Fordun, John of, d ? 1384 (Scottish chronicler)
Person
Dates
- Existence: d ? 1384
Biography
John of Fordun compiled the Chronica Gentis Scotorum, the earliest attempt to write a continuous history of Scotland. There is now some debate as to how much of the work can actually be considered to have been written by John of Fordun. This chronicle was then used by Walter Bower as the basis for some of his Scotichronicon.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Scotichronicon, by Walter Bower, 1510
Part
Identifier: MS 186/ ff. 1r-332v; 333v-336r
Contents
The bulk of MS 186 contains the 'Scotichronicon', by Walter Bower. Bower was a 15th-century abbot of the abbey of Inchcolm, on the island of Inchcolm in the Firth of Forth. He compiled an extensive history of Scotland, called the 'Scotichronicon'. In this narrative, Bower added some elements of his own and extended the account chronologically, but he declared in the text that his aim was to build upon the earlier work of Scottish history by John of Fordun, the 'Chronica Gentis Scotorum',...
Dates:
1510