A miscellany in prose and verse, written by John Asloan in the reign of James the Fifth.
Notes:
Vol. i.
Editor:
Edited by William A. Craigie.
Contents:
A treatise on penance and confession by 'Master Jhon Irland'; a metrical version of an account of the game of chess by Jacobus de Cessolis; a universal geography, partly from Ralph Higden's 'Polychronicon'; the 'Porteous of nobleness', probably transcribed from the Edinburgh 1508 edition (which was in turn translated from Alain Chartier, 'Le breviaire des nobles'); two treatises on the origin of the Scots (another version of one of which is also printed in 6.22); 'A short memorial of the Scottish chronicles for addition' with entries for 1420-60 (sometimes known as the Auchinleck chronicle); a chronicle (of no independent value) to 1513; The spectacle of love, translated by G. Myll (also printed in 6.21); and a treatise on the six days of creation and the six ages of the world. For vol. ii see 32.16.