Legends of the saints,
in the Scottish dialect of the fourteenth century /
edited from the unique manuscript in the University library, Cambridge, with an introduction, notes, and glossarial index by W. M. Metcalfe.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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Edinburgh ; Printed for the Society by W. Blackwood, 1896.
- Note
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Published originally in 6 parts, 1888-96.
"Positive evidence...that [Barbour] was the author of the legends there is absolutely none. Of evidence that he was not their author there is an abundance."--Introd., v. 1, p. xxiv.
"Though without author's name [the work] is proved with reasonable certainty to be Barbour's by the similarity of its metre with that of the 'Brus.'"--Dict. of nat. biog.
A series of verse translations, mainly from the "Legenda aurea"; ascribed to John Barbour, but this authorship is much disputed.
- Physical Description
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3 v. :
fronts. (v. 1-2 facsims.) ;
22 cm.
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