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APPENDIX II
In the table on p. 95 I have compared the accounts of the death of
King David II in:
1. John of Fordun, “Gesta annalia,” ed. W. F. Skene (n. 4
above), p. 382.
2. Bower’s expansion of Fordun in his Scotichronicon, ed. W.
Goodall in Joannis de Fordun Scotichronicon cum sup-
plementis et continuatione Walteri Bower (Edinburgh, 1759),
II, 380.
3. The abbreviated version of Bower known as Liber Pluscar-
densis, ed. F. J. H. Skene, The Historians of Scotland 7
(Edinburgh, 1877), p. 307.
4. The Dalhousie manuscript, art. 8, ed. in BM III, 58.
5. The (? Cambuskenneth) Extracta e variis cronicis Scocie, ed.
Turnbull (n. 71 above), p. 190.
The text of Bower in its fullest form as printed by Goodall is collated
in my footnotes with two unpublished versions preserved in manu-
scripts in the National Library of Scotland. These are:
6. MS Adv. 35.6.7, containing a copy of a version compiled at
the Carthusian monastery near Perth.
7. MS Adv. 35.1.7 (the Book of Cupar), containing a copy of
what is believed to be Bower’s personal revision and abridg-
ment.
It is notable that texts 3-5 show common omissions over against
Bower’s original (as preserved in texts 2, 6 and 7), and that 4 and 5,
while displaying an obvious mutual affinity, retain certain readings
from the original independently of each other and of 3. This would
suggest the following stemma:
2 (= Bower)
*2a
*2b
3 (= Liber Pluscardensis)
4 (= Dalhousie)
5 (= Extracta)