Sonet: Fra banc to banc

Item author: Mark Alexander Boyd
Item date: 1590
(this is an approximate date)
Grant Value: 100
Item cost pre-decimal: 200
Item date acquired: 1965
Item institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Single leaf, probably a proof pull printed possibly at La Rochelle with type cast by Jrme Haultin, pasted to the first flyleaf of a volume containing three works by Daid Chambers, Lord Ormond published at Paris in 1579. The only known copy of the poem from the life-time of the poet

Item Provenance
Bought from Miss Evelyn M Courtney-Boyd of Penkill Castle, Ayrshire. Spencer Boyd of Penkill may have acquired the book in the 19th century