Polemo-Middinia inter Vitarvam & Nebernam..
Drummond, William,1585-1649.
[Scotland?] s.n.
[ca. 1700].
"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), p. 39.
Place and date of publication from Wing.
This item also described in Aldis, Harry Gidney. List of Books Printed in Scotland before 1700, including Those Printed Furth of the Realm for Scottish Booksellers, with Brief Notes on the Printers and Stationers. Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland; 1970. xxviii, 189 pp. (Rev. & rpt. of 1904 ed.) Item 1900.5
Entry in Bibliogaphia Aberdonensis, p. 424 reads: Drummond, William. Polemo-Middinia inter Vitarvam & Nebernam. 8vo. 172 x 116 mm. A⁴. Pp. 7+[1]. Without title-page, place, date or imprint. Pp. 1-7, text follows above heading, in pica roman and italic. At end: LECTORI: Gulielmum Drummondum de Hauthornden, Sco-to-Britannum, (Macoronici hujus Poematis Au-ctorem) Virum celeberrimum suisse, etc.
Old catalogue card gives place and date of publication as: [?Aberdeen, 1670].
Entry for Wing D2203A reads: [Anr. ed., "Middinia ... &."] [Scotland? c.1700.] 8vo. ALDIS 1900.5.
Wing (2nd ed., 1994)
Aldis, H.G.  Scotland,
ESTC