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- Poems (circa 1485—circa 1517)Manuscripts: Aberdeen Minute Book of Seisins, ii (1503-1507), iii (1507-1513), Town Clerk's Office, Aberdeen, contains three poems by Dunbar; Arundel Manuscript 285, British Library, contains three religious poems by Dunbar including The Passioun of Crist; Asloan Manuscript (circa 1515), Malahide Castle, Dublin, contains four poems by Dunbar including "Ane Ballat of Our Lady" and "The Passioun of Crist"; Bannatyne Manuscript (circa 1568), National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, contains forty-five poems by Dunbar including The Golden Targe, "The Dregy of Dunbar," The Thistle and the Rose, and The Flyting; Maitland Folio Manuscript (circa 1570-1586), Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, contains fifty-nine poems by Dunbar including the Treatise of the Two Married Women and the Widow, The Golden Targe, and The Flyting; Reidpeth Manuscript (1622-1623), Cambridge University Library, is the only authority for some eight poems by Dunbar.First publications: [The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy]; The Ballade of ane Right Noble Victorius & Myghty Lord Barnard Stewart; Here Begynnys ane Litil Tretie Intitulit the Golden Targe (Edinburgh: Printed by Walter Chepman & Androw Myllar, 1508); The Poems of William Dunbar, 3 volumes, edited by John Small, Scottish Text Society, 2, 4, 16, 21, 29 (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1884-1889).Standard editions:The Poems of William Dunbar, 5 volumes, edited by Jakob Schipper (Vienna: Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1891-1894); The Poems of William Dunbar, edited by W. Mackay Mackenzie (London: Faber & Faber, 1932; reprinted, with corrections by Bruce Dickins, 1960); The Poems of William Dunbar, edited by James Kinsley (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979).
