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(49) Illustrated plate - Romance of Rouland and Vernagu
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/81820202
Description	Vernagu, a Saracen giant and Roland, a Christian knight of Charlemagne. Illustration shows an angel instructing Roland to slay Vernagu.

Form / genre:	Images > Pictures > Illustrations > Book illustrations
Subject / content:	Plates (illustrations) Knights Giants Angels (spirits)
Person / organisation:	Roland (Legendary character) [Depicted] Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814 [Subject of text]
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No. 4, 1836 - Romances of Rouland and Vernagu, and Otuel
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Description	From the Auchinleck manuscript. Edited by William B.D.D. Turnbull. Edinburgh : [Abbotsford Club], 1836. Added title page title: Ancient metrical romances from the Auchinleck manuscript.
Shelfmark	SCS.AC.4
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record
Attribution and copyright:	The physical item used to create this digital version is out of copyright

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events:	1836 [Date published]
Subject / content:	Romances French Medieval
Person / organisation:	Turnbull, William B. (William Barclay), 1811-1863 [Editor] Roland (Legendary character) [Subject of text] Otinel. English (Middle English) [Subject of text] Auchinleck manuscript [Subject of text] Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814 [Subject of text]
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Abbotsford Club
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Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland > Edinburgh > Edinburgh (inhabited place) [Place published]
Person / organisation:	Abbotsford Club (Edinburgh, Scotland) [Publisher]
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Publications by Scottish clubs
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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.

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Subject / content:	Clubs (associations) Societies Publications
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