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APPENDIX.
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also appears in an additional manuscript, known as the " draft MS.,”
which is also in the hand of George Bannatyne and which is bound up
with the main Bannatyne manuscript.1 The text of this copy shows
various differences from that of the main manuscript.
Among Laing’s MS. notes in Edinburgh University Library is a
folder marked " John Bellenden,” which contains, among other notices,
one of a copy of Bellenden’s poem on the Annunciation, said to be
written on a fly-leaf of the Marchmont Library MS. of Fordun’s
Scotichronicon. The scribe has entitled the poem Ane ballat of \>e
cuing of crist and of \>e anniUiatioun or. Ladye / Compylit be maister
Johne ballenden. What appears to be the copy of a printer’s colophon
states—Imprentit be Johne Scot etc. Laing has collated this version
of the poem, apparently in minute detail, with the Bannatyne MS.
version, entitled The Benner of Peetie, and with the version in the
Bannatyne "draft” MS. Unfortunately, the "Marchmont” Scoti¬
chronicon was disposed of at the sale of the library in May 1913, and
so far has not been traced.
The following is a collation of the three versions of Bellenden’s poem
—two from the Bannatyne MS., the third from Laing’s collation of the
Marchmont MS. Spelling variants are disregarded :—
Bann. MS., f. la£f.
(Nat. Lib.)
Line
2. In to
5. to hir
7. the
8. schowris
10. had had in
19. than
23. Quha
27. fyve
36. slicht
37. fund
44. aboif
45. thrwche
47. be
55. agane thay
58. argumentis
60. Sum for lustice and
sum for mercie
cryis
61. in
62. aganis
63. deid
64. satisfie
66. wes thair fund
73. than callit
78. fraternitie
84. nor
85. to
88. and
Marchmont MS.
(Laing’s collation)—
(Edin. Univ. Lib.)
Under
to his
(omits “ the ”)
flouris
had in his
nocht
Qlk.
mj
sycAt
maid
abone
for
in
aganis thi
argumentis
... mercy ... lustice
on
aganis
deith
satyfie
wes found thair
he callit
confraternitie
nor
to
and als
Bann. “draft" MS.,
p. 3ff. (Nat. Lib.)
Into
till hir
pe
flouris
had in his
thaw
quhilk
five
sicht
maid
abone
for
in
agane J>j
argument
. . . iustice . . . mercy
in
agane
deid
satyfie
was found pair
syne callit
fraternite
or
till
and
or
till
and
1 Bann. " draft ” MS., p. 3 ff.
VOL. II.
S.T.S. ed., Vol. L, p. 3 ff.
2 F