Leighton Library, Dunblane

Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library founded in 1687

Leighton Library has a 1566 edition of "Historiae Theodorici de Niem, scribae quondam pontificij" by medieval historian Dietrich of Nieheim

Added at 07:01 on 22 March 2024

Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1566 edition of "Historiae Theodorici de Niem, scribae quondam pontificij" by medieval historian Dietrich of Nieheim who died #OnThisDay, 22 March, 1418. As a notary or abbreviator to papal courts he wrote about events in which he had been involved or of which he was in an excellent position to obtain accurate information, including where documents would be in his hands during negotiations such as papal pronouncements, pamphlets, and letters, describing the history of events as he had himself seen them

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