0.1 Photograph of recut binding tool depicting armorial supralibros of Alexander Lindsay, 1st Earl of Balcarres. VIII
1.1 Dedicatory inscription in 1194 Philippe de Mornay, Traité de la verité de la religion chretienne (Leiden, 1651) 5
1.2 Front board of 1375 Prymer of Salysbury Use (Rouen, 1538) 8
1.3 Rear board of 1375 Prymer of Salysbury Use (Rouen, 1538) 9
1.4 A child’s drawing in 1375 Prymer of Salysbury Use (Rouen, 1538) 10
1.5 Annotation in 279 Budé, Epistolai ellenikai (Paris, 1567) 12
1.6 Binding of 191 Biblia Rabbinica (Antwerp, 1566) 28
1.7 Manuscript notes in 191 Biblia Rabbinica (Antwerp, 1566) 28
1.8 Later ownership inscription in 862 Horace, Opera (Paris, 1528) 42
1.9 Title page of 862 Horace, Opera (Paris, 1528) 43
1.10 Title page of 1337 Reginald Pole, Pro Ecclesiasticae unitatis defensione (Rome, 1536) 45
1.11 Binding of ‘Collectanea chymica, 1633’, containing 1026, 1258, and 1506 53
2.1 Title page of 185 Bible (Cambridge, 1659) 83
2.2 Fore-edge painting of 185 Bible (Cambridge, 1659) 83
2.3 Title page of 1334 Plutarch (Brescia, 1524) 87
2.4 Grolier binding of 1334 Plutarch (Brescia, 1524) 88
2.5 Gift inscription in 341 The Catechisme (St Andrews, 1552) 94
3.1 Page from the Bell and Bradfute ledger recording purchases at the Balcarres sale, 1792 115
3.2 Advertisement of the library’s sale in the Edinburgh Evening Courant 116
3.3 Title page of the 1792 sale catalogue 119
3.4 Front board of the 866 Hore beatissime virginis Marie (Paris, 1535) 123
3.5 Back board of the 866 Hore beatissime virginis Marie (Paris, 1535) 124
3.6 Spine of the 866 Hore beatissime virginis Marie (Paris, 1535) 124
3.7 Fore-edge of the 866 Hore beatissime virginis Marie (Paris, 1535) 124
3.8 Provenance 3.1: Signature of Sir David Lindsay of Edzell in 1543 John Skene, Lawes and Actes of Parliament (Edinburgh, 1597) 125
3.9 Provenance 3.2: Binding for Sir David Lindsay of Edzell on sammelband containing 183 and 353 126
3.10 Provenance 3.3: Binding for Sir David Lindsay of Edzell on 262 Barnabé Brisson’s De verborum significatione (Paris, 1596) 126
3.11 Provenance 4.1: Signature of John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir on 55 Apian, Instrumentum sinuum (Nürnberg, 1541) 127
3.12 Provenance 4.2: Variant signature of John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir on 1607 Bernard Tasso, Lettere (Venice, 1580) 127
3.13 Provenance 4.3: Binding for John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir on 1644 Turnèbe, Adversariorum libri triginta (Paris, 1573–80) 128
3.14 Provenance 4.4: Binding for John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir on 191 Biblia Rabbinica (Antwerp, 1566) 129
3.15 Provenance 5.1: Signature of Robert Lindsay in 943 Juvenal and Persius, Satyrae (Basel, 1551) 130
3.16 Provenance 5.2: Variant signature of Robert Lindsay in 174 de Besse, Heraclitus Christianus (Cologne, 1615) 130
3.17 Provenance 5.3: Binding for Robert Lindsay on 1712 Pontanus, Symbolorum libri XVII (Augsburg, 1599) 130
3.18 Provenance 6.1: Signature of David Lindsay, 1st Lord Lindsay of Balcarres in 344 Catullus, &c., Opera omnia (Paris, 1604) 131
3.19 Provenance 6.2: Variant signature of David Lindsay, 1st Lord Lindsay of Balcarres in 1548 Thomas Smeton, Ad virulentum Archibaldi Hamiltonii apostatæ dialogum (Edinburgh, 1579) 131
3.20 Provenance 6.3: Variant signature of David Lindsay, 1st Lord Lindsay of Balcarres in 830 Heydon, A Defence of Judiciall Astrologie (London, 1603) 132
3.21 Provenance 6.4: Variant signature of David Lindsay, 1st Lord Lindsay of Balcarres in 224 Bodin, De magorum daemonomiani libri IV (Basel, 1581) 132
3.22 Provenance 6.5: ‘Astra castra’ tool on binding for David Lindsay, 1st Lord Lindsay of Balcarres on 245 The Booke of Common Prayer (London, 1634) 133
3.23 Provenance 6.6: Armorial supralibros for David Lindsay, 1st Lord Lindsay of Balcarres on 1624 Thucydides, Peloponnesian Warre (London, n.d.) 134
3.24 Provenance 6.7: Variant binding for David Lindsay, 1st Lord Lindsay of Balcarres on 941 Juvenal (Augsburg, 1599) 135
3.25 Provenance 7.1: Signature of Anna Mackenzie, Countess of Balcarres, as ‘Anne Balcares’ in 1194 de Mornay, Traité de la vérité de la religion chrétienne (Leiden, 1651) 136
3.26 Provenance 7.2: Signature of Anna Mackenzie, Countess of Balcarres, as ‘Anna Argyll’ in 140 Baxter, Reliquiae Baxteriaenae (London, 1696) 136
3.27 Provenance 8: Signature of Colin Lindsay, 3rd Earl of Balcarres in 1068 Lucretius, De rerum natura libri sex (Antwerp, 1565–66) 136
3.28 Provenance 9: Signature of Margaret Campbell, Countess of Balcarres in 1110 Manley, Secret Memoirs (London, 1709) 137
3.29 An expensive purchase: 1301 Philostratus, Les images (Paris, 1629) 142
3.30 Detail from List V, showing catchword at bottom of page, NLS MS Acc. 9769/14/2/4 144
3.31 Detail from List VIII, showing its alphabetical organisation, NLS MS Acc. 9769/14/2/5 145
3.32 Dates of publication 156
3.33 Places of publication to 1641 158
3.34 Principal places of publication to 1641 158
3.35 Places of publication, 1641–1722 159
3.36 Places of publication after 1722 160
4.1 Example of annotations in 140 Baxter, Reliquiae Baxterianae (London, 1696) 185
4.2 Annotation in 224 Bodin, De magorum daemonomania libri IV (Basel, 1581) 199
4.3 Binding of 245 The Booke of Common Prayer (London, 1634) 202
4.4 Comparison of bindings of 384 Cicero, Oratio pro lege Manilia (Paris, 1519) and 806 Peter Hay, An Advertisement (Aberdeen, 1627) 223
4.5 ditto 223
4.6 Annotation in 464 Demosthenes, O kata aristokratous logos (Paris, 1571) 235
4.7 Supralibros on 486 Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitatum sive originum Romanarum libri x (Basel, 1549) 239
4.8 A well-owned copy of 565 Erasmus, Apophthegmatum opus (Paris, 1533) 250
4.9 Bookplates in 806 Hay, An Advertisement (Aberdeen, 1627) 283
4.10 Binding of 941 Juvenal, Satyrarum libri quinque (Augsburg, 1599) 302
4.11 Bookplate in 967 Kirchmann, De funeribus Romanorum (Hamburg, 1605) 306
4.12 Binding of 1067 Lucretius, De rerum natura (Lyon, 1546) 321
4.13 Spine of 1067 Lucretius, De rerum natura (Lyon, 1546) 322
4.14 Title page of 1100 Michel Maier, Tripus aureus (Frankfurt, 1618) 327
4.15 Title page of 1191 Guillaume Morel, De verbis anomalis (Paris, 1553) 341
4.16 Ownership inscriptions on title page of 1269 Parrhasius, Commentarius (Basel, 1539) 353
4.17 Recto of manuscript binding waste in 1269 Parrhasius, Commentarius (Basel, 1539) 354
4.18 Verso of manuscript binding waste in 1269 Parrhasius, Commentarius (Basel, 1539) 355
4.19 Ownership inscription on title page of 1317 Plato, Opera omnia (Geneva, 1578) 363
4.20 Title page of 1342 Pomponius Mela, De situ orbis (Paris, 1557) 367
4.21 Ownership inscription in 1355 Guillaume Postel, De republique des Turcs (Poitiers, 1560) 370
4.22 Dedicatory inscription in 1543 John Skene, Lawes and Actes of Parliament (Edinburgh, 1597) 395