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Our antecestres that we should of read
The Actis and Deidis of the lllustere and Vailȝeand Campioun, Schir
William Wallace, Knicht of Ellerslie — Eleven Books in couplets
Title(s): The Actis and Deidis of the lllustere and Vailȝeand Campioun, Schir William
Wallace, Knicht of Ellerslie
Subjects: Wallace, William, sir; historical verse; history, family; Scots; Scotland
Versification: —
couplets —
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Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates’ 19.2.2, ff. 71-194
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First Lines:[O]ur antecessowris þat we suld of reide
And hald in mynde
þair nobille worthi deid…
Last Lines:…Maide hell and erd and set in hewyn ab[u]f
That he wll grant
off his der escand luff
Attributed Title: The Actis and Deidis of the Illustere and Vailȝeand Campioun Schir
William Wallace, Knicht of Ellerlie (f. 71); Explicit vita nobilisimi
defensorii Scotie videlicet Willelmi Wallace militis et vir… (f.
194v)
Editions:
Moir, James,
ed.
The Actis and Deidis of…William Wallace.
Scottish Text Society
6-7, 17. Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1889.
Gray, Douglas.
The Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1985: 154-6 (excerpt).
Print Witnesses:
1.Source: STC 13148.
[Acts and deeds of Wallace. In Scots verse by Henry the Minstrel, purporting to derive from a Latin
work by J. Blair], [Edinburgh: W. Chepman and A. Myllar, 1508?]
Note: Fragment: 18 leaves only.
Facsimiles:
The actis and deidis of schir W. Wallace, knicht of Ellerslie.
Edinburgh: Lekpreuik, 1570 (STC 13149): appendix.
Editions:
Eyre-Todd, George.
Early Scottish Poetry.
Glasgow: W. Hodge, 1891: 190-220 (extracts).
Craigie, Sir William Alexander,
ed.
Facsimile of The Actis and Deidis of Schir William Wallace (Lekpreuik,
1570).
New York: Scholars, 1939.
2.Source: STC 13149.
The actis and deidis of the illuster and vailzeand campioun, Schir William Wallace, knicht of
Ellerslie, [Imprentit at Edinburgh: Be Robert Lekpreuik at the expensis of Henrie Charteris,
[and] ar to be sauld in his buith, or the north syde of ye gait abone [sic] the Throne, Anno. Do. M.D.
LXX. [1570]] -194
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