The Aberdeen Corpus of Older Scots (ACOS)
| dc.contributor.author | Douglas, Gavin |
| dc.contributor.author | Dunbar, William |
| dc.contributor.author | Barbour, John |
| dc.contributor.editor | Innes, Cosmo |
| dc.contributor.editor | Bawcutt, Priscilla |
| dc.contributor.editor | Coldwell, David F.C. |
| dc.creator | Discry, Charles-Henri |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-08-06T15:10:46Z |
| dc.date.available | 2025-08-06T15:10:46Z |
| dc.date.created | 1375-1513 |
| dc.date.created | 1856 |
| dc.date.created | 1998 |
| dc.date.created | 2003 |
| dc.date.created | 1957-1960 |
| dc.identifier | 2583 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/2583 |
| dc.description | The Aberdeen Corpus of Older Scots (ACOS) is a poetic corpus and spans from 1375 to 1513. It contains all extant works by Gavin Douglas, including King Hart, all extant works by William Dunbar, and all extant works by John Barbour - namely the Brus. In the titles and the texts, the symbol <#> reflects yogh, <ȝ>. <ȝ> has been replaced owing to the difficulty concordancers have retrieving words that contain this medieval letter. ACOS was compiled in 2011 as part of Charles-Henri Discry's doctoral research at the University of Aberdeen. It is compiled from the following editions: 1. Barbour, J. (1856). The Brus (C. Innes, Ed.). Spalding Club (Original work published 1375) 2. Dunbar, W. (1998). The poems of William Dunbar (P. Bawcutt, Ed.). Association for Scottish Literary Studies. 3. Douglas, G. (2003). The shorter poems of Gavin Douglas (P. Bawcutt, Ed.). The Scottish Text Society. 4. Douglas, G. (1957). Virgil’s Aeneid, Translated into Scottish Verse by Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, Edited with Notes and Glossary (F.C.D. Coldwell, Ed.). (Vol. 2). The Scottish Text Society. 5. Douglas, G. (1959). Virgil’s Aeneid, Translated into Scottish Verse by Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, Edited with Notes and Glossary (F.C.D. Coldwell, Ed.). (Vol. 3). The Scottish Text Society. 6. Douglas, G. (1960). Virgil’s Aeneid, Translated into Scottish Verse by Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, Edited with Notes and Glossary (F.C.D. Coldwell, Ed.). (Vol. 4). The Scottish Text Society. |
| dc.language | Scots |
| dc.language.iso | sco |
| dc.publisher | University of Aberdeen |
| dc.relation.ispartof | OTA Core Collection |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.source.uri | https://www.chdiscry.info/acos-corpus-1375-1513 |
| dc.subject | Corpus linguistics |
| dc.subject | Older Scots |
| dc.subject | Gavin Douglas |
| dc.subject | William Dunbar |
| dc.subject | John Barbour |
| dc.subject | Medieval Scottish Poetry |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Scots language—Middle Scots, 1100–1700—Corpora |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Barbour, John, active 14th century—Criticism and interpretation |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Dunbar, William, active 1500—Criticism and interpretation |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Douglas, Gavin, 1474?-1522—Criticism and interpretation |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Medieval literature—Scotland |
| dc.title | The Aberdeen Corpus of Older Scots (ACOS) |
| dc.title.alternative | ACOS |
| dc.type | corpus |
| metashare.ResourceInfo#ContentInfo.mediaType | text |
| hidden | false |
| hasMetadata | false |
| has.files | yes |
| branding | Literary and Linguistic Data Service |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| contact.person | Charles-Henri Discry chdacbusiness@gmail.com None |
| size.info | 92 files |
| size.info | 1200 kb |
| size.info | 352288 tokens |
| size.info | 89 texts |
| files.size | 1228004 |
| files.count | 1 |
| otaterms.date.range | 0-1499 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1500-1599 |
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- Name
- The Aberdeen Corpus of Older Scots.zip
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- Description
- Complete ACOS corpus with PDF manual.
- Text files - Gavin Douglas
- King Hart.txt46 kB
- Conscience.txt1 kB
- The Palice of Honour.txt102 kB
- Text files - William Dunbar
- 51. William Dunbar - Quhat is this lyfe bot ane straucht way to deid.txt427 B
- 61. William Dunbar - Sanct saluatour, send siluer sorrow.txt1 kB
- 19. William Dunbar - I maister Andro Kennedy.txt3 kB
- 49. William Dunbar - Off Lentren in the first mornyng.txt1 kB
- 47. William Dunbar - Off Februar the fyiftene nycht.txt8 kB
- 84. William Dunbar - Dumbaris Dirige to the King.txt3 kB
- 80. William Dunbar - Thow that in hewin for our saluatioun.txt1 kB
- 75. William Dunbar - This hinder nycht, halff sleiping as I lay.txt5 kB
- 77. William Dunbar - How Dumbar wes Desyrd to be ane Freir.txt2 kB
- 78 MF. William Dunbar - Dremand me thocht that I did heir.txt2 kB
- 37. William Dunbar - My prince in God, gif the guid grace.txt878 B
- 4. William Dunbar - A Ballat of the Abbot of Tungland.txt4 kB
- 13. William Dunbar - Fredome, honour and nobilnes.txt1 kB
- 45. William Dunbar - To speik of gift or almous deidis.txt2 kB
- 33. William Dunbar - Musing allone this hinder nicht.txt1 kB
- 9. William Dunbar - Complane I wald, wist I quhome till.txt3 kB
- 79. William Dunbar - This waverand warldis wretchidnes.txt3 kB
- 66. William Dunbar - Schir, lat it neuer in toune be tald.txt3 kB
- 18. William Dunbar - How sowld I rewill me or quhat wyis.txt1 kB
- 30. William Dunbar - Madam, #our men said thai wald ryd.txt1 kB
- 43. William Dunbar - Off benefice, sir, at everie feist.txt1 kB
- 38. William Dunbar - Now cumis aige quhair #ewth hes bene.txt3 kB
- 67. William Dunbar - Schir, #e haue mony seruitouris.txt3 kB
- 63. William Dunbar - Schir, for #our grace, bayth nicht and day.txt1 kB
- 40. William Dunbar - Now of wemen this I say, for me.txt1 kB
- 59. William Dunbar - The Goldyn Targe.txt12 kB
- 28. William Dunbar - Lang heff I maed of ladyes quhytt.txt1 kB
- 39. William Dunbar - Now lythis off ane gentill knycht.txt2 kB
- 70. William Dunbar - Sir Ihon Sinclair begowthe to dance.txt1 kB
- 15. William Dunbar - Gladethe, thoue queyne of Scottis regioun.txt1 kB
- 17. William Dunbar - He that hes gold and grit riches.txt1 kB
- 24. William Dunbar - In May as that Aurora did vpspring.txt5 kB
- 57. William Dunbar - Richt arely one Ask Wedinsday.txt1 kB
- 20. William Dunbar - I seik aboute this warld onstable.txt862 B
- 44. William Dunbar - Off every asking followis nocht.txt1 kB
- 69. William Dunbar - Sen that I am a presoneir.txt4 kB
- 73. William Dunbar - O gracious princes guid and fair.txt1013 B
- 27. William Dunbar - In vice most vicius he excellis.txt1 kB
- 34. William Dunbar - My hartis tresure and swete assured fo.txt2 kB
- 3. William Dunbar - The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo.txt29 kB
- 5. William Dunbar - Be diuers wyis and operatiounes.txt1 kB
- 55. William Dunbar - Quhy will #e, merchantis of renoun.txt2 kB
- 48. William Dunbar - Betuix twell houris and ellevin.txt1 kB
- 82. William Dunbar - To speik of science, craft or sapience.txt1 kB
- 50. William Dunbar - Quha will behald of luve the chance.txt850 B
- 74. William Dunbar - Thir ladeis fair that maks repair.txt1 kB
- 25. William Dunbar - In secreit place this hyndir nycht.txt2 kB
- 68. William Dunbar - Schir, #it remember as befoir.txt3 kB
- 81. William Dunbar - To dwell in court, my freind, gife that thow list.txt2 kB
- 8. William Dunbar - Blyth Aberdeane, thow beriall of all tounis.txt3 kB
- 78 B. William Dunbar - This nycht in my sleip I wes agast.txt3 kB
- 12. William Dunbar - Four maner of folkis ar evill to pleis.txt1 kB
- 42. William Dunbar - O wreche, be war, this warld will wend the fro.txt1 kB
- 52. William Dunbar - Quhen Merche wes with variand windis past.txt8 kB
- 54. William Dunbar - Quhom to sall I compleine my wo.txt3 kB
- 46. William Dunbar - Eftir geving I speik of taking.txt1 kB
- 10. William Dunbar - Done is a battell on the dragon blak.txt1 kB
- 1. William Dunbar - Ane Ballat of the Passioun.txt5 kB
- 6. William Dunbar - Be mery, man, and tak nocht fer in mynd.txt1 kB
- 11. William Dunbar - Doverrit with dreme, devysing in my slummer.txt4 kB
- 2. William Dunbar - Ane murelandis man of vplandis mak.txt2 kB
- 65. William Dunbar - The Flyting of Dumbar and Kennedie.txt27 kB
- 41. William Dunbar - The Maner of Passyng to Confessioun.txt3 kB
- 31. William Dunbar - Man, sen thy lyf is ay in weir.txt1 kB
- 53. William Dunbar - Quho thinkis that he hes sufficence.txt1 kB
- 36. William Dunbar - My lordis of chalker, pleis #ow to heir.txt903 B
- 83. William Dunbar - The Tabill of Confessioun.txt7 kB
- 21. William Dunbar - I that in heill wes and gladnes.txt3 kB
- 76. William Dunbar - This hindir nycht in Dumfermeling.txt2 kB
- 14. William Dunbar - Full oft I mvse and hes in thocht.txt1 kB
- 22. William Dunbar - I thocht lang quhill sum lord come hame.txt1 kB
- 26. William Dunbar - In to thir dirk and drublie dayis.txt2 kB
- 23. William Dunbar - Illuster Lodouick, of France most cristin king.txt1 kB
- 62. William Dunbar - Schir, at this feist of benefice.txt677 B
- 58. William Dunbar - Rorate, celi, desuper.txt2 kB
- 56. William Dunbar - The Ballade of Barnard Stewart.txt4 kB
- 71. William Dunbar - Sweit rois of vertew and of gentilnes.txt770 B
- 60. William Dunbar - Saluiour, suppois my sensualite.txt453 B
- 64. William Dunbar - Schir, I complane off iniuris.txt1 kB
- 35. William Dunbar - My heid did #ak #ester nicht.txt648 B
- 16. William Dunbar - Ane Ballat of Our Lady.txt2 kB
- 72. William Dunbar - The wardraipper of Wenus boure.txt850 B
- 29. William Dunbar - Lucina schyning in silence of the nycht.txt2 kB
- 7. William Dunbar - Be #e ane luvar, think #e nocht #e suld.txt1 kB
- 32. William Dunbar - Memento, homo, quod cinis es.txt1 kB
- Text files - Gavin Douglas - Eneados
- Eneados - part III.txt312 kB
- Eneados - part I.txt377 kB
- Eneados - part II.txt471 kB
- The Aberdeen Corpus of Older Scots.pdf366 kB
- John Barbour. The Brus.txt512 kB
