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Extract from Sir Walter Scott’s ‘Lay of the Last Minstrel’ with introduction by John Britton, p.2.
SC 2573977
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
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