William Dunbar

1460?–1513/30

Introduction

The main manuscript sources of Dunbar's poems have long been known to scholars: namely, the Bannatyne MS (National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6); the Maitland Folio MS (Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553); the Reidpeth MS (Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10); and the Asloan MS (National Library of Scotland, MS 16500), the last manuscript originally including a number of other poems by Dunbar which are recorded in the list of contents but now lacking.

A few other manuscripts in which particular poems appear are recorded (DuW 55, DuW 75, DuW 130, DuW 151-152, DuW 159, DuW 181-184, DuW 189). No examples of Dunbar's own handwriting are known to survive.

The only other early textual source is the Chepman and Myllar Prints. This is a collection of printed tracts, the only extant but imperfect exemplum of which is preserved in the National Library of Scotland. The first nine of the tracts, which include seven poems at present attributed to Dunbar, were printed in Edinburgh in or about the year 1508 by Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar. The collection was reprinted in Stevenson (1918), and reproduced in facsimile in The Chepman and Myllar Prints, ed. William Beattie (Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 1950), and (on CD) in The Chepman and Myllar Prints: Digitised facsimiles with introduction, headnotes, and transcription, ed. Sally Mapstone (Scottish Text Society and the National Library of Scotland, 2008). Otherwise, so far as is known, Dunbar's poems were not printed until the eighteenth century, when Scottish anthologists like Allan Ramsay, Lord Hailes, and John Pinkerton published selections from the manuscript sources.

A few additional transcripts of poems by Dunbar made in 1793 and afterwards by Joseph Ritson, George Chalmers, and David Laing can be found in Edinburgh University Library (MS La. III. 476).

Abbreviations

Bawcutt
The Poems of William Dunbar, ed. Priscilla Bawcutt, 2 vols (Glasgow, 1998).
Bennett
Devotional Pieces in Verse and Prose, ed. J.A.W. Bennett, STS 3rd Ser. 23 (Edinburgh & London, 1955).
Craigie
The Maitland Folio Manuscript, ed. W.A. Craigie, 2 vols (Edinburgh & London, 1919-27).
Craigie, Asloan MS
The Asloan Manuscript, ed. W.A. Craigie, 2 vols, STS, NS 14, 16 (Edinburgh & London, 1923-5).
Mackenzie
The Poems of William Dunbar, ed. W. Mackay Mackenzie (London, 1932; reprinted 1966).
Murdoch
The Bannatyne Manuscript, ed. J. Barclay Murdoch, 4 vols, Hunterian Club (Glasgow, 1896; reprinted New York 1966).
Ritchie
The Bannatyne Manuscript, ed. W. Tod Ritchie, 4 vols, STS 3rd Ser. 5, 22, 23, 26 (Edinburgh & London, 1928-33).
Small
The Poems of William Dunbar, ed. John Small (with introduction and notes by A.J.G. Mackay and Walter Gregor), 3 vols, STS 2.4, 16, 21.29 (Edinburgh & London, 1883-93).
Stevenson
Pieces from the Makculloch and the Gray MSS. together with the Chepman and Myllar Prints, ed. George Stevenson, STS 65 (Edinburgh & London, 1918).

Verse

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.

DuW 1

Copy, untitled, subscribed p dumbar.

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

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 Mr 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.

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

Copy, untitled.

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

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).

Aganis the Solistaris in Court ('Be divers wyis and operatiounes')

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

DuW 3

Copy.

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

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).

DuW 4

Copy.

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

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).

DuW 5

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

DuW 6

Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, f. 48v (p. 156))
DuW 7

Copy, untitled.

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

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).

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.

DuW 8

Copy, headed ffollowis ye amedes mad be him to ye telyeres & sowtaris for the twrnment maid yn thame, subscribed p Dumbar.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 112v-13r (pp. 284-5))
DuW 9

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

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

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).

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.

DuW 10

Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 115v-16 (pp. 290-1))
DuW 11

Copy, untitled.

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

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).

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.

DuW 12

Copy, untitled.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (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.

DuW 13

Copy, untitled, subscribed Q Dunbar.

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

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 29th 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.

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.

DuW 14

Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dunbar.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, f. 98v (p. 258))
DuW 15

Copy of lines 1-9, untitled, deleted.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, f. 115v (p. 290))
DuW 16

Copy, untitled.

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

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).

DuW 17

Copy, untitled.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

DuW 18

Copy, untitled.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. II, ff. 214r-15r (pp. 487-9))
DuW 19

Copy of lines 1-16, untitled.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

DuW 20

Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 133r-4r (pp. 325-7))
DuW 21

Copy, untitled.

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

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).

DuW 22

Copy, untitled.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

DuW 23

Copy, untitled.

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

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).

DuW 24

Copy, untitled.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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).

DuW 26

Copy, untitled.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 110r-11r (pp. 279-81))
DuW 28

Copy, untitled; imperfect.

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

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).

DuW 29

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

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 183.

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).

DuW 30

Copy, untitled.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (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.

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

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).

DuW 33

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

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 102r-3v (pp. 265-8))
DuW 36

Copy, subscribed Dumbaris dirige to ye king.

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

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).

DuW 37

Copy, subscribed Dumbaris dirige to ye king.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

Dunbar at Oxinfurde ('To speik of science, craft, or sapience')

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

DuW 38

Copy.

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

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).

DuW 39

Copy.

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

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).

DuW 40

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, pp. 53-4)
DuW 43

Copy, untitled.

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

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).

DuW 44

Copy, untitled.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 117r-18v (pp. 293-6))
DuW 46

Copy of lines 1-69.

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

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 29th 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.

National Library of Scotland, other MSS (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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 147r-54r (pp. 353-61))
DuW 48

Copy, untitled.

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

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).

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library (MS 2553 pp. 53-4, 59-63, 69-70, 77-80)
DuW 49

Copy, untitled.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. II, ff. 348v-54v (pp. 746-58))
DuW 51

Copy.

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

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).

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 60r-1r (pp. 181-3))
DuW 53

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p D.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, pp. 47-8)
DuW 54

Copy, untitled.

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

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).

'Gladethe thoue Queyne of Scottis regioun'

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

DuW 55 1502-7

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. II, ff. 345r-8v (pp. 739-46))
DuW 57

Copy, imperfect.

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

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).

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, f. 115r-v (pp. 289-90))
DuW 60

Copy of lines 1-20, 26-50.

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

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).

DuW 61

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

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 65v-6v (pp. 192-4))
DuW 63

Copy, untitled.

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

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).

DuW 64

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 123.

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. II, f. 278v (p. 612))
DuW 66

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

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

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).

'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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 103v-4 (pp. 268-9))
DuW 67.5

Copy.

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).

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.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn Music MS 13 ff. 50v-1v)
DuW 68

Copy, untitled.

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

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).

DuW 69

Copy, untitled.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 109r-10r (pp. 277-9))
DuW 72

Copy, untitled.

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

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).

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 ye Droichis pt of ye [play], subscribed ffinis off ye droichis pt of ye play.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 118v-20r (pp. 296-9))
DuW 74

Copy of lines 1-165.

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

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 29th 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.

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.

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

A Scottish miscellany of devotional verse and prose.

c.1530s
The British Library: other MSS (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.

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

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).

DuW 77

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

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

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).

DuW 78

Copy of lines 1-22, untitled.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. II, ff. 283r-4v (pp. 621-4))
DuW 80

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

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

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).

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.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 97v-8v (pp. 256-8))
DuW 83

Copy, untitled.

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

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).

DuW 83.5

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Bawcutt.

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

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 84r-5r (pp. 229-31))
DuW 85

Copy, untitled.

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

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).

DuW 86

Copy, untitled.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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).

DuW 88

Copy.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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).

DuW 90

Copy.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 128.

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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).

DuW 92

Copy, untitled.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 64v-5r (pp. 190-1))
DuW 94

Copy, untitled; imperfect.

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

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).

DuW 95

Copy, untitled.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 63v-4r (pp. 188-9))
DuW 97

Copy, untitled and lacking lines 26-30.

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

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).

DuW 98

Copy, untitled.

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

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).

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, f. 61r-v (pp. 183-4))
DuW 100

Copy, untitled.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, pp. 45-6)
DuW 101

Copy, untitled.

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

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).

DuW 102

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

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 61v-2v (pp. 184-6))
DuW 104

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

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, p. 46)
DuW 105

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

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

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).

DuW 106

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

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 110.

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (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).

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

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).

DuW 109

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

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, f. 66v (p. 194))
DuW 111

Copy, imperfect at the beginning.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, p. 47)
DuW 112

Copy, untitled.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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).

DuW 114

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (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.

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

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).

DuW 116.5

Copy.

This MS collated in Bawcutt.

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, f. 47r-v (pp. 153-4))
DuW 118

Copy, untitled.

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

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).

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.

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

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).

DuW 120

Copy, untitled.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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).

DuW 122

Copy, untitled.

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

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).

DuW 123

Copy, untitled.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. II, f. 261r-v (p. 577))
DuW 125

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 390-1, and in Bawcutt. The text corrected from this MS in Mackenzie (p. 217).

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).

DuW 126

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 123, and in Bawcutt.

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (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.

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

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).

DuW 129

Copy of lines 1-32, 41-96, headed ye passioun of Ihesu, subscribed Q Dunbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie and in Craigie, The Asloan MS, III, 242-5. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 226. Collated in Bawcutt.

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 29th 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.

DuW 130

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Bennett, pp. 266-9. Collated in Bawcutt.

A Scottish miscellany of devotional verse and prose.

c.1530s
The British Library: other MSS (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.

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

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).

DuW 132

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 127-8.

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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).

DuW 134

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 101.

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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).

On His Heid-ake ('My heid did yak yester nicht')

Mackenzie, No. 3, p. 3. Bawcutt, p. 127.

DuW 136

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie and in Bawcutt.

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (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.

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

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).

DuW 139

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 102, and in Bawcutt.

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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).

DuW 141

Copy, untitled.

Edited partly from this MS in Mackenzie. Collated in Craigie, II, 39-41, and in Bawcutt.

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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

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

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).

DuW 143

This MS recorded in Mackenzie, p. 222, and in Bawcutt.

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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

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

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).

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.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 6-7. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 203. Collated in Bawcutt.

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).

DuW 146

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, and in Craigie, I, 376-7.

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).

DuW 147

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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).

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (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.

Edited partly from this MS in Mackenzie. Edited in Craigie, The Asloan MS.

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 29th 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.

DuW 151

Copy, untitled. Late 15th-early 16th century.

Edited from this MS in Stevenson, pp. 24-5. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 230.

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. iiv-iiir, 86r-7r, 181v, 183v, and 200r-2r.

Owned by David Laing in 1854.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Borl. 205 f. 183v)
DuW 152

Copy of an eight-stanza version.

Edted from this MS in Henry Noble MacCracken, New Stanzas by Dunbar, MLN, 24 (1909), 110-11. Edited partly from this MS in Mackenzie.

A folio volume of religious poems chiefly composed and probably transcribed by the priest William Forrest.

c.1581
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 mr Wm Dunnbar.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (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.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 183-7. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 220.

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).

DuW 155

Copy, headed The Iustis betuix ye talyeour & ye sowtar, subscribed Q Dunbar.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, The Asloan MS, II, 89-92. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 220.

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 29th 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.

National Library of Scotland, other MSS (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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 17v-19v (pp. 94-8))
DuW 157

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Ritchie, I, 13-18. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 227. Collated in Bawcutt.

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, pp. 9-11)
DuW 158

Copy, subscribed ane confessioun generale.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 224-9. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 227. Collated in Bawcutt.

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).

DuW 159

Copy.

Edied from this MS in Bennett, pp. 1-6. Partly edited from this MS in Mackenzie.

A Scottish miscellany of devotional verse and prose.

c.1530s
The British Library: other MSS (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.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. The text corrected from this MS in Mackenzie, p. 213, and in Bawcutt.

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 154r-5v (pp. 367-70))
DuW 161

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 155-9. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 213. Collated in Bawcutt.

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).

DuW 162

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis qd Kennedie.

This MS collated in Bawcutt.

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (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.

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

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).

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.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (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.

Edited from this MS in Craigie. The text corrected from this MS in Mackenzie. Collated in Bawcutt.

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).

DuW 168

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, I, 385-6; and in Bawcutt.

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).

DuW 169

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 37.

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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 ye King.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (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.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 206-7.

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 94v-5v (pp. 250-2))
DuW 172

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, I, 346-8; and in Bawcutt.

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).

DuW 173

Copy of lines 76-83, untitled and beginning How suld I leif and I not landit.

This MS collated in Bawcutt.

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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).

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.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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.

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
The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (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.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie and in Craigie.

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).

DuW 179

Copy, untitled.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (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.

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).

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.

Balliol College, Oxford (MS 354 ff. 199v-200r)
DuW 182

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie.

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
The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Vitellius A. XVI ff. 200r-1r)
DuW 183

Copy, headed An honour to London.

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.

A quarto composite volume of verse and prose, partly on vellum, partly on paper, c.110 leaves.

Mid-late 16th century
The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (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 dyurse 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.

The 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.

Libes 1-103 edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

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).

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, f. 137r (p. 333))
DuW 187

Copy, untitled and here beginning Airlie on als wodnisday.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 64-5. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 215. Collated in Bawcutt.

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).

DuW 188

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 65, and in Bawcutt.

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

DuW 189 c.1501-4

Copy, written on a blank page.

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.

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

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.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, f. 59r-v (pp. 179-80))
DuW 191

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 374-5, and in Bawvcutt. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 214.

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).

DuW 192

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 121-2; and in Bawcutt.

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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

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 ye wowing of the king quhen he wes in Dufermeling, subscribed p Dumbar.

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

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 Mr 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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, f. 116r-v (pp. 291-2))
DuW 195

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 407-9. The text corrected from this MS in Mackenzie (p. 208). Collated in Bawcutt.

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).

DuW 196

Copy of lines 1-14, untitled.

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

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 Mr cristopher Cokburne.

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