See also:ANDREW OF See also:WYNTOUN (?1350-?142o)
, author of a See also:long metrical See also:history of See also:Scotland, called the Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland, was a See also:canon See also:regular of St See also:Andrews, and See also:prior of St Serf's in Lochleven
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He wrote the See also:Chronicle at the See also:request of his See also:patron, See also:Sir See also:John of See also:Wemyss, whose representative, Mr See also:Erskine Wemyss of Wemyss See also:Castle, Fifeshire, possesses the See also:oldest extant MS. of the See also:work
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The subject is the history of Scotland from the mythical See also:period (hence the epithet " See also:original ") down to the See also:accession of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I. in 1406
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The earlier books are of no See also:historical value, but the later have in all outstanding matters stood the test of comparison with contemporary records
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The philological See also:interest is See also:great, for few See also:works of this date, and no other of like magnitude, are extant in the See also:vernacular
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The See also:text is preserved in eight See also:MSS., of which three are in the See also:British Museum, the Royal (17 D xx.), the Cottonian (See also:Nero D. xi.) and the See also:Lansdowne (197); two in the See also:Advocates' library, See also:Edinburgh (19, 2, 3 and 19, 2, 4), one at Wernyss Castle (u.s.) ; one in the university library at St Andrews, and one, formerly in the See also:possession of the Boswells of Auchinleck, now the See also:property .of Mr John See also:Ferguson, See also:Duns, See also:Berwickshire
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The first edition of the Chronicle (based on the Royal MS.) was published by See also:David See also:Macpherson in 1795; the second by David See also:Laing, in the See also:series of " Scottish Historians " din., 1872)
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Both are superseded by the elaborate edition by Mr Amours for the Scottish Text Society (1906)
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