The Bannatyne manuscript
By: compiled by George Bannatyne 1568. Printed for the Hunterian Club, 1896.
Contributors: Panton, George A.; Murdoch, James Barclay.; Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832.; Laing, David, 1793-1878.
Publisher: Johnson Reprint Corp.
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Scottish poetry -- To 1700.; English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500.; Scots language.; English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Notes: Issued in 11 parts paged continuously, with special title-pages dated 1873-1900. Vol. 1, containing prefatory matter, consists of pts. VIII-X; pt. XI consisted of title-pages, contents, etc., for the 4 vols.

Editorial work begun by Geo. A. Panton, who died when only the first two sheets had been printed. The work was completed by J. B. Murdoch. cf. Introductory note, v. 1, signed: Jas. Barclay Murdoch, December, 1901.

From the manuscript in the Advocates' library, Edinburgh, which "constitutes with the 'Asloan' and 'Maitland folio' manuscripts the chief repository of Middle Scots poetry, especially for the texts of the greater poets Henryson, Dunbar, Lyndsay and Alexander Scott. Portions of it were reprinted (with modifications) by Allan Ramsay in his Ever green (1724) and later and more correctly, by Lord Hailes in his Ancient Scottish poems (1770)" cf. Encyc. brit., v. 3, p. 353.

Includes several poems written by Bannatyne himself.

List of works printed in part from the Bannatyne manuscript: p. lxiii-lxvii.
Table of contents: value: v. 1. Introductory note, by the editor. Memoir of George Bannatyne, by Sir Walter Scott, bart. Extracts from the Memorial bulk of George Bannatyne, by Dr. David Laing. Appendix to memoir and Extracts, by Dr. David Laing. An account of the contents of the Bannatyne manuscript, by Dr. David Laing; extended by the editor. Index to first lines and titles, by George Bannatyne. Names of the authors; with notes, by the editor. Glossary to the Bannatyne manuscript, by the editor.; value: v. 2-4. The Bannatyne manuscript [with 4 Appendices containing portions of the ms. written at a later date than the rest, some by other pens than that of George Bannatyne]