Legends of the saints : in the Scottish dialect of the fourteenth century
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Legends of the saints : in the Scottish dialect of the fourteenth century
- Publication date
- 1896
- Publisher
- Edinburgh and London : Printed for the Society by W. Blackwood and Sons
- Collection
- americana
- Book from the collections of
- University of Michigan
- Language
- English
- Volume
- 16
Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
3 volumes : 22 cm
A series of verse translations, mainly from the "Legenda aurea"; ascribed to John Barbour, but this authorship is much disputed
"Though without author's name [the work] is proved with reasonable certainty to be Barbour's by the similarity of its metre with that of the 'Brus.'"--Dict. of nat. biog
"Positive evidence ... that [Barbour] was the author of the legends there is absolutely none. Of evidence that he was not their author there is an abundance."--Introd., v. 1, p. xxiv
Published originally in 6 parts, 1888-96
v. 1-2. Introduction and text.--v. 3. Notes, glossary, index, bibliography
3 volumes : 22 cm
A series of verse translations, mainly from the "Legenda aurea"; ascribed to John Barbour, but this authorship is much disputed
"Though without author's name [the work] is proved with reasonable certainty to be Barbour's by the similarity of its metre with that of the 'Brus.'"--Dict. of nat. biog
"Positive evidence ... that [Barbour] was the author of the legends there is absolutely none. Of evidence that he was not their author there is an abundance."--Introd., v. 1, p. xxiv
Published originally in 6 parts, 1888-96
v. 1-2. Introduction and text.--v. 3. Notes, glossary, index, bibliography
- Addeddate
- 2008-05-11 14:23:02
- Associated-names
- Metcalfe, W. M. (William Musham), 1840-1916, editor; Barbour, John, approximately 1320-1395, supposed author
- Copyright-region
- US
- Foldoutcount
- 0
- Identifier
- legendssaints02metcgoog
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t4mk6db8x
- Lccn
- 04000956
- Ocr_converted
- abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11
- Ocr_module_version
- 0.0.14
- Page_number_confidence
- 93.88
- Pages
- 621
- Possible copyright status
- NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
- Scandate
- 20060629
- Scanner
- Worldcat (source edition)
- 3197455
- Year
- 1896
- Full catalog record
- MARCXML
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