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Zbe Scottish Heyt Society the Bannatyne Manuscript ^4 SCS S7TSS. S Zbe Scottish Heyt Society The Bannatyne Manuscript The Bannatyne Manuscript WRITTIN IN TYME OF PEST ■ 568 BY GEORGE BANNATYNE EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY W. TOD RITCHIE, M.A., RECTOR OF HUTCHESONS’ GRAMMAR SCHOOL, GLASGOW VOL. I. Printeti for the Socictg bg WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS LTD. EDINBURGH AND LONDON 1934 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ALMAE MATRI ET CONIUGI PREFACE. With this volume the work of editing the Bannatyne MS. is brought to an end, and the Society’s planned series of collections of early Scots verse is at the same time com- pleted. The first transcription of the Draft or Duplicate MS. was in print before the War, but the interruptions and delays caused by military service and subsequent changes of residence and duty have given the editor time to collect scraps of new material that fill out the biographical blanks and enable us to see that it was by no idle chance, but as a consequence of special training and favourable oppor- tunity, that George Bannatyne executed his “ plan of saving the literature of a whole nation.” As three parts of Sir William Craigie’s Dictionary have already been published, the editor has thought it neither prudent nor necessary to complete the glossary which he had originally planned and in part prepared for this volume. He has preferred to use part of the volume for the presentation of Appendices, partly new and partly old, so that the reader may be helped to understand the life of Bannatyne and the uses to which his MS. has been put by different editors at different times. He has been content to summarize this material in the Introduction, as the raw material is of much more importance than any Vlll PREFACE. arrangement which might appeal to the editor’s or the reader’s fancy. Every care has been taken to make a correct transcript —the actual Manuscript having been consulted through each reading of proof—so that the only changes which appear are when italics mark the expansion of contrac- tions in the original or when square brackets indicate the insertion of something that is absent from the MS. Foot- notes have been added to draw attention to alterations in the written text or to peculiarities of diction or spelling. The printed punctuation, or lack of it, is in accordance with the original. There are no numbered headings in the text, but each piece has been numbered in the Tables of Contents, those of the Draft MS. in Vol. I. being given in Arabic numerals to distinguish them from the separate poems of the MS. proper, which are marked 'with Roman numerals in Vols. II., III., and IV. The publication of this volume, the last in appearance though the first in order, gives the editor and the Society the opportunity of repeating their cordial thanks to the Faculty of Advocates for access to the MS., to the Librarian of the National Library and his assistants for their kind and ready help, and to the four general editors of the Society (through whose terms of office this work has run) for their continued patience and faith. The editor also records his gratitude to the staffs of the General Register House, Glasgow University Library and Baillie’s Institu- tion, Glasgow, and to Mr John Cowie of Glasgow for his kind permission to make use of the manuscripts of Allan Ramsay that are in his possession. W. TOD RITCHIE. Glasgow, April 1934. ERRATA. Vol. II., p. xii.—The ascription of No. LXXIX. to [William Dunbar] should be to [Chaucer]. ,, p. xvi.—Nos. CLX. and CLX.a should have a footnote to the following effect, “ Inserted in MS. by a later hand.” ,, p. 3.—The note at the top left-hand side of the page does not correspond exactly to the fac- simile facing p. 3. “ tyme ” should be in the second last, not last, line of the note. „ p. 217.—Line 70 should read “ In to etc.” ,, p. 327.—Line 19 should read “ skill,” not " skill.” ,, p. 328.—Line 30 should read “ Haill on the fuk- scheit. .” „ p. 334.—In line 30 “ bitting ” should read “ litting.” ADDENDUM. Vol. IV., p. 3x5, footnote. Just as the final proof was on its way back to the printer, I received the following note from Mr Walter B. Menzies, formerly Secretary of the Scottish Text Society, to whom I acknowledge my gratitude :— “ In going through the Aberdeen University Fifteenth Century MS. copy of Porphyry, Super Organon, I came across the following verses which I think might interest you in preparing Vol. I. of the Bannatyne MS. X ADDENDUM. The Porphyry MS. is in a very bad damp-stained condition and the latter half of the first three lines are practically obliterated. They are as follows :— Amang pe ost of grekis [ass we hard] The knyctis war achilles [and tersete] Tha ane is maist wail^eant pis vper [maist] cowarte Better is to be sayis Juvenall poete Thirsetis sone hevand achilles spreit Wy1 manlie fors his purposs till fulfill Thane to be lorde of ev[er]y land and streit And syne maist cowart cu[m]yng of achyll. There seemed a familiar ring about the lines, and after some little research I ran the first two lines to earth in your edition of the Bannatyne MS., Vol. IV., p. 315. You will recollect that there is a gap in the Bannatyne MS. which stops at the second line of the above stanza and does not resume till stanza 29. Following your footnote, I consulted Lord Dun- drennan’s Edition of Bellenden’s Boece, and find that the version there given is practically identical with the above. It is impossible to say why this particular stanza should be scribbled on a blank page of a Porphyry MS.—but some ex- planation of how it came there may be found in the history of the MS. One of the previous owners was Gavin Leslye, Prebendary of Kyngusy, whose name appears amongst the ' venerabiles et egregii viri magistri et domini Celebris ecclesie cathedralis Moraviensis canonici ’ on several occasions between 1526 and 1539 in the Registrum Moraviense. These years cover part of the period during which John Bellenden was Archdeacon of Moray and Canon of Ross, and the two must necessarily have met.” CONTENTS. PAGE Preface vii Errata ........ ix Addendum ........ ix Introduction— The Manuscript ...... xiii The Compiler and his Family .... xxxii Appendices— Excerpts from the Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum ....... xli Excerpts from the Registrum Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum ....... xliv Excerpts from the Register of the Privy Council of Scotland ...... xlviii Excerpts from the Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland .... xlviii Excerpts from the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland (Rotuli Scaccarii Regum Scotorum) . liv Excerpt from the Catalogue of Ancient Scottish Seals ....... Ivi Excerpts from The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland ....... Ivii Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edin- burgh . lx Extracts from the Edinburgh Commissariot Register of Testaments .... Ixv Extracts from the Register of Deeds . Ixxxii Excerpts from Early Records of the University of St Andrews ...... Ixxxvi Extracts from the Letters to G. Paton . Ixxxix Excerpts from Memorials of Angus . xcvii XIX CONTENTS. Appendices— PAGE The Preface to the Ever Green . xcix Sir David Dalrymple’s Ancient Scottish Poems— (a) Title-page ciii (b) Preface ....... civ (c) Contents ...... cviii Pinkerton’s List of Poems in the Banna- tyne MS. cx The Bannatyne Club’s Memorials of George Bannatyne ...... cxxi (a) Sir Walter Scott’s Memoir . cxxiii (b) Extracts from the “ Memoriall Buik ” [with additions from “ Foulis of Ravelston’s Account Book ”] . cxlii (c) David Laing’s Account of the Contents . clxiv (d) Appendices to Memoir and Extracts . clxix Contents of Draft or Duplicate MS. clxxxvii Text of Draft or Duplicate MS. ... i Index of First Lines (Vol. I.) ... 97 Index of First Lines (Vols. I.-IV.) . qq Contents of Volumes IL, III. and IV. 109 INTRODUCTION. The Manuscript. The National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, preserves the scroll catalogues that served the Library’s needs when it was the property of The Faculty of Advocates, and the “ Catalogue of MSS. Poetry ” gives the place of honour to George Banna- tyne’s Manuscript. Page i, in the handwriting of David Laing, reads as follows:— 19 : x : i George Bannatyne’s Manuscript Collection / 1 .1.6 of Scotish Poetry, 1568. / “ Ane most Godlie, mirrie, and lustie Rapsodie, / maide be sundrie learned Scots Poets and written / be George Bannatyne, in the tyme of his Youth.” / This well-known collection, consisting of about 800 pages, / has been recently inlaid and bound in two volumes. It / came into the possession of the Hon. William Carmichaell, / in 1712, having been presented to him by a descendant of / George Foulis of Woodhall and Ravelstone, who married / the compiler’s daughter ; and by Car- michaell the use of it / was given to Allan Ramsay who selected from it the / chief portion of his “ Evergreen, being a Collection of / Scots Poems, wrote by the ingenious before 1600.” Edin/burgh 1724, 2 vol. 12 mo.—The Manuscript was pre- sented / to the Advocates Library in 1772 by John Third Earl / of Hyndford. / XIV BANNATYNE MS. Of the contents of Bannatyne’s Manuscript, specifying / the several poems which it includes, a most minute and / accurate enumeration, forms part of the volume entitled “ Memorials of George Bannatyne. m.d.xlv—m.d.c. / vm. Printed at Edinburgh 1829,” 4to ; and it may / be sufficient to refer to pages 49-104 of that work. The whole Manuscript has been bound in two volumes of green morocco leather ornamented with gilt borders.
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