The Library of Charles Areskine (1680-1763): Scottish Lawyers and Book Collecting, 1700-1760 Karen Grudzien Baston

24 For fuller version of the title see WorldCat, OCLC 67580551: Jani Rutgersii Variarum lectionum libri sex: ad Gustavum II. Suecorum &c. regem.

25 A folio edition was published in Florence in 1704. See WorldCat, OCLC 557747097.

26 EUL note: With half title page: ‘Medicina mentis et corporis’. Shelfmark, *.G.26.1.

27 The ‘Bear Bible’, so called from the printer’s device, was the first translation of the bible into Spanish. See for a digitised version.

28 ‘The Honourable Charles Areskine, His Majesty’s Advocate’ subscribed to this work. See p. xxi.

29 For translations of Bohme published in London between 1647 and 1662 by John Ellistone and John Sparrow, see K. Grudzien Baston, ‘Sparrow, John (1615–1670)’, ODNB (Oxford: OUP, 2004) [accessed 13 October 2010].

30 The place of publication and imprint are ficticious. STCN gives possible place of publication as The Netherlands.

31 The ‘Hon. Charles Areskine Esq; Lord Advocate of Scotland’ subscribed to this work as did his son, ‘Charles Erskine Esq of the Temple’. The Advocates Library also subscribed.

32 Areskine subscribed for this work in its large paper version. He is listed among the subscribers as ‘The Hon. Charles Areskine, of Tinwald, one of the Lords of Session’.

33 Full title from NLS, Nha.N31-32, Historiae Augustae scriptores VI: AElius Spartianus. Vulc. Gallicanus. Julius Capitolinus. Trebell. Pollio. AElius Lampridius. Flavius Vopiscus. /Cum integris notis Isaaci Casauboni, Cl. Salmasii & Jani Gruteri. Cum indicibus locupletissimis rerum ac verborum.

34 With half title: ‘Philosophiæ practiæ Pars prima siue Ethica…’.

35 Full title, WorldCat, OCLC 312106877: Jacobi Maestertii Tractatus tres: quorum primus de lege commissoria in pignoribus, alter de compensationibus, tertius de secundis nuptiis.

36 Purchased at the Seton of Pitmedden sale. NLS MS 3802, f. 30.

37 Purchased at the Seton of Pitmedden sale. NLS MS 3802, f. 31^v.

38 Purchased at the Seton of Pitmedden sale. NLS MS 3802, f. 30v.

39 WorldCat, OCLC 485196669 gives title as Antonii Thysii Memorabilia celebriorum veterum rerumpublicarum: Accessit Tractatus iuris publici de potestate principis.

40 See also AL, Alva Coll., 131: Krag, Niels, Nic. Cragii Ripensis De republica Lacedæmoniorum libri IIII: Ad ampliss. Daniæ Cancellarium. Opus politicarum ac præsertim Græcarum, studiosis, lectu iocundum, nec inutile futurum ([Geneva]: Apud Petrum Santandreanum, 1593); Erskine Bookplate; LAS, l.5.1.

41 NLS note: ‘Also issued as part of: Pleas of the crown, 5th ed., London, 1716’.

42 One copy purchased at the Seton of Pitmedden sale. NLS MS 3802, f. 31^v.

43 I am grateful to Brian Hillyard for this reference.

44 Areskine’s copy (with his bookplate) was offered for sale in The Museum (Winter 2008) for £2,200. It has not yet been reported to the ESTC (as of 16 February 2011).

45 I am grateful to Brian Hillyard for this reference.

46 A copy of this unpublished manuscript survives in the NLS at MS Adv.28.4.7. John Finlay, ‘Foreign litigants before the College of Justice in the sixteenth century’, in Miscellany four by various authors, ed. by Hector L. MacQueen (Edinburgh: Stair Society, 2002), pp. 37-50 (p. 37). For a full description see Gero Dolezalek, Scotland under jus commume: census of manuscripts of legal literature in Scotland, mainly between 1500 and 1660, 2 (Edinburgh: Stair Society, 2010), pp. 353-4.

47 False author and title. The STCN notes that Lodewijk Meiyer’s Philosophia S. Scripturæ interpres (1673) was an ‘Edition with three fictitious titles: F.H. de Villacorta, Opera chirurgica omnia (Amstelodami: Apud J. Paulli, 1673); D. Heinsius, Operum historicorum collectio secunda (Lugd. Batav.: Apud I. Herculis, 1673); and F. Deleboe Sylvius, Totius medicinae idea nova, pars secunda (Amstelodami: Apud C. Gratiani, 1673). Issued as 2nd volume of Benedictus de Spinoza, Tractatus theologico-politicvs (1673) (with fictitious titles) and as part of Idem, 1674’. Meijer’s book, originally published in 1666, was banned by the Dutch Republic along with Spinoza’s Tractatus in 1674. Both works used philosophy ‘to undermine the status of Scripture’. Jonathan I. Israel, Enlightenment contested: philosophy, modernity, and the emancipation of man, 1670-1752 (Oxford: OUP, 2008), p. 34.

48 ‘Mr. Charles Areskine, Advocate’ is listed as a subscriber to this book.

49 False imprint.

50 Jean-Pierre Camus (1584-1652). BNF.

51 Ciro was first performed at the Venice Carnival in 1710. Michael Talbot, ‘Albinoni, Tomaso Giovanni’, in Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, [accessed 27 July 2010].

52 The ‘sic’ in the ESTC record is unnecessary. ‘Preses’ is a Scots term for a ‘president or chairman of a meeting’. From the Latin: præsidēre to preside. Dictionary of the Scots Language. The Society’s Preses at the time of Maxwell’s publication was Sir Thomas Hope of Rankeillor who also provided the preface.

53 Dedicated to Areskine by the author.

54 A copy owned by Areskine was sold by Christies in 1995. Sale 5353, ‘Book Collection’ (15 March 1995), available at http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=246022 [accessed 4 July 2011].

55 The fourth edition of Tom Jones was published in four volumes and dated 1750 despite its publication late in 1749. See R. P. C. Mutter, ‘The text’, in Henry Fielding, The history of Tom Jones, ed. by R. P. C. Mutter (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1987), p. 29.

56 Areskine listed as one of the managers of the Royal Infirmary for 1749 at p. 16.

57 From this description, Areskine evidently had the version printed on vellum. The book was also available printed on linen. See ESTC holdings records.

58 Possibly a relative of James Erskine’s second wife, Jean Stirling.

59 For Chute, see F. D. A. Burns, ‘Chute, Francis (1697–1745)’, ODNB (Oxford: OUP, 2004) [accessed 2 March 2011].

60 For Chute see F. D. A. Burns, ‘Chute, Francis (1697–1745)’, ODNB (Oxford: OUP, 2004) [accessed 2 March 2011].

61 NLS: Place of publication unknown, BM catalogue gives Amsterdam as a possible location; Murdoch and Simpson’s translation of the work (1893) notes that Wishart was staying in The Hague at the time.

62 For Lechmere, see A. A. Hanham, ‘Lechmere, Nicholas, Baron Lechmere (1675–1727)’, ODNB (Oxford: OUP, 2004) [accessed 2 March 2011].

63 See Houghton Library. Houghton Library printed book provenance file, E-K: Index. Availabele at: http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/findingAidDisplay?_collection=oasis&inoid=4079&histno=0

* Date not given. The date is 1675. See VD17 1:043978P.