Jeremy Smith was professor of English philology at Glasgow, where he remains a senior research fellow and emeritus professor, and an honorary professor at St Andrews. His specialisms include English historical linguistics, medieval studies, and book history, combined recently in Transforming Early English (2020).

Makes a vital contribution to Older Scots studies. [It] will be much appreciated by scholars and students alike.... The combination of high calibre scholarship, carefully selected texts, and a lucid, engaging written style, ensures that Smith's Linguistic Reader makes the Older Scots language come alive for students and researchers alike.

• PrefaceAbout Older ScotsTransmissionGrammar and LexiconStyle in Older Scottish TextsList of TextsEditorial PrinciplesTexts 1: DocumentsTexts 2: LettersTexts 3: On language and literatureTexts 4: PoetryTexts 5: ProseTexts 6: Bible translationAppendix: Older Scots: the first hundred wordsBibliography and references

Jeremy Smith was professor of English philology at Glasgow, where he remains a senior research fellow and emeritus professor, and an honorary professor at St Andrews. His specialisms include English historical linguistics, medieval studies, and book history, combined recently in Transforming Early English (2020).

Makes a vital contribution to Older Scots studies. [It] will be much appreciated by scholars and students alike.... The combination of high calibre scholarship, carefully selected texts, and a lucid, engaging written style, ensures that Smith's Linguistic Reader makes the Older Scots language come alive for students and researchers alike.

• PrefaceAbout Older ScotsTransmissionGrammar and LexiconStyle in Older Scottish TextsList of TextsEditorial PrinciplesTexts 1: DocumentsTexts 2: LettersTexts 3: On language and literatureTexts 4: PoetryTexts 5: ProseTexts 6: Bible translationAppendix: Older Scots: the first hundred wordsBibliography and references

Jeremy Smith was professor of English philology at Glasgow, where he remains a senior research fellow and emeritus professor, and an honorary professor at St Andrews. His specialisms include English historical linguistics, medieval studies, and book history, combined recently in Transforming Early English (2020).

Makes a vital contribution to Older Scots studies. [It] will be much appreciated by scholars and students alike.... The combination of high calibre scholarship, carefully selected texts, and a lucid, engaging written style, ensures that Smith's Linguistic Reader makes the Older Scots language come alive for students and researchers alike.

• PrefaceAbout Older ScotsTransmissionGrammar and LexiconStyle in Older Scottish TextsList of TextsEditorial PrinciplesTexts 1: DocumentsTexts 2: LettersTexts 3: On language and literatureTexts 4: PoetryTexts 5: ProseTexts 6: Bible translationAppendix: Older Scots: the first hundred wordsBibliography and references