Buchanan, Thomas Ryburn (1846-1911); of Balliol and All Souls Colleges, Oxford; MP. His widow, Emily Octavia Buchanan, allowed All Souls and the Bodleian to make their selection from his library; see Kidd; Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, ii, 49-50; Craster 286-7; S. Gibson, `Bookbindings in the Buchanan Collection', BLR 2 (1941), 6-12; M. J. Sommerlad, Scottish `Wheel' and `Herring-Bone' Bindings in the Bodleian Library, OBS Occasional Publication, 1 (Oxford, 1967); his coat of arms was added in gilt on the covers of some books: per pale azure and gules, a lion rampant sable, within a double tressure flory counterflory of the third, all within a bordure engrailled or (e.g. on P-465); the correspondence and lists of books from the various Buchanan houses which were then taken by the Bodleian and by All Souls are in the Library Archives (Library Records c. 1026). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1846 to 1911. Period: 19th century to 20th century.

20 entries:

• A-040(1) Aegidius Delphus — Psalmi poenitentiales metrice compilati. — Paris: Antoine Denidel, [c.1497]. 4°.
• A-104(1) Albertus Magnus — Compendium theologicae veritatis. — [Speier: Printer of ‘Gesta Christi', after 23 Aug. 1473]. Folio.
• B-089(1) Bartholomaeus de Sancto Concordio — Summa de casibus conscientiae. — Venice: Nicolaus Girardengus, de Novis, 12 May 1481. 8°.
• B-459(1) Bonaventura — Stimulus amoris. — Paris: [ Étienne Jehannot, for] Jean Petit and Denis Roce, [c.1499]. 8°.
• B-516(1) Brant, Sebastian — Das Narrenschiff [French] La nef des folz du monde. — Paris: [André Bocard?, for] Geoffroy de Marnef, 8 Feb. 1499. Folio.
• C-034(1) Calpurnius Siculus, Titus — Bucolica. — [Paris: Félix Baligault, c.1494]. 4°.
• E-022(3) Epistolae — Epistolae diversorum philosophorum, oratorum, rhetorum (ed. Marcus Musurus) [Latin and Greek]. — Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1499. 4°.
• G-044(1) Garlandia, Johannes de — Verba deponentalia. — [Reutlingen: Michel Greyff, c.1486-90]. 4°.
• H-068(1) Hesiodus — Opera et dies (trans. Nicolaus de Valle). — [Paris]: Pierre Levet, [c.1497]. 4°.
• H-221(1) Hortus Sanitatis — [Strasbourg: Johann Prüss, c.1497]. Folio.
• J-234(2) Justinianus — Istitutiones [with the Glossa ordinaria of Accursius]. — Basel: Michael Wenssler, ‘31 May 1476' [c.1477]. Folio.
• J-283(1) Justinianus — Libri feudorum, et al. (with the Glossa ordinaria). — [Strasbourg: Heinrich Eggestein, c.1475]. Folio.
• O-008(1) Odonis, Geraldus — Expositio in Aristotelis Ethicam. — Venice: Simon de Luere, for Andreas Torresanus de Asula, 14 July 1500. Folio.
• P-465(1) Proba — Centones Vergilii. — [Leipzig: Martin Landsberg, c.1492-6]. 4°.
• R-144(1) Rudimentum Novitiorum — Rudimentum novitiorum [French] La Mer des histoires. — Lyons: Jean Du Pré, 1491. Folio.
• S-046(1) Samuel, Rabbi — Epistola contra Judaeorum errores (trans. Alphonsus Boni Hominis), et al. — [Sant'Orso: Leonardus Achates de Basilea, 1474]. 4°.
• S-186(1) Servius Honoratus, Maurus — Commentarii in Vergilii opera. Donatus: Vita Vergilii. — [Venice]: Christophorus Valdarfer, 1471. Folio.
• S-354(1) Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes — De moribus puerorum carmen iuvenile. — [Paris]: Félix Baligault, [between 1497 and 7 May 1500]. 4°.
• W-026(1) Wireker, Nigellus — Speculum stultorum. — [Paris: Philippe Pigouchet, c.1490]. 4°.
• Z-005(1) Zambecharius, Franciscus — Elegiarum liber de amoribus Chryseae et Philochrysi. — Paris: Thielman Kerver, for Jean Petit, 31 Dec. 1498. 4°.

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