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The Maitland quarto: a new edition of Cambridge, Magdalene college, Pepys library MS 1408 by Martin, Joanna M.

“…All but two of these poems appear to be of Scots origin, though several have English or continental sources. The first folio of the manuscript is inscribed twice with the date 1586 and the name of Marie Maitland, indicating that it was copied in the circle of the Maitlands of Lethington, a family of lowland lairds who had become increasingly influential in royal administration during the sixteenth century. …”
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