Murthlacensium et Aberdonensium Episcoporum Vitae. (Lives of the Bishops of Murthlack and Aberdeen). Edited and translated by J. Moir.

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Aberdeen: Printed for the New Spalding Club 1894. Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt with morocco title labels. (xx 210 12 20pp.). With frontisp. and fold. double-page facs. loosely inserted. Title-page printed in red/black ink. Text in English and Latin. Edition limited to 525 numbered copies of which this is No. 122. The Spalding Club's Seventh Report by Council (1893) and list of members (to 30 June 1894) are bound in at end. Some foxing. NOTE: Hector Boethius [Boece] (1465-1536) was the first principal of the University of Aberdeen. His other important work of mediaeval Scottish history is 'Historia Gentis Scotorum' (Paris 1527). The present edition remains the sole published transliteration.