This site is managed 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 project and assistant manager of this website.
IMAGES USED ON THIS SITE
HOME PAGE: Scottish royal coat of arms with unicorn supporters from fol. 65r of Edinburgh, University Library MS 195 (mid 15c), where it is part of the frontispiece of Virgil’s Aeneid
TEXTS & SOURCES: Page from a 16c manuscript of Andrew of Wyntoun’s Original Chronicle (St Andrews 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): copy from the National Library of Scotland, shelfmark F.5.b.48
LINKS: floriated border with Scottish thistles from a prayerbook of James IV and Margaret Tudor: Vienna, Austrian National Library Cod. 1897, fol. 71r
With thanks to all repositories concerned.