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Late 15th-century manuscript of 'The oryginale cronykil of Scotland', or 'Original Chronicle', of Andrew Wyntoun

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Late 15th-century manuscript of 'The oryginale cronykil of Scotland', or 'Original Chronicle', of Andrew Wyntoun
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Description	The manuscript was written in Scotland. Wyntoun's chronicle is a vernacular history of Scotland and the world in the form of a metrical poem in 9 books with chapters. In Amours' edition of Wyntoun's work, this manuscript is referred to as E1, or the First Edinburgh Manuscript. It is written by a variety of contemporary hands, one of which has been identified as belonging to John Asloan, scribe of the Asloan manuscript. A number of folios are missing.
Shelfmark	Adv.MS.19.2.3
Attribution and copyright:	Public Domain - This work is free of known copyright restrictions. For details visit our copyright page. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Histories (literary works) Written and printed matter > Poetry Written and printed matter > Manuscripts Written and printed matter > Histories (literary works) > Chronicles
Dates / events:	1480-1499 [Date created]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland (country) [Place created]
Person / organisation:	Andrew, of Wyntoun, 1350?-1420? [Author] Sibbald, Robert, Sir, Knight (physician and Geographer Royal), 1641-1722 [Former owner] Asloan, John (Notary Public) [Former owner] Macfarlan, Andro, of Arrochar, c.1496-c.1544 [Former owner]
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