William Dunbar (1460?–1513/30)

Verse

Advice to Spend anis Awin Gude (‘Man, sen thy lyfe is ay in weir’)

Mackenzie, No. 72, pp. 147-8. Murdoch, III, 383-4; Ritchie, III, 11-13; Bawcutt, I, 118-19.

DuW 1

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘p dumbar’.

In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt. Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page ‘finis. / 1568’ but probably written over a period of some years. c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) ‘This book is gifted to Mr William Carmichael Be me James Foulis’. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, ‘The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues’, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, f. 136r-v (pp. 331-2).

DuW 2

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.

Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

Edited from this MS in Craigie and in Bawcutt. Collated in Mackenzie.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 225-6.

Aganis the Solistaris in Court (‘Be divers wyis and operatiounes’)

Mackenzie, No. 29, pp. 55-6. Craigie, I, 7. Bawcutt, p. 60.

DuW 3

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, p. 8.

DuW 4

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 377-8. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 209.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, p. 316.

DuW 5

Copy in: A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed ‘Q[uod] Dunnbar’), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum. In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r ‘a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623’. 1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Ex libris Mr cristopher Cokburne’.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS.Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 37, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, f. 10r.

All Erdly Joy Returnis in Pane (‘Off lentren in the first mornyng’)

Mackenzie, No. 71, pp. 145-6. Murdoch, II, 131-2. Ritchie, II, 121-2. Bawcutt, I, 159-60.

DuW 6

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘p Dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, f. 48v (p. 156).

DuW 7

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 382-3. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 223, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 319-20.

The Amendis to the Telyouris and Sowtaris for the Turnament Maid on Thame (‘Betuix twell houris and ellevin’)

Mackenzie, No. 59, pp. 126-7. Murdoch, II, 319-21. Ritchie, II, 298-300. Bawcutt, I, 157-8.

DuW 8

Copy, headed ‘ffollowis ye amedes mad be him to ye telyeres & sowtaris for the twrnment maid yn thame’, subscribed ‘p Dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 112v-13r (pp. 284-5).

DuW 9

Copy, subscribed ‘quhone he drank to ye Dekynnis ffor amendis to ye bodeis of thair craftis’.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 378-9. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 220, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, p. 317.

Ane His Awin Ennemy (‘He that hes gold and grit riches’)

Mackenzie, No. 2, pp. 2-3. Murdoch, II, 329-30. Ritchie, II, 308-9. Bawcutt, p. 86.

DuW 10

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘p Dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 115v-16 (pp. 290-1).

DuW 11

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 239-40. Collated in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 212-13.

The Ballad of Kynd Kittok (‘My gudame wes a gay wif, bot scho wes ryght gend’)

First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 85, pp. 169-70. Murdoch, III, 382-3. Ritchie, III, 10-11.

DuW 12

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 227-8.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 135v-6r (pp. 330-1).

Ane Ballat of Our Lady (‘Hale, sterne superne! Hale, in eterne’)

Mackenzie, No. 82, pp. 160-2. Craigie, The Asloan MS, II, 275-8. Bawcutt, I, 83-5.

DuW 13

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Q Dunbar’.

In: A quarto formal miscellany of mainly Scottish verse and prose, almost entirely in a single secretary hand, with rubrication, another hand on ff. 137-50 inscribed ‘per M G Myll’, with contemporary and later lists of contents, imperfect, lacking a number of pages with poems recorded in the lists of contents, v + 304 leaves, each window mounted in a 19th-century folio guardbook in brown calf gilt. Compiled by the Edinburgh notary John Asloan (fl. c.1494-c.1532). c.1515-30.

Inscriptions include (ff. 40v, 166v) names of William Muray and William Leslie of Balquhaina; (flyleaf) ‘Alexander Boswel March 1730’ [later Lord Auchinleck], ‘R.W. Talbot [later fifth Lord Talbot de Malahide] from J. I Boswell June 29th 1882’, and ‘Talbot de Malahide [sixth Lord Talbot de Malahide] James Boswell March 1921’. Sold and recovered several times by the Boswell family before passing to the Talbot family. Purchased in 1966.

Commonly cited as the Asloan MS. Complete text edited in Craigie, Asloan MS. Discussed, with a table of contents, in Catherine van Buren, ‘John Asloan and his Manuscript: An Edinburgh Notary and Scribe in the Days of James III, IV and V (c.470-c.1530)’, in Stewart Style 1513-1542: Essays on the Court of James V, ed. Janet Hadley Williams (East Linton, 1996), 15-51.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie and in Craigie, The Asloan MS, and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, MS 16500, ff. 303r-4v.

Best to be Blyth (‘Full oft I mus and hes in thocht’)

Mackenzie, No. 69, pp. 143-4. Murdoch, II, 281-2. Ritchie, II, 260-1. Bawcutt, I, 79-80.

DuW 14

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘p Dunbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, f. 98v (p. 258).

DuW 15

Copy of lines 1-9, untitled, deleted.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch, II, 329, and in Ritchie, II, 308.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, f. 115v (p. 290).

DuW 16

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 410-11. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 222, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, p. 337.

DuW 17

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 126, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, f. 43r-v.

Bewty and the Presoneir (‘Sen that I am a presoneir’)

Mackenzie, No. 54, pp. 104-7. Murdoch, III, 607-10. Ritchie, III, 249-52. Bawcutt, I, 229-32.

DuW 18

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. II, ff. 214r-15r (pp. 487-9).

DuW 19

Copy of lines 1-16, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, II, 58. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 218, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, f. 8r.

The Birth of Antichrist (‘Lucina schynnyng in silence of the nicht’)

Mackenzie, No. 39, pp. 70-1. Murdoch, III, 375-7. Ritchie, III, 4-5. Bawcutt, I, 114-15.

DuW 20

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘p Dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 133r-4r (pp. 325-7).

DuW 21

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 405-7, and in Bawcutt. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 213.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 334-5.

DuW 22

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 126, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, ff. 42v-3r.

Complaint to the King (‘Complane I wald, wist I quhome till’)

Mackenzie, No. 19, pp. 39-41. Craigie, I, 17-19. Bawcutt, I, 67-8.

DuW 23

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 16-18.

DuW 24

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 39; in Mackenzie, p. 206; and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, ff. 13v-14r.

Complaint to the King Aganis Mure (‘Schir, I complane off injuris’)

Mackenzie, No. 5, p. 5. Craigie, I, 10. Bawcutt, I, 199.

DuW 25

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, No. 5, p. 5; in Craigie, I, 10; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 10-11.

DuW 26

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 37, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, f. 11r.

The Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis (‘Off Februar the fyistene nycht’)

Mackenzie, No. 57, pp. 120-3. Murdoch, II, 312-15. Ritchie, II, 291-4. Bawcutt, I, 149-56.

DuW 27

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 110r-11r (pp. 279-81).

DuW 28

Copy, untitled; imperfect.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 12-16, with a facsimile of p. 14. Recorded in Mackenzie, pp. 219-20. Collated in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 12-16.

DuW 29

Copy of lines 1-12, 109-20, untitled and prefixed to The Sowtar and Tailyouris War (DuW 154).

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 183.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 161-2.

DuW 30

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 38-9.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, ff. 11v-13r.

The Devillis Inquest (‘This nycht in my sleip I wes agast’)

Mackenzie, No. 42, p. 76-9 (see pp. 238-9). Murdoch, III, 372-5. Ritchie, III, 1-4. Bawcutt, I, 250-7.

DuW 31

Copy of a 17-stanza version, untitled, subscribed ‘p Dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 132v-3r (pp. 324-5).

DuW 32

Copy of a 13-stanza version, untitled and beginning ‘Dremand me thocht that I did heir’.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, pp. 238-9; in Craigie, I, 62-4; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 55-7.

DuW 33

Copy of a 13-stanza version, untitled and beginning ‘Dremand me thocht that I did heir’.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 64-5, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, ff. 18v-19r.

The Dream (‘This hinder nycht, halff sleiping as I lay’)

Mackenzie, No. 60, pp. 127-30. Craigie, II, 46-50. Bawcutt, I, 240-4.

DuW 34

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, II, 45-6; and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, ff. 3v-5r.

The Dregy of Dunbar (‘We that ar heir in hevins glory’)

Mackenzie, No. 30, pp. 56-9. Murdoch, II, 292-6. Ritchie, II, 271-5. Bawcutt, I, 274-7, as ‘Dumbaris Dirige to the King’.

DuW 35

Copy, headed ‘The dregy of dubar maid to King James ye fyrst being in stumbling’, subscribed ‘Heir endis dubaris dergy to the king bydand to lang in Stirling’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 102r-3v (pp. 265-8).

DuW 36

Copy, subscribed ‘Dumbaris dirige to ye king’.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 337-41, and in Bawcutt. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 209-10.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 290-2.

DuW 37

Copy, subscribed ‘Dumbaris dirige to ye king’.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 129; in Mackenzie, p. 210; and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, ff. 55v-6v.

Dunbar at Oxinfurde (‘To speik of science, craft, or sapience’)

Mackenzie, No. 53, pp. 104. Craigie, I, 9. Bawcutt, I, 266.

DuW 38

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, No. 53, p. 104, and in Craigie, I, 9. Collated in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 9-10.

DuW 39

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, I, 379-80; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 317-18.

DuW 40

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 37, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, f. 10v.

Elegy on the Death of Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny (‘Illuster Lodovick, of France most Cristin king’)

Mackenzie, No. 62, pp. 133-4. Craigie, II, 54-5. Bawcutt, p. 100.

DuW 41

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, ff. 6v-7r.

Epetaphe for Donald Owre (‘In vice most vicius he excellis’)

Mackenzie, No. 36, pp. 65-6. Ritchie, I, 87-8. Bawcutt, I, 111-12.

DuW 42

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffinis p dubar for Donald ovre epetaphe’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Ritchie, with a facsimile of p. 53; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, pp. 53-4.

DuW 43

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 11-12. Collated in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 11-12.

DuW 44

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 38, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, f. 11r-v.

The Fenyeit Freir of Tungland (‘As yung Awrora, with cristall haile’)

Mackenzie, No. 38, pp. 67-70. Murdoch, II, 333-7. Ritchie, II, 311-15. Bawcutt, I, 56-9.

DuW 45

Copy, headed ‘Ane ballat of the fenyeit freir of tungland how he fell in the myre Ileand to turberland’, subscribed ‘finis p Dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 117r-18v (pp. 293-6).

DuW 46

Copy of lines 1-69.

In: the MS described under DuW 13. c.1515-30.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, The Asloan MS, II, 92-4. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 212, and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, MS 16500, ff. 211v-12v.

The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie (‘Schir Johine the Ros, ane thing thair is compild’)

First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 6, pp. 5-20. Murdoch, III. 420-37. Ritchie, III, 44-62. Bawcutt, I, 200-18.

DuW 47

Copy of lines 1-315.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 147r-54r (pp. 353-61).

DuW 48

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 71-88. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 198-201, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 53-4, 59-63, 69-70, 77-80.

DuW 49

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 69-70.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, ff. 58r-65r.

The Freiris of Berwick (‘At Tweidis mowth thair standis a nobill toun’)

Of doubtful authorship. Mackenzie, No. 93, pp. 182-95. Murdoch, IV, 1004-20. Ritchie, IV, 261-77.

DuW 50

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. II, ff. 348v-54v (pp. 746-58).

DuW 51

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 133-48. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 231-4.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 113-29.

A General Satyre (‘Doverrit with dreme, devysing in my slummer’)

Of doubtful authorship. Mackenzie, No. 77, pp. 151-3. Murdoch, II, 162-5. Ritchie, II, 147-50. Bawcutt, I, 71-4.

DuW 52

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffinis p Dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 60r-1r (pp. 181-3).

DuW 53

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffinis p D’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Ritchie, I, 79-82, and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, pp. 47-8.

DuW 54

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 211-13. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 224-6, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 187-9.

‘Gladethe thoue Queyne of Scottis regioun’

Mackenzie, No. 90, pp. 179-80. Bawcutt, I, 81-2.

DuW 55

Copy, written on a blank page between two deeds dated 25 October 1505 and 28 March 1506. 1502-7.

In: The official minute book of sasines in Aberdeen, in numerous volumes, dating from 1484 onwards.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie and in Bawcutt.

A transcript of this MS made for David Laing by R. Stephens (1835) is in Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 476.

Aberdeen Archives, The Aberdeen Sasine Register, Vol. II, p. 460.

The Goldyn Targe (‘Ryght as the stern of day begouth to schyne’)

First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 56, pp. 112-19. Murdoch, IV, 995-1003. Ritchie, IV, 252-61. Bawcutt, I, 184-92.

DuW 56

Copy, headed ‘followis the goldin terge’, subscribed ‘Explicit p Dumbar of the goldin terge’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt. Recorded in Mackenzie, pp. 218-19. Facsimile of f. 345 in Small, I, at the end.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. II, ff. 345r-8v (pp. 739-46).

DuW 57

Copy, imperfect.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 89-97. Recorded in Mackenzie, pp. 218-19. Collated in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 64-6, 73-6, 81.

Gude Counsale (‘Be ye ane luvar, think ye nocht ye suld’)

Mackenzie, No. 68, pp. 142-3. Murdoch, III, 602-3. Ritchie, III, 244-5. Bawcutt, p. 63.

DuW 58

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffinis p Dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. II, f. 212v (p. 484).

How Dumbar wes Desyrd to be Ane Freir (‘This nycht, befoir the dawing cleir’)

Mackenzie, No. 4, pp. 3-4. Murdoch, II, 327-8. Ritchie, II, 306-7. Bawcutt, I, 248-9.

DuW 59

Copy, headed ‘ffollowis how Dubar wes desyre to be ane freir’ and subscribed ‘p Dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, f. 115r-v (pp. 289-90).

DuW 60

Copy of lines 1-20, 26-50.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 404-5. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 197, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 333-4.

DuW 61

Copy of lines 1-20, 26-50, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 126, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, f. 42r-v.

How Sall I Governe Me? (‘How sould I rewill me or in quhat wys’)

Mackenzie, No. 9, pp. 24-6. Murdoch, II, 178-80; Ritchie, II, 162-3. Bawcutt, I, 87-8.

DuW 62

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffinis p Dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 203.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 65v-6v (pp. 192-4).

DuW 63

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, and in Craigie, I, 388-9. Collated in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 323-4.

DuW 64

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 123.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, f. 38r-v.

In Prais of Wemen (‘Now of wemen this I say for me’)

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, No. 45, pp. 83-4. Murdoch, IV, 809-10. Ritchie, IV, 75-6. Bawcutt, I, 135.

DuW 65

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘p Dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. II, f. 278v (p. 612).

DuW 66

Copy, here beginning ‘Off women now this I say for me’.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 345. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 215, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 294-5.

‘In secreit place this hyndir nycht’

Mackenzie, No. 28, pp. 53-5. Murdoch, II, 296-8. Ritchie, II, 275-7. Bawcutt, I, 106-8.

DuW 67

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffinis p S Clerk’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 208-9, and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 103v-4 (pp. 268-9).

DuW 67.5

Copy in: An oblong quarto miscellany of verse, receipts, and lute music, in possibly several secretary hands, 60 leaves, in modern red morocco. c.1570.

‘The Braye LuteBook’, formerly among the Cave family papers of Lord Braye at Stanford Hall, Rugby.

This MS collated in Bawcutt. Edited in Priscilla Bawcutt, ‘New Texts of William Dunbar, Alexander Scott and Other Scottish Poets’, Scottish Studies Review, 1 (Winter 2000), 9-25 (pp. 17-19).

Yale, Osborn Music MS 13, ff. 50v-1v.

DuW 68

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, I, 368-70; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 308, 311.

DuW 69

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 121, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, ff. 34v-5r.

Inconstancy of Luve (‘Quha will behald of luve the chance’)

Mackenzie, No. 51, pp. 100-1. Murdoch, IV, 816. Ritchie, IV, 81-2. Bawcutt, I, 161.

DuW 70

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffinis p Dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. II, f. 281r (p. 617).

Lament for the Makaris (‘I that in heill wes and gladnes’)

First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 7, pp. 20-3. Murdoch, II. 308-11. Ritchie, II, 287-91. Bawcutt, I, 94-7.

DuW 71

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘p Dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 202-3, and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 109r-10r (pp. 277-9).

DuW 72

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 214-17. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 202-3.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 189-92.

The Manere of the Crying of ane Playe (‘Harry, harry, hobbillschowe!’)

Mackenzie, No. 86, pp. 170-4. Murdoch, II, 337-41. Ritchie, II, 315-20.

DuW 73

Copy, headed ‘Ane Littill Interlud of ye Droichis pt of ye [play]’, subscribed ‘ffinis off ye droichis pt of ye play’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in . Ritchie. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 228-30.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 118v-20r (pp. 296-9).

DuW 74

Copy of lines 1-165.

In: the MS described under DuW 13. c.1515-30.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie and in Craigie, The Asloan MS, III, 149-54.

National Library of Scotland, MS 16500, ff. 240r-2v.

The Maner of Passing to Confessioun (‘O synfull man, thir ar the fourty dayis’)

Mackenzie, No. 84, pp. 167-9. Bennett, pp. 257-9. Bawcutt, I, 136-8.

DuW 75

Copy in: A Scottish miscellany of devotional verse and prose. c.1530s.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Bennett; and in Bawcutt.

British Library, Arundel MS 285, ff. 161r-2v.

Meditatioun in Wyntir (‘In to thir dirk and drublie dayis’)

Mackenzie, No. 10, pp. 26-7. Craigie, I, 380-2. Bawcutt, I, 109-10.

DuW 76

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 318-19.

DuW 77

Copy of lines 23-50, untitled and here beginning ‘And lat fortoune wirk furthe hir rage’.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 1-2. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 203.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, p. 3.

DuW 78

Copy of lines 1-22, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, II, 34-5. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 203. Collated in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, f. 1r.

The Merle and the Nychtingaill (‘In May as that Aurora did upspring’)

Mackenzie, No. 63, pp. 134-7. Murdoch, IV, 822-6. Ritchie, IV, 87-91. Bawcutt, I, 101-5.

DuW 79

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffinis p Dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. II, ff. 283r-4v (pp. 621-4).

DuW 80

Copy of lines 1-16, 33-120, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 188-91. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 221-2, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 165-8.

A New Year's Gift to the King (‘My Prince, in God gif the guid grace’)

Mackenzie, No. 26, p. 51. Craigie, II, 44-5. Bawcutt, I, 129.

DuW 81

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, ff. 2v-3r.

No Tressour Availis without Glaidnes (‘Be mirry, man! and tak nocht far in mynd’)

Mackenzie, No. 73, pp. 148-9. Murdoch, II, 279-80. Ritchie, II, 259-60. Bawcutt, I, 61-2.

DuW 82

Copy, headed ‘Hermes the Philosopher p dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 97v-8v (pp. 256-8).

DuW 83

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 249-50. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 223-4, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 221-2.

DuW 83.5

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 55.

Edited from this MS in Bawcutt.

Aberdeen Archives, The Aberdeen Sasine Register, Vol. III, pp. 321-2.

None May Assure in this Warld (‘Quhom to sall I compleine my wo’)

Mackenzie, No. 21, pp. 44-6. Edited from this MS in Murdoch, II, 234-6. Ritchie, II, 215-17 (with a facsimile of f. 84v). Bawcutt, I, 171-3.

DuW 84

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffinis p dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie, with a facsimile of f. 84v. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 207, and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 84r-5r (pp. 229-31).

DuW 85

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, I, 401-3, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 331-3.

DuW 86

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 125-6, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, ff. 40v-2r.

Of a Dance in the Quenis Chalmer (‘Sir Jhon Sinclair begowthe to dance’)

Mackenzie, No. 32, pp. 60-1. Craigie, I, 415-16. Bawcutt, I, 233-4.

DuW 87

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 340-1.

DuW 88

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 128, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, f. 45r-v.

Of Ane Blak-Moir (‘Lang heff I maed of ladyes quhytt’)

Mackenzie, No. 37, pp. 66-7. Craigie, I, 416-17. Bawcutt, p. 113.

DuW 89

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 341-2.

DuW 90

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 128.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, ff. 45v-6r.

Of Content (‘Quho thinkis that he hes sufficence’)

Mackenzie, No.70, pp. 144-5. Craigie, I, 366-7. Bawcutt, I, 169-70.

DuW 91

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, p. 307.

DuW 92

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, II, 50-1. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 223, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, f. 5r-v.

Of Covetyce (‘Fredome, honour, and nobilnes’)

Mackenzie, No. 67, pp. 141-2. Murdoch, II, 175-6. Ritchie, II, 159-60. Bawcutt, I, 77-8.

DuW 93

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 64v-5r (pp. 190-1).

DuW 94

Copy, untitled; imperfect.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 5-6. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 222, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 6-7.

DuW 95

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 36, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, f. 9r-v.

Of Deming (‘Musing allone this hinder nicht’)

Of doubtful authorship. Mackenzie, No. 8, pp. 23-4. Murdoch, II, 171-3. Ritchie, II, 156-7. Bawcutt, I, 122-4.

DuW 96

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffinis p dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 63v-4r (pp. 188-9).

DuW 97

Copy, untitled and lacking lines 26-30.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 191-3. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 203, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 168-70.

DuW 98

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 372-4. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 203.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 313-14.

Of Discretioun in Asking (‘Off very asking followis nocht’)

Mackenzie, No. 14, pp. 31-3. Murdoch, II, 165-7. Ritchie, II, 150-2. Bawcutt, I, 142-3.

DuW 99

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffinis of asking’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, f. 61r-v (pp. 183-4).

DuW 100

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Ritchie, I, 76-7.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, pp. 45-6.

DuW 101

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 289-90. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 204, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 259-60.

DuW 102

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Eftir everie asking followis nocht’.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 110, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, f. 21r-v.

Of Discretioun in Geving (‘To Speik of gift or almous deidis’)

Mackenzie, No. 15, pp. 33-4. Murdoch, II, 167-9. Ritchie, II, 152-4. Bawcutt, I, 144-6.

DuW 103

Copy, headed ‘ffollowis discretoun of geving’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 61v-2v (pp. 184-6).

DuW 104

Copy of lines 1-33, imperfect, lacking the ending.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Ritchie, I, 77-8; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, p. 46.

DuW 105

Copy, immediately following on from Of Discretioun in Asking (DuW 101).

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 290-2. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 204-5, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 260-1.

DuW 106

Copy, immediately following on from Of Discretioun in Asking (see DuW 102).

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 110.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, ff. 21v-2v.

Of Discretioun in Taking (‘Eftir Geving I speik of taking’)

Mackenzie, No. 16, pp. 35-6. Murdoch, II, 170-1. Ritchie, II, 154-5. Bawcutt, I, 147-8.

DuW 107

Copy, headed ‘ffollowis Discretioun in taking’, subscribed ‘ffinis p Dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 62v-3r (pp. 186-7).

DuW 108

Copy, immediately following on from Of Discretioun in Geving (DuW 105).

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 292-4. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 205, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 261-2.

DuW 109

Copy, immediately following on from Of Discretioun in Geving (see DuW 106).

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 110, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, ff. 22v-3r.

Of Folkis Evill to Pleis (‘Four Maner of folkis ar evill to pleis’)

Mackenzie, No. 23, pp. 48-9. Murdoch, II, 180-1. Ritchie, II, 163-4. Bawcutt, I, 75-6.

DuW 110

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 208. Collated in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, f. 66v (p. 194).

DuW 111

Copy, imperfect at the beginning.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Ritchie, I, 78-9.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, p. 47.

DuW 112

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, II, 45-6; and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, f. 3r-v.

Of James Dog, Kepar of the Quenis Wardrop (‘The wardraipper of Venus boure’)

Mackenzie, No. 33, pp. 61-2. Craigie, I, 413. Bawcutt, I, 236.

DuW 113

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, p. 339.

DuW 114

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 127, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, f. 44r-v.

Of Luve Erdly and Divine (‘Now culit is Dame Venus brand’)

Mackenzie, No. 52, pp. 101-4. Murdoch, IV, 826-9. Ritchie, IV, 91-4. Bawcutt, I, 130-2.

DuW 115

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffinis p Dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. II, ff. 284v-5v (pp. 624-6).

Of Lyfe (‘Quhat is this lyfe bot ane straucht way to deid’)

Mackenzie, No. 76, p. 151. Craigie, I, 350. Bawcutt, I, 162.

DuW 116

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, p. 310.

DuW 116.5

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

This MS collated in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, f. 75v (p. 212).

Of Manis Mortalitie (‘Memento, homo, quod cinis es!’)

Mackenzie, No. 74, pp. 149-50. Murdoch, II, 127-9. Ritchie, II, 117-19. Bawcutt, I, 120-1.

DuW 117

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffinis p dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, f. 47r-v (pp. 153-4).

DuW 118

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 218-19. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 224, and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 193-4.

Of Sir Thomas Norny (‘Now lythis off ane gentill knycht’)

Mackenzie, No. 35, pp. 63-4. Craigie, I, 2-4. Bawcutt, I, 133-4.

DuW 119

Copy, untitled; imperfect.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 3-5.

DuW 120

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 35-6, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, f. 8r-v.

Of the Changes of merche (‘I seik about this warld unstabille’)

Mackenzie, No. 66, pp. 140-1. Craigie, I, 4. Bawcutt, p. 93.

DuW 121

Copy, untitled; slightly imperfect.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie and in Craigie. Collated in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 5-6.

DuW 122

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 376, and in Bawcutt. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 222.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, p. 315.

DuW 123

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 36, and in Bawcutt. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 222.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, ff. 8v-9r.

Of the Ladys Solistaris at Court (‘Thir ladyis fair, That makis repair’)

Mackenzie, No. 48, pp. 97-8. Murdoch, IV, 762-3. Ritchie, IV, 30-1. Bawcutt, I, 238-9.

DuW 124

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffinis p Dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. II, f. 261r-v (p. 577).

DuW 125

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 390-1, and in Bawcutt. The text corrected from this MS in Mackenzie (p. 217).

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 324-5.

DuW 126

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 123, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, ff. 38v-9r.

Of the Nativitie of Christ (‘Rorate celi desuper!’)

Mackenzie, No. 79, pp. 154-5. Murdoch, II, 69-70. Ritchie, II, 65-6. Bawcutt, I, 182-3.

DuW 127

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, f. 27r-v (pp. 113-14).

Of the Passioun of Christ (‘Amang thir freiris, within ane cloister’)

Mackenzie, No. 80, pp. 155-9. Craigie, I, 229-34. Bawcitt, pp. 34-8, as ‘Ane Ballat of the passioun’.

DuW 128

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 203-7.

DuW 129

Copy of lines 1-32, 41-96, headed ‘ye passioun of Ihesu’, subscribed ‘Q Dunbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 13. c.1515-30.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie and in Craigie, The Asloan MS, III, 242-5. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 226. Collated in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, MS 16500, ff. 290v-2r.

DuW 130

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 75. c.1530s.

Edited from this MS in Bennett, pp. 266-9. Collated in Bawcutt.

British Library, Arundel MS 285, ff. 168r-v, 171r, 169r, 170r.

Of the Said James, Quhen he had plesett him (‘O Gracious Princes, guid and fair’)

Mackenzie, No. 34, pp. 62-3. Craigie, I, 414. Bawcutt, I, 237.

DuW 131

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 339-40.

DuW 132

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 127-8.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, ff. 44v-5r.

Of the Warldis Instabilitie (‘This waverand warldis wretchidnes’)

Mackenzie, No. 13, pp. 28-31. Craigie, I, 202-5. Bawcutt, I, 258-61.

DuW 133

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 178-81.

DuW 134

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 101.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, ff. 27r-8v.

Of the Warldis Vanitie (‘O wreche, be war! this warld will wend the fro’)

Mackenzie, No. 75, pp. 150-1. Craigie, I, 221. Bawcutt, I, 139.

DuW 135

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 195-6.

On His Heid-ake (‘My heid did yak yester nicht’)

Mackenzie, No. 3, p. 3. Bawcutt, p. 127.

DuW 136

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, f. 6r.

On the Resurrection of Christ (‘Done is a battel on the dragon blak’)

Mackenzie, No. 81, pp. 159-60. Murdoch, II, 94-6. Ritchie, II, 88-9. Bawcutt, I, 69-70.

DuW 137

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffinis p Dunbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, f. 35r (p. 129).

Ane Orisoun (‘Salviour, suppois my sensualitie’)

Mackenzie, No. 78, p. 154. Craigie, I, 393. Bawcutt, I, 193.

DuW 138

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, p. 326.

DuW 139

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 102, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, f. 40r.

The Petition of the Gray Horse, Auld Dunbar (‘Now Lufferis cummis with larges lowd’)

Mackenzie, No. 22, pp. 46-8. Craigie, I, 19-20.

DuW 140

Copy of lines 23-53, untitled and here beginning ‘Schir lat It neuer In toume be tald’.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited partly from this MS in Mackenzie. Edited in Craigie and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, p. 18.

DuW 141

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

Edited partly from this MS in Mackenzie. Collated in Craigie, II, 39-41, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, ff. 1r-v, 14r-v.

Quhen the Governour Past in France (‘Thow that in hevin, for our salvatioun’)

Mackenzie, No. 65, pp. 139-40. Craigie, I, 210-11. Bawcutt, I, 162-3.

DuW 142

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 186-7.

DuW 143

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS recorded in Mackenzie, p. 222, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, ff. 28v-9r.

Quhone he List to Feyne (‘My hartis tresure, and swete assured so’)

Mackenzie, No. 50, pp. 99-100. Craigie, I, 386-7. Bawcutt, I, 125-6.

DuW 144

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 322-3.

Quhone Mony Benefices Vakit (‘Schir, at this feist of benefice’)

Mackenzie, No. 11, pp. 27-8. Craigie, I, 6-7. Bawcutt, I, 196.

DuW 145

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 6-7. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 203. Collated in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 7-8.

DuW 146

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, and in Craigie, I, 376-7.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, p. 316.

DuW 147

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 36, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, ff. 9v-10r.

Remonstrance to the King (‘Schir, ye have mony servitouris’)

Mackenzie, No. 17, pp. 36-8. Craigie, I, 222-4. Bawcutt, I, 222-4.

DuW 148

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 196-8.

Rewl of Anis Self (‘To dwell in court, my freind, gife that thow list’)

Mackenzie, No. 41, pp. 75-6. Murdoch, II, 184-6. Ritchie, II, 167-9. Bawcutt, I, 264-5.

DuW 149

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffinis p Dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 68r-9r (pp. 197-9).

Ros Mary: Ane Ballat of Our Lady (‘Ros Mary, most of vertewe virginale’)

Mackenzie, No. 87, pp. 175-7. Craigie, The Asloan MS, II, 271-2.

DuW 150

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 13. c.1515-30.

Edited partly from this MS in Mackenzie. Edited in Craigie, The Asloan MS.

National Library of Scotland, MS 16500, f. 300v-1v.

DuW 151

Copy, untitled. Late 15th-early 16th century.

In: A folio volume of lecture notes on logic written in Louvain in 1477 by Magnus Makculloch, clerk to Archbishop William Schevez (d.1497), iii + 202 leaves, imperfect at the end, in modern brown calf gilt. Chiefly in one professional secretary hand, with some engrossed lettering, in double columns, another hand, one ‘Johannes’, possibly John Purde, on pages including ff. iiv-iiir, 86r-7r, 181v, 183v, and 200r-2r.

Owned by David Laing in 1854.

Edited from this MS in Stevenson, pp. 24-5. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 230.

Edinburgh University Library, MS Borl. 205, f. 183v.

DuW 152

Copy of an eight-stanza version.

In: A folio volume of religious poems chiefly composed and probably transcribed by the priest William Forrest. c.1581.

Edted from this MS in Henry Noble MacCracken, ‘New Stanzas by Dunbar’, MLN, 24 (1909), 110-11. Edited partly from this MS in Mackenzie.

British Library, Harley MS 1703, ff. 79v-80r.

The Sowtar and Tailyouris War (‘Nixt that a turnament wes tryid’)

Mackenzie, No. 58, pp. 123-6. Murdoch, II, 316-19. Ritchie, II, 295-8.

DuW 153

Copy, headed ‘The Turnament’, subscribed ‘Heir endes the...maid be the nobill poyet mr Wm Dunnbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 111r-12v (pp. 281-4).

DuW 154

Copy, here beginning ‘Syn till ane turnament fast thai hyit’, prefixed by lines 1-12, 109-20 of The Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis (DuW 29) and untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 183-7. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 220.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 162-5.

DuW 155

Copy, headed ‘The Iustis betuix ye talyeour & ye sowtar’, subscribed ‘Q Dunbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 13. c.1515-30.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, The Asloan MS, II, 89-92. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 220.

National Library of Scotland, MS 16500, ff. 210r-11v.

The Tabill of Confession (‘To The, O mercifull Salviour, Jesus’)

Mackenzie, No. 83, pp. 163-7. Murdoch, II, 43-8. Ritchie, II, 42-7. Bawcutt, I, 267-73.

DuW 156

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffinis p Dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 17v-19v (pp. 94-8).

DuW 157

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffinis p dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Ritchie, I, 13-18. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 227. Collated in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, pp. 9-11.

DuW 158

Copy, subscribed ‘ane confessioun generale’.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 224-9. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 227. Collated in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 199-203.

DuW 159

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 75. c.1530s.

Edied from this MS in Bennett, pp. 1-6. Partly edited from this MS in Mackenzie.

British Library, Arundel MS 285, ff. 1r-4v.

The Testament of Mr. Andro Kennedy (‘I, Maister Andro Kennedy’)

First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 40, pp. 71-4. Murdoch, III, 438-41. Ritchie, III, 62-6. Bawcutt, I, 89-92.

DuW 160

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘so Heir endis the tesment of mr andreo Keinnedy Maid be Dumbar quhen he ews lyk to dy’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. The text corrected from this MS in Mackenzie, p. 213, and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 154r-5v (pp. 367-70).

DuW 161

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 155-9. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 213. Collated in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 135-8.

DuW 162

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffinis qd Kennedie’.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, ff. 24v-6r.

The Thrissil and the Rois (‘Quhen Merche wes with variand windis past’)

Mackenzie, No. 55, pp. 107-12. Murdoch, IV, 988-94. Ritchie, IV, 246-52. Bawcutt, I, 163-8.

DuW 163

Copy, subscribed ‘Explicit p Dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. II, ff. 342v-5 r(pp. 734-9).

To a Ladye (‘Sweit rois of vertew and of gentilnes’)

Mackenzie, No. 49, p. 99. Craigie, I, 383-4. Bawcutt, I, 235.

DuW 164

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, p. 320.

To Aberdein (‘Blyth Aberdeane, thow beriall of all tounis’)

Mackenzie, No. 64, pp. 137-9. Craigie, II, 55-8. Bawcutt, pp. 63-6.

DuW 165

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, f. 7r-v.

To the Gouvernour in France (‘We lordis hes chosin a chiftane mervellus’)

Mackenzie, No. 92, pp. 181-2. Murdoch, II, 215-16. Ritchie, II, 197-9.

DuW 166

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 78v-9r (pp. 218-19).

To the King (‘Off benefice, Schir, at everie feist’)

Mackenzie, No. 12, p. 28. Craigie, I, 8-9. Bawcutt, I, 140-1.

DuW 167

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie. The text corrected from this MS in Mackenzie. Collated in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 8-9.

DuW 168

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, I, 385-6; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 321-2.

DuW 169

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 37.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, f. 10r-v.

To the King (‘Sanct Salvatour! send silver sorrow’)

Mackenzie, No. 1, p. 1-2. Murdoch, II, 322-4. Ritchie, II, 301-2. Bawcutt, I, 194-5.

DuW 170

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘p Dumbar to ye King’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 113v-14r (pp. 286-7).

To the King (‘Schir, yit remembir as of befoir’)

Mackenzie, No. 20, pp. 41-3. Murdoch, II, 271-4. Ritchie, II, 251-4. Bawcutt, I, 225-8.

DuW 171

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffinis p Dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 206-7.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, ff. 94v-5v (pp. 250-2).

DuW 172

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, I, 346-8; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 295-6, 309.

DuW 173

Copy of lines 76-83, untitled and beginning ‘How suld I leif and I not landit’.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, f. 34r.

To the King That He war Johne Thomosunis Man (‘Schir, for your grace, bayth nicht and day’)

Mackenzie, No. 18, pp. 38-9. Craigie, I, 220-1. Bawcutt, I, 197-8.

DuW 174

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 194-5.

To the Lordis of the Kingis Chalker (‘My Lordis of Chalker, pleis yow to heir’)

Mackenzie, No. 25, pp. 50-1. Craigie, II, 53-4. Bawcutt, p. 128.

DuW 175

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, f. 6r-v.

To the Merchantis of Edinburgh (‘Quhy will ye, merchantis of renoun’)

Mackenzie, No. 44, pp. 81-3. Craigie, II, 41-4. Bawcutt, I, 174-6.

DuW 176

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, ff. 1v-2v.

To the Princess Margaret (‘Now fayre, fayrest off every fayre’)

Mackenzie, No. 89, pp. 178-9.

DuW 177

Copy, in a musical setting, the initial letter decorated in colour with a facial portrait, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto volume of madrigals and other musical works, the lyrics in two or more secretary hands, 60 leaves, in half-morocco, stamped in gilt on both covers ‘1757’. Early 16th century.

Facsimiles in Small, I, at the end, and in DLB, vol. 132, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. First Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1993), p. 128.

British Library, Royal MS App. 58, ff. 17v-18v.

To the Quene (‘Madam, your men said thai wald ryd’)

Mackenzie, No. 31, pp. 59-60. Craigie, I, 417-18. Bawcutt, I, 116-17.

DuW 178

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie and in Craigie.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, p. 342.

DuW 179

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 129; in Mackenzie, p. 210; and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, f. 46r-v.

To the Queen Dowager (‘O lusty flour of yowth, benying and bricht’)

Mackenzie, No. 91, pp. 180-1. Murdoch, III, 689-91. Ritchie, III, 323-4.

DuW 180

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. II, f. 238v (p. 532).

To the City of London (‘London, thou art of townes A per se’)

Mackenzie, No. 88, pp. 177-8.

DuW 181

Copy, headed ‘ye treatise of London made at Mr. Shaa table when he was mayre’.

In: A memorandum book and miscellany, in long narrow ledger-format, in neat secretary hands, partly rubricated, 248 (plus eight unnumbered) leaves, imperfect at the end, in contemporary vellum. Entitled ‘A Boke of dyueris tales and balettes and dyuersis Reconynges &c.’ and inscribed ‘Iste liber pertineth Rycardo Hill, servant with M. Wynger, alderman of London’. Compiled largely by Richard Hill (b.c.1490), citizen and grocer of London, free of the Company of Merchant Adventurers. c.1520.

A deleted inscription (p. 178) ‘Iste liber partinet John Stokes’. Notes on farming matters dated 1731 including the name ‘Robert Tombs’.

Edited from this MS in Songs, Carols, and other Miscellaneous Poems, ed. Roman Dyboski, EETS ES 101 (London, 1907-8), pp. 100-2. The text corrected from this MS in Mackenzie (pp. 230-1).

Balliol College, Oxford, MS 354, ff. 199v-200r.

DuW 182

Copy, untitled.

In: A quarto volume, in one or more professional secretary hands, 213 leaves, on vellum throughout, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Comprising (ff. 2r-208v) a ‘chronicle of England, containing the remarkable passages of what happened; together with the mayors and sheriffs of London, from A° 1215 to A° 1509’, with other historical texts on ff. 209r-13v. Early 16th century.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie.

British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius A. XVI, ff. 200r-1r.

DuW 183

Copy, headed ‘An honour to London.’

In: A quarto composite volume of verse and prose, partly on vellum, partly on paper, c.110 leaves. Mid-late 16th century.

Edited from this MS in T. Wright and James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps], Reliquiae Antiquae (London, 1841), I, 205-7. Recorded in Mackenzie, pp. 230-1.

British Library, Lansdowne MS 762, f. 7v.

DuW 184

Copy, headed ‘A balad mayde at London whe my lorde prince Arthur was wed by a Skotte hauyng muche money of dyurse lordes for hys Indytyg’, among other texts on three pages (ff. [1r, 2r-v]) of three large folio leaves, formerly the flyleaves in a printed exemplum of William Caxton's edition of Cordiale quattuor novissimorum (1479) (PLM 677) and now rebound separately in modern brown morocco gilt. c.1501-9.

The printed Cordiale bears the bookplate of Richard Bennett.

Edited from this MS in Curt F. Bühler, ‘London Thow Art The Flowre of Cytes All’, RES, 13 (1937), 1-9. Facsimile in British Literary Manuscripts: Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 10.

Pierpont Morgan Library, MA 717 Bd Engl. Lit.

The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo (‘Apon the Midsummer evin, mirriest of nichtis’)

First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 47, pp. 85-97. Craigie, I, 98-115. Bawcutt, I, 41-55.

DuW 185

Copy in: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Libes 1-103 edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 81-96.

The Twa Cummeris (‘Rycht airlie on Ask Weddinsday’)

Mackenzie, No. 46, p. 84. Murdoch, III, 386-7. Ritchie, III, 14-15. Bawcutt, I, 180-1.

DuW 186

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘p Dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and n Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, f. 137r (p. 333).

DuW 187

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Airlie on als wodnisday’.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 64-5. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 215. Collated in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 57-8.

DuW 188

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 65, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, f. 19v.

DuW 189

Copy, written on a blank page. c.1501-4.

In: the MS described under DuW 55.

Edited from this MS in Bawcutt. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 214.

A transcript made for David Laing by R. Stephens (1835) is in Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 476

Aberdeen Archives, The Aberdeen Sasine Register, Vol. II, p. 460.

Tydingis fra the Sessioun (‘Ane murlandis man of uplandis mak’)

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, No. 43, pp. 79-80. Murdoch, II, 160-2. Ritchie, II, 145-7. Bawcutt, I, 39-40.

DuW 190

Copy, untitled, headed ‘ffollowis certane ballattis againe the Vyce in sessioun court and all estaitis’, subscribed ‘ffinis p Dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, f. 59r-v (pp. 179-80).

DuW 191

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 374-5, and in Bawvcutt. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 214.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 314-15.

DuW 192

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 121-2; and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, ff. 37r-8r.

Welcome to the Lord Treasurer (‘I thocht lang quhill sum lord come hame’)

Mackenzie, No. 24, pp. 49-50. Craigie, II, 51-2. Bawcutt, I, 98-9.

DuW 193

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, ff. 5v-6r.

The Wowing of the King quhen he was in Dumfermeling (‘This hindir nycht in Dumfermeling’)

Mackenzie, No. 27, pp. 51-3. Murdoch, II, 330-3. Ritchie, II, 309-11. Bawcutt, I, 245-7.

DuW 194

Copy, headed ‘follows ye wowing of the king quhen he wes in Dufermeling’, subscribed ‘p Dumbar’.

In: the MS described under DuW 1. c.1568.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. I, f. 116r-v (pp. 291-2).

DuW 195

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 2. c.1570-85.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 407-9. The text corrected from this MS in Mackenzie (p. 208). Collated in Bawcutt.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2553, pp. 335-7.

DuW 196

Copy of lines 1-14, untitled.

In: the MS described under DuW 5. 1622-3.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 126, and in Bawcutt.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 5. 10, f. 58r.