Author: Archibald Black Scott

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-23

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 9780331804485

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Excerpt from The Pictish Nation: Its People and Its Church Consequently, in writing an Introduction to the H istory of the Nation and Church of the Picts, the research and patience have at times been ex acting. Lthasnotonlybeennecessary, whereposs ible, to get back to ungarbled original sources, or fragments of sources; but, where these have perished, to collect and to compare versions drawn up from motives not often historical, and then by critical examination, and elimination of what might turn out to be mutually destructive, or unconfirmed, to get close up to what had been before the author of the version. Although, for example, there is more than one version of the original Piotis/t Chronicle; it is not difficult for an equipped and experienced student to isolate what now remains of the original, or at least of the oldest versions, and even to tell the dialects of Celtic in which the latter were written. The mediaeval hands that wrote introduction or added information to this C/zronicle have not always re vealed their actual identity like the York copyist of the most valuable of the manuscripts, Robert de P0pilton; but it is nearly always possible to tell where they wrote, with what motive they wrote, and to identify the source or sources of their additions, when they had any. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Pictish Nation written by Archibald Black Scott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Pictish Nation: Its People and Its Church Consequently, in writing an Introduction to the H istory of the Nation and Church of the Picts, the research and patience have at times been ex acting. Lthasnotonlybeennecessary, whereposs ible, to get back to ungarbled original sources, or fragments of sources; but, where these have perished, to collect and to compare versions drawn up from motives not often historical, and then by critical examination, and elimination of what might turn out to be mutually destructive, or unconfirmed, to get close up to what had been before the author of the version. Although, for example, there is more than one version of the original Piotis/t Chronicle; it is not difficult for an equipped and experienced student to isolate what now remains of the original, or at least of the oldest versions, and even to tell the dialects of Celtic in which the latter were written. The mediaeval hands that wrote introduction or added information to this C/zronicle have not always re vealed their actual identity like the York copyist of the most valuable of the manuscripts, Robert de P0pilton; but it is nearly always possible to tell where they wrote, with what motive they wrote, and to identify the source or sources of their additions, when they had any. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.