Helena Mennie Shire Poems from Panmure House. Edited, with an introduction, by Helena Mennie Shire , Cambridge: Sebastian Carter, 1960.

Limited / Numbered / Edition. Card Cover. Very Good. Narrow 4to Printed at Cambridge for the Ninth of May by Sebastian Carter. This book is Number 56 of a limited edition of 100, he series to be known as The Ninth of May exists to print poems and songs of medieval and renaissance Scotland, freshly discovered or hitherto little known. These are grouped to illustrate national idiom and to reveal its affinities with poetry and song furth of Scotland -Stewart and Tudor strains in sixteenth-century song, for example, or poems and translations in the Franco-Scottish tradition. The first volume, Poems from Panmure House, gives a renaissance song in `English' and one in courtly Scots, and an outstanding ballad closely akin to versions from Denmark. "Foreword. These three poems are transcribed from the Commonplace-book of music and poetry planned and compiled in Angus from about 1630 onwards by Robert Edwards. The ballad is in the first, the poems in a later hand. Born by 1617, Edward (s) was minister of Murroes Parish near Dundee. His life is outlined in Hew Scott's Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae (1925), Vol. v, p. 367. He was in friendly touch with the family of Maule of Panmure. His book, now number Eleven of the Panmure Music Library, was most generously lent me for study by the Earl of Dalliousie, its present owner; the Panmure Music Library is now in the care of the National Library of Scotland. There is no music in the Robert Edwards manuscript associated with these three texts. Many of the songs there engrossed are to be found in Music of Scotland 1500-1700 ( Musica Britannica, Volume xv) edited by Kenneth Elliott and myself. A full description of the manuscript with texts of poems and songs will be published in my forthcoming volume for the Aberdeen University Studies Series. These three poems are now printed for the first time. I should like to thank Lord Dalhousie anew for his permission, most kindly given me, to publish the contents of this manuscript. For consultation on transcription of the difficult handwriting I owe warm thanks to Mr H. L. Pink of the University Library of Cambridge and Mr A. J. Aitken of the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, and to Professor Bruce Dickies for kind advice. To the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland I tender my gratitude for encouragement and sustentation of scholarship. Helena Mennie Shire, Aberdeen and Cambridge. `Off lusty May upone the nynt morrow', 1960." ASIN: B0017XTIRU (Book ref. 128486)  £39.95

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