Background
He was born in 1545 in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
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George Bannatyne
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He may have attended St. Andrews University (a George Bannatyne is known to have been a student there in the 1560's).
Career
Some years earlier, in 1568, when the "pest" raged in the capital, he retired to his native county and amused himself by writing out copies of poems by 15th and early 16th century Scots poets.
His work extended to eight hundred pages, divided into five parts.
This MS. , known as the " Bannatyne Manuscript, " constitutes with the "Asloan" and "Maitland Folio" MSS, the chief repository of Middle Scots poetry, especially for the texts of the greater poets Henryson, Dunbar, Lyndsay and Alexander Scott.
Portions of it were reprinted (with modifications) by Allan Ramsay in his Ever Green (1724), and later, and more correctly, by Lord Hailes in his Ancient Scottish Poems (1770).
The entire text was issued by the Hunterian Club (1873 - 1902) in a handsome and generally accurate form.
