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The Buke of the Howlat (Richard Holland)

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Scots comic fable in alliterative verse, which was written by Richard Holland in the mid-15th century for Elizabeth Douglas, wife of Archibald Douglas, earl of Moray.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Cambridge, University Library, MS Sel. 1.19/1 

Text

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6 

ff. 302r–310v  

Text

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, MS 16500 

ff. 213r–228v  

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[ed.] Hanna, Ralph, Richard Holland, The Buke of the Howlat, Scottish Text Society, Fifth Series, Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2014. 226 pp.

Includes a detailed introduction

[ed.] [tr.] Bawcutt, Priscilla J., and Felicia Riddy [eds], Longer Scottish poems, vol. 1: 1375–1650, Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1987.