Ancient Scottish poems : Published from the MS. of George Bannatyne, MDLXVIII.
Bannatyne, George,1545-1608?
Dalrymple, David,Sir,1726-1792.
Dalrymple, David,Sir,1726-1792,inscriber.StEdNL: RB.s.1021
Beattie, James,1735-1803,former owner.StEdNL: RB.s.1021
Percy, Hugh,Bishop,1784-1856.,former owner.StEdNL: Ry.IV.f.14
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose,Earl of,1847-1929,former owner.StEdNL: Ry.IV.f.14
Edinburgh printed by A. Murray and J. Cochran. For John Balfour.
1770
Edited by David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes
With a half-title, and final leaf of words not understood and errata.
A selection of poems from a miscellany compiled by Bannatyne in 1568.
ESTC
The recto of the front free endpaper contains a Latin inscription "Inservi Deo ac Cotare Dav: Dalrymple 1770", followed by an inscription in a different 18th-century hand "A present from the Publisher Sir David Dalrymple Bar.t Lord Hailes to J Beattie. Edinburgh 4 July 1772." and below that an illegible signature "Alexander K[emble?]" in an apparently late 18th-century hand.
Manuscript inscription on the cover "Sir Dav.d Dalrymple Lord Hales's Anc. Scot. Poems from Bannatyne's MS." Manuscript inscription on the front pastedown "NB. In the old MSS, both of Bannatyne & Maitland the Conclusion of a Word ending in is is often written contractually thus gud[e]s for gudis this distinction is univerally neglected by the editor of this book: I have often corrected it but not always. The plural number of all Nouns in the genuine old Scottish Dialect ends in is husbandis, ie husband". Pencil manuscript inscription at the head of the front pastedown "Bp Percy's Copy". Stamp of Barnbougle Castle Catalogue at the head of the first title page. Manuscript inscription on the verso "The Asterisk * prefixed to some of the Poems, denotes such Poems to be preserved in Sir Richard Maitland's MS. Collection of Old Scots Peoms, in the Pepysian Library, in Magd. College Cambridge. Which MS. Copy often differs very much from & contains Readings superior to those here printed". Extensive manuscript annotations throughout the text. Armorial bookplate of the 5th Earl of Rosebery on the end pastedown.
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