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The Maitland Quarto: A New Edition of Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys Library MS 1408

The Maitland Quarto: A New Edition of Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys Library MS 1408

Martin, Joanna M.

Hardcover

Series: Scottish Text Society Fifth, Book 13

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

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ISBN10: 1897976402
ISBN13: 9781897976401
Publisher: Scottish Text Soc
Published: Jun 18 2015
Pages: 540
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.80 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
New edition of one of the most important collections of sixteenth-century Scots poetry.

The Maitland Quarto Manuscript was compiled in c.1586 in the circle of the Maitland Family of Lethington, East Lothian. It is a highly significant and rich collection of Older Scots poetry. It contains the most complete collectionof the poems of Sir Richard Maitland, judge, privy counsellor, and Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland under Mary Queen of Scots, together with poems attributed to Maitland's heir, John Maitland of Thirlestane, Chancellor to James VI, and to leading writers and intellectuals, including the king himself, Alexander Montgomerie, and Alexander Arbuthnot. It attests to new developments in Scottish literature in the late sixteenth century by including many unique examples of Calvinist lyric, the earliest known British Country House poem, and Sapphic verse, as well as poems influenced by Italian and French sources. It also provides evidence for the role of women in the composition, collection and copying of Older Scots verse.

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