James I, King of England. Daemonologie in form of a dialogue

Phillipps, T. Phillipps manuscripts: 2713
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada: 1125.1
Folger bibliographic ID: 226695
Folger call number: V.a.185
Folger holdings ID: 258199
Accession Number: cs1125

Treatise by James VI of Scotland. Fair copy in scribal hand (possibly that of his childhood friend Sir James Sempill), with extensive autograph additions and corrections by James VI, largely incorporated in the printed edition of 1597 (STC 14364). Additional revisions are possibly in the hand of James Carmichael

General notes

Printer's waste in binding Selections also available as a digital reproduction John Pinkerton -- Beckford -- Phillipps 2713 MS Watermark: crown over IR6 Bound in limp vellum with the Crown and initials I.R. on the covers For further information on this manuscript and the identification of the scribe as Sir James Sempill, see letter from J. Craigie, January 25, 1977, and his edition of James I's Minor prose works, 1982, p. 172 For the attribution of the third hand to James Carmichael see Dunlap article This record contains unverified data from catalog cards and may contain incorrect or incomplete information. Please email HamnetHelp@folger.edu for assistance

Publications

"The pen's excellencie" : treasures from the manuscript collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library / compiled and edited by Heather Wolfe. Seattle : Distributed by University of Washington Press, 2002, p. 56-58 Dunlap, Rhodes. "King James and some witches: the date and text of the Daemonologie," Philological Quarterly, 54, No. 1 (Winter 1975), p. 40-46

Extended title: Daemonologie in form of a dialogue ca. 1592

Witchcraft Magic

author: James I, King of England, 1566-1625
scribe: Sempill, James, Sir, 1566-1625
annotator: Carmichael, James, 1542 or 1543-1628
former owner: Pinkerton, John, 1758-1826
former owner: Beckford, William, 1760-1844
former owner: Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872