Bannatyne Manuscript
The Bannatyne Manuscript is a anthology o leeteratur compilit in Scotland in the saxteent yeirhunner. It is a important soorce fur the Scots poetry o the fifteent an saxteent yeirhunners. The manuscript conteens texts o the poems o the great makars, mony anonymous Scots pieces an warks by medieval English poets.[1]
It wis colleck in 1568 by the Edinburgh merchant George Bannatyne[2] whan he wis isolate in his hame, escapin the plague that haed reakit Edinburgh. [3] Bannatyne wis motivate by his desire tae preserve Scottish literary heritage whan compilin this anthology[4] Bannatyne wis motivate by his desire tae preserve Scottish literary heritage whan compilin this anthology an forby includit some o his ain writin in the manuscript. Contrar tae popular claims, it isnae the earliest survivin record of the word "fuck".[5][6][7][8][9][10]
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- ↑ A transcript of the manuscript, Hunterian Club, 1896, (Volume 2 of 4) at archive.org
- ↑ The National Library of Scotland's Discussion of the Manuscript
- ↑ Brown, J. T. T. (1904). "The Bannatyne Manuscript: A Sixteenth Century Poetical Miscellany". The Scottish Historical Review. 1: 136–158 – via JSTOR.
- ↑ Newlyn, Evelyn (1 Januar 1991). "Luve, Lichery and Evill Women: The Satiric Tradition in the Bannatyne Manuscript". Studies in Scottish Literature. 26: 283–293 – via Scholar Commons.
- ↑ Booth, Paul. "An early fourteenth-century use of the F-word in Cheshire, 1310–11 (published article)". Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire (in Inglis).
- ↑ "The first ever use f the word f*** has been found by accident". The Independent (in Inglis). 13 September 2015. Retrieved 7 Apryle 2020.
- ↑ Medievalists.net (11 September 2015). "The earliest use of the F-word discovered". Medievalists.net (in Inglis). Retrieved 7 Apryle 2020.
- ↑ Lynch, Jack (3 November 2009). The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park (in Inglis). Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-0-8027-1963-8.
- ↑ Flen flyys.
- ↑ "Definition of FUCK". www.merriam-webster.com (in Inglis). Retrieved 7 Apryle 2020.