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The influence of John Lydgate on late medieval Scottish poetry has been almost entirely ignored by critics.1 This neglect of Lydgate’s influence on Scottish poets is due in part to the obscurity of evidence for the availability of his poems north of the border.2 This article collates the evidence for Lydgate’s substantial manuscript and print circulation in Scotland in an effort to provide the archival basis for the study of Lydgate’s influence on Scottish poets.3 The scarce criticism on Scottish Lydgateanism has concentrated narrowly on the influence of Lydgatean diction, whereas the evidence gathered here (and summarized in the appendix at the end of this article) shows the potential for the study of Lydgate’s more profound stylistic and poetic influence.
This chapter collates the evidence for Lydgate’s substantial manuscript and print circulation in Scotland, providing an archival basis for the study of Lydgate’s influence on Scottish poets.
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A brief assessment of Lydgate’s influence was published after submission of this article: A.S.G. Edwards, “Lydgate in Scotland,” Nottingham Medieval Studies 54 (2010): 185–94.
P. Bawcutt, “English Books and Scottish Readers in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries,” Review of Scottish Culture 14 (2001–2): 1–12, discusses English texts in Scotland.
A.S.G. Edwards, “Bodleian Library MS Arch. Seiden B.24: A‘Transitional Collection,’” in The Whole Book: Cultural Perspectives on the Medieval Miscellany, eds. S.G. Nichols and S. Wenzel (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996), pp. 64–65 [53–67].
P. Bawcutt, “The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues,”Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society 3 (2008): 96 [95–133].
See V.F. Gallagher, “Descriptions of the Manuscripts and Prints,” in A Critical Edition of John Lydgate’s Life of Our Lady, gen. ed. J.A. Lauritis (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1961) pp. 21–56.
M. Connolly, John Shirley: Book Production and the Noble Household in Fifteenth-Century England (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998).
C. Sponsler, “Eating Lessons: Lydgate’s‘Dietary’ and Consumer Conduct,” in Medieval Conduct, eds. K. Ashley and R.L.A. Clark, Medieval Cultures 29 (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2001), p. 4 [1–22].
G. Kipling, The Triumph of Honour: Burgundian Origins of the Elizabethan Renaissance (The Hague: Leiden University Press, 1977), pp. 105–9.
L.A.J.R. Houwen, “Lydgate and a Late Fifteenth-Century Scots Chivalric Treatise,” Studies in Scottish Literature 28 (1993): 157 [150–64].
P.H. Nichols, “William Dunbar as a Scottish Lydgatean,” PMLA 46 (1931): 220
See M. MacGregor, “The View from Fortingall: The Worlds of the Book of the Dean of Lismore,” Scottish Gaelic Studies 22 (2006): 25–85.
C. Peterson, “John Harding and Geoffrey of Monmouth: Two Unrecorded Poems and a Manuscript,” Notes and Queries 27 (1980): 202–4.
G. Kratzmann, Anglo-Scottish Literary Relations 1430–1550 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), p. 15.
P. Bawcutt, “The Boston Public Library Manuscript of Lydgate’s Siege of Thebes: Its Scottish Owners and Inscriptions,” Medium Ævum 70 (2001): 80–94.
A. McIntosh, “The Language and Textual Transmission of the Scottish Troy Book,” Archivum Linguisticum n.s. 10 (1979): 7 [1–19]
J. Farish, “Some Spellings and Rhymes in the Scots Sege of Troy,” English Studies 38 (1957): 200–206;
C. van Buuren-Veenenbos, “John Asloan, an Edinburgh Scribe,” English Studies 47 (1966): 365–72.
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Sweet, W.H.E. (2012). Lydgate Manuscripts and Prints in Late Medieval Scotland. In: Bruce, M.P., Terrell, K.H. (eds) The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1300–1600. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137108913_9
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