almanacs and Prognostications in ScotlandAlastair J. MannScotland in Maps and AtlasesAlastair J. Mann6.8 Lives, Letters and Cheap PrintLife-writing in Early Modern ScotlandTricia A. McElroyThe Culture of Letters in Early Modern ScotlandHelen Newsome-Chandler and Jade ScottProfile: Speaking with the Pen: the Breadalbane Letters 1548-83Jane DawsonPrinted Ephemera: Administrative and CommercialAdam FoxVernacular Literature and Cheap PrintAdam FoxContributorsSecondary BibliographyIndex