Adam KING (1560–1620), Scottish humanist, Neo-Latin poet, and scholar. L.A.S. “Adamus Regius,” Edinburgh, April 1, 1614, to the printer François Rapheleng in Leiden; 1 folio page in Latin.

Regarding the publication of the poems of George Buchanan (1506–1582), a Scottish poet, playwright, and humanist. The letter is addressed to François Rapheleng (1568–1643), son of François I Rapheleng (1539–1597, who had married a daughter of Christophe Plantin, Marguerite), who had succeeded him (and his brother Christophe, who died in 1600) at the Leiden printing house.
“Our Buchananus, the most illustrious of the Rapheleng printers, is compiling the fundamentals of all branches of learning into five books; he has completed the first three, and has barely begun the fourth”… Etc.
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Adam KING (1560–1620), Scottish humanist, Neo-Latin poet, and scholar. L.A.S. “Adamus Regius,” Edinburgh, April 1, 1614, to the printer François Rapheleng in Leiden; 1 folio page in Latin. Regarding the publication of the poems of George Buchanan (1506–1582), a Scottish poet, playwright, and humanist. The letter is addressed to François Rapheleng (1568–1643), son of François I Rapheleng (1539–1597, who had married a daughter of Christophe Plantin, Marguerite), who had succeeded him (and his brother Christophe, who died in 1600) at the Leiden printing house. “Our Buchananus, the most illustrious of the Rapheleng printers, is compiling the fundamentals of all branches of learning into five books; he has completed the first three, and has barely begun the fourth”… Etc.

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Adam KING (1560–1620), Scottish humanist, Neo-Latin poet, and scholar. L.A.S. “Adamus Regius,” Edinburgh, April 1, 1614, to the printer François Rapheleng in Leiden; 1 folio page in Latin. Regarding the publication of the poems of George Buchanan (1506–1582), a Scottish poet, playwright, and humanist. The letter is addressed to François Rapheleng (1568–1643), son of François I Rapheleng (1539–1597, who had married a daughter of Christophe Plantin, Marguerite), who had succeeded him (and his brother Christophe, who died in 1600) at the Leiden printing house. “Our Buchananus, the most illustrious of the Rapheleng printers, is compiling the fundamentals of all branches of learning into five books; he has completed the first three, and has barely begun the fourth”… Etc.
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