Polemo-Medinia inter Vitaruam et Nebarnam..
Drummond, William,1585-1649.
Bindman, Gerald,1904-1974,associated name.StEdNL
[Edinburgh? : s.n.
c. 1700]
Caption title.
Place and date of publication suggested by Aldis.
A positive and negative photostat of the copy known to have been in the possession of Dr Gerald Bindman of Newcastle.
In verse: Nymphae quae coliris hightissima Monta Fifaea.
Above title is a headpiece with a thistle, fleur-de-lis and rose all crowned.
"In 1683 there was issued anonymously at Edinburgh a macaronic or dog-Latin poem in hexameters entitled 'Polemo-Middinia inter Vitaruam et Nebernam', a farcical account of a quarrel between the tenants of Scot of Scotstarvet and those of his neighbour, Cunningham of Barns. This was reprinted at Oxford in 1691 and edited by Edmund Gibson, afterwards bishop of London, together with James V's Christ's Kirk on the Green, and in this volume Drummond was positively declared to be the author. The facts that no mention of such a work is found in the Hawthornden MSS. and that Drummond never claimed it in his lifetime make its authorship doubtful. But when in 1711 Bishop Sage and Ruddiman prepared the chief collected edition of Drummond's works in both verse and prose, this piece was included and its authenticity distinctly asserted in the prefatory memoir." -- Cf. DNB.
"Drummond was almost certainly the author, since he was intimately acquainted with both of the Fifeshire families involved in the dispute over a right of way depicted in the poem ..." -- Cf. MacLaine, A. (ed.) "The Christis Kirk Tradition" (Glasgow: ASLS, 1996).
Aberdeen and as early as 1645 have also been suggested as the place and date of first publication. -- Cf. MacLaine, p. 39; Bibliographia aberdonensis, p. 424.
Not the same as British Museum copy filmed by UMI (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2666:2) cited in OCLC: 49520877 as D2203.
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Aldis, H.G.  Scotland,
ESTC
Scotland Edinburgh.