Digitising Scotland’s "Canon" - A Modern Bannatyne

February 27 Thursday
Talk at 4:30 pm
Location: Peter Mackinnon Building, room C280 (the Green Room)

"Digitising Scotland’s 'Canon' - A Modern Bannatyne"
Dr Lucy Hinnie, Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow (English), CMRS Fellow

The Bannatyne Manuscript (c. 1568) is Scotland’s largest repository of late medieval verse. Held in the National Library of Scotland as Adv. MS 1.1.6, and lauded by writers such as Sir Walter Scott and Allan Ramsay, the manuscript contains over 400 discrete pieces of Older Scots poetry and drama, divided into the categories of theology, morality, comedy, love and fables. Running from January 2019 to January 2021, this Leverhulme-funded project aims to produce a digital edition of the fourth section of the Bannatyne, "ballatis of lufe," in order to establish a new and accessible framework for understanding this oft-overlooked national treasure.

This event is a public lecture in the Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Colloquium series. All are welcome.