The Maitland folio manuscript containing poems by Sir Richard Maitland, Dunbar, Douglas, Henryson, and others

212 Pages·1927·4.064 MB·English

by  W. A. Craigie

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The
Maitland Folio Manuscript

The
Maitland Folio Manuscript
Containing Poems by
SIR RICHARD MAITLAND, DUNBAR,
DOUGLAS, HENRYSON
And Others
EDITED BY
W. A. CRAIGIE, LL.D., D.Litt.
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, AND CO-EDITOR
OF THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
VOL. II.
Printeti fat tlje Sactetg fog
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS LTD.
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
1927
Printed in Great Britain All Rights reserved

PREFACE.
The delay in the appearance of this volume is due to
several causes, the most relevant of which is the editing,
in the interim, of the Maitland Quarto and the two volumes
of the Asloan MS. The printing of the complete text of
the Quarto has made it unnecessary to give, in the notes
to this volume, a full collation of the pieces which it has
in common with the Folio. These notes are naturally
not intended as a detailed commentary on the texts ;
their main object is to indicate briefly the relationship
of the Maitland version of each piece to such other copies
as exist, and to render superfluous any further reference
to Reidpeth’s transcript or Pinkerton’s edition. The
vocabulary is intended as an index of words and forms
rather than as a glossary, and detailed explanation or
discussion of obscure terms has been avoided.
I am indebted to Dr D. Hay Fleming for the list of
contents of the Drummond MS., and to Mr George Watson
for assistance in reading the proofs.
W. A. CRAIGIE.