CELM: William Dunbar

Advice to Spend anis Awin Gude

('Man, sen thy lyfe is ay in weir')

Mackenzie, No. 72, pp. 147-8. Murdoch, III, 383-4; Ritchie, III, 11-13; Bawcutt, I, 118-19.

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Copy, untitled, subscribed p dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, f. 136r-v (pp. 331-2) →

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Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie and in Bawcutt. Collated in Mackenzie.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 225-6 →

Aganis the Solistaris in Court

('Be divers wyis and operatiounes')

Mackenzie, No. 29, pp. 55-6. Craigie, I, 7. Bawcutt, p. 60.

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Copy.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 p. 8 →

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Copy.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 377-8. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 209.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 p. 316 →

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In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 37, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 f. 10r →

All Erdly Joy Returnis in Pane

('Off lentren in the first mornyng')

Mackenzie, No. 71, pp. 145-6. Murdoch, II, 131-2. Ritchie, II, 121-2. Bawcutt, I, 159-60.

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Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, f. 48v (p. 156) →

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Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 382-3. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 223, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 319-20 →

The Amendis to the Telyouris and Sowtaris for the Turnament Maid on Thame

('Betuix twell houris and ellevin')

Mackenzie, No. 59, pp. 126-7. Murdoch, II, 319-21. Ritchie, II, 298-300. Bawcutt, I, 157-8.

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Copy, headed ffollowis y^e amedes mad be him to y^e telye^res & sowtaris for the twrnment maid yn thame, subscribed p Dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 112v-13r (pp. 284-5) →

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Copy, subscribed quhone he drank to ye Dekynnis ffor amendis to ye bodeis of thair craftis.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 378-9. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 220, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 p. 317 →

Ane His Awin Ennemy

('He that hes gold and grit riches')

Mackenzie, No. 2, pp. 2-3. Murdoch, II, 329-30. Ritchie, II, 308-9. Bawcutt, p. 86.

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Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 115v-16 (pp. 290-1) →

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Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 239-40. Collated in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 212-13 →

The Ballad of Kynd Kittok

('My gudame wes a gay wif, bot scho wes ryght gend')

First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 85, pp. 169-70. Murdoch, III, 382-3. Ritchie, III, 10-11.

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Copy, untitled.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 227-8.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 135v-6r (pp. 330-1) →

Ane Ballat of Our Lady

('Hale, sterne superne! Hale, in eterne')

Mackenzie, No. 82, pp. 160-2. Craigie, The Asloan MS, II, 275-8. Bawcutt, I, 83-5.

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Copy, untitled, subscribed Q Dunbar.

In: A quarto formal miscellany of mainly Scottish verse and prose, almost entirely in a single secretary hand, with rubrication, another hand on ff. 137-50 inscribed per M G Myll, with contemporary and later lists of contents, imperfect, lacking a number of pages with poems recorded in the lists of contents, v + 304 leaves, each window mounted in a 19th-century folio guardbook in brown calf gilt.

Compiled by the Edinburgh notary John Asloan (fl. c.1494-c.1532).

c.1515-30.

Inscriptions include (ff. 40v, 166v) names of William Muray and William Leslie of Balquhaina; (flyleaf) Alexander Boswel March 1730 [later Lord Auchinleck], R.W. Talbot [later fifth Lord Talbot de Malahide] from J. I Boswell June 29^th 1882, and Talbot de Malahide [sixth Lord Talbot de Malahide] James Boswell March 1921. Sold and recovered several times by the Boswell family before passing to the Talbot family. Purchased in 1966.

Commonly cited as the Asloan MS. Complete text edited in Craigie, Asloan MS. Discussed, with a table of contents, in Catherine van Buren, John Asloan and his Manuscript: An Edinburgh Notary and Scribe in the Days of James III, IV and V (c.470-c.1530), in Stewart Style 1513-1542: Essays on the Court of James V, ed. Janet Hadley Williams (East Linton, 1996), 15-51.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie and in Craigie, The Asloan MS, and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland MS 16500 ff. 303r-4v →

Best to be Blyth

('Full oft I mus and hes in thocht')

Mackenzie, No. 69, pp. 143-4. Murdoch, II, 281-2. Ritchie, II, 260-1. Bawcutt, I, 79-80.

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Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dunbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, f. 98v (p. 258) →

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Copy of lines 1-9, untitled, deleted.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch, II, 329, and in Ritchie, II, 308.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, f. 115v (p. 290) →

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Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 410-11. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 222, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 p. 337 →

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Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 126, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 f. 43r-v →

Bewty and the Presoneir

('Sen that I am a presoneir')

Mackenzie, No. 54, pp. 104-7. Murdoch, III, 607-10. Ritchie, III, 249-52. Bawcutt, I, 229-32.

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Copy, untitled.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. II, ff. 214r-15r (pp. 487-9) →

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Copy of lines 1-16, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, II, 58. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 218, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 f. 8r →

The Birth of Antichrist

('Lucina schynnyng in silence of the nicht')

Mackenzie, No. 39, pp. 70-1. Murdoch, III, 375-7. Ritchie, III, 4-5. Bawcutt, I, 114-15.

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Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 133r-4r (pp. 325-7) →

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Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 405-7, and in Bawcutt. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 213.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 334-5 →

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Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 126, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 ff. 42v-3r →

Complaint to the King

('Complane I wald, wist I quhome till')

Mackenzie, No. 19, pp. 39-41. Craigie, I, 17-19. Bawcutt, I, 67-8.

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Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 16-18 →

DuW 24

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 39; in Mackenzie, p. 206; and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 ff. 13v-14r →

Complaint to the King Aganis Mure

('Schir, I complane off injuris')

Mackenzie, No. 5, p. 5. Craigie, I, 10. Bawcutt, I, 199.

DuW 25

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, No. 5, p. 5; in Craigie, I, 10; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 10-11 →

DuW 26

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 37, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 f. 11r →

The Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis

('Off Februar the fyistene nycht')

Mackenzie, No. 57, pp. 120-3. Murdoch, II, 312-15. Ritchie, II, 291-4. Bawcutt, I, 149-56.

DuW 27

Copy, untitled.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 110r-11r (pp. 279-81) →

DuW 28

Copy, untitled; imperfect.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 12-16, with a facsimile of p. 14. Recorded in Mackenzie, pp. 219-20. Collated in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 12-16 →

DuW 29

Copy of lines 1-12, 109-20, untitled and prefixed to The Sowtar and Tailyouris War (DuW 154).

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 183.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 161-2 →

DuW 30

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 38-9.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 ff. 11v-13r →

The Devillis Inquest

('This nycht in my sleip I wes agast')

Mackenzie, No. 42, p. 76-9 (see pp. 238-9). Murdoch, III, 372-5. Ritchie, III, 1-4. Bawcutt, I, 250-7.

DuW 31

Copy of a 17-stanza version, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 132v-3r (pp. 324-5) →

DuW 32

Copy of a 13-stanza version, untitled and beginning Dremand me thocht that I did heir.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, pp. 238-9; in Craigie, I, 62-4; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 55-7 →

DuW 33

Copy of a 13-stanza version, untitled and beginning Dremand me thocht that I did heir.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 64-5, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 ff. 18v-19r →

The Dream

('This hinder nycht, halff sleiping as I lay')

Mackenzie, No. 60, pp. 127-30. Craigie, II, 46-50. Bawcutt, I, 240-4.

DuW 34

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, II, 45-6; and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 ff. 3v-5r →

The Dregy of Dunbar

('We that ar heir in hevins glory')

Mackenzie, No. 30, pp. 56-9. Murdoch, II, 292-6. Ritchie, II, 271-5. Bawcutt, I, 274-7, as Dumbaris Dirige to the King.

DuW 35

Copy, headed The dregy of dubar maid to King James ye fyrst being in stumbling, subscribed Heir endis dubaris dergy to the king bydand to lang in Stirling.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 102r-3v (pp. 265-8) →

DuW 36

Copy, subscribed Dumbaris dirige to ye king.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 337-41, and in Bawcutt. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 209-10.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 290-2 →

DuW 37

Copy, subscribed Dumbaris dirige to ye king.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 129; in Mackenzie, p. 210; and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 ff. 55v-6v →

Dunbar at Oxinfurde

('To speik of science, craft, or sapience')

Mackenzie, No. 53, pp. 104. Craigie, I, 9. Bawcutt, I, 266.

DuW 38

Copy.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, No. 53, p. 104, and in Craigie, I, 9. Collated in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 9-10 →

DuW 39

Copy.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, I, 379-80; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 317-18 →

DuW 40

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 37, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 f. 10v →

Elegy on the Death of Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny

('Illuster Lodovick, of France most Cristin king')

Mackenzie, No. 62, pp. 133-4. Craigie, II, 54-5. Bawcutt, p. 100.

DuW 41

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 ff. 6v-7r →

Epetaphe for Donald Owre

('In vice most vicius he excellis')

Mackenzie, No. 36, pp. 65-6. Ritchie, I, 87-8. Bawcutt, I, 111-12.

DuW 42

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p dubar for Donald ovre epetaphe.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Ritchie, with a facsimile of p. 53; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, pp. 53-4 →

DuW 43

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 11-12. Collated in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 11-12 →

DuW 44

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 38, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 f. 11r-v →

The Fenyeit Freir of Tungland

('As yung Awrora, with cristall haile')

Mackenzie, No. 38, pp. 67-70. Murdoch, II, 333-7. Ritchie, II, 311-15. Bawcutt, I, 56-9.

DuW 45

Copy, headed Ane ballat of the fenyeit freir of tungland how he fell in the myre Ileand to turberland, subscribed finis p Dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 117r-18v (pp. 293-6) →

DuW 46

Copy of lines 1-69.

In: A quarto formal miscellany of mainly Scottish verse and prose, almost entirely in a single secretary hand, with rubrication, another hand on ff. 137-50 inscribed per M G Myll, with contemporary and later lists of contents, imperfect, lacking a number of pages with poems recorded in the lists of contents, v + 304 leaves, each window mounted in a 19th-century folio guardbook in brown calf gilt.

Compiled by the Edinburgh notary John Asloan (fl. c.1494-c.1532).

c.1515-30.

Inscriptions include (ff. 40v, 166v) names of William Muray and William Leslie of Balquhaina; (flyleaf) Alexander Boswel March 1730 [later Lord Auchinleck], R.W. Talbot [later fifth Lord Talbot de Malahide] from J. I Boswell June 29^th 1882, and Talbot de Malahide [sixth Lord Talbot de Malahide] James Boswell March 1921. Sold and recovered several times by the Boswell family before passing to the Talbot family. Purchased in 1966.

Commonly cited as the Asloan MS. Complete text edited in Craigie, Asloan MS. Discussed, with a table of contents, in Catherine van Buren, John Asloan and his Manuscript: An Edinburgh Notary and Scribe in the Days of James III, IV and V (c.470-c.1530), in Stewart Style 1513-1542: Essays on the Court of James V, ed. Janet Hadley Williams (East Linton, 1996), 15-51.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, The Asloan MS, II, 92-4. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 212, and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland MS 16500 ff. 211v-12v →

The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie

('Schir Johine the Ros, ane thing thair is compild')

First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 6, pp. 5-20. Murdoch, III. 420-37. Ritchie, III, 44-62. Bawcutt, I, 200-18.

DuW 47

Copy of lines 1-315.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 147r-54r (pp. 353-61) →

DuW 48

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 71-88. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 198-201, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 53-4, 59-63, 69-70, 77-80 →

DuW 49

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 69-70.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 ff. 58r-65r →

The Freiris of Berwick

('At Tweidis mowth thair standis a nobill toun')

Of doubtful authorship. Mackenzie, No. 93, pp. 182-95. Murdoch, IV, 1004-20. Ritchie, IV, 261-77.

DuW 50

Copy.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. II, ff. 348v-54v (pp. 746-58) →

DuW 51

Copy.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 133-48. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 231-4.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 113-29 →

A General Satyre

('Doverrit with dreme, devysing in my slummer')

Of doubtful authorship. Mackenzie, No. 77, pp. 151-3. Murdoch, II, 162-5. Ritchie, II, 147-50. Bawcutt, I, 71-4.

DuW 52

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 60r-1r (pp. 181-3) →

DuW 53

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p D.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Ritchie, I, 79-82, and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, pp. 47-8 →

DuW 54

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 211-13. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 224-6, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 187-9 →

'Gladethe thoue Queyne of Scottis regioun'

Mackenzie, No. 90, pp. 179-80. Bawcutt, I, 81-2.

DuW 55

Copy, written on a blank page between two deeds dated 25 October 1505 and 28 March 1506.

In: The official minute book of sasines in Aberdeen, in numerous volumes, dating from 1484 onwards.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie and in Bawcutt.

A transcript of this MS made for David Laing by R. Stephens (1835) is in Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 476.

Aberdeen Archives The Aberdeen Sasine Register Vol. II, p. 460 →

The Goldyn Targe

('Ryght as the stern of day begouth to schyne')

First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 56, pp. 112-19. Murdoch, IV, 995-1003. Ritchie, IV, 252-61. Bawcutt, I, 184-92.

DuW 56

Copy, headed followis the goldin terge, subscribed Explicit p Dumbar of the goldin terge.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt. Recorded in Mackenzie, pp. 218-19. Facsimile of f. 345 in Small, I, at the end.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. II, ff. 345r-8v (pp. 739-46) →

DuW 57

Copy, imperfect.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 89-97. Recorded in Mackenzie, pp. 218-19. Collated in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 64-6, 73-6, 81 →

Gude Counsale

('Be ye ane luvar, think ye nocht ye suld')

Mackenzie, No. 68, pp. 142-3. Murdoch, III, 602-3. Ritchie, III, 244-5. Bawcutt, p. 63.

DuW 58

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. II, f. 212v (p. 484) →

How Dumbar wes Desyrd to be Ane Freir

('This nycht, befoir the dawing cleir')

Mackenzie, No. 4, pp. 3-4. Murdoch, II, 327-8. Ritchie, II, 306-7. Bawcutt, I, 248-9.

DuW 59

Copy, headed ffollowis how Dubar wes desyre to be ane freir and subscribed p Dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, f. 115r-v (pp. 289-90) →

DuW 60

Copy of lines 1-20, 26-50.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 404-5. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 197, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 333-4 →

DuW 61

Copy of lines 1-20, 26-50, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 126, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 f. 42r-v →

How Sall I Governe Me?

('How sould I rewill me or in quhat wys')

Mackenzie, No. 9, pp. 24-6. Murdoch, II, 178-80; Ritchie, II, 162-3. Bawcutt, I, 87-8.

DuW 62

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 203.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 65v-6v (pp. 192-4) →

DuW 63

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, and in Craigie, I, 388-9. Collated in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 323-4 →

DuW 64

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 123.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 f. 38r-v →

In Prais of Wemen

('Now of wemen this I say for me')

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, No. 45, pp. 83-4. Murdoch, IV, 809-10. Ritchie, IV, 75-6. Bawcutt, I, 135.

DuW 65

Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. II, f. 278v (p. 612) →

DuW 66

Copy, here beginning Off women now this I say for me.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 345. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 215, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 294-5 →

'In secreit place this hyndir nycht'

Mackenzie, No. 28, pp. 53-5. Murdoch, II, 296-8. Ritchie, II, 275-7. Bawcutt, I, 106-8.

DuW 67

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p S Clerk.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 208-9, and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 103v-4 (pp. 268-9) →

DuW 67.5

Copy.

In: An oblong quarto miscellany of verse, receipts, and lute music, in possibly several secretary hands, 60 leaves, in modern red morocco. c.1570.

The Braye LuteBook, formerly among the Cave family papers of Lord Braye at Stanford Hall, Rugby.

This MS collated in Bawcutt. Edited in Priscilla Bawcutt, New Texts of William Dunbar, Alexander Scott and Other Scottish Poets, Scottish Studies Review, 1 (Winter 2000), 9-25 (pp. 17-19).

Yale Osborn Music MS 13 ff. 50v-1v →

DuW 68

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, I, 368-70; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 308, 311 →

DuW 69

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 121, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 ff. 34v-5r →

Inconstancy of Luve

('Quha will behald of luve the chance')

Mackenzie, No. 51, pp. 100-1. Murdoch, IV, 816. Ritchie, IV, 81-2. Bawcutt, I, 161.

DuW 70

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. II, f. 281r (p. 617) →

Lament for the Makaris

('I that in heill wes and gladnes')

First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 7, pp. 20-3. Murdoch, II. 308-11. Ritchie, II, 287-91. Bawcutt, I, 94-7.

DuW 71

Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 202-3, and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 109r-10r (pp. 277-9) →

DuW 72

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 214-17. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 202-3.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 189-92 →

The Manere of the Crying of ane Playe

('Harry, harry, hobbillschowe!')

Mackenzie, No. 86, pp. 170-4. Murdoch, II, 337-41. Ritchie, II, 315-20.

DuW 73

Copy, headed Ane Littill Interlud of y^e Droichis pt of y^e [play], subscribed ffinis off y^e droichis pt of y^e play.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in . Ritchie. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 228-30.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 118v-20r (pp. 296-9) →

DuW 74

Copy of lines 1-165.

In: A quarto formal miscellany of mainly Scottish verse and prose, almost entirely in a single secretary hand, with rubrication, another hand on ff. 137-50 inscribed per M G Myll, with contemporary and later lists of contents, imperfect, lacking a number of pages with poems recorded in the lists of contents, v + 304 leaves, each window mounted in a 19th-century folio guardbook in brown calf gilt.

Compiled by the Edinburgh notary John Asloan (fl. c.1494-c.1532).

c.1515-30.

Inscriptions include (ff. 40v, 166v) names of William Muray and William Leslie of Balquhaina; (flyleaf) Alexander Boswel March 1730 [later Lord Auchinleck], R.W. Talbot [later fifth Lord Talbot de Malahide] from J. I Boswell June 29^th 1882, and Talbot de Malahide [sixth Lord Talbot de Malahide] James Boswell March 1921. Sold and recovered several times by the Boswell family before passing to the Talbot family. Purchased in 1966.

Commonly cited as the Asloan MS. Complete text edited in Craigie, Asloan MS. Discussed, with a table of contents, in Catherine van Buren, John Asloan and his Manuscript: An Edinburgh Notary and Scribe in the Days of James III, IV and V (c.470-c.1530), in Stewart Style 1513-1542: Essays on the Court of James V, ed. Janet Hadley Williams (East Linton, 1996), 15-51.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie and in Craigie, The Asloan MS, III, 149-54.

National Library of Scotland MS 16500 ff. 240r-2v →

The Maner of Passing to Confessioun

('O synfull man, thir ar the fourty dayis')

Mackenzie, No. 84, pp. 167-9. Bennett, pp. 257-9. Bawcutt, I, 136-8.

DuW 75

Copy.

In: A Scottish miscellany of devotional verse and prose. c.1530s.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Bennett; and in Bawcutt.

British Library Arundel MS 285 ff. 161r-2v →

Meditatioun in Wyntir

('In to thir dirk and drublie dayis')

Mackenzie, No. 10, pp. 26-7. Craigie, I, 380-2. Bawcutt, I, 109-10.

DuW 76

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 318-19 →

DuW 77

Copy of lines 23-50, untitled and here beginning And lat fortoune wirk furthe hir rage.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 1-2. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 203.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 p. 3 →

DuW 78

Copy of lines 1-22, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, II, 34-5. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 203. Collated in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 f. 1r →

The Merle and the Nychtingaill

('In May as that Aurora did upspring')

Mackenzie, No. 63, pp. 134-7. Murdoch, IV, 822-6. Ritchie, IV, 87-91. Bawcutt, I, 101-5.

DuW 79

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. II, ff. 283r-4v (pp. 621-4) →

DuW 80

Copy of lines 1-16, 33-120, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 188-91. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 221-2, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 165-8 →

A New Year's Gift to the King

('My Prince, in God gif the guid grace')

Mackenzie, No. 26, p. 51. Craigie, II, 44-5. Bawcutt, I, 129.

DuW 81

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 ff. 2v-3r →

No Tressour Availis without Glaidnes

('Be mirry, man! and tak nocht far in mynd')

Mackenzie, No. 73, pp. 148-9. Murdoch, II, 279-80. Ritchie, II, 259-60. Bawcutt, I, 61-2.

DuW 82

Copy, headed Hermes the Philosopher p dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 97v-8v (pp. 256-8) →

DuW 83

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 249-50. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 223-4, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 221-2 →

DuW 83.5

Copy.

In: The official minute book of sasines in Aberdeen, in numerous volumes, dating from 1484 onwards.

Edited from this MS in Bawcutt.

Aberdeen Archives The Aberdeen Sasine Register Vol. III, pp. 321-2 →

None May Assure in this Warld

('Quhom to sall I compleine my wo')

Mackenzie, No. 21, pp. 44-6. Edited from this MS in Murdoch, II, 234-6. Ritchie, II, 215-17 (with a facsimile of f. 84v). Bawcutt, I, 171-3.

DuW 84

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie, with a facsimile of f. 84v. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 207, and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 84r-5r (pp. 229-31) →

DuW 85

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, I, 401-3, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 331-3 →

DuW 86

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 125-6, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 ff. 40v-2r →

Of a Dance in the Quenis Chalmer

('Sir Jhon Sinclair begowthe to dance')

Mackenzie, No. 32, pp. 60-1. Craigie, I, 415-16. Bawcutt, I, 233-4.

DuW 87

Copy.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 340-1 →

DuW 88

Copy.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 128, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 f. 45r-v →

Of Ane Blak-Moir

('Lang heff I maed of ladyes quhytt')

Mackenzie, No. 37, pp. 66-7. Craigie, I, 416-17. Bawcutt, p. 113.

DuW 89

Copy.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 341-2 →

DuW 90

Copy.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 128.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 ff. 45v-6r →

Of Content

('Quho thinkis that he hes sufficence')

Mackenzie, No.70, pp. 144-5. Craigie, I, 366-7. Bawcutt, I, 169-70.

DuW 91

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 p. 307 →

DuW 92

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, II, 50-1. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 223, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 f. 5r-v →

Of Covetyce

('Fredome, honour, and nobilnes')

Mackenzie, No. 67, pp. 141-2. Murdoch, II, 175-6. Ritchie, II, 159-60. Bawcutt, I, 77-8.

DuW 93

Copy, untitled.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 64v-5r (pp. 190-1) →

DuW 94

Copy, untitled; imperfect.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 5-6. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 222, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 6-7 →

DuW 95

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 36, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 f. 9r-v →

Of Deming

('Musing allone this hinder nicht')

Of doubtful authorship. Mackenzie, No. 8, pp. 23-4. Murdoch, II, 171-3. Ritchie, II, 156-7. Bawcutt, I, 122-4.

DuW 96

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 63v-4r (pp. 188-9) →

DuW 97

Copy, untitled and lacking lines 26-30.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 191-3. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 203, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 168-70 →

DuW 98

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 372-4. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 203.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 313-14 →

Of Discretioun in Asking

('Off very asking followis nocht')

Mackenzie, No. 14, pp. 31-3. Murdoch, II, 165-7. Ritchie, II, 150-2. Bawcutt, I, 142-3.

DuW 99

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis of asking.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, f. 61r-v (pp. 183-4) →

DuW 100

Copy, untitled.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Ritchie, I, 76-7.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, pp. 45-6 →

DuW 101

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 289-90. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 204, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 259-60 →

DuW 102

Copy, untitled and here beginning Eftir everie asking followis nocht.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 110, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 f. 21r-v →

Of Discretioun in Geving

('To Speik of gift or almous deidis')

Mackenzie, No. 15, pp. 33-4. Murdoch, II, 167-9. Ritchie, II, 152-4. Bawcutt, I, 144-6.

DuW 103

Copy, headed ffollowis discretoun of geving.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 61v-2v (pp. 184-6) →

DuW 104

Copy of lines 1-33, imperfect, lacking the ending.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Ritchie, I, 77-8; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, p. 46 →

DuW 105

Copy, immediately following on from Of Discretioun in Asking (DuW 101).

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 290-2. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 204-5, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 260-1 →

DuW 106

Copy, immediately following on from Of Discretioun in Asking (see DuW 102).

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 110.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 ff. 21v-2v →

Of Discretioun in Taking

('Eftir Geving I speik of taking')

Mackenzie, No. 16, pp. 35-6. Murdoch, II, 170-1. Ritchie, II, 154-5. Bawcutt, I, 147-8.

DuW 107

Copy, headed ffollowis Discretioun in taking, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 62v-3r (pp. 186-7) →

DuW 108

Copy, immediately following on from Of Discretioun in Geving (DuW 105).

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 292-4. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 205, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 261-2 →

DuW 109

Copy, immediately following on from Of Discretioun in Geving (see DuW 106).

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 110, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 ff. 22v-3r →

Of Folkis Evill to Pleis

('Four Maner of folkis ar evill to pleis')

Mackenzie, No. 23, pp. 48-9. Murdoch, II, 180-1. Ritchie, II, 163-4. Bawcutt, I, 75-6.

DuW 110

Copy, untitled.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 208. Collated in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, f. 66v (p. 194) →

DuW 111

Copy, imperfect at the beginning.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Ritchie, I, 78-9.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, p. 47 →

DuW 112

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, II, 45-6; and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 f. 3r-v →

Of James Dog, Kepar of the Quenis Wardrop

('The wardraipper of Venus boure')

Mackenzie, No. 33, pp. 61-2. Craigie, I, 413. Bawcutt, I, 236.

DuW 113

Copy.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 p. 339 →

DuW 114

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 127, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 f. 44r-v →

Of Luve Erdly and Divine

('Now culit is Dame Venus brand')

Mackenzie, No. 52, pp. 101-4. Murdoch, IV, 826-9. Ritchie, IV, 91-4. Bawcutt, I, 130-2.

DuW 115

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. II, ff. 284v-5v (pp. 624-6) →

Of Lyfe

('Quhat is this lyfe bot ane straucht way to deid')

Mackenzie, No. 76, p. 151. Craigie, I, 350. Bawcutt, I, 162.

DuW 116

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 p. 310 →

DuW 116.5

Copy.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

This MS collated in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, f. 75v (p. 212) →

Of Manis Mortalitie

('Memento, homo, quod cinis es!')

Mackenzie, No. 74, pp. 149-50. Murdoch, II, 127-9. Ritchie, II, 117-19. Bawcutt, I, 120-1.

DuW 117

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, f. 47r-v (pp. 153-4) →

DuW 118

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 218-19. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 224, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 193-4 →

Of Sir Thomas Norny

('Now lythis off ane gentill knycht')

Mackenzie, No. 35, pp. 63-4. Craigie, I, 2-4. Bawcutt, I, 133-4.

DuW 119

Copy, untitled; imperfect.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 3-5 →

DuW 120

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 35-6, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 f. 8r-v →

Of the Changes of merche

('I seik about this warld unstabille')

Mackenzie, No. 66, pp. 140-1. Craigie, I, 4. Bawcutt, p. 93.

DuW 121

Copy, untitled; slightly imperfect.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie and in Craigie. Collated in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 5-6 →

DuW 122

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 376, and in Bawcutt. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 222.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 p. 315 →

DuW 123

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 36, and in Bawcutt. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 222.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 ff. 8v-9r →

Of the Ladys Solistaris at Court

('Thir ladyis fair, That makis repair')

Mackenzie, No. 48, pp. 97-8. Murdoch, IV, 762-3. Ritchie, IV, 30-1. Bawcutt, I, 238-9.

DuW 124

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. II, f. 261r-v (p. 577) →

DuW 125

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 390-1, and in Bawcutt. The text corrected from this MS in Mackenzie (p. 217).

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 324-5 →

DuW 126

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 123, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 ff. 38v-9r →

Of the Nativitie of Christ

('Rorate celi desuper!')

Mackenzie, No. 79, pp. 154-5. Murdoch, II, 69-70. Ritchie, II, 65-6. Bawcutt, I, 182-3.

DuW 127

Copy, untitled.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, f. 27r-v (pp. 113-14) →

Of the Passioun of Christ

('Amang thir freiris, within ane cloister')

Mackenzie, No. 80, pp. 155-9. Craigie, I, 229-34. Bawcitt, pp. 34-8, as Ane Ballat of the passioun.

DuW 128

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 203-7 →

DuW 129

Copy of lines 1-32, 41-96, headed ye passioun of Ihesu, subscribed Q Dunbar.

In: A quarto formal miscellany of mainly Scottish verse and prose, almost entirely in a single secretary hand, with rubrication, another hand on ff. 137-50 inscribed per M G Myll, with contemporary and later lists of contents, imperfect, lacking a number of pages with poems recorded in the lists of contents, v + 304 leaves, each window mounted in a 19th-century folio guardbook in brown calf gilt.

Compiled by the Edinburgh notary John Asloan (fl. c.1494-c.1532).

c.1515-30.

Inscriptions include (ff. 40v, 166v) names of William Muray and William Leslie of Balquhaina; (flyleaf) Alexander Boswel March 1730 [later Lord Auchinleck], R.W. Talbot [later fifth Lord Talbot de Malahide] from J. I Boswell June 29^th 1882, and Talbot de Malahide [sixth Lord Talbot de Malahide] James Boswell March 1921. Sold and recovered several times by the Boswell family before passing to the Talbot family. Purchased in 1966.

Commonly cited as the Asloan MS. Complete text edited in Craigie, Asloan MS. Discussed, with a table of contents, in Catherine van Buren, John Asloan and his Manuscript: An Edinburgh Notary and Scribe in the Days of James III, IV and V (c.470-c.1530), in Stewart Style 1513-1542: Essays on the Court of James V, ed. Janet Hadley Williams (East Linton, 1996), 15-51.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie and in Craigie, The Asloan MS, III, 242-5. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 226. Collated in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland MS 16500 ff. 290v-2r →

DuW 130

Copy.

In: A Scottish miscellany of devotional verse and prose. c.1530s.

Edited from this MS in Bennett, pp. 266-9. Collated in Bawcutt.

British Library Arundel MS 285 ff. 168r-v, 171r, 169r, 170r →

Of the Said James, Quhen he had plesett him

('O Gracious Princes, guid and fair')

Mackenzie, No. 34, pp. 62-3. Craigie, I, 414. Bawcutt, I, 237.

DuW 131

Copy.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 339-40 →

DuW 132

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 127-8.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 ff. 44v-5r →

Of the Warldis Instabilitie

('This waverand warldis wretchidnes')

Mackenzie, No. 13, pp. 28-31. Craigie, I, 202-5. Bawcutt, I, 258-61.

DuW 133

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 178-81 →

DuW 134

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 101.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 ff. 27r-8v →

Of the Warldis Vanitie

('O wreche, be war! this warld will wend the fro')

Mackenzie, No. 75, pp. 150-1. Craigie, I, 221. Bawcutt, I, 139.

DuW 135

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 195-6 →

On His Heid-ake

('My heid did yak yester nicht')

Mackenzie, No. 3, p. 3. Bawcutt, p. 127.

DuW 136

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 f. 6r →

On the Resurrection of Christ

('Done is a battel on the dragon blak')

Mackenzie, No. 81, pp. 159-60. Murdoch, II, 94-6. Ritchie, II, 88-9. Bawcutt, I, 69-70.

DuW 137

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dunbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, f. 35r (p. 129) →

Ane Orisoun

('Salviour, suppois my sensualitie')

Mackenzie, No. 78, p. 154. Craigie, I, 393. Bawcutt, I, 193.

DuW 138

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 p. 326 →

DuW 139

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 102, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 f. 40r →

The Petition of the Gray Horse, Auld Dunbar

('Now Lufferis cummis with larges lowd')

Mackenzie, No. 22, pp. 46-8. Craigie, I, 19-20.

DuW 140

Copy of lines 23-53, untitled and here beginning Schir lat It neuer In toume be tald.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited partly from this MS in Mackenzie. Edited in Craigie and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 p. 18 →

DuW 141

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

Edited partly from this MS in Mackenzie. Collated in Craigie, II, 39-41, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 ff. 1r-v, 14r-v →

Quhen the Governour Past in France

('Thow that in hevin, for our salvatioun')

Mackenzie, No. 65, pp. 139-40. Craigie, I, 210-11. Bawcutt, I, 162-3.

DuW 142

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 186-7 →

DuW 143

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS recorded in Mackenzie, p. 222, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 ff. 28v-9r →

Quhone he List to Feyne

('My hartis tresure, and swete assured so')

Mackenzie, No. 50, pp. 99-100. Craigie, I, 386-7. Bawcutt, I, 125-6.

DuW 144

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 322-3 →

Quhone Mony Benefices Vakit

('Schir, at this feist of benefice')

Mackenzie, No. 11, pp. 27-8. Craigie, I, 6-7. Bawcutt, I, 196.

DuW 145

Copy.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 6-7. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 203. Collated in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 7-8 →

DuW 146

Copy.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, and in Craigie, I, 376-7.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 p. 316 →

DuW 147

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 36, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 ff. 9v-10r →

Remonstrance to the King

('Schir, ye have mony servitouris')

Mackenzie, No. 17, pp. 36-8. Craigie, I, 222-4. Bawcutt, I, 222-4.

DuW 148

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 196-8 →

Rewl of Anis Self

('To dwell in court, my freind, gife that thow list')

Mackenzie, No. 41, pp. 75-6. Murdoch, II, 184-6. Ritchie, II, 167-9. Bawcutt, I, 264-5.

DuW 149

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 68r-9r (pp. 197-9) →

Ros Mary: Ane Ballat of Our Lady

('Ros Mary, most of vertewe virginale')

Mackenzie, No. 87, pp. 175-7. Craigie, The Asloan MS, II, 271-2.

DuW 150

Copy.

In: A quarto formal miscellany of mainly Scottish verse and prose, almost entirely in a single secretary hand, with rubrication, another hand on ff. 137-50 inscribed per M G Myll, with contemporary and later lists of contents, imperfect, lacking a number of pages with poems recorded in the lists of contents, v + 304 leaves, each window mounted in a 19th-century folio guardbook in brown calf gilt.

Compiled by the Edinburgh notary John Asloan (fl. c.1494-c.1532).

c.1515-30.

Inscriptions include (ff. 40v, 166v) names of William Muray and William Leslie of Balquhaina; (flyleaf) Alexander Boswel March 1730 [later Lord Auchinleck], R.W. Talbot [later fifth Lord Talbot de Malahide] from J. I Boswell June 29^th 1882, and Talbot de Malahide [sixth Lord Talbot de Malahide] James Boswell March 1921. Sold and recovered several times by the Boswell family before passing to the Talbot family. Purchased in 1966.

Commonly cited as the Asloan MS. Complete text edited in Craigie, Asloan MS. Discussed, with a table of contents, in Catherine van Buren, John Asloan and his Manuscript: An Edinburgh Notary and Scribe in the Days of James III, IV and V (c.470-c.1530), in Stewart Style 1513-1542: Essays on the Court of James V, ed. Janet Hadley Williams (East Linton, 1996), 15-51.

Edited partly from this MS in Mackenzie. Edited in Craigie, The Asloan MS.

National Library of Scotland MS 16500 f. 300v-1v →

DuW 151

Copy, untitled. Late 15th-early 16th century.

In: A folio volume of lecture notes on logic written in Louvain in 1477 by Magnus Makculloch, clerk to Archbishop William Schevez (d.1497), iii + 202 leaves, imperfect at the end, in modern brown calf gilt.

Chiefly in one professional secretary hand, with some engrossed lettering, in double columns, another hand, one Johannes, possibly John Purde, on pages including ff. ii^v-iii^r, 86r-7r, 181v, 183v, and 200r-2r.

Owned by David Laing in 1854.

Edited from this MS in Stevenson, pp. 24-5. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 230.

Edinburgh University Library MS Borl. 205 f. 183v →

DuW 152

Copy of an eight-stanza version.

In: A folio volume of religious poems chiefly composed and probably transcribed by the priest William Forrest. c.1581.

Edted from this MS in Henry Noble MacCracken, New Stanzas by Dunbar, MLN, 24 (1909), 110-11. Edited partly from this MS in Mackenzie.

British Library Harley MS 1703 ff. 79v-80r →

The Sowtar and Tailyouris War

('Nixt that a turnament wes tryid')

Mackenzie, No. 58, pp. 123-6. Murdoch, II, 316-19. Ritchie, II, 295-8.

DuW 153

Copy, headed The Turnament, subscribed Heir endes the...maid be the nobill poyet m^r W^m Dunnbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 111r-12v (pp. 281-4) →

DuW 154

Copy, here beginning Syn till ane turnament fast thai hyit, prefixed by lines 1-12, 109-20 of The Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis (DuW 29) and untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 183-7. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 220.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 162-5 →

DuW 155

Copy, headed The Iustis betuix ye talyeour & ye sowtar, subscribed Q Dunbar.

In: A quarto formal miscellany of mainly Scottish verse and prose, almost entirely in a single secretary hand, with rubrication, another hand on ff. 137-50 inscribed per M G Myll, with contemporary and later lists of contents, imperfect, lacking a number of pages with poems recorded in the lists of contents, v + 304 leaves, each window mounted in a 19th-century folio guardbook in brown calf gilt.

Compiled by the Edinburgh notary John Asloan (fl. c.1494-c.1532).

c.1515-30.

Inscriptions include (ff. 40v, 166v) names of William Muray and William Leslie of Balquhaina; (flyleaf) Alexander Boswel March 1730 [later Lord Auchinleck], R.W. Talbot [later fifth Lord Talbot de Malahide] from J. I Boswell June 29^th 1882, and Talbot de Malahide [sixth Lord Talbot de Malahide] James Boswell March 1921. Sold and recovered several times by the Boswell family before passing to the Talbot family. Purchased in 1966.

Commonly cited as the Asloan MS. Complete text edited in Craigie, Asloan MS. Discussed, with a table of contents, in Catherine van Buren, John Asloan and his Manuscript: An Edinburgh Notary and Scribe in the Days of James III, IV and V (c.470-c.1530), in Stewart Style 1513-1542: Essays on the Court of James V, ed. Janet Hadley Williams (East Linton, 1996), 15-51.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, The Asloan MS, II, 89-92. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 220.

National Library of Scotland MS 16500 ff. 210r-11v →

The Tabill of Confession

('To The, O mercifull Salviour, Jesus')

Mackenzie, No. 83, pp. 163-7. Murdoch, II, 43-8. Ritchie, II, 42-7. Bawcutt, I, 267-73.

DuW 156

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 17v-19v (pp. 94-8) →

DuW 157

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Ritchie, I, 13-18. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 227. Collated in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, pp. 9-11 →

DuW 158

Copy, subscribed ane confessioun generale.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 224-9. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 227. Collated in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 199-203 →

DuW 159

Copy.

In: A Scottish miscellany of devotional verse and prose. c.1530s.

Edied from this MS in Bennett, pp. 1-6. Partly edited from this MS in Mackenzie.

British Library Arundel MS 285 ff. 1r-4v →

The Testament of Mr. Andro Kennedy

('I, Maister Andro Kennedy')

First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 40, pp. 71-4. Murdoch, III, 438-41. Ritchie, III, 62-6. Bawcutt, I, 89-92.

DuW 160

Copy, untitled, subscribed so Heir endis the tesment of mr andreo Keinnedy Maid be Dumbar quhen he ews lyk to dy.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. The text corrected from this MS in Mackenzie, p. 213, and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 154r-5v (pp. 367-70) →

DuW 161

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 155-9. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 213. Collated in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 135-8 →

DuW 162

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis q^d Kennedie.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 ff. 24v-6r →

The Thrissil and the Rois

('Quhen Merche wes with variand windis past')

Mackenzie, No. 55, pp. 107-12. Murdoch, IV, 988-94. Ritchie, IV, 246-52. Bawcutt, I, 163-8.

DuW 163

Copy, subscribed Explicit p Dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. II, ff. 342v-5 r(pp. 734-9) →

To a Ladye

('Sweit rois of vertew and of gentilnes')

Mackenzie, No. 49, p. 99. Craigie, I, 383-4. Bawcutt, I, 235.

DuW 164

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 p. 320 →

To Aberdein

('Blyth Aberdeane, thow beriall of all tounis')

Mackenzie, No. 64, pp. 137-9. Craigie, II, 55-8. Bawcutt, pp. 63-6.

DuW 165

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 f. 7r-v →

To the Gouvernour in France

('We lordis hes chosin a chiftane mervellus')

Mackenzie, No. 92, pp. 181-2. Murdoch, II, 215-16. Ritchie, II, 197-9.

DuW 166

Copy, untitled.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 78v-9r (pp. 218-19) →

To the King

('Off benefice, Schir, at everie feist')

Mackenzie, No. 12, p. 28. Craigie, I, 8-9. Bawcutt, I, 140-1.

DuW 167

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie. The text corrected from this MS in Mackenzie. Collated in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 8-9 →

DuW 168

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, I, 385-6; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 321-2 →

DuW 169

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 37.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 f. 10r-v →

To the King

('Sanct Salvatour! send silver sorrow')

Mackenzie, No. 1, p. 1-2. Murdoch, II, 322-4. Ritchie, II, 301-2. Bawcutt, I, 194-5.

DuW 170

Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar to y^e King.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 113v-14r (pp. 286-7) →

To the King

('Schir, yit remembir as of befoir')

Mackenzie, No. 20, pp. 41-3. Murdoch, II, 271-4. Ritchie, II, 251-4. Bawcutt, I, 225-8.

DuW 171

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 206-7.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 94v-5v (pp. 250-2) →

DuW 172

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, I, 346-8; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 295-6, 309 →

DuW 173

Copy of lines 76-83, untitled and beginning How suld I leif and I not landit.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 f. 34r →

To the King That He war Johne Thomosunis Man

('Schir, for your grace, bayth nicht and day')

Mackenzie, No. 18, pp. 38-9. Craigie, I, 220-1. Bawcutt, I, 197-8.

DuW 174

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 194-5 →

To the Lordis of the Kingis Chalker

('My Lordis of Chalker, pleis yow to heir')

Mackenzie, No. 25, pp. 50-1. Craigie, II, 53-4. Bawcutt, p. 128.

DuW 175

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 f. 6r-v →

To the Merchantis of Edinburgh

('Quhy will ye, merchantis of renoun')

Mackenzie, No. 44, pp. 81-3. Craigie, II, 41-4. Bawcutt, I, 174-6.

DuW 176

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 ff. 1v-2v →

To the Princess Margaret

('Now fayre, fayrest off every fayre')

Mackenzie, No. 89, pp. 178-9.

DuW 177

Copy, in a musical setting, the initial letter decorated in colour with a facial portrait, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto volume of madrigals and other musical works, the lyrics in two or more secretary hands, 60 leaves, in half-morocco, stamped in gilt on both covers 1757. Early 16th century.

Facsimiles in Small, I, at the end, and in DLB, vol. 132, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. First Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1993), p. 128.

British Library Royal MS App. 58 ff. 17v-18v →

To the Quene

('Madam, your men said thai wald ryd')

Mackenzie, No. 31, pp. 59-60. Craigie, I, 417-18. Bawcutt, I, 116-17.

DuW 178

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie and in Craigie.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 p. 342 →

DuW 179

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 129; in Mackenzie, p. 210; and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 f. 46r-v →

To the Queen Dowager

('O lusty flour of yowth, benying and bricht')

Mackenzie, No. 91, pp. 180-1. Murdoch, III, 689-91. Ritchie, III, 323-4.

DuW 180

Copy, untitled.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. II, f. 238v (p. 532) →

To the City of London

('London, thou art of townes A per se')

Mackenzie, No. 88, pp. 177-8.

DuW 181

Copy, headed ye treatise of London made at Mr. Shaa table when he was mayre.

In: A memorandum book and miscellany, in long narrow ledger-format, in neat secretary hands, partly rubricated, 248 (plus eight unnumbered) leaves, imperfect at the end, in contemporary vellum.

Entitled A Boke of dyueris tales and balettes and dyuersis Reconynges &c. and inscribed Iste liber pertineth Rycardo Hill, servant with M. Wynger, alderman of London. Compiled largely by Richard Hill (b.c.1490), citizen and grocer of London, free of the Company of Merchant Adventurers.

c.1520.

A deleted inscription (p. 178) Iste liber partinet John Stokes. Notes on farming matters dated 1731 including the name Robert Tombs.

Edited from this MS in Songs, Carols, and other Miscellaneous Poems, ed. Roman Dyboski, EETS ES 101 (London, 1907-8), pp. 100-2. The text corrected from this MS in Mackenzie (pp. 230-1).

Balliol College, Oxford MS 354 ff. 199v-200r →

DuW 182

Copy, untitled.

In: A quarto volume, in one or more professional secretary hands, 213 leaves, on vellum throughout, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Comprising (ff. 2r-208v) a chronicle of England, containing the remarkable passages of what happened; together with the mayors and sheriffs of London, from A° 1215 to A° 1509, with other historical texts on ff. 209r-13v.

Early 16th century.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie.

British Library Cotton MS Vitellius A. XVI ff. 200r-1r →

DuW 183

Copy, headed An honour to London.

In: A quarto composite volume of verse and prose, partly on vellum, partly on paper, c.110 leaves. Mid-late 16th century.

Edited from this MS in T. Wright and James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps], Reliquiae Antiquae (London, 1841), I, 205-7. Recorded in Mackenzie, pp. 230-1.

British Library Lansdowne MS 762 f. 7v →

DuW 184

Copy, headed A balad mayde at London whe my lorde prince Arthur was wed by a Skotte hauyng muche money of dyu^rse lordes for hys Indytyg, among other texts on three pages (ff. [1r, 2r-v]) of three large folio leaves, formerly the flyleaves in a printed exemplum of William Caxton's edition of Cordiale quattuor novissimorum (1479) (PLM 677) and now rebound separately in modern brown morocco gilt. c.1501-9.

The printed Cordiale bears the bookplate of Richard Bennett.

Edited from this MS in Curt F. Bühler, London Thow Art The Flowre of Cytes All, RES, 13 (1937), 1-9. Facsimile in British Literary Manuscripts: Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 10.

Pierpont Morgan Library MA 717 Bd Engl. Lit. →

The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo

('Apon the Midsummer evin, mirriest of nichtis')

First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 47, pp. 85-97. Craigie, I, 98-115. Bawcutt, I, 41-55.

DuW 185

Copy.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Libes 1-103 edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 81-96 →

The Twa Cummeris

('Rycht airlie on Ask Weddinsday')

Mackenzie, No. 46, p. 84. Murdoch, III, 386-7. Ritchie, III, 14-15. Bawcutt, I, 180-1.

DuW 186

Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and n Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, f. 137r (p. 333) →

DuW 187

Copy, untitled and here beginning Airlie on als wodnisday.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 64-5. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 215. Collated in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 57-8 →

DuW 188

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 65, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 f. 19v →

DuW 189

Copy, written on a blank page.

In: The official minute book of sasines in Aberdeen, in numerous volumes, dating from 1484 onwards.

Edited from this MS in Bawcutt. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 214.

A transcript of this MS made for David Laing by R. Stephens (1835) is in Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 476.

Aberdeen Archives The Aberdeen Sasine Register Vol. II, p. 460 →

Tydingis fra the Sessioun

('Ane murlandis man of uplandis mak')

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, No. 43, pp. 79-80. Murdoch, II, 160-2. Ritchie, II, 145-7. Bawcutt, I, 39-40.

DuW 190

Copy, untitled, headed ffollowis certane ballattis againe the Vyce in sessioun court and all estaitis, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, f. 59r-v (pp. 179-80) →

DuW 191

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 374-5, and in Bawvcutt. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 214.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 314-15 →

DuW 192

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 121-2; and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 ff. 37r-8r →

Welcome to the Lord Treasurer

('I thocht lang quhill sum lord come hame')

Mackenzie, No. 24, pp. 49-50. Craigie, II, 51-2. Bawcutt, I, 98-9.

DuW 193

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 ff. 5v-6r →

The Wowing of the King quhen he was in Dumfermeling

('This hindir nycht in Dumfermeling')

Mackenzie, No. 27, pp. 51-3. Murdoch, II, 330-3. Ritchie, II, 309-11. Bawcutt, I, 245-7.

DuW 194

Copy, headed follows y^e wowing of the king quhen he wes in Dufermeling, subscribed p Dumbar.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, f. 116r-v (pp. 291-2) →

DuW 195

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 407-9. The text corrected from this MS in Mackenzie (p. 208). Collated in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 2553 pp. 335-7 →

DuW 196

Copy of lines 1-14, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 126, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library MS Ll. 5. 10 f. 58r →

William Dunbar

Verse