Psalmorum Sacrorum Davidis Libri Quinque Duplici Poetica Metaphrasi, Altera Alteri è Regione Opposita Vario Carminum
by George Buchanan
| Psalmorum Sacorum Davidis | ||
 at the College of William & Mary. |
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| Author | George Buchanan | |
| Translator | George Buchanan | |
| Edition | Precise edition unknown | |
| Desc. | 12mo | |
George Buchanan (1506-1582) was a noted Scottish humanist, historian, and poet.[1] He was educated at St. Andrews University and in Paris. Buchanan's career was characteristically humanistic: that of teacher, tutor for children of nobility, translator, and poet. While a Latin teacher in Paris, his attacks on the Franciscans landed him in jail for heresy. He later escaped and taught in various locations around Europe, where he translated Latin and wrote original dramas.[2] By 1562, Buchanan had returned to Scotland and gained a place in the court of Queen Mary.[3] His place at the Scottish court continued after Mary's abdication and imprisonment, and Buchanan served for some time as one of the tutors to King James.[4]
This is a collection of English Metrical Psalms by which it is meant, that these psalms were used as a collection in the Anglican church tradition.[5] However the book itself was a collection of Latin Psalms, chosen by Buchanan as especially illustrative of religious orthodoxy of Lutheranism of which he was a proponent. [6] Buchanan served as a tutor to Mary, Queen of Scots and later was a high serving official within the Scottish Reformed Church. [7]
Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as "Buchani Psalmorum libri. 12mo." and given by Thomas Jefferson to his grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph. The precise edition owned by Wythe is unknown. George Wythe's Library[8] on LibraryThing indicates as much without making a choice. The Brown Bibliography[9] suggests the 1742 edition of Psalmorum Davidicorum Metaphrasis Graecis versibus contexta per Jacobum Duportum Cantarigensem or the 1686 publication Georgii Buchanani Scoti Poemata in tres Partes digesta. Both of these titles were previously owned by Jefferson.[10]
See also
References
- ↑ The Columbia Encyclopedia, s.v. "Buchanan, George," accessed October 3, 2013.
- ↑ Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, s.v. "Buchanan, George," accessed October 3, 2013.
- ↑ D. M. Abbott, "Buchanan, George (1506–1582)" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, accessed October 8, 2013.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ D. M. Abbott "Buchanan, George (1506-1582)"in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, accessed September 24, 2024.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ LibraryThing, s.v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on April 2110, 2025.
- ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, 2009, rev. 2023.) Microsoft Word file.
- ↑ Sowerby, vol. IV, p. 475, # 4399
