Ancient Scottish Poems - Compiled from the Manuscript of George Bannatyne
Title: Ancient Scottish Poems
Author: Compiled from the Manuscript of George Bannatyne, MDLXVIII - 1568
Publisher: A. Murray and J. Cochran, for John Balfour, Edinburgh
Date: 1770 - (MDCCLXX)
Original 1770 binding. xii-330 pp.
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The 'Bannatyne Manuscript' is one of the most important manuscripts in the history of medieval Scottish literature. It contains several texts which do not survive elsewhere.
A selection of poems from a miscellany compiled by Bannatyne in 1568.
Edited by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.Contains:
Poems of William Dunbar: pages [1]-97Poems of Robert Henrysone: pages [98]-138.
With a half-title, and final leaf of words not understood and errata (page [332]).Condition Notes
This is an extremely rare edition - a 1770 reprint of the famous Bannatyne manuscript which is stored in the British Library.
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