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INTRODUCTION.
THE MS.
The texts here printed, with the exception of Documenta
Matris, are taken from MS. Kk. i. 5, No. 6, in Cambridge
University Library. As the number 6 indicates, it
originally formed part of a composite MS. consisting of
numerous unrelated parts bound up together. Towards
the middle of last century the various parts were separated
and bound independently. A description of the MS. is
given in A Catalogue of the MSS. in Camb. Univ. Library,
vol. iii. pp. 558-63, and in some respects with rather
more detail in Joseph Stevenson’s edition of No. 7 (with
other texts from the MS.), pp. xiii-xxiv, edited under
the title Lancelot du Lac for The Maitland Club in 1839.
A short indication of contents is given by J. R. Lumby
in his edition of No. 6 (E.E.T.S. 43), p. v f., and this is
repeated in the edition of Lancelot of the Laik by M. M.
Gray for the S.T.S. (2nd Series, No. 2), p. vii ff., also by
J. T. T. Brown in the Bonner Beitrdge zur Anglistik, 5.
145 ff., and Scottish Antiquary, xi. 145 ff.
The contents briefly stated are as follows :—
1. The Boke of Poly eye (by Christine de Pisan).
2. Sir Philip Sydney’s Arcadia.
3. A Scots version of Regiam Majestatem, Books I-III.
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THE MS.
The texts here printed, with the exception of Documenta
Matris, are taken from MS. Kk. i. 5, No. 6, in Cambridge
University Library. As the number 6 indicates, it
originally formed part of a composite MS. consisting of
numerous unrelated parts bound up together. Towards
the middle of last century the various parts were separated
and bound independently. A description of the MS. is
given in A Catalogue of the MSS. in Camb. Univ. Library,
vol. iii. pp. 558-63, and in some respects with rather
more detail in Joseph Stevenson’s edition of No. 7 (with
other texts from the MS.), pp. xiii-xxiv, edited under
the title Lancelot du Lac for The Maitland Club in 1839.
A short indication of contents is given by J. R. Lumby
in his edition of No. 6 (E.E.T.S. 43), p. v f., and this is
repeated in the edition of Lancelot of the Laik by M. M.
Gray for the S.T.S. (2nd Series, No. 2), p. vii ff., also by
J. T. T. Brown in the Bonner Beitrdge zur Anglistik, 5.
145 ff., and Scottish Antiquary, xi. 145 ff.
The contents briefly stated are as follows :—
1. The Boke of Poly eye (by Christine de Pisan).
2. Sir Philip Sydney’s Arcadia.
3. A Scots version of Regiam Majestatem, Books I-III.
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| Description | Edited, with an appendix of the other pieces from Cambridge University Library Manuscript. Kk. 1.5, no. 6, by R. Girvan. Edinburgh : Printed for the Society by W. Blackwood & Sons, 1939. Contents: Introduction.--Ratis raving.--The foly of fulys and the thewis of wysmen.--The consail and teiching at the vys man gaif his sone.--The thewis off gudwomen.--Documenta matris ad filiam.--Notes.--Appendix: 1. The craft of deyng. 2. Maxims of conduct. 3. Chaucer's Balade de bon conseil. 4. Balade attributed to James I. of Scotland. 5. The duty of work. 6. Dicta Salomonis. 7. The vertewis of the mess.--Glossary. 'Ratis raving' has been attributed to David Rate. |
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