The Dynamic Edition of the Declaration of Arbroath

Before introducing these six versions, it's important to know that the Declaration appears in three different ways in medieval Scotland:

As a standalone document (e.g. the file copy; e.g. the letter book of James Haldenstone).
As one of the documents in a 'dossier' of documents about Scottish independence included in some manuscripts of John of Fordun's Chronica Gentis Scotorum ('Chronicles of the Scottish People').
As incorporated into some of the Latin histories of the Scottish People (e.g. The Scotichronicon of Walter Bower; the version of Bower's Scotichronicon in 40 books (and the works derived from it); The Book of Pluscarden).

The beginning of the Declaration in Patrick Russell's version of Walter Bower's abridged Scotichronicon (National Library of Scotland, Advocates MS 35.6.7, fo. 232r.

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