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Title: Account of the affairs of Scotland, 1688 91: Autograph ms. about 1692 /Balcarres.
Creator: Balcarres, Colin Lindsay, Earl of, 1652-1722.
Contributor: MacMath, William, 1844-1922, former owner.
Brodie, George, 1786?-1867, former owner.
Kinnear, Catherine M., d. 1988, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: ca. 1692.
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Title from spine. Manuscript. Published as: An account of the affairs of Scotland, relating to the revolution in 1688, as sent to the late King James II, when in France. London : Printed for J. Baker, 1714. Considerable paper conservation work done to first 14 pages of text.
Scope/Content: Early manuscript copy of Balcarres' Account of the affairs of Scotland, which circulated widely in manuscript copies until its 1714 publication. This is apparently a copy made by or for Balcarres from his original autograph manuscript. The former owners of this particular volume form a list of respected Scottish scholars and local historians.
Condition: Bound in 19th century navy blue morocco with marbled endpapers.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Memoirs
Presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
Bookplates (Provenance)
Extent: [14], 124 p., bound ;20 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1060s
MS.1993.002
Language: English
eng
Place: Scotland
Provenance: Bookplate of William Macmath on front paste-down endpaper; Bookplate of Catherine Kinnear on verso of front free endpaper.|Probably 19th century presentation inscription to "George Brodie, Esqr, Advocate" on p. [13]
Location: CLUW

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