The Bannatyne manuscript.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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[Glasgow] : Printed for the Hunterian club, 1896.
- Note
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List of works printed in part from the Bannatyne ms.: p. lxiii-lxvii.
Includes several poems written by Bannatyne himself.
From the ms. in the Advocates' library, Edinburgh, which "constitutes with the ʻAsloan' and ʻMaitland folio' mss. the chief repository of Middle Scots poetry, especially for the texts of the greater poets Henryson, Dunbar, Lyndsay and Alexander Scott. Portions of it were reprinted (with modifications) by Allan Ramsay in his Ever green (1724) and later and more correctly, by Lord Hailes in his Ancient Scottish poems (1770)" cf. Encyc. brit., v. 3, p. 353.
Editorial work begun by Geo. A. Panton, who died when only the first two sheets had been printed. The work was completed by J. B. Murdoch. cf. Introd. note, v. 1, signed: Jas. Barclay Murdoch, December, 1901.
Issued in 11 parts, paged continuously, with special title-pages dated 1873-1900. Vol. 1, containing prefatory matter, consists of pts. VIII-X; pt. XI consisted of title-p ages, contents, etc., for the 4 vols.
- Physical Description
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4 v.
1 illus., pl., xi facsim. (2 fold.)
25 cm.
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