George Bannatyne
Illustration — A page from The Bannatyne Manuscript. (National Library of Scotland) George Bannatyne (1545–1608), a native of Angus, Scotland, was an Edinburgh merchant and burgess. He was the seventh of twenty-three children, including Catherine Bannatyne, born of James Bannatyne of Kirktown of Newtyle in Forfarshire and Katherine Tailefer.
George Bannatyne
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- 1545
- Died
- 1608
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- Kingdom of Scotland
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- merchant · poet · writer
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Illustration — A page from The Bannatyne Manuscript. (National Library of Scotland) George Bannatyne (1545–1608), a native of Angus, Scotland, was an Edinburgh merchant and burgess. He was the seventh of twenty-three children, including Catherine Bannatyne, born of James Bannatyne of Kirktown of Newtyle in Forfarshire and Katherine Tailefer.
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He is most famous as a collector of Scottish poems. He compiled an anthology of Scots poetry while in isolation during a plague in 1568. His work extended to eight hundred folio pages, divided into five parts. The anthology includes works from Scottish Chaucerians as well as many anonymous writers.
Bannatyne began compiling his manuscript in 1568 while isolated in his home in Edinburgh during an outbreak of the plague. He was inspired to create the anthology as a means to preserve Scottish Literary heritage. The Bannatyne Manuscript is, with the Asloan and Maitland manuscripts, one of the great sources of Middle Scots literature. It contains many works by Henryson, Dunbar, Lyndsay, Alexander Scott and Alexander Montgomerie. The document was passed by Bannatyne to his descendants, Janet and her husband George Foulis of Woodhall and Ravelston, and then, via several private owners, to the Advocates' Library of Edinburgh. It is now held by the National Library of Scotland.
The Bannatyne Club
The Bannatyne Club
The Bannatyne Club was founded by Sir Walter Scott in honour of George Bannatyne for the purpose of promoting and studying Scottish history and literature.
Recent Scholarship
More recent scholarship on the Bannatyne Manuscript suggests an earlier date of 1565 for its composition. 9A. A. MacDonald, 'The Bannatyne Manuscript: a Marian Anthology', IR xxxvii (1986), 36–47) demonstrate this and Michael Lynch points out that its compilation at this time was appropriate given that it contains a great deal of love poetry and was put together at the time of the royal marriage between Mary I and Lord Darnley. Lynch, M. A New History of Scotland, Pimlico, 1991, p. 213.
Crop and colour processed image of page xi of the 1823 Bannatyne Club edition of the Book of the Howlat, which contains an engraving of part of the transcription taken from folio 228v of the Asloan Manuscript (National Library of Scotland, MS.16500)
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A page from the Bannatyne MS (Adv.MS.1.1.6) fol.211v
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- 1.The Bannatyne manuscript. 1896.
- 2.Em um livro de memórias de George Bannatyne, por Sir Walter Scott, prefixado para uma coleção de memorabilia sobre ele, que foi impressa para o Bannatyne Club, supõe-se que ele não esteve inicialmente envolvido no comércio. Mas essa suposição parece basear-se apenas em uma inferência incerta de uma passagem do "Memoriall Buik" de George Bannatyne, onde é mencionado que Katharine Tailliefer, em sua morte em 1570, deixou para trás seus onze filhos, dos quais oito não possuíam meios próprios de subsistência. Numa cuidadosa inspeção das notícias da família neste "memorial buik", parece provável que o próprio George fosse um daqueles que já tinham "uma profissão", especialmente considerando que ele estivesse então com 25 anos de idade.
- 3.Thomas Napier. Bannatyne, George. 1.
- 4.Hugh. Bannatyne, George. 3.
- 5.The Bannatyne manuscript. 1896.
- 6.1568 - Bannatyne Manuscript. 2019-04-13. digital.nls.uk.
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