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The catalogue and appendix of other owners have not been indexed as both are alphabetical.

Aberdeen 93
Advocates, Faculty of 110
Aikman, William 11
alchemy 48–55
Alesius, Alexander 12
Ammirato, Scipio 32
Amsterdam 44
Ancients and Moderns, Quarrel of 107
Anderson, J. 39
von Anhalt, Christian 60
Anne of Denmark, Queen of Scotland and England 51
Anne, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland 108
Antwerp 41, 59
aristocracy, Scottish 35–36
Arques, Château d’ 25
Ashmole, Elias 52
astronomy 55–56
Auchmutie, Alexander 89–90
Auchmutie, Sir David of that Ilk 80, 90n.40
Ayton, David 64
Backhouse, William 52
Baillie, William 66–67
Balcarres House
acquisition of by Lord Menmuir 20–22
auction of books from (1792) 114–117
decay of the library at 113
Earl Colin’s continental books, art, and furniture installed 108
library there saved by Anne Halkett 69–70
marriage feast of Argyll at 81
searched by Cromwellians 71
simultaneous residence of Episcopal and Catholic clergy at 108–109
surviving early books at 113–114
Balcarres lute book 97–98
Balcarres State Papers 24–27, 109–110
Ballantyne, Steine 34
Barnard, Anne 46, 98, 111
Baron, Robert 93
Baxter, Richard 71, 74, 81
Bayle, Pierre 106
Bassendyne, James 58
Beck, John Walter 98
Ball and Bradfute 114, 152–153
Bellenden, John 27
de Berles, Barbara 25
de Berles, Garlache, seigneur de Guignicourt 25
de Berles, Odet 25
Borthwick, David 20, 26
Bothwell, Adam, Bishop of Orkney 31, 47
Bowes, Sir Robert 61
Boyd, Mark Alexander
Epistolae heroides, et hymni 32
Brahe, Tycho 56, 58
Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Heinrich Julius, Duke of 51, 60
Bristoll, Jhone 54
Bruce, Sir George of Culross 17
Buchanan, George 51
Budé, Guillaume
Epistolai ellenikai 4, 11
Calder, Sir John of Calder 7
Calder, Muriel, heiress of Calder 7
Cambridge 11–13
Campbell, Archibald, 2nd Earl of Argyll 7
Campbell, Archibald, 9th Earl of Argyll 72, 81, 97
Campbell, Catherine, Lady Edzell 6–8, 30
Campbell, Donald, Abbot of Coupar Angus 7–8
Campbell, James, 2nd Earl of Loudoun 96–97
Campbell, Jean 96
Campbell, Jean, Countess of Panmure 97
Campbell, Sir John of Lorne 7
Campbell, John, 1st Earl of Loudoun 97
Campbell, Katherine, Countess of Crawford 122–123
Campbell, Margaret, Countess of Balcarres
Balcarres lute book, her role in the compilation of 97–98
books, her 79
death 112
description of, by her granddaughter 98
early life 96–97
in exile on the continent 104
intercedes on behalf of her husband 96
literary tastes 98
provenance markings of 135
residence with the Earl of Panmure, possible 97
Carnegie, David, 2nd Earl of Northesk 82
Carnegie, Jean, Countess of Balcarres 82–84, 89–90
Carstares, William 105
Cassander, George 35
Catherine de Medici, Queen of France 24
Catullus 33
Charles I, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland 34
Charles II, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland 67–68, 75, 83–84
Cheyne, James of Arnage 58
Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough 108, 111
Cicero 33
Clark, Sir William 72
Le Clerc, Jean 106
coal 16–17
Coke, Thomas 49
de Coligny, Gaspard 10
Columella 19
Constable, David 93
Coryat, Thomas 43
Cowley, Abraham 76–77
Craig, John 58
Craig, Sir Thomas 58
Crawford Muir 17, 21, 23
Creech, Thomas 86
Croll, Oswald 60
Cromwell, Oliver 67, 72–73
Cujas, Jacques 86
Cummyng, James 148
Damian de Falcuis, John 50
Dee, Arthur 49
Delitiae poetarum Scotorum 32
Demosthenes 4
Denton, William 71
Dieppe 10–11
Douglas, James, 2nd Duke of Queensberry 107–108
Douglas, James, 4th Earl of Morton 26
Douglas, Sir Robert of Glenbervie 100
Douglas, William of Tofts 57n.179
Drummond, Anne, Countess of Erroll 100
Drummond, James, 1st Duke of Perth 100, 102–104
Drummond, Patrick, 3rd Lord Drummond 6
Drummond, William of Hawthornden 32
Du Fay, Michel 86
Dundee 58–59, 67
Edinburgh 40, 42
Elliot, Cornelius 117–118, 148–149
Ennius 33
Erskine, George of Innertiel 47, 51–55, 60
Erskine, Henry, Master of Cardross 31
Erskine, John of Dun 25
Erskine, John, 2nd Earl of Mar 51
Erskine, Thomas, 1st Earl of Kellie 51
Essemer, Gerard 17
Estienne, Charles 19
Estienne, Henri 41
Fechtenburg, Bernard 17–18
Fergusone, Robert 40
Fleming, John, 6th Earl of Wigtown 98
Forret, David 62–63, 81, 92
Fouler, Ludovic 62
Foulis, Thomas 21
Franciscans, Observant, house in Edinburgh 3
Galilei, Galileo 58–59
Geddes, Jenny 66
Giphanius, Obertus 85–86
Glenesk 18
de Gorris, Jean 4
Gourlay, Sir Thomas of Kincraig 80
Graham, James, Marquess of Montrose 63, 66–67
Graham, John, 1st Viscount Dundee 90, 95
Gray, Patrick, 4th Lord Gray 15–16
Gray, Patrick, Master of Gray 26
Grolier, Jean 87–89
Guicciardini, Francesco 40
Guillon, René 11
de Guines, Enguerrand, sieur de Coucy 3
Guthrie, Alexander 20
Guthrie, Margaret, Lady Menmuir 20, 26, 33, 122–123
The Hague 69
Halkett, Anne, née Murray 69–71, 73
Halyburton, George, Bishop of Dunkeld 92
Hamburg 99–100
Hannay, James 66
Hay, William, Bishop of Moray 89, 92–93
Henri II, King of France 24
Henryson, Janet 20
Hilderston 17
Home, Alexander, 1st Earl of Home 66
Howard, Elizabeth, Duchess of Gordon 110
Hume, James 57
Hume, Patrick of Polwarth 41
Huniades, Johannes 52
Inchbrakie manuscript 37
Irland, Bonaventure 44
Irland, Robert 44
Irving, David 110
James IV, King of Scots 17, 50
James VI and I, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland 19–20, 35, 51
James VII and II, King of Scotland, England, and Ireland 82, 95–96, 102–103
Johnson alias Terret, William 80
Johnston, Arthur 32n.90
Justinian
Institutes 36
Juvenal 33, 36
Kelley, Sir Edward 60
Kennedy, Sir Andrew 105
Kepler, Johann 58–59, 73
Kerr, Jean, Countess of Balcarres 96
Kerr, Robert, 1st Earl of Ancram 41
Kerr, William, 2nd Earl of Roxburghe 96
Kilconquhar 80
Killiecrankie, Battle of 96
Knox, John 11, 18, 29–30
de La Marck, Henri-Robert, Duc de Bouillon 11, 25
Lambin, Denis 85–86
Lauder, John, Lord Fountainhall 92
Lawn, Brian 117–118
Lawson, James 8–14, 25, 28
lawyers, Scottish 41
Leo, Johannes 59–60
Leslie, John, Bishop of Ross 24
Leslie, John, 6th Earl of Rothes 32, 63
libraries, Scottish
aristocratic 31–2
clerical 31–2
foreign purchases necessary to build 40
Liddel, Duncan 58
Lindsay, Alexander, 1st Earl of Balcarres
childhood love of books 63
created Earl of Balcarres 67
death 69
education 62
elegised by Cowley 76–77
epitomises Calvin 40
friendship with Lauderdale 64–65
in exile 68–69
Presbyterianism, his 68
repurposes father’s armorial supralibros 65
serves in the Covenanting army 66–67
serves in the Royalist army 67
signs the Covenant 66
Lindsay, Alexander, 4th Earl of Balcarres 111
Lindsay, Alexander, 6th Earl of Balcarres 114
Lindsay, Alexander William Crawford, 25th Earl of Crawford & 8th Earl of Balcarres 113
Lindsay, Anne (Sister Ann Teresa, OAD) 74, 80–81
Lindsay, Charles, 2nd Earl of Balcarres 75, 78, 80–81
Lindsay, Christian, dame de Coucy 3
Lindsay, Colin, 3rd Earl of Balcarres
advice book given by his mother 38, 75
advised by his mother 74–75
art, a collector of 109
begins collecting books 84–89
book buying on the continent 99–102
court, sojourn at 81–84
death 111
donates Lord Menmuir’s state papers to the Advocates Library 109–110
early life 80–81
ecumenicism 93, 100–102, 105, 109
fiction in his library 99
flees to the continent 99
gift from Robert Francis Strachan 93–95
history, French, reading in 103–104
history, world, reading in 91–92
illness in prison 96
Jacobite rebellion of 1715, joins 111
library, his, difficulties in reconstructing 78–79
Lucretius, engagement with 85–87
marries Jean Carnegie 83–84
marries Mauritia van Nassau 82
mathematics, reading in 111
Memoirs 39–40, 102–103, 110
philosophy, reading in 106–107
political miscellany owned by 39
provenance markings of 135
purchases, dateable and priced 142–143
Royalist in the Revolution of 1688 95–96
Scotland, attempts to return to 105–108
Scottish Episcopal Church, advocates for 108
statecraft, reading in 90–91
suppresses Presbyterian radicals 90
sword given him by Lauderdale 75
Lindsay, Colin, Lord Cummerland 89–90, 108
Lindsay, David, 1st Lord Lindsay of Balcarres
acquires his brother Robert’s library 61
alchemy, study of 48–55
books bought in France 44
books bought in Scotland 41–42
ecumenicism 44–46
education 33–36
epitomises Guicciardini 40
gift from William Drummond 32–33
provenance markings of 131–135
purchases, dateable and priced 138–142
scientific works in his library 55–60
Stoicism, his 60–61
studies at the Sorbonne 36
travels 60
witchcraft, interest in 46–47
Lindsay, David, 9th Earl of Crawford 5–6
Lindsay, David, 10th Earl of Crawford 13
Lindsay, David, 12th Earl of Crawford 36
Lindsay, David, Bishop of Edinburgh 66
Lindsay, Sir David, Lord Edzell
educater, possibly, of his nephew 33
Education 9–13
education of his children 34
Gardens 18–20
Library 14–16, 22
owner of the Inchbrakie MS 37
provenance markings of 124–125
Lindsay, David of Edzell (younger) 36
Lindsay, Elizabeth, Lady Drummond 6
Lindsay, Helen, Lady Edzell 13
Lindsay, Henrietta 39, 74
Lindsay, Ingelram, Bishop of Aberdeen 3
Lindsay, James, 5th Earl of Balcarres 108, 111–112
Lindsay, James, Archdeacon of Aberdeen 3
Lindsay, James Ludovic, 26th Earl of Crawford & 9th Earl of Balcarres 113
Lindsay, James, Minister of Fettercairn 6
Lindsay, Janet, Lady Auchmutie 80
Lindsay, John of Balcarres, Lord Menmuir
archive 24–27
Balcarres, additions to 22
education 9–14
engineering attempts 16–17
Greek learning 27
Hebrew learning 27
legal career 20–22
library 22
metallurgical interests 21, 23
political career 23–24, 29
provenance markings of 125–127
purchases, dateable and priced 137–138
religion 29–30
works 22
Lindsay, Sir John of Balinscho 62
Lindsay Library
bibliometrics of 155–160
book lists of 143–146
Catalogue (1792) 117–120, 147–148
organisation of 146–147, 150–151
prices paid for 152–153
provenance markings in 121–137
reconstruction 120–161
unique or rare items in 156–157
Lindsay, Margaret, Countess of Atholl 6
Lindsay, Margaret, Countess of Wigtown 98
Lindsay, Robert 6, 15
Lindsay, Robert, Abbot of Peterborough 3
Lindsay, Robert, brother of David, Lord Lindsay 61–62, 128–131
Lindsay, Robert of Balcarres 114
Lindsay, Robert of Pitscottie 38–39
Lindsay, Sophia 63, 72, 74
Lindsay, Walter of Balgowie 6, 15, 36, 60
Lock, Henry 18–19
London 11, 40, 42–44
Louvain 60
Lucas, M. (bookseller in Paris) 103
Lucretius 85–87
Lumisdane, Robert 15
Lumsden, Charles, Minister of Duddingston 15–16
Lyndsay, Sir David of the Mount 4, 41, 73, 114
Maastricht 100
Mackenzie, Anna, Countess of Balcarres 4
advises her son Colin 74–75
gives book to daughter-in-law 82
governess to William III 69
grieved at her daughter’s conversion 80–81
intrepidity, her 71–72
marries Alexander Lindsay 63–64
marries the Earl of Argyll 81
pension unpaid 75
provenance markings of 135
returns to Balcarres 74
writes advice book 38, 75
Mackenzie, Colin, 1st Earl of Seaforth 63, 80
Mackenzie, George, 1st Earl of Cromartie 51
Mackenzie, George, 2nd Earl of Seaforth 63
Maidment, James 110
Maitland, John, 1st Duke of Lauderdale 47, 62–67, 71, 74–75, 82
manuscript culture, Scottish 36–41
Marie de Guise, Queen of Scots 7–8, 24–25
Mary, Queen of Scots 27
Maule, George, 2nd Earl of Panmure 97
Maule, Harry, 5th Earl of Panmure 97
Maule, James, 4th Earl of Panmure 97
Maxwell, John of Southbar 33, 57
Maynwaring, Arthur 39
Melville, Andrew 27–28
Melville, George, 1st Earl of Melville 96
ministers, Scottish 41
Mögling, Daniel 54
Monck, George 72
Montgomerie, Sir James of Skelmorlie 99
Montgomerie, Margaret, Countess of Loudoun 96–97
de Montmorency, Anne 25
Moray, Sir Robert 63, 81
de Mornay, Philippe 4, 82
van Naersson, Guillaume 16–18
Napier, Sir Archibald of Merchiston 17, 21, 47
Napier, Francis 21
Napier, John of Merchiston 17, 31, 34, 56–58
Napier, Robert 50
van Nassau, Lodewijk, Heer van Beverweerd 82
van Nassau, Mauritia, Countess of Balcarres 4, 82
Northberge, Sebald 17
Ogilvy, James of Airlie 7
Ogilvy, James, Master of Ogilvy 7
Orange, Mary, Princess of 69
Ovid 33
Palladio, Andrea 35
Paris 11, 14, 40, 43–44
Parker, Matthew, Archbishop of Canterbury 24
Paterson, John, Archbishop of Glasgow 108–109
Pellitius, Jodocus 51, 60
Perth 92
Peterson, Abraham 17
Petre, Edward SJ 102
Petrie, Robert 61
Philip II, King of Spain 27
Pinkie House 34
Plautus 33
Poitiers 44
de Poitiers, Diane 24
de Ponsard, Charles, Sieur de Fors 10
Pont, Robert 34, 56
Pont, Timothy 21, 34
Prague 59–60
Propertius 33
Quaritch, Bernard 4
Ray, John 32n.90
Roghe, Eustathius 17
Rome 34
Rose, Alexander, Bishop of Edinburgh 92
Rose, Arthur, Archbishop of St Andrews 92
Rosicrucianism 53–54, 81
Ruddiman, Thomas 110
Ruthven, Patrick 50
Ruthven, William, 1st Earl of Gowrie 47
St Andrews 13, 32, 44, 62–63
St Germain 102–103, 105
Sallust 33, 36
Savile, George, 1st Marquess of Halifax 38
Scot, Sir John of Scotstarvit 20, 32, 39, 62n.202
Scots College, Douai 102
Scott, John of Halkshill 38
Scott, Walter, 1st Earl of Buccleuch 31
de Scudéry, Georges 91
Seget, Thomas 59–60
Sendivogius, Michael 50
Seneca 33
Serlio, Sebastiano 35
Seton, Alexander, 1st Earl of Dunfermline 15, 17
Catholicism, his 34
dedicatee of mathematical texts 57
descendants 63
educater, possibly, of Lord Lindsay 33–34
employs Thomas Seget 59
library 34–35, 47, 59–60
Seton, Alexander ‘the Cosmopolite’ 50
Seton, Charles, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline 63, 69
Seton, Isobel 62
Seton, Margaret, Countess of Seaforth 63
Seton, Sophia, Lady Lindsay of Balcarres 34, 46
Seton, William 60
Skene, Sir John 22
Smeddel, Martin 17, 26
Solebay, Battle of 82
de Sorbière, Samuel 81
Spence, David 148
Stevens, Edmond 18
Stevenson, Thomas G. 4
Stewart, John, 1st Earl of Atholl 6
Stewart, Sir William of Luthrie 47
Stoicism, neo- 60–61
Strachan, Robert Francis 93–95
Strathauchine, John 34
Talbot, Mary 49
Terence 33
Thurneysser, Leonhard 49
Tibullus 33
Tyrie, James SJ 29–30
Utrecht 106
Vitruvius 17
Vaughan, Anne 18–19
Vaughan, Thomas 53–54
de Vos, Cornelius 17
Wacker, Johann Mattheus 59
Walker, Adam 40
Wedderburn, James 58–59
Wells, Samuel 4
Wemyss, John, 1st Earl of Wemyss 32
Weston, Elizabeth Jane 60
William III, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland 69, 95, 108
Williamson, Sir Joseph 106
witchcraft 46–48
Wittich, Paul 58
Wodrow, Robert 39
Worcester College, Oxford 72
Young, Peter 51
Ziegler, Hans 17–18
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