Aberdeen Archives

The Aberdeen Sasine Register

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

Vol. II, p. 460

DuW 55: William Dunbar, Gladethe thoue Queyne of Scottis regioun

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

1502-7.

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.

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

Vol. II, p. 460

DuW 189: William Dunbar, The Twa Cummeris ('Rycht airlie on Ask Weddinsday')

Copy, written on a blank page.

c.1501-4.

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.

Mackenzie, No. 46, p. 84. Murdoch, III, 386-7. Ritchie, III, 14-15. Bawcutt, I, 180-1.

Vol. III, pp. 321-2

DuW 83.5: William Dunbar, No Tressour Availis without Glaidnes ('Be mirry, man! and tak nocht far in mynd')

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Bawcutt.

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