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Extract from Sir Walter Scott’s ‘Lay of the Last Minstrel’ with introduction by John Britton, p.2.

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Description Extract from Sir Walter Scott’s ‘Lay of the Last Minstrel’ with introduction by John Britton, p.2.

Date c. 1846

Collection Collection of papers relating to Rosslyn Chapel, Midlothian, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 2573977

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of AL 39/17

Scope and Content The excerpt has been copied by Britton’s secretary who wrongly attributed the text to Sir Walter Scott’s poem ‘The Lady of the Lake’. Britton presents the excerpt as evidence of the fictional nature of poetry and argues that it does not provide architectural or historical information on the history of Rosslyn Chapel.

Accession Number 2021/8

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/2573977

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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