Scotichronicon genuinum, una cum eiusdem supplemento ac continuatione.

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A large- and fine-paper copy of the first separate printing of the earliest attempt to write a continuous history of Scotland, by the fourteenth-century chronicler John of Fordun. Properly speaking this work should be titled 'Chronica Gentis Scotorum'; it was substantially expanded and retitled 'Scotichronicon' by Walter Bower (c.1385-1449), abbot of Inchcolm Abbey, which work was first published a quarter century after this edition. Fordun's chronicle had initially been printed in one of Thomas Gale's compilations of historical texts, and here is edited by the English antiquary Thomas Hearne.
This copy is one of a presumably small number printed on larger, thicker paper, though the subscriber's list does not identify special copies. It bears the bookplate of Ingestre Hall, at the time of publication in the ownership of Walter, Viscount Chetwynd (1678-1736), later passing to a relation by marriage who became Baron Talbot, but neither names appear in the subscriber's list.