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]
- ^ Scott's memoir of Bannatyne
- ^ Mackay, Aeneas James George (1885). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 03. pp. 137–138.
- ^ "George Bannatyne | Scottish compiler". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2 December 2020.