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1 online resource |
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Cover ; The Literary Culture of Early Modern Scotland: Manuscript Production and Transmission, 1560-1625; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Publications; Libraries, Archives, Repositories; Note on Texts and Transcriptions; Introduction: Scottish Literary Texts and the Book History of Early Modern Britain; Historical and Critical Frames of Reference; Places of Manuscript Production and the Textual Communities of Early Modern Scotland; The Challenge Ahead; 1: Courtly Literary Culture and Manuscripts of the Court |
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The Scottish Court and The Writing GameCourtly Publication in Manuscript and Print; Understanding Networks of Courtly Verse Exchange; 2: ̀All the kings poesis:́ The Manuscripts of James VI; Autograph Manuscripts; Poems in Circulation; ̀Closing the Text ́in Print; 3: The Manuscripts of William Fowler; Poems of Commendation: ̀E.D. ́and ̀M.L.B.;́ Poems of Patronage: Thomas Cargill; Poems of Friendship: ̀I.C.;́ William Fowler and John Geddie; Poems of Entreaty: Fowler and the Maitlands; The Writing Game Reprised; 4: Manuscript Production, Transmission, and Urban Cultural Identities |
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Urban cultural identities: ̀burgess poets, ́ ̀burgess humanists, ́ and the ̀merchantis of renounÚrban and Civic Scribes; Edinburgh and the Bannatyne Manuscript; 5: Urban Developments: EUL MS Laing III. 447; Date of Compilation and Provenance ; Amatory Poetry ; 'Beggis Donaldsoun, Burges Wyfe'; Devotional Poetry; Moral and Friendship Poems; Alexander Montgomerie's Cherrie and the Slae; Reassessing the Urban Verse Miscellany; 6: The Marks of Neighbourhood: Regional Manuscript Production and Transmission; ̀Sufficient Store of Books;́ Surviving Manuscripts; The Maitlands and their Manuscripts |
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The Marks of Neighbourhood7: The Verse Miscellanies of James Murray of Tibbermuir and Margaret Robertson of Lude; The Tibbermuir Manuscript; A Familial Textual Community; Creative Recreation: Three Sonnets; ̀Written in a Beautiful Hand:́ The Robertson Miscellany; The Robertson Family, Royalism, and Bawdry; Music and Song; Personalizing the Manuscript; Regional Textual Communities; Conclusion: 'Off begynnyng and ending'; Place and Nation; Future Scholarship; Bibliography: Manuscripts; ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY; BEINECKE LIBRARY, YALE UNIVERSITY, CT; BODLEIAN LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD |
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BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, MABRITISH LIBRARY, LONDON; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY; EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY LIBRARY; EMMANUEL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM, CAMBRIDGE; FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY, WASHINGTON, DC; GLASGOW CITY ARCHIVES; GLASGOW UNIVERSITY LIBRARY; HATFIELD HOUSE, HATFIELD; HENRY E. HUNTINGTON LIBRARY, SAN MARINO; LENNOXLOVE HOUSE, HADDINGTON; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, DC; NATIONAL ARCHIVES, KEW; NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND; NATIONAL RECORDS OF SCOTLAND, EDINBURGH; NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY, EDINBURGH; PEPYS LIBRARY, MAGDALENE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE |
| Summary |
Explaining the literary history of Scotland in the early modern period (1560-1625) through the investigation of manuscript production, this book argues for the importance of three key places of production of such manuscripts; the royal court, burghs and towns |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Scottish literature -- To 1700 -- History and criticism
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Transmission of texts -- Scotland -- History -- 16th century
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Publishers and publishing -- Scotland -- History -- 16th century
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Publishers and publishing
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Scottish literature
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Transmission of texts
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Scotland
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Schottland
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191817229 |
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0191817228 |
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0191074578 |
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9780191074578 |
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