DESCRITTIONE

NOTE DEL TRASCRITTORE:—Lʼopera è una rispampa del 1829 di un resoconto del 1588; tranne lʼintroduzione, in inglese, non sono state apportate modifiche o correzioni al testo e alla punteggiatura.—La copertina è stata creata dal trascrittore utilizzando il frontespizio dell'opera originale. L'immagine è posta in pubblico dominio.DESCRITTIONEDELREGNO DI SCOTIADIPETRUCCIO UBALDINI.RISTAMPATO IN EDIMBORGO:M.DCCC.XXIX.PRESENTEDTOTHE BANNATYNE CLUBBYANDREW COVENTRY.THE BANNATYNE CLUB.M.DCCC.XXIX.SIR WALTER SCOTT,Baronet,[PRESIDENT.]THE EARL OF ABERDEEN, K.T.RIGHT HON. WILLIAM ADAM, LORD CHIEF COMMISSIONEROF THE JURY COURT.SIR WILLIAM ARBUTHNOT, BART.5JAMES BALLANTYNE, ESQ.SIR WILLIAM MACLEOD BANNATYNE.LORD BELHAVEN AND STENTON.GEORGE JOSEPH BELL, ESQ.ROBERT BELL, ESQ.10WILLIAM BELL, ESQ.JOHN BORTHWICK, ESQ.WILLIAM BLAIR, ESQ.REV. PHILIP BLISS, D. C. L.GEORGE BRODIE, ESQ.15THE DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH AND QUEENSBERRY.JOHN CALEY, ESQ.JAMES CAMPBELL, ESQ.HON. JOHN CLERK, LORD ELDIN.WILLIAM CLERK, ESQ.20HENRY COCKBURN, ESQ.DAVID CONSTABLE, ESQ.ANDREW COVENTRY, ESQ.JAMES T. GIBSON CRAIG, ESQ.WILLIAM GIBSON CRAIG, ESQ.25HON. GEORGE CRANSTOUN, LORD COREHOUSE.THE EARL OF DALHOUSIE.JAMES DENNISTOUN, ESQ.ROBERT DUNDAS, ESQ.RIGHT HON. WILLIAM DUNDAS, LORD CLERK REGISTER.30HENRY ELLIS, ESQ.CHARLES FERGUSSON, ESQ.ROBERT FERGUSON, ESQ.LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR RONALD C. FERGUSON.THE COUNT DE FLAHAULT.35HON. JOHN FULLERTON, LORD FULLERTON.LORD GLENORCHY.THE DUKE OF GORDON.WILLIAM GOTT, ESQ.SIR JAMES R. G. GRAHAM, BART.40ROBERT GRAHAM, ESQ.LORD GRAY.RIGHT HON. THOMAS GRENVILLE.THE EARL OF HADDINGTON.THE DUKE OF HAMILTON AND BRANDON.45E. W. A. DRUMMOND HAY, ESQ.JAMES M. HOG, ESQ.JOHN HOPE, ESQ. SOLICITOR-GENERAL.COSMO INNES, ESQ.DAVID IRVING, LL.D.50JAMES IVORY, ESQ.REV. JOHN JAMIESON, D.D.ROBERT JAMESON, ESQ.SIR HENRY JARDINE.FRANCIS JEFFREY, ESQ.55JAMES KEAY, ESQ.JOHN G. KINNEAR, ESQ.THOMAS KINNEAR, ESQ.[TREASURER.]THE EARL OF KINNOULL.DAVID LAING, ESQ.[SECRETARY.]60THE EARL OF LAUDERDALE, K.T.REV. JOHN LEE, D.D.THE MARQUIS OF LOTHIAN.COLIN MACKENZIE, ESQ.HON. J. H. MACKENZIE, LORD MACKENZIE.65JAMES MACKENZIE, ESQ.JAMES MAIDMENT, ESQ.THOMAS MAITLAND, ESQ.GILBERT LAING MEASON, ESQ.THE VISCOUNT MELVILLE, K.T.70WILLIAM HENRY MILLER, ESQ.THE EARL OF MINTO.HON. SIR J. W. MONCREIFF, LORD MONCREIFF.JOHN ARCHIBALD MURRAY, ESQ.WILLIAM MURRAY, ESQ.75JAMES NAIRNE, ESQ.MACVEY NAPIER, ESQ.FRANCIS PALGRAVE, ESQ.HENRY PETRIE, ESQ.ROBERT PITCAIRN, ESQ.80JOHN RICHARDSON, ESQ.THE EARL OF ROSSLYN.ANDREW RUTHERFURD, ESQ.THE EARL OF SELKIRK.RIGHT HON. SIR SAMUEL SHEPHERD, LORD CHIEF BARON OF SCOTLAND.85ANDREW SKENE, ESQ.JAMES SKENE, ESQ.GEORGE SMYTHE, ESQ.THE EARL SPENCER, K.G.JOHN SPOTTISWOODE, ESQ.90THE MARQUIS OF STAFFORD, K.G.MAJOR-GENERAL STRATON.SIR JOHN ARCHIBALD STEWART, BART.HON. CHARLES FRANCIS STUART.ALEXANDER THOMSON, ESQ.95THOMAS THOMSON, ESQ.[VICE-PRESIDENT.]W. C. TREVELYAN, ESQ.PATRICK FRASER TYTLER, ESQ.ADAM URQUHART, ESQ.RIGHT HON. SIR GEORGE WARRENDER, BART.100THE VENERABLE ARCHDEACON WRANGHAM.NOTICE.Petruccio Ubaldini, the compiler of the following Description of Scotland, and her adjacent Isles, was born at Florence about the year 1524. Although descended from one of the most ancient, and allied to many of the most powerful families of Italy, he was, early in life, under the necessity of abandoning his native country, in consequence, as has been supposed, of the liberality of his religious opinions. He repaired to England, and engaged in the service of Edward the Sixth, a zealous opponent of the Court of Rome. Upon the death of this young Prince in 1553, Ubaldini returned to Italy, and resided for some time at Venice, where he occupied himself with a translation of Cebes, which he dedicated to the Grand Duke Cosmo the First. This work was never published, and is still preserved among the Manuscripts in the Laurentian Library at Florence.Ubaldini afterwards returned to England, where he appears to have spent the remainder of his life, and to have enjoyed a considerable share of favour in the Court of Elizabeth. He died towards the close of the sixteenth century.In the short Notice of Ubaldini in the Biographie Universelle, he is styled Historien but he is better known as a miniature painter and illuminator on vellum. His name is frequently mentioned in the Rolls of New-years gifts, formerly preserved in the Jewel Office; and it is recorded, that in return for occasional grants of money and gilt plate, he presented Elizabeth with various volumes in the Italian language, transcribed and illuminated by himself, one of which, at least, according to Vertue, is still extant in the Bodleian Library. He was also much employed by persons of distinction, in executing ornamental works. Of these, Vertue particularly notices a copy of the Psalms of David, which, from an inscription upon the volume, appears to have been written for the Earl of Arundel, who is described as the Artistʼs Mæcenas; and a Scriptural book on vellum, and highly ornamented with miniatures, presented by Sir Nicholas Bacon to the Lady Lumley.Besides the works of Ubaldini enumerated by Vertue as still preserved in manuscript in the British Museum, and several inconsiderable, and now almost forgotten printed tracts, of which a list may be found in Wattʼs Bibliotheca Britannica, he published La Vita di Carlo Magno at London in 1581, and in 1591 a work very slightingly noticed by Walpole, entitled Le Vite delle donne Illustri del Regno dʼInghilterra & del Regno di Scotia. During the intermediate period, his Description of Scotland was published at Antwerp in 1588, under the title of Descrittione del Regno di Scotia, et delle Isole sue Adjacenti. It may be, as stated in the Proemio to this work, that the author drew his information partly from his own personal observations, and partly from other sources of unquestionableauthenticity; yet it is obvious he has borrowed so largely from Hector Boece, that his book is little more than an enlarged paraphrase of that historianʼs Scotorum Regni Descriptio, a transcript of which by Ubaldini, dated 1576, is now in the British Museum. Although this certainly detracts greatly from the value and originality of the Descrittione, it is still one of those curious trifles which Walpole describes as at all times acceptable to the antiquary, and as such alone it is presented to the Bannatyne Club.NOVEMBER,M.DCCC.XXIX.DESCRITTIONEdel Regno di Scotia,ETDELLE ISOLE SVE AD–iacenti di Petruccio VbaldiniCittadin Fiorentino.NELLA QVALE SI DESCRIVO–no i confini di ciascuna Prouincia, & i luoghi che vi sono, &le cose più degne di memoria, che vi si trouano tantonaturali, quanto marauigliose.ANVERSAIL DI PRIMO DI GENNAIO,M. D. LXXXVIII.ALLI ILLVST.miET EC–cell.miSig.ri& sempre osser.miIL SIG.orCHRISTOPHORO HATTONEgran Cancelliere del Regno dʼInghilterra. &c.IL SIG.orRVBERTO DVDLEIO CONTE DILeicestria Gran Maestro della casa Reale. &c.ETIL SIGorFRANCESCO VVALSINGHAMO CAVA–lier, & Segretario Principale di sua M.tà, & Canc. dellaDucea di Lancastria. &c.PETRVCCIO VBALDINO DESIDERA LODE PERPE–tua dʼogni loro honorata atione.

NOTE DEL TRASCRITTORE:

—Lʼopera è una rispampa del 1829 di un resoconto del 1588; tranne lʼintroduzione, in inglese, non sono state apportate modifiche o correzioni al testo e alla punteggiatura.

—La copertina è stata creata dal trascrittore utilizzando il frontespizio dell'opera originale. L'immagine è posta in pubblico dominio.

DEL

REGNO DI SCOTIA

PETRUCCIO UBALDINI.

RISTAMPATO IN EDIMBORGO:M.DCCC.XXIX.

PRESENTED

THE BANNATYNE CLUB

ANDREW COVENTRY.

M.DCCC.XXIX.

SIR WALTER SCOTT,Baronet,[PRESIDENT.]

THE EARL OF ABERDEEN, K.T.

RIGHT HON. WILLIAM ADAM, LORD CHIEF COMMISSIONER

OF THE JURY COURT.SIR WILLIAM ARBUTHNOT, BART.5JAMES BALLANTYNE, ESQ.SIR WILLIAM MACLEOD BANNATYNE.LORD BELHAVEN AND STENTON.GEORGE JOSEPH BELL, ESQ.ROBERT BELL, ESQ.10WILLIAM BELL, ESQ.JOHN BORTHWICK, ESQ.WILLIAM BLAIR, ESQ.REV. PHILIP BLISS, D. C. L.GEORGE BRODIE, ESQ.15THE DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH AND QUEENSBERRY.JOHN CALEY, ESQ.JAMES CAMPBELL, ESQ.HON. JOHN CLERK, LORD ELDIN.WILLIAM CLERK, ESQ.20HENRY COCKBURN, ESQ.DAVID CONSTABLE, ESQ.ANDREW COVENTRY, ESQ.JAMES T. GIBSON CRAIG, ESQ.WILLIAM GIBSON CRAIG, ESQ.25HON. GEORGE CRANSTOUN, LORD COREHOUSE.THE EARL OF DALHOUSIE.JAMES DENNISTOUN, ESQ.ROBERT DUNDAS, ESQ.

RIGHT HON. WILLIAM DUNDAS, LORD CLERK REGISTER.

30HENRY ELLIS, ESQ.CHARLES FERGUSSON, ESQ.ROBERT FERGUSON, ESQ.LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR RONALD C. FERGUSON.THE COUNT DE FLAHAULT.35HON. JOHN FULLERTON, LORD FULLERTON.LORD GLENORCHY.THE DUKE OF GORDON.WILLIAM GOTT, ESQ.SIR JAMES R. G. GRAHAM, BART.40ROBERT GRAHAM, ESQ.LORD GRAY.RIGHT HON. THOMAS GRENVILLE.THE EARL OF HADDINGTON.THE DUKE OF HAMILTON AND BRANDON.45E. W. A. DRUMMOND HAY, ESQ.JAMES M. HOG, ESQ.JOHN HOPE, ESQ. SOLICITOR-GENERAL.COSMO INNES, ESQ.DAVID IRVING, LL.D.50JAMES IVORY, ESQ.REV. JOHN JAMIESON, D.D.ROBERT JAMESON, ESQ.SIR HENRY JARDINE.FRANCIS JEFFREY, ESQ.55JAMES KEAY, ESQ.JOHN G. KINNEAR, ESQ.THOMAS KINNEAR, ESQ.[TREASURER.]THE EARL OF KINNOULL.DAVID LAING, ESQ.[SECRETARY.]60THE EARL OF LAUDERDALE, K.T.REV. JOHN LEE, D.D.THE MARQUIS OF LOTHIAN.COLIN MACKENZIE, ESQ.HON. J. H. MACKENZIE, LORD MACKENZIE.65JAMES MACKENZIE, ESQ.JAMES MAIDMENT, ESQ.THOMAS MAITLAND, ESQ.GILBERT LAING MEASON, ESQ.THE VISCOUNT MELVILLE, K.T.70WILLIAM HENRY MILLER, ESQ.THE EARL OF MINTO.HON. SIR J. W. MONCREIFF, LORD MONCREIFF.JOHN ARCHIBALD MURRAY, ESQ.WILLIAM MURRAY, ESQ.75JAMES NAIRNE, ESQ.MACVEY NAPIER, ESQ.FRANCIS PALGRAVE, ESQ.HENRY PETRIE, ESQ.ROBERT PITCAIRN, ESQ.80JOHN RICHARDSON, ESQ.THE EARL OF ROSSLYN.ANDREW RUTHERFURD, ESQ.THE EARL OF SELKIRK.

RIGHT HON. SIR SAMUEL SHEPHERD, LORD CHIEF BARON OF SCOTLAND.

85ANDREW SKENE, ESQ.JAMES SKENE, ESQ.GEORGE SMYTHE, ESQ.THE EARL SPENCER, K.G.JOHN SPOTTISWOODE, ESQ.90THE MARQUIS OF STAFFORD, K.G.MAJOR-GENERAL STRATON.SIR JOHN ARCHIBALD STEWART, BART.HON. CHARLES FRANCIS STUART.ALEXANDER THOMSON, ESQ.95THOMAS THOMSON, ESQ.[VICE-PRESIDENT.]W. C. TREVELYAN, ESQ.PATRICK FRASER TYTLER, ESQ.ADAM URQUHART, ESQ.RIGHT HON. SIR GEORGE WARRENDER, BART.100THE VENERABLE ARCHDEACON WRANGHAM.

Petruccio Ubaldini, the compiler of the following Description of Scotland, and her adjacent Isles, was born at Florence about the year 1524. Although descended from one of the most ancient, and allied to many of the most powerful families of Italy, he was, early in life, under the necessity of abandoning his native country, in consequence, as has been supposed, of the liberality of his religious opinions. He repaired to England, and engaged in the service of Edward the Sixth, a zealous opponent of the Court of Rome. Upon the death of this young Prince in 1553, Ubaldini returned to Italy, and resided for some time at Venice, where he occupied himself with a translation of Cebes, which he dedicated to the Grand Duke Cosmo the First. This work was never published, and is still preserved among the Manuscripts in the Laurentian Library at Florence.

Ubaldini afterwards returned to England, where he appears to have spent the remainder of his life, and to have enjoyed a considerable share of favour in the Court of Elizabeth. He died towards the close of the sixteenth century.

In the short Notice of Ubaldini in the Biographie Universelle, he is styled Historien but he is better known as a miniature painter and illuminator on vellum. His name is frequently mentioned in the Rolls of New-years gifts, formerly preserved in the Jewel Office; and it is recorded, that in return for occasional grants of money and gilt plate, he presented Elizabeth with various volumes in the Italian language, transcribed and illuminated by himself, one of which, at least, according to Vertue, is still extant in the Bodleian Library. He was also much employed by persons of distinction, in executing ornamental works. Of these, Vertue particularly notices a copy of the Psalms of David, which, from an inscription upon the volume, appears to have been written for the Earl of Arundel, who is described as the Artistʼs Mæcenas; and a Scriptural book on vellum, and highly ornamented with miniatures, presented by Sir Nicholas Bacon to the Lady Lumley.

Besides the works of Ubaldini enumerated by Vertue as still preserved in manuscript in the British Museum, and several inconsiderable, and now almost forgotten printed tracts, of which a list may be found in Wattʼs Bibliotheca Britannica, he published La Vita di Carlo Magno at London in 1581, and in 1591 a work very slightingly noticed by Walpole, entitled Le Vite delle donne Illustri del Regno dʼInghilterra & del Regno di Scotia. During the intermediate period, his Description of Scotland was published at Antwerp in 1588, under the title of Descrittione del Regno di Scotia, et delle Isole sue Adjacenti. It may be, as stated in the Proemio to this work, that the author drew his information partly from his own personal observations, and partly from other sources of unquestionableauthenticity; yet it is obvious he has borrowed so largely from Hector Boece, that his book is little more than an enlarged paraphrase of that historianʼs Scotorum Regni Descriptio, a transcript of which by Ubaldini, dated 1576, is now in the British Museum. Although this certainly detracts greatly from the value and originality of the Descrittione, it is still one of those curious trifles which Walpole describes as at all times acceptable to the antiquary, and as such alone it is presented to the Bannatyne Club.

NOVEMBER,

M.DCCC.XXIX.

DESCRITTIONE

del Regno di Scotia,

DELLE ISOLE SVE AD–

iacenti di Petruccio VbaldiniCittadin Fiorentino.

NELLA QVALE SI DESCRIVO–

no i confini di ciascuna Prouincia, & i luoghi che vi sono, &le cose più degne di memoria, che vi si trouano tantonaturali, quanto marauigliose.

ANVERSA

IL DI PRIMO DI GENNAIO,M. D. LXXXVIII.

ALLI ILLVST.miET EC–

cell.miSig.ri& sempre osser.mi

IL SIG.orCHRISTOPHORO HATTONE

gran Cancelliere del Regno dʼInghilterra. &c.

IL SIG.orRVBERTO DVDLEIO CONTE DI

Leicestria Gran Maestro della casa Reale. &c.

IL SIGorFRANCESCO VVALSINGHAMO CAVA–

lier, & Segretario Principale di sua M.tà, & Canc. dellaDucea di Lancastria. &c.

PETRVCCIO VBALDINO DESIDERA LODE PERPE–

tua dʼogni loro honorata atione.

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