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PREFACE.
This volume contains the complete text of the Maitland
Folio Manuscript, one of the treasures of the Pepysian
Library in Magdalene College, Cambridge. A full de¬
scription of the manuscript will be given in the second
volume, together with textual notes and other relevant
matter. In the meantime the following points should
be noted by those who wish to make any close study
of the texts.
The various distinct portions of which the manuscript
consists are indicated by dividing lines in the list of
Contents, and by footnotes which record changes in the
handwriting. It should be particularly observed that
pp. 2-18 (in the numbering of the Folio itself) and 339-342
are fragments of an earlier manuscript containing poems
by Dunbar, while pp. 67-68 are a single stray leaf from
some other source. The Folio proper thus begins with
p. 19, and consists of two main portions, one of which
(pp. 41-264) has been bound up within the other (pp. ig-40
and 265-338).
For the most part, the text has been printed without
other change than the expansion of contractions, and all
cases of altered or doubtful readings are duly recorded.
Words or lines which are now too faded to be read with
This volume contains the complete text of the Maitland
Folio Manuscript, one of the treasures of the Pepysian
Library in Magdalene College, Cambridge. A full de¬
scription of the manuscript will be given in the second
volume, together with textual notes and other relevant
matter. In the meantime the following points should
be noted by those who wish to make any close study
of the texts.
The various distinct portions of which the manuscript
consists are indicated by dividing lines in the list of
Contents, and by footnotes which record changes in the
handwriting. It should be particularly observed that
pp. 2-18 (in the numbering of the Folio itself) and 339-342
are fragments of an earlier manuscript containing poems
by Dunbar, while pp. 67-68 are a single stray leaf from
some other source. The Folio proper thus begins with
p. 19, and consists of two main portions, one of which
(pp. 41-264) has been bound up within the other (pp. ig-40
and 265-338).
For the most part, the text has been printed without
other change than the expansion of contractions, and all
cases of altered or doubtful readings are duly recorded.
Words or lines which are now too faded to be read with
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| Description | Containing poems by Sir Richard Maitland, Dunbar, Douglas, Henryson, and others / edited by W.A. Craigie. 2 volumes. Volume 1 contains the complete text of the Maitland folio manuscript from the original in the Pepysian library, Magdalene college, Cambridge, and Volume 2, a full description of the manuscript, together with textual notes, vocabulary, and other relevant matter. |
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| Shelfmark | SCS.STES2.7, 20 |
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| Description | A collection of over 100 Scottish texts dating from around 1400 to 1700. Most titles are in Scots, and include editions of poetry, drama, and prose by major Scottish writers such as John Barbour, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, and George Buchanan. Edited by a key scholarly publisher of Scotland's literary history, and published from the late 19th century onwards by the Scottish Text Society. Available here are STS series 1-3. |
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| Description | Full text versions of historical texts dating from the 12th to the 19th century. Edited by the Abbotsford, Bannatyne, Grampian, Hunterian, Spalding and New Spalding Clubs, and also the Scottish Text, Spottiswoode and Wodrow Societies. Critical printed editions of manuscripts, including church records, state papers, correspondence, memoirs, diaries, legends and literary texts. |
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