View source for Alexander Barclay fl.1525-1560

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===[[name::Alexander]] [[name::BARCLAY]] fl.[[flourished::1525]]-[[flourished::1560]]===

====Biographical Note====
Dominican Prior at [[location::Wigtown]]. In 1525, he was licensed as bachelor of the general chapter of the [[organisations::Dominican]] order. In 1528, he was acting prior of [[location::Glasgow]], later incorporated into the University in 1531. He is also recorded as prior of [[location::Dundee]] in November 1531. He was a lecturer in theology at the [[organisations::Dominican]] house in [[location::Elgin]] from May 1538, where he remained until at least 1545.
====Books====

Less than 10 volumes have been identified as owned by Barclay. These include ''Euangelistarium'' (Nuremberg, 1519) (NLS Jolly.1033) by the poet and humanist Marko Marulić of Split (1450-1525) and an edition of Pliny’s ''Historia Naturalis'' (Parma, 1480) [https://abdn.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44ABE_INST/1jd70l9/alma990007417790205941 (Inc 157)]. He gifted a copy Thomas Cardinal Cajetan’s (1469-1534) edition of Thomas Aquinas to the Dominican House at St Andrews [https://encore.st-andrews.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1307346 (TypIV.B08BT)]

====Characteristic Markings====
Barlcay’s books are inscribed with variations of "frater Alexander Barculay" “Alexander berculai” and “Alexandri Barclay”

[[file:Alexander Barclay.jpg |thumb||886px|Inscription of Barclay (NLS Jolly.1033)]]


====Sources==== 
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*[https://www.abdn.ac.uk/collections/our-collections/provenance/owner/82/ Aberdeen University Library Provenance Database]
*Durkan, J. & Ross, A. ''Early Scottish Libraries'', Glasgow, 1961
*Durkan, J. and Russell, J. 'Further Additions (Including Manuscripts) to J. Durkan and A. Ross, "Early Scottish Libraries", at the National Library of Scotland', ''The Bibliotheck'', Volume 12, Number 4 (1985)
*Foggie, Janet. ''Renaissance Religion in Urban Scotland: The Dominican Order'', 1450-1560, Leiden, 2003.

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