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Leighton Library, Dunblane

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

The Leighton Library has a 1529 edition of “Antibarbarorum D. Erasmi roterodami, liber unus, quem iuuenis quidem adhuc lusit

The Leighton Library has a 1529 edition of “Antibarbarorum D. Erasmi roterodami, liber unus, quem iuuenis quidem adhuc lusit" by Desiderius Erasmus

Added at 06:39 on 12 July 2024
The Leighton Library has a 1529 edition of “Antibarbarorum D. Erasmi roterodami, liber unus, quem iuuenis quidem adhuc lusit" by Dutch philosopher widely considered to have been greatest scholar of northern Renaissance, Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam who died #OnThisDay 12 July 1536. It is said that, by the 1530s, writings of Erasmus accounted for up to 20 percent of all book sales in Europe

He is credited with coining the adage, "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
< Leighton Library has a 1644 edition of "Observations upon religio medici" by Sir Kenelm DigbyLeighton Library has a 1558 edition of "Breuis et perspicua ratio iudicandi genituras" to which John Dee contributed >
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