Reid, Thomas
Biography: Philosopher, translator and founder of the first public reference library in Scotland. Educated Aberdeen grammar school, then Marischal Coll., grad. M.A. about 1600. Master of the grammar school 1602-3. Regent, Marischal Coll., 1603-7. Travelled to the continent, studying in France, then Leipzig and Rostock. Appointed docent at Rostock 1608, taught philosophy and humanity there 1609-16. Published 8 works on metaphysics while at Rostock. Matriculated Leipzig 1613. Returned to Scotland, Latin secretary to James I 1618-24. Produced Latin translation of the King's collected works 1619. M.A., Oxford 1620. Died London 1624. Older brother of Alexander and son of James. By his will he bequeathed to the town & new college of Aberdeen his collection of books (about 1350 volumes), & 6000 merks to endow a librarian who "sall hold the door of the librarie patent and oppin four dayes of the weeke the whole yeir." Reid's collection included "the fairest and largest editions of all the classics that were printed from the time of Aldus Manutius until the year 1615... and many valuable and curious MSS."
Biography Date: d.1624
Biography References: Prov. Reg. Notes (Article by P.J.Anderson in D.N.B); LOC; CERL; DNB; Fasti 31, 185; Drummond 306; Wightman xiv
Book List
| Owner (other form of name) |
Book Title |
Author |
Publication Place |
Date |
| Rhaedus, Thomas |
Theoremata seu memorabilium propositionum limitationes. |
Zimara, M.A. |
Venice |
1593 |
| Read, Thomas |
P. Virgilius Maro. Et in eum commentationes & paraliponema Germani Valentis Guelli. Eiusdem Virgilij appendix, cum Joseph Scaligeri commentariis &... |
Virgil. |
Antwerp |
1575 |
| Reid, Thomas |
Polydori Vergilii Urbinatis de rerum inventoribus libri octo. ; Euisdem in dominicam precem commentariolum. ; Item, Dialogorum de prodigijs libri... |
Vergil, Polydore |
Basel |
1544 |
| Reid, Thomas |
C. Suetonii Tranquilli XII Caesares. Item Io. Baptistae Egnatii ... de Romanis principibus, libri III. Eiusdem annotationes in Suetonium. Annotata... |
Suetonius |
Lyon |
1548 |
| Reid, Thomas |
Commentaria scholastica in Genesim |
Pitigiani, Francesco |
Venice |
1615 |
| Rhaedius, Thomas |
Ierokleous philosophou ugomnema eis ta ton puthagoreion epe ta khrusa. |
Hierocles, of Alexandria. |
Paris |
1583 |
| Reid, Thomas |
Historiae poetarum tam Graecorum quam Latinorum dialogi decem ... L. Greg. Gyraldo ... autore ... |
Giraldi, Lilio Gregorio |
Basel |
1545 |
| Reid, Thomas |
Icones animalium quadrupedum uiuiparorum et ouiparorum, quae in historia animalium Conradi Gesneri describuntur. |
Gesner, Conrad |
Geneva |
1553 |
| Reid, Thomas |
Partitiones theologicae, pandectarum uniuersalium Conradi Gesneri. Liber ultimus. |
Gesner, Conrad |
Geneva |
1549 |
| Rhaedus, Thomas |
Theodorou grammatikes biblia. D. Peri menon ek ton autou. Georgiou tou Lekapenou peri suntaxeos rematon. Emmanouel moskhopoulou peri tes ten... |
Gaza, T. |
Venice |
1525 |
| Rhaedus, Thomas |
Eunapiou tou sardianou bioi philosophou kai sophistou. |
Eunapius. |
Antwerp |
1568 |
| Reid, Thomas |
Euclidis elementorum libri XV. Graece & Latine, quibus, cum ad omnem mathematicae scientiae partem, tum ad quamliber geometriae tractationem, facilis... |
Euclid. |
Paris |
1598 |
| Rhaedus, Thomas |
Epistolia, Dialogi breves, Oratiunculae, Poematia, ex variis utriusque linguae scriptoribus. Inter poematia autem est Satyra elegantissima, quae inscribitur lis, non... |
Estienne, H. |
Paris |
1577 |
| Reid, Thomas |
Demosthenous logoi, kai prooimia demegorika, kai epistolai |
Demosthenes |
Paris |
1570 |
| Reade, Thomas |
I. Bodini methodus, ad facilem historiarum cognitionem. |
Bodin, J. |
Paris |
1566 |
| R[eid], T[homas] |
Inventarium seu repertorium generale Gabrielis byel sup quattuor libros sententarium. |
Biel, G. |
Paris |
1514 |
| Read, T. |
Index omnium quae insigniter a D. Aurelio Augustino dicta sunt, nunc recens supra praecedentes aeditiones, per F. Florentiu Bourgoinum Parisiensem,... |
Augustine, St, Bishop of Hippo. |
Paris |
1541 |
| R[eid], T[homas] |
Epitome omnium operum in qua quidquid vir ille de mysteriis religionis & sacramentis ecclesiae scripsit. |
Augustine, St, Bishop of Hippo. |
Geneva |
1555 |
| Rhaedus, Thomas |
Alexandrou tou Aphrodisieos, eis ta, tou Aristotelous, protesa analutika, upomnema. |
Aristotle. |
Florence |
1521 |
| Reid, Thomas |
Nicomachean ethics |
Aristotle |
Strassburg |
c. 1469 |
| Rhaedus, Thomas |
Apostoliou tou Bizantiou paroimiai. |
Apostolios, M. |
Basel |
1538 |
| Rhaedus, Thomas |
Apollodorou tou Athenaiou grammatikou bibliothekes, e peri theon, biblia g. |
Apollodorus, of Athens. |
Heidelberg |
1599 |
| R[eid], T[homas] |
Ant. Andreae in quatuor sententiarum libros opus a F. Constantio e tenebris iam nunc vindicatum a F. Angelo Rocch expurgavit.... |
Andreae, A. |
Venice |
1578 |
| Read, Thomas |
Salubrium siue de sannitate tuenda, libri triginta tres. |
Alexandrinus, J. |
Cologne |
1575 |
| Rhaedus, Thomas |
Aisopou phrugos muthoi. |
Aesop. |
Basel |
1550 |
