Specimens
of Middle Scots.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02
237-243.
Conscience.
MS. In Folio Maitland MS, u. s. , foll, 192-3.
Edition. Small, J. , infra, 1, pp. 121-122 (misprinted 124).
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Translation of the Aeneid.
MSS. In the library of Trin. Coll. , Cambridge (Galo's MSS, 0. 3. 12)
c. 1525. In the library of the University of Edinburgh, known as the
Elphystoun MS, c. 1525. Another in the same library, known as the
Ruthven MS, c. 1535. In the library of Lambeth Palace, dated
Feb. 1545 (1546). In the library of the Marquis of Bath at Longleat,
dated 1547.
Editions.
The | xüi Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poeto Virgill | Translatet out of
Latyne | verses into Scottish me- | tir, bi the Reverend Fa- | ther in God,
May- | ster Gawin Douglas | Bishop of Dunkel & | vnkil to the Erle | of
Angus. Euery | buke hauing hys | perticular | Prologe. || Imprinted at
Londö 1553. The printer was W. Copland, u. s.
Virgil's Æneis translated into Scottish verse by the famous Gawin Douglas,
Bishop of Dunkeld. A new edition. Wherein the many errors of the
former are corrected, and the defects supplied from an excellent manu-
script. To which is added a large glossary. . . And to the whole is prefixed
an exact account of the Author's Life and Writings. . . Edinburgh.
Andrew Symson and Robert Freebairn MDCCX. The responsible editor
was Thomas Ruddiman; the Life is by bishop John Sage. The MS
referred to is the Ruthven, u. s. , which did not come to Ruddiman's notice
before 45 pages of the folio were in type. John Urry (see the bibliography
to the chapter on Chaucer) gave some assistance. He appears to have
collated a portion of the Bath MS with the edition of 1553 for Ruddiman's
volume. Jamieson was largely indebted to the glossary in the prepara-
tion of his Scottish Dictionary (1st edition, 1808).
The Æneid of Virgil, translated into Scottish verse. Bannatyne Club.
2 vols. 1839. This edition is a handsome reprint of the Cambridge MS
(supra), without prolegomena or notes.
Small, J. (ut infra). 1874. Vols. V, 111 and iv. This edition is based on the
Elphynstoun MS (supra).
Some of the Prologues have been printed separately:
Nos. IV, VII, VIII and XII, and a portion of xin in Sibbald's Chronicle of
Scottish Poetry, 1802, 1, pp. 428-457.
Nos. VII, XII and xin in Eyre Todd's Abbotsford Series, I, pp. 249-269 (re-
printed from Small).
Nos. VII and xn in Hand Browne's Selections from the Early Scottish Poets.
Baltimore, 1896, pp. 154-165 (reprinted from Small).
Nos. I and vii in Gregory Smith's Specimens of Middle Scots, 1902,
pp. 107–128 (from the Elphynstoun MS, collated with the Ruthven MS).
Douglas's Prologues attracted students in England in the latter half of
the eighteenth century. Cf. Francis Fawkes, Original Poems and Transla-
tions, 1761; T. Warton, who prints the greater portion of No. xii in his
Hist. of Eng. Poetry, III.
Collected Edition.
The only collected edition is The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas,
Bishop of Dunkeld, with Memoir, Notes, and Glossary by John Small,
M. A. , F. S. A. Scot. , 4 vols. , Edinburgh, 1874. (Vol. 1, Introduction, etc. ,
The Palice of Honour, King Hart and Conscience. Vols. 11-iv, The
Aeneid and Glossary. )
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478
Bibliography
Critical (general).
Irving, D. , U. S. , 1861, pp. 255-290.
Lang, A. In Ward's Eng. Poets, 1887, 1, pp. 159-162.
Lange, P. Chaucer's Einfluss auf die Originaldichtungen des Schotten
Gavin Douglas. Diss. Halle, 1882.
Neilson, W. A. Origins and Sources, u. s. , 1899, pp. 77, 102, 160-163, 214.
Ross, J. M. , u. s. , 1884, pp. 293-374.
Sibbald, J. , u. s. , 1802.
Warton, U. s. , section XXXI.
9
CHAPTER XI
THE MIDDLE SCOTS ANTHOLOGIES: ANONYMOUS
VERSE AND EARLY PROSE
THE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS.
A. Major.
i. The Asloan MS, written c. 1515 by John Asloan, formerly in the
possession of the Boswell family at Auchinleck, but since 1882 in that of
R. W. Talbot, now Lord Talbot de Malahide. Inedited, though extracts
have been printed at various times.
ii. The Bannatyne MS, written in 1568 by George Bannatyne, now in
the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh (MS 1. 1. 6). Printed, in its entirety, by
the Hunterian Club (1873-1902). See the introduction there, also Memorials
of George Bannatyne (Bann. Club, 1829).
ii. The Maitland Folio MS, compiled c. 1580 by Sir Richard Maitland
of Lethington, Lord Privy Seal of Scotland, preserved in the Pepysian
collection in the library of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Inedited,
though extracts have been printed at various times.
iv. The Maitland Quarto MS, written by Sir Richard's daughter Marie,
in 1586, containing 42 pieces from the folio MS, also preserved in the
Pepysian collection. Unprinted.
B. Minor.
V. The Makculloch MS, a collection of lecture-notes in Latin by Magnus
Makculloch at Louvain in 1477, now in the Laing collection of MSS in the
library of the University of Edinburgh. The Scots pieces are written on
fly-leaves and blank pages throughout the MS.
vi. The Gray MS, written c. 1500 by James Gray, notary public and
priest of the diocese of Dunblane, now in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh
(MS 34. 7. 3). The Scots pieces are interpolated throughout the MS.
EARLY PRINTS.
Chepman and Myllar's Prints, printed in 1508 by Walter Chepman and
Andrew Myllar, preserved in a unique volume in the Advocates' Library,
Edinburgh. The collection (20 pieces) was reproduced in facsimile by David
Laing in 1827, but copies are extremely scarce.
NOTE. For a more detailed account of the above collections see the
bibliography in G. Gregory Smith's Specimens of Middle Scots, pp. Ixvi-lxxv.
An early account of the Maitland Folio and Quarto MSS will be found in
Pinkerton's Ancient Sootish Poems, 1786, 11, pp. 437-471.
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Chapter XI
479
EDITIONS (Selections).
Hailes, Lord. Ancient Scottish Poems. Published from the MS of George
Bannatyne, MDLXVIII. Edinburgh, 1770.
Laing, David. Select Remains of the Ancient Popular and Romance Poetry
of Scotland. Re-edited by John Small. Edinburgh, 1885.
Early Scottish Metrical Tales. New edition. Edinburgh, 1889.
Pinkerton, John. Ancient Scotish Poems, never before in Print. But now
published from the MS Collections of Sir Richard Maitland. . . , 2 vols.
Edinburgh, 1786.
Sibbald, J. Chronicle of Scottish Poetry. 4 vols. Edinburgh, 1802.
Smith, G. Gregory.
Specimens of Middle Scots. Edinburgh, 1902.
NOTE. The earliest reprint is Allan Ramsay's The Evergreen, being a
Collection of Scots Poems, wrote by the Ingenious before 1600, 2 vols. , 1724.
The volumes are of the highest importance to the study of the later vernacular
revival, but they make no pretence to textual accuracy.
REPRINTS OF EARLY PROSE TEXTS.
Abacuk Bysset. Inedited. See extract in Specimens, u. s. , pp. 239-241, 315.
Chepman and Myllar, u. s. See Specimens, u. s. , p. 70.
Craft of Deyng, etc. Ed. Lumby (see note on p. 284).
Gau's Richt Vay. Ed. Mitchell, A. F. S. T. S. 1888.
Gilbert of the Haye's Prose Manuscript (A. D. 1456). Vol. 1. The Buke of the
Law of Armys, or Buke of Bataillis. Ed. J. H. Stevenson. S. T. S. 1901.
See Specimens of Middle Scots, u. s. , pp. 77-91, 293-4.
John of Ireland. Text not yet printed. See extracts in Specimens, u. s. ,
pp. 92-101, 294.
Murdoch Nisbet. The New Testament in Scots (c. 1520). Ed. T. Graves
Law. S. T. S. 3 vols. 1901-5. See Specimens, pp. 101-6, 294-5.
Schort Memoriale, The. Ed. Thomas Thomson. 1827.
Spectakle of Luf, The. Ed. Laing, Bannatyne Miscellany, II. See Specimens,
U. S. , pp. 17-20.
[For other prose works referred to at the conclusion of the chapter, see
volume III of the present work. ]
CHAPTER XII
ENGLISH PROSE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. I
PECOCK. FORTESCUE. THE PASTON LETTERS.
Edward, duke of York. The Master of Game. Ed. Baillie-Grohmann,
W. A. and F. 1904. Privately printed.
CAPGRAVE.
Works and Critical Accounts.
Chronicle of England. Ed. Hingeston, F. C. Rolls Series. 1858.
Liber de Illustribus Henricis. Ed. Hingeston, F. C. Rolls Series. 1858.
Also translation, Book of the Illustrious Henries. Ed. Hingeston, F. C.
Rolls Series. 1858.
Nova Legenda Angliae. MSS in York Minster library, eto. printed by Wynkyn
de Worde, 1516. [Cf. the earlier writings of Goscelin (A. 1099), an indus-
trious collector of materials for saints' lives. Hist. Litt. de France, viii. ]
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480
Bibliography
8
6
St Katharine, Life of. Ed. Horstmann, C. Forewords by Farnivall, F. J.
E. E. T. S. 1893.
Leland. De Scriptoribus Britannicis, sub nom. for Latin Works.
Tanner. Bibliotheca Brit. -Hiberniae. (See also D. of N. B. for MSS, etc. )
Ten Brink, B. Hist. Eng. Lit. Vol. III, pp. 17 ff. 1902.
Capgrave's Lives of St Augustine (of Hippo) and St Gilbert 'of Sempyng-
ham,' 1451, are extant in a MS believed to be holograph. Brit. Mus. Add. MS
36,704. The former he was begged by a noble gentlewoman to write for her,
þat is to sey to translate hir treuly'; the latter was 'translat in the same
forme," saue sum addiciones,' at the prayer of Nicholas Reysby, Master of the
order of St Gilbert of S. , and designed for the anchoresses of that order. It
is dated 1451, by J. C. amonge doctouris lest,' and is mainly a string of
St Gilbert's miracles. Neither of the Latin originals is now known. The
style is clear, somewhat more colloquial than that of the Annals and less com-
pressed; duplicates are few, e. g. 'the grave or else the sepulture' of St G.
Spelling is remarkably consistent. Capgrave appends a translated summary
of his sermon on the various Augustinian orders, preached in Cambridge,
1422, but revised later, for Reysby and others who wished to know 'diffusely'
of the subject. See New Palaeographical Society's Publications, Part II
(1905), with facsimile. The two lives are being edited for the E. E. T. S.
by J. J. Munro, together with portions of Capgrave's Life of St Norbert,
in verse, the holograph MS of which is in the Phillipps collection.
PECOCK.
A. Works (printed).
The Book of Faith. Second part and summary of first part, ed. Wharton, Hy.
Blackletter. 1688. An edition by Morrison, J. L. , is in preparation, from
MS Trinity Coll. Camb. B 1445.
The Repressor of Overmuch Blaming of the Clergy. Ed. Babington, C.
2 vols. Rolls Series. 1860. With introduction and bibliography. The
standard work on the whole subject of Pecock and his works.
B. Works (in MS only).
The Donet. Bodleian Library, No. 916. Also a transcript, James MSS in
Bodleian, No.
Conscience.
MS. In Folio Maitland MS, u. s. , foll, 192-3.
Edition. Small, J. , infra, 1, pp. 121-122 (misprinted 124).
1
1
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Chapter X
477
Translation of the Aeneid.
MSS. In the library of Trin. Coll. , Cambridge (Galo's MSS, 0. 3. 12)
c. 1525. In the library of the University of Edinburgh, known as the
Elphystoun MS, c. 1525. Another in the same library, known as the
Ruthven MS, c. 1535. In the library of Lambeth Palace, dated
Feb. 1545 (1546). In the library of the Marquis of Bath at Longleat,
dated 1547.
Editions.
The | xüi Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poeto Virgill | Translatet out of
Latyne | verses into Scottish me- | tir, bi the Reverend Fa- | ther in God,
May- | ster Gawin Douglas | Bishop of Dunkel & | vnkil to the Erle | of
Angus. Euery | buke hauing hys | perticular | Prologe. || Imprinted at
Londö 1553. The printer was W. Copland, u. s.
Virgil's Æneis translated into Scottish verse by the famous Gawin Douglas,
Bishop of Dunkeld. A new edition. Wherein the many errors of the
former are corrected, and the defects supplied from an excellent manu-
script. To which is added a large glossary. . . And to the whole is prefixed
an exact account of the Author's Life and Writings. . . Edinburgh.
Andrew Symson and Robert Freebairn MDCCX. The responsible editor
was Thomas Ruddiman; the Life is by bishop John Sage. The MS
referred to is the Ruthven, u. s. , which did not come to Ruddiman's notice
before 45 pages of the folio were in type. John Urry (see the bibliography
to the chapter on Chaucer) gave some assistance. He appears to have
collated a portion of the Bath MS with the edition of 1553 for Ruddiman's
volume. Jamieson was largely indebted to the glossary in the prepara-
tion of his Scottish Dictionary (1st edition, 1808).
The Æneid of Virgil, translated into Scottish verse. Bannatyne Club.
2 vols. 1839. This edition is a handsome reprint of the Cambridge MS
(supra), without prolegomena or notes.
Small, J. (ut infra). 1874. Vols. V, 111 and iv. This edition is based on the
Elphynstoun MS (supra).
Some of the Prologues have been printed separately:
Nos. IV, VII, VIII and XII, and a portion of xin in Sibbald's Chronicle of
Scottish Poetry, 1802, 1, pp. 428-457.
Nos. VII, XII and xin in Eyre Todd's Abbotsford Series, I, pp. 249-269 (re-
printed from Small).
Nos. VII and xn in Hand Browne's Selections from the Early Scottish Poets.
Baltimore, 1896, pp. 154-165 (reprinted from Small).
Nos. I and vii in Gregory Smith's Specimens of Middle Scots, 1902,
pp. 107–128 (from the Elphynstoun MS, collated with the Ruthven MS).
Douglas's Prologues attracted students in England in the latter half of
the eighteenth century. Cf. Francis Fawkes, Original Poems and Transla-
tions, 1761; T. Warton, who prints the greater portion of No. xii in his
Hist. of Eng. Poetry, III.
Collected Edition.
The only collected edition is The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas,
Bishop of Dunkeld, with Memoir, Notes, and Glossary by John Small,
M. A. , F. S. A. Scot. , 4 vols. , Edinburgh, 1874. (Vol. 1, Introduction, etc. ,
The Palice of Honour, King Hart and Conscience. Vols. 11-iv, The
Aeneid and Glossary. )
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478
Bibliography
Critical (general).
Irving, D. , U. S. , 1861, pp. 255-290.
Lang, A. In Ward's Eng. Poets, 1887, 1, pp. 159-162.
Lange, P. Chaucer's Einfluss auf die Originaldichtungen des Schotten
Gavin Douglas. Diss. Halle, 1882.
Neilson, W. A. Origins and Sources, u. s. , 1899, pp. 77, 102, 160-163, 214.
Ross, J. M. , u. s. , 1884, pp. 293-374.
Sibbald, J. , u. s. , 1802.
Warton, U. s. , section XXXI.
9
CHAPTER XI
THE MIDDLE SCOTS ANTHOLOGIES: ANONYMOUS
VERSE AND EARLY PROSE
THE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS.
A. Major.
i. The Asloan MS, written c. 1515 by John Asloan, formerly in the
possession of the Boswell family at Auchinleck, but since 1882 in that of
R. W. Talbot, now Lord Talbot de Malahide. Inedited, though extracts
have been printed at various times.
ii. The Bannatyne MS, written in 1568 by George Bannatyne, now in
the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh (MS 1. 1. 6). Printed, in its entirety, by
the Hunterian Club (1873-1902). See the introduction there, also Memorials
of George Bannatyne (Bann. Club, 1829).
ii. The Maitland Folio MS, compiled c. 1580 by Sir Richard Maitland
of Lethington, Lord Privy Seal of Scotland, preserved in the Pepysian
collection in the library of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Inedited,
though extracts have been printed at various times.
iv. The Maitland Quarto MS, written by Sir Richard's daughter Marie,
in 1586, containing 42 pieces from the folio MS, also preserved in the
Pepysian collection. Unprinted.
B. Minor.
V. The Makculloch MS, a collection of lecture-notes in Latin by Magnus
Makculloch at Louvain in 1477, now in the Laing collection of MSS in the
library of the University of Edinburgh. The Scots pieces are written on
fly-leaves and blank pages throughout the MS.
vi. The Gray MS, written c. 1500 by James Gray, notary public and
priest of the diocese of Dunblane, now in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh
(MS 34. 7. 3). The Scots pieces are interpolated throughout the MS.
EARLY PRINTS.
Chepman and Myllar's Prints, printed in 1508 by Walter Chepman and
Andrew Myllar, preserved in a unique volume in the Advocates' Library,
Edinburgh. The collection (20 pieces) was reproduced in facsimile by David
Laing in 1827, but copies are extremely scarce.
NOTE. For a more detailed account of the above collections see the
bibliography in G. Gregory Smith's Specimens of Middle Scots, pp. Ixvi-lxxv.
An early account of the Maitland Folio and Quarto MSS will be found in
Pinkerton's Ancient Sootish Poems, 1786, 11, pp. 437-471.
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## p. 479 (#497) ############################################
Chapter XI
479
EDITIONS (Selections).
Hailes, Lord. Ancient Scottish Poems. Published from the MS of George
Bannatyne, MDLXVIII. Edinburgh, 1770.
Laing, David. Select Remains of the Ancient Popular and Romance Poetry
of Scotland. Re-edited by John Small. Edinburgh, 1885.
Early Scottish Metrical Tales. New edition. Edinburgh, 1889.
Pinkerton, John. Ancient Scotish Poems, never before in Print. But now
published from the MS Collections of Sir Richard Maitland. . . , 2 vols.
Edinburgh, 1786.
Sibbald, J. Chronicle of Scottish Poetry. 4 vols. Edinburgh, 1802.
Smith, G. Gregory.
Specimens of Middle Scots. Edinburgh, 1902.
NOTE. The earliest reprint is Allan Ramsay's The Evergreen, being a
Collection of Scots Poems, wrote by the Ingenious before 1600, 2 vols. , 1724.
The volumes are of the highest importance to the study of the later vernacular
revival, but they make no pretence to textual accuracy.
REPRINTS OF EARLY PROSE TEXTS.
Abacuk Bysset. Inedited. See extract in Specimens, u. s. , pp. 239-241, 315.
Chepman and Myllar, u. s. See Specimens, u. s. , p. 70.
Craft of Deyng, etc. Ed. Lumby (see note on p. 284).
Gau's Richt Vay. Ed. Mitchell, A. F. S. T. S. 1888.
Gilbert of the Haye's Prose Manuscript (A. D. 1456). Vol. 1. The Buke of the
Law of Armys, or Buke of Bataillis. Ed. J. H. Stevenson. S. T. S. 1901.
See Specimens of Middle Scots, u. s. , pp. 77-91, 293-4.
John of Ireland. Text not yet printed. See extracts in Specimens, u. s. ,
pp. 92-101, 294.
Murdoch Nisbet. The New Testament in Scots (c. 1520). Ed. T. Graves
Law. S. T. S. 3 vols. 1901-5. See Specimens, pp. 101-6, 294-5.
Schort Memoriale, The. Ed. Thomas Thomson. 1827.
Spectakle of Luf, The. Ed. Laing, Bannatyne Miscellany, II. See Specimens,
U. S. , pp. 17-20.
[For other prose works referred to at the conclusion of the chapter, see
volume III of the present work. ]
CHAPTER XII
ENGLISH PROSE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. I
PECOCK. FORTESCUE. THE PASTON LETTERS.
Edward, duke of York. The Master of Game. Ed. Baillie-Grohmann,
W. A. and F. 1904. Privately printed.
CAPGRAVE.
Works and Critical Accounts.
Chronicle of England. Ed. Hingeston, F. C. Rolls Series. 1858.
Liber de Illustribus Henricis. Ed. Hingeston, F. C. Rolls Series. 1858.
Also translation, Book of the Illustrious Henries. Ed. Hingeston, F. C.
Rolls Series. 1858.
Nova Legenda Angliae. MSS in York Minster library, eto. printed by Wynkyn
de Worde, 1516. [Cf. the earlier writings of Goscelin (A. 1099), an indus-
trious collector of materials for saints' lives. Hist. Litt. de France, viii. ]
## p. 480 (#498) ############################################
480
Bibliography
8
6
St Katharine, Life of. Ed. Horstmann, C. Forewords by Farnivall, F. J.
E. E. T. S. 1893.
Leland. De Scriptoribus Britannicis, sub nom. for Latin Works.
Tanner. Bibliotheca Brit. -Hiberniae. (See also D. of N. B. for MSS, etc. )
Ten Brink, B. Hist. Eng. Lit. Vol. III, pp. 17 ff. 1902.
Capgrave's Lives of St Augustine (of Hippo) and St Gilbert 'of Sempyng-
ham,' 1451, are extant in a MS believed to be holograph. Brit. Mus. Add. MS
36,704. The former he was begged by a noble gentlewoman to write for her,
þat is to sey to translate hir treuly'; the latter was 'translat in the same
forme," saue sum addiciones,' at the prayer of Nicholas Reysby, Master of the
order of St Gilbert of S. , and designed for the anchoresses of that order. It
is dated 1451, by J. C. amonge doctouris lest,' and is mainly a string of
St Gilbert's miracles. Neither of the Latin originals is now known. The
style is clear, somewhat more colloquial than that of the Annals and less com-
pressed; duplicates are few, e. g. 'the grave or else the sepulture' of St G.
Spelling is remarkably consistent. Capgrave appends a translated summary
of his sermon on the various Augustinian orders, preached in Cambridge,
1422, but revised later, for Reysby and others who wished to know 'diffusely'
of the subject. See New Palaeographical Society's Publications, Part II
(1905), with facsimile. The two lives are being edited for the E. E. T. S.
by J. J. Munro, together with portions of Capgrave's Life of St Norbert,
in verse, the holograph MS of which is in the Phillipps collection.
PECOCK.
A. Works (printed).
The Book of Faith. Second part and summary of first part, ed. Wharton, Hy.
Blackletter. 1688. An edition by Morrison, J. L. , is in preparation, from
MS Trinity Coll. Camb. B 1445.
The Repressor of Overmuch Blaming of the Clergy. Ed. Babington, C.
2 vols. Rolls Series. 1860. With introduction and bibliography. The
standard work on the whole subject of Pecock and his works.
B. Works (in MS only).
The Donet. Bodleian Library, No. 916. Also a transcript, James MSS in
Bodleian, No.
