. History of the Bassandyne Bible, the first printed in Scotland with notices of the early printers of Edinburgh. z fflcollign Carge. etc iFIgting of Sunftar anH IStmnelig. 2El^e STtoa iHariit Wizmtix antj tl^e SMclio. E\)z Ballab of SLortJ Barnarti Stetoatt. 2ri)£ QTraitic of ©rpljeus Iting. ^ne Bufee of ffiutJ ffl:oun0al£. 2ri)e fEagfng, or ©fsport of CITfjauccr. Sir lEglamour of ^rteas. a ffiest of iaotign f^otic. Cte Portcous of WoWenes. The ^tintirxQ in (E^infiutg^. 77 The two works above-named, the Breviary andthe Ballads, were long thought to have been theearliest in which My liar had b
. History of the Bassandyne Bible, the first printed in Scotland with notices of the early printers of Edinburgh. z fflcollign Carge. etc iFIgting of Sunftar anH IStmnelig. 2El^e STtoa iHariit Wizmtix antj tl^e SMclio. E\)z Ballab of SLortJ Barnarti Stetoatt. 2ri)£ QTraitic of ©rpljeus Iting. ^ne Bufee of ffiutJ ffl:oun0al£. 2ri)e fEagfng, or ©fsport of CITfjauccr. Sir lEglamour of ^rteas. a ffiest of iaotign f^otic. Cte Portcous of WoWenes. The ^tintirxQ in (E^infiutg^. 77 The two works above-named, the Breviary andthe Ballads, were long thought to have been theearliest in which My liar had been engaged asthe printer; but at Paris in 1869 a book entitled. DEVICE OF ANDROW MYLLAR. Expositio Sequentiarum (dated 1506) was exposedfor sale, which, though not indicating where or bywhom it was printed, contains the name of AndrowMyllar on the sill of the device, while the types are identical 78 t^e Q0a06an^gne (J$i6fe. identical with those used by Laurence Hostingueof Rouen, and also afterwards by Myllar. Thebook was bought for the British Museum for ;^, in 1878, there was found in a private libraryat Dinant, in Bretagne, a black-letter quarto of 62folios, the Latin title of which means, The Inter-pretation of many ambiguous words, by MasterJohn of Garland, indispensably needful to theGrammarian and lover of Latin, &c., and havingthe colophon and device of Andrew Myllar ofScotland, in the year of the Christian Redemption,One Thousand Five Hundred and Five. Evidentlythis also was printed at Rouen. These discoverieshave led to the conjecture that at the time whenKing James bought the books from Myllaris wyf,Androw himself was abroad
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