George Bannatyne
Scottish merchant and collector of Scottish poems / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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George Bannatyne (1545–1608), a native of Angus, Scotland, was an Edinburgh merchant and burgess.[1] He was the seventh of twenty-three children, including Catherine Bannatyne, born of James Bannatyne of Kirktown of Newtyle in Forfarshire and Katherine Tailefer.[2] He is most famous as a collector of Scottish poems. He compiled an anthology of Scots poetry while in isolation during a plague in 1568. His work extended to eight hundred folio pages, divided into five parts. The anthology includes works from Scottish Chaucerians as well as many anonymous writers.[3]