In the short Notice of Ubaldini in the Biographie Universelle, he is styled Historien but he is better known as a miniature painter and illuminator on vellum. His name is frequently mentioned in the Rolls of New–years gifts, formerly preserved in the Jewel Office; and it is recorded, that in return for occasional grants of money and gilt plate, he presented Elizabeth with various volumes in the Italian language, transcribed and illuminated by himself, one of which, at least, according to Vertue, is still extant in the Bodleian Library. He was also much employed by persons of distinction, in executing ornamental works. Of these, Vertue particularly notices a copy of the Psalms of David, which, from an inscription upon the volume, appears to have been written for the Earl of Arundel, who is described as the Artistʼs Mæcenas; and a Scriptural book on vellum, and highly ornamented with miniatures, presented by Sir Nicholas Bacon to the Lady Lumley. Besides the works of Ubaldini enumerated by Vertue as still preserved in manuscript in the British Museum, and several inconsiderable, and now almost forgotten printed tracts, of which a list may be found in Wattʼs Bibliotheca Britannica, he published La Vita di Carlo Magno at London in 1581, and in 1591 a work very slightingly noticed by Walpole, entitled Le Vite delle donne Illustri del Regno dʼInghilterra & del Regno di Scotia. During the intermediate period, his Description of Scotland was published at Antwerp in 1588, under the title of Descrittione del Regno di Scotia, et delle Isole sue Adjacenti. It may be, as stated in the Proemio to this work, that the author drew his information partly from his own personal observations, and partly from other sources of unquestionable authenticity; yet it is obvious he has borrowed so largely from Hector Boece, that his book is little more than an enlarged paraphrase of that historianʼs Scotorum Regni Descriptio, a transcript of which by Ubaldini, dated 1576, is now in the British Museum. Although this certainly detracts greatly from the value and originality of the Descrittione, it is still one of those curious trifles which Walpole describes as at all times acceptable to the antiquary, and as such alone it is presented to the Bannatyne Club. NOVEMBER, M.DCCC.XXIX. DESCRITTIONE del Regno di Scotia, ET DELLE ISOLE SVE ADIACENTI di Petruccio Vbaldini Cittadin Fiorentino. _NELLA QVALE SI DESCRIVONO_ _i confini di ciascuna Prouincia, & i luoghi che vi fono, & le cose più degne di memoria, che vi si trouano tanto naturali, quanto marauigliose._ [Illustrazione: LOGO] ANVERSA IL DI PRIMO DI GENNAIO, M. D. LXXXVIII. [Illustrazione: DECORAZIONE] ALLI ILLVST.^[mi] ET ECCELL.^[mi] Sig.^[ri] & sempre osser.^[mi]