'Theatre of the Scotishe Kings, by Mr. Alexander Garden. Boreo-Britaine.’
Scope and Contents
The dates 1613 on folio 1 and 1612 on folio 55 verso appear to have been altered from 1611. This manuscript is thus earlier than Adv.MS.19.3.7, dated 1625, on which the earliest printed edition (Edinburgh, 1709; reprinted by the Abbotsford Club in 1845), is based.
The present manuscript does not contain the poems to the Author or the lines on Prince Henry, and the poems on Robert II and III, James II and III, and Mary are shorter by one stanza; on the other hand, it gives an additional stanza each on Robert I and James VI. The language is somewhat more Scottish than that of the later version, there are occasional differences of phrasing, and the word omitted from the poem on Duffus in Adv. MS.19.3.7 is given as 'Ylles' (folio 39 verso).
There is a note on the manuscript at folio ii*.
Dates
- Creation: ?1611-?1613.
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
66 Leaves ; Quarto.
Language of Materials
Undetermined
Arrangement
x + 56 folios.
Custodial History
The manuscript was bought by the National Library of Scotland with the aid of the Reid Fund.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Bought, 1950.
Bibliography
Physical Description
Contemporary vellum binding with gilt ornament.
Genre / Form
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
- Description rules
- International Standard for Archival Description - General
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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