History of The Document
A note in the manuscript records that it was presented by William Foulis of Woodhall, a descendant of Bannatyne, to William Carmichael of Skirling in 1712.
In the early Eighteenth Century, Allan Ramsay reproduced pieces from the manuscript in his compilation The Ever Green between 1724 and 1727.
The manuscript was acquired by the Advocates' Library of Edinburgh in 1772.
Walter Scott took an interest in the document and participated in an eponymous club dedicated to the study and publication of historic Scots literature. The first printed transcript of the manuscript was published by the Bannatyne Club, in three volumes, between 1827 and 1855.
The Hunterian Club published a new transcript in 1896.
The manuscript is now held by The National Library of Scotland with the catalogue number "Adv. MS. 1.1.6".
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