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ANDREW OF WYNTOUN (?1350-?142o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 873 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . 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 . 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 I. in 1406 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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) . Both are superseded by the elaborate edition by Mr Amours for the Scottish Text Society (1906) .

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