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THE WORKS OF SIR DAVID LINDSAY
that of The Testament of the Papingo, in blackletter of good
quality. They are part of an unidentified Scottish printed
octavo edition of Lindsay, printed 1610-1648, in the period of
the blackletter octavos.
Fragment I.
ia. 11. 528-557.
2a. 11. 595-624.
Fragment II.
xa. 11. 325-35I-
2a. 11. 796-825.
Ib. 11. 562-591.
2b. 11. 630-656.
Ib. 11. 357-386.
2b. 11. 830-858.
The top lines on each page of this fragment are the top
lines of the pages of the book. Above may be seen lower por¬
tions of the running-title The Complaint of the Papingo
The running-title is in Roman.
The fragments form the inner and outer leaves of a folded
sheet belonging to a Scottish-printed octavo edition of Lindsay’s
poems, printed 1610-1648. Before 1610 all editions of Lindsay
are in quarto; after 1648 they are duodecimo and smaller.
The number of lines to the page -vyas about
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Fragment I. formed the inner leaves
with signature numbers 4 and 5, or page numbers 8 and 9.
Fragment II. formed the outer leaves of the folded sheet,
with signature numbers 1 and 8, or page numbers x and 16.
are duodecimo and smaller.
was about 31-32. TU*
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r leaves of the folded sheet,
Worhs, 1656. See Works, 1696.
1665
The Works of Sir David Lindsay, 1665.
[Within a border of fleur-de-lys] / the / WORKS / of the
FAMOUS AND / worthy knight, / SIR DAVID LINDESAY
/ of the Mount, Alias, Lyon, King / at Armes. / Newly corrected
and vindicate from the former / errours wherewith they were
corrupted : / And augmented with sundry / works, &c. / [rule]
/ Job vii. / Militia est vita hominis supra terram. / Vivet etiam
post funera virtus. / [two ornaments] /GLASGOW,/
Printed by Robert Sanders, Printer to the Town / and are
to be sold at his Shop, Anno 1665.