Leighton Library, Dunblane

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

Leighton Library has a 1604 edition of "De inventoribus rerum"

Added at 12:56 on 18 April 2024

#OnThisDay 18 April 1555 Italian scholar, historian, priest and diplomat dubbed the "Father of English History" Polydore Vergil died. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1604 edition of one of the books for which he is best remembered, a history of discoveries and origins, "De inventoribus rerum"

< Leighton Library has several books by theologian and scholar Edward Stillingfleet Leighton Library has a 1543 edition of "Loci Communes rerum theologicarum seu hypotyposes theologicae" by Philipp Melanchthon >