The Buik of Alexander or The buik of the most noble and valiant conquerour Alexander the Grit

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by  John Barbour

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The Buik of Alexander

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The Buik of Alexander
OR
THE BUIK OF THE MOST NOBLE AND VALIANT
CONQUEROUR ALEXANDER THE GRIT
BY
JOHN BARBOUR
ARCHDEACON OF ABERDEEN
EDITED, IN FOUR VOLUMES, FROM THE UNIQUE PRINTED COPY IN THE
POSSESSION OF THE EARL OF DALHOUSIE, WITH INTRODUCTIONS,
NOTES AND GLOSSARY, TOGETHER WITH THE FRENCH
ORIGINALS (LI FUERRES DE GADRES AND LES VCEUX
DU PAON) COLLATED WITH NUMEROUS MSS.
By R. L. GRXEME RITCHIE, D.Litt.
PROFESSOR OF FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
VOLUME IV.
CONTAINING PART IV. OF THE BUIK OF ALEXANDER (NAMELY PP. 353-442)
AND PART II. (2) OF LES VCEUX DU PAON, NOW EDITED FOR THE
FIRST TIME FROM MS. FR. 12565 OF THE BIBLIOTHEQUE
NATIONALE, AND COLLATED WITH NUMEROUS MSS.
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PREFACE
The present volume contains the concluding parts of
‘ The Buik of Alexander ’ and ‘ Les Vceux du Paon,’
together with a Glossary, which is intended as a com-
plete concordance.
To friends who have helped us during the long prepara-
tion of this final volume we are deeply indebted. Professor
Sir William Craigie (whom we regret having seemed,
Vol. L, p. ccxlviii, note 3, to deprive of his Editorship of
the O.E.D.) made the interesting emendations of the
text of Vol. I. which are incorporated in the Glossary
and indicated in the Notes as ‘ [C] ’. His former pupil
(and our present colleague), Miss I. Maitland Smith,
revised the somewhat formidable proofs of the Glossary
and verified the innumerable quotations, and in so doing
set right many slips (Slip, s&.2. Sense 10, O.E.D., and Slip,
sb.3, Sense 10, c, O.E.D.) Moreover, by suggesting that
after each word in the Glossary the etymology should be
added in square brackets and by providing, in many
cases, the etymology herself, she guided towards efficiency
editorial footsteps which after ten years in the ‘ Buik ’
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might otherwise have flagged or faltered. M. Jacques
Soyer, Archiviste du Departement du Loiret, undertook
for us in the archives of the former University of Orleans
and elsewhere an exhaustive, though unavailing, search
for the name of John Barbour. Dr R. F. Patterson and
Messrs Blackwood continued to the end their devoted
and unremitting care.
R. L. G. R.
University of Birmingham,
November 1929.