Daemonologie in form of a dialogue [manuscript], ca. 1592.

[14], 110 p. ; 20 x 16 cm

Treatise by James VI of Scotland. Fair copy in scribal hand (possibly that of his childhood friend Sir James Sempill), with extensive autograph additions and corrections by James VI, largely incorporated in the printed edition of 1597 (STC 14364). Additional revisions are possibly in the hand of James Carmichael.

Printer's waste in binding.
For the attribution of the third hand to James Carmichael see Dunlap article.
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"The pen's excellencie" : treasures from the manuscript collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library / compiled and edited by Heather Wolfe. Seattle : Distributed by University of Washington Press, 2002, p. 56-58.
For further information on this manuscript and the identification of the scribe as Sir James Sempill, see letter from J. Craigie, January 25, 1977, and his edition of James I's Minor prose works, 1982, p. 172.
Dunlap, Rhodes. "King James and some witches: the date and text of the Daemonologie," Philological Quarterly, 54, No. 1 (Winter 1975), p. 40-46.

Bound in limp vellum with the Crown and initials I.R. on the covers.

John Pinkerton -- Beckford -- Phillipps 2713 MS.
Watermark: crown over IR6.

Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 1125.1
Phillipps, T. Phillipps manuscripts, 2713

Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library V.a.185
Microfilm image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library V.a.185

Great Britain -- Scotland.

V.a.185

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