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The Bannatyne Manuscript is an anthology of literature compiled in Scotland in the sixteenth century. It is an important source for the Scots poetry of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The manuscript contains texts of the poems of the great makars, many anonymous Scots pieces and works by medieval English poets.〔(A transcript of the manuscript, Hunterian Club, 1896, (Volume 2 of 4) at archive.org )〕 It was collected by the Edinburgh merchant George Bannatyne〔(The National Library of Scotland's Discussion of the Manuscript )〕 who also included some of his own writing. According to the text of the manuscript itself, it represents; :''Ane most godlie mirrie and lustie rapsodie made be sundrie learned Scots poets and written be George Bannatyne in the tyme of his youth.''〔(The 'Memorial Buik' of George Bannatyne', Bannatyne Manuscript Volume 1, 1896, p. xxiii-xxxviii )〕 ==History of the Document== A note in the manuscript records that it was presented by William Foulis of Woodhall, a descendant of Bannatyne,〔(Scott's memoir of Bannatyne )〕 to William Carmichael of Skirling in 1712. In the early Eighteenth Century, Allan Ramsay reproduced pieces from the manuscript in his compilation ''The Ever Green'' between 1724 and 1727.〔(Ramsay's The Ever Green )〕 The manuscript was acquired by the Advocates' Library of Edinburgh in 1772.〔(A transcript of the manuscript (Volume 1 of 4) at archive.org )〕 Walter Scott took an interest in the document〔(Scott's memoir of Bannatyne, Bannatyne Manuscript, Volume 1, 1896, p. i-xxii. )〕 and participated in an eponymous club dedicated to the study and publication of historic Scots literature. The first printed transcript of the manuscript was published by the Bannatyne Club, in three volumes, between 1827 and 1855.〔(A list of the Bannatyne Club's publications )〕 The Hunterian Club published a new transcript in 1896.〔(A transcript of the manuscript (Volume 1 of 4) at archive.org )〕 The manuscript is now held by The National Library of Scotland with the catalogue number "Adv. MS. 1.1.6".〔(National Library of Scotland )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bannatyne Manuscript」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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