THE "LYON IN MOURNING": ROBERT FORBES'S PAPERS AND EARLY JACOBITE STUDIES, 1775-1926.

Jacobite Studies have flourished in recent years in a large part owing to the digitization of manuscript collections. This study examines the impact of the decisions of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century antiquarian collectors on the development of Jacobite Studies through an exploration of the transmission, history, and impact of Robert Forbes's recently digitized "Lyon in Mourning." In this, the work charts the passage of the "Lyon in Mourning" from Forbes's death in 1775 to various antiquarian collectors and on to the National Library of Scotland. In doing so, this study demonstrates the limitations and enduring repercussions of the early fixation with Forbes's papers deemed to be of Jacobite interest, and highlights the value of Forbes's wider writings for the modern studies of Jacobitism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]