The Bannatyne Manuscript
E160557
The Bannatyne Manuscript is a 16th-century Scottish anthology of poetry that preserves a major collection of medieval and early Renaissance Scots literature.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bannatyne Manuscript | 1 |
| The Bannatyne Manuscript canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1402861 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Bannatyne Manuscript Context triple: [William Dunbar, mentionedIn, The Bannatyne Manuscript]
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A.
The Kingis Quair
The Kingis Quair is a 15th-century Scots poem, traditionally attributed to King James I of Scotland, that recounts his captivity in England and his courtly love for Joan Beaufort.
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B.
The Scots Musical Museum
The Scots Musical Museum is a landmark late-18th-century collection of traditional Scottish songs and music, famed for including many lyrics contributed and adapted by poet Robert Burns.
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C.
Codex Leicester
The Codex Leicester is a famous scientific notebook by Leonardo da Vinci, containing his observations and theories on topics such as astronomy, geology, hydrodynamics, and the properties of water.
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D.
Lindisfarne Gospels
The Lindisfarne Gospels is an illuminated manuscript of the four Christian Gospels, renowned as a masterpiece of early medieval Insular art produced in Northumbria around the early 8th century.
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E.
Bay Psalm Book
The Bay Psalm Book is the first book printed in British North America, a 1640 metrical English translation of the biblical Psalms used by early New England Puritans for congregational singing.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Bannatyne Manuscript Target entity description: The Bannatyne Manuscript is a 16th-century Scottish anthology of poetry that preserves a major collection of medieval and early Renaissance Scots literature.
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A.
The Kingis Quair
The Kingis Quair is a 15th-century Scots poem, traditionally attributed to King James I of Scotland, that recounts his captivity in England and his courtly love for Joan Beaufort.
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B.
The Scots Musical Museum
The Scots Musical Museum is a landmark late-18th-century collection of traditional Scottish songs and music, famed for including many lyrics contributed and adapted by poet Robert Burns.
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C.
Codex Leicester
The Codex Leicester is a famous scientific notebook by Leonardo da Vinci, containing his observations and theories on topics such as astronomy, geology, hydrodynamics, and the properties of water.
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D.
Lindisfarne Gospels
The Lindisfarne Gospels is an illuminated manuscript of the four Christian Gospels, renowned as a masterpiece of early medieval Insular art produced in Northumbria around the early 8th century.
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E.
Bay Psalm Book
The Bay Psalm Book is the first book printed in British North America, a 1640 metrical English translation of the biblical Psalms used by early New England Puritans for congregational singing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish literary manuscript
ⓘ
manuscript ⓘ poetry anthology ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Bannatyne MS ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
John Barbour
ⓘ
surface form:
Makars (Scottish court poets)
Scottish Renaissance ⓘ |
| centuryOfOrigin | 16th century ⓘ |
| collectionType | anthology ⓘ |
| compiledDuring | plague of 1568 in Edinburgh ⓘ |
| compiler | George Bannatyne ⓘ |
| contains |
courtly love poetry
ⓘ
moral and didactic verse ⓘ religious poetry ⓘ satirical poetry ⓘ secular poetry ⓘ |
| containsWorkBy |
Alexander Scott
ⓘ
James I of Scotland ⓘ
surface form:
King James I of Scotland
Robert Henryson ⓘ Sir David Lyndsay ⓘ William Dunbar ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| culturalContext |
Scottish Reformation
ⓘ
surface form:
Reformation-era Scotland
|
| currentCity | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| currentLocation | National Library of Scotland ⓘ |
| dateOfCompilation | 1568 ⓘ |
| genre | poetry ⓘ |
| hasSection |
ballatis of luve
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ballatis of mirth and debait ⓘ ballatis of moral and doctrinal content ⓘ ballatis of religious and devotional content ⓘ ballatis of the natyve language ⓘ |
| influenced | later editions of Scottish poetry ⓘ |
| language |
Scots
ⓘ
surface form:
Middle Scots
|
| literaryPeriodCovered |
early Renaissance Scots literature
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medieval Scots literature ⓘ |
| material | paper ⓘ |
| numberOfVolumes | 1 ⓘ |
| placeOfCompilation | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| purpose | to preserve Scots poetry during a plague outbreak ⓘ |
| region |
Central Lowlands of Scotland
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surface form:
Lowland Scotland
|
| script | secretary hand ⓘ |
| shelfmark | Advocates’ MS 1.1.6 ⓘ |
| significance |
key witness for texts of many Scottish poets
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major source for Older Scots poetry ⓘ |
| usedBy | textual scholars of Older Scots ⓘ |
| usedFor | reconstruction of lost or damaged Scots poems ⓘ |
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Bannatyne Manuscript