Scotorum Historiae 2

SCOTORUM HISTORIAE A PRIMA GENTIS ORIGINE

CUM ALIARUM ET RERUM ET GENTIUM ILLUSTRATIONE

NON VULGARI

HECTORE BOETHIO DEIDONANO AUCTORE

Duo postremi huius historiae libri nunc primum emittuntur in lucem

Accessit et huic editioni eiusdem Scotorum Historiae continuatio

per Ioannem Ferrerium Pedemontanum,

recens et ipsa scripta et edita

Parisiis 1575

Servantur in templo Pette regionis Moraviae ossa cuiusdam per ironiam Litil Jhon, id est Minoris Ioannis dicti quem figura quantitasque ossium quatuordecim pedum longitudine fuisse demonstrant pari cum ea crassitudine. Vidimus enim ipsa abhinc sex annis os coxendicis ipius non minus longitundine totius cruris humani crassitudine surae, cuius in concavitate brachium inseruimus, indicio quantarum molium ferax olim regio nostra esse consueverit, ubi nondum vorandi ingurgitandique tanta gentem nostra libido invasisset. *

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THE HISTORY OF THE SCOTS FROM THEIR FIRST ORIGIN
TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF OTHER
MATTERS OF UNCOMMON DISTINCTION
BY HECTOR BOECE OF DUNDEE

The final two Books of this volume are now published for the first time
With the addition of the continuation of this history of Scotland by Giovanni Ferrerio of Piedmont, newly written and published by him
Paris, 1575

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And in the Kirk of Pette in the district of Moray are preserved the bones of a certain man ironically called Little John, whom the shame and dimension of the bones show to have been fourteen feet tall, with a matching breadth. Six years ago I myself saw his coccyx bone, no less long than an entire shinbone and as thick as a human ankle, and I put my arm into its hollow space. This is proof of the huge size of the men our part of the world used to produce, at a time when our nation had not yet been invaded by such great enthusiasm for eating and drinking. *

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* The Philological Museum, Hector Boethius, Scotorum Historia (1575 version). A hypertext critical edition by Dana F. Sutton, The University of California, Irvine, posted 2010.