This site is run by Rhiannon Purdie, Professor of English and Older Scots in the School of English at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Professor Purdie currently holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2021-23) for which she is writing a history of medieval Scots literature (see Mapping Medieval Scots Literature, Beginnings to 1513).
Alice Gibson is a graduate of St Andrews and a current MPhil student in the Department of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. She is a research assistant on the ‘Older Scots for Modern Scots’ schools project and assistant manager of this website.
IMAGES USED ON THIS SITE
HOME PAGE: Scottish royal coat of arms with unicorn supporters from Edinburgh University Library MS 195 (mid 15c), where it is part of the frontispiece of Virgil’s Aeneid, fol. 65r
TEXTS & SOURCES: A 16c manuscript of Andrew of Wyntoun’s Original Chronicle: University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums, ms DA775.A6W9, fol. 324r
SCHOOLS: Fable of ‘the Cock and the Jasp’, from Robert Henryson’s Morall Fabillis, printed by Thomas Bassandyne (Edinburgh, 1571): National Library of Scotland, shelfmark F.5.b.48
LINKS: Border from Dean Brown’s Prayerbook of c. 1498 (Master James Brown was Dean of Aberdeen): National Library of Scotland MS 10270, fol. 91r
With thanks to all repositories concerned.