The Bruce or the Metrical History of Robert I. King of Scots
Title: The Bruce or the Metrical History of Robert I. King of Scots by Master John Barbour, Archdeacon of Aberdeen, Published from a manuscript dated MCCCCLXXXIX (1489) with Notes, and a memoir of the Life of the Author
Author: John Jamieson
Publisher: Maurice Ogle & Co.
Date: 1869
Hardback - New Edition
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John Barbour a contempory of Chaucer has long been looked upon as the father of Scottish poetry. Barbour was born about 1316 or 1320, and he died in 1395.
The text of Barbour's great poem has been preserved in two manuscripts—one signed "J. de B." and dated 1487, in the Library of St. John's College, Cambridge, and another signed "Johannes Ramsay," dated 1489, and bound up with a MS. of The Wallace by the same hand, in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh.
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