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mei/00204111 Buchanan e.66(4).
[00204111]
Oxford, Bodleian Library (GB)
: Buchanan e.66(4).
ISTC No.ic00065300
AuthorCalpurnius Siculus, Titus
TitleBucolica. Add: Marcus Aurelius Nemesianus: Bucolica. Ed: Johannes Caron
Provenance nameBuchanan, Thomas Ryburn (1846-1911), 1846 - 1911 of Balliol and All Souls Colleges, Oxford; MP. His widow, Emily Octavia Buchanan, allowed All Souls and the Bodleian to make their selection from his library; see Kidd; Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, ii, 49-50; Craster 286-7; S. Gibson, `Bookbindings in the Buchanan Collection', BLR 2 (1941), 6-12; M. J. Sommerlad, Scottish `Wheel' and `Herring-Bone' Bindings in the Bodleian Library, OBS Occasional Publication, 1 (Oxford, 1967); his coat of arms was added in gilt on the covers of some books: per pale azure and gules, a lion rampant sable, within a double tressure flory counterflory of the third, all within a bordure engrailled or (e.g. on P-465); the correspondence and lists of books from the various Buchanan houses which were then taken by the Bodleian and by All Souls are in the Library Archives (Library Records c. 1026).
ownerBuchanan, Thomas Ryburn (1846-1911), 1846 - 1911 of Balliol and All Souls Colleges, Oxford; MP. His widow, Emily Octavia Buchanan, allowed All Souls and the Bodleian to make their selection from his library; see Kidd; Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, ii, 49-50; Craster 286-7; S. Gibson, `Bookbindings in the Buchanan Collection', BLR 2 (1941), 6-12; M. J. Sommerlad, Scottish `Wheel' and `Herring-Bone' Bindings in the Bodleian Library, OBS Occasional Publication, 1 (Oxford, 1967); his coat of arms was added in gilt on the covers of some books: per pale azure and gules, a lion rampant sable, within a double tressure flory counterflory of the third, all within a bordure engrailled or (e.g. on P-465); the correspondence and lists of books from the various Buchanan houses which were then taken by the Bodleian and by All Souls are in the Library Archives (Library Records c. 1026).