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All nine books printed by Chepman and Myllar have been digitised, together with two items by other printers bound with them in the same single volume for over 200 years. To view them page by page (and to access transcriptions and notes), select the items which you wish to see.

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Item 1

The Porteous of Nobleness (pp.1-6 in the volume)


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Item 2

Golagrus and Gawain (pp.7-48 in the volume) with John Lydgate: Rhyme without Accord (pp.49-52 in the volume)


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Item 3

Eglamour (pp.53-87 in the volume) with
Balade (p.88 in the volume)


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Item 4

William Dunbar: The Golden Targe (pp.89-100 in the volume)


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Item 5

De regimine principum bonum consilium (pp.101-108 in the volume)


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Item 6

John Lydgate: The Complaint of the Black Knight (pp.109-133 in the volume) with
When by Divine Deliberation (pp.134-136 in the volume)


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Item 7

William Dunbar: The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy (pp.137-143 in the volume) with
Robert Henryson: The Praise of Age (p.144 in the volume)with
Device, Prowess and eke Humility (pp.145-148 in the volume)


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Item 8

Robert Henryson: Orpheus and Eurydice (pp.149-165 in the volume)with
Robert Henryson: The Want of Wise Men (pp.166-168 in the volume)


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Item 9

William Dunbar: The Ballade of Lord Bernard Stewart (pp.169-176 in the volume)


Additional items not printed by Chepman and Myllar –

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Item 10

William Dunbar: The Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo (pp.177-188 in the volume) with
William Dunbar: Lament for the Makars (pp.189-191 in the volume) with
William Dunbar: Kynd Kittok (p.192 in the volume) with
William Dunbar: The Testament of Mr Andro Kennedy (pp.193-196 in the volume)


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Item 11

A Gest of Robin Hood (pp.197-220 in the volume)