| Description | of Patrick Cunyngham, being analytical and grammatical notes on works of Isocrates, Pythagoras and Hesiod. Several hands can be distinguished. It would appear that P C (the initials are stamped on the front and back leather covers), after filling many pages with his tiny immaculate Greek script, and meticulously naming one Hugh Smith as his tutor at the outset of each chapter of notes, gave the book to John Hamilton, in whose dissimilar hand there is much more Latin (mainly on Roman History). J H presumably passed the book in turn to Archibald Hamilton, whose immature signature occurs many times (A H would be about 7 years old in 1665). The further names of Mary and John Hamilton also occur. |