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INTRODUCTION.
4. A Scots version of The Rolls of Oleron (in 21 chapters),
Scots Burgh Laws and some miscellaneous Scots
writings, prophecies, etc., in part printed in Lumby,
ut infra, No. 5.
5. Bernardus, De cura rei familiaris in a Scots version,
edited by Lumby, E.E.T.S. 42.
6. The MS. here printed. For details see below, p. xiv ff.
7. Lancelot of the Laik, edited by Stevenson and Gray, as
noted above, and by W. W. Skeat, E.E.T.S. 6.
8. Numerous Scots legal documents, including proceedings
of the Parliament of Scotland, extracts of Scots laws,
etc. One or two are printed in Stevenson’s edition of
No. 7, and the MS. was utilised by T. Thomson in
his edition of The Acts of the Parliament of Scotland.
In this part have been inserted two unrelated leaves
in a fourteenth century hand containing Scottish
legal instruments.
Of the parts enumerated above, Nos. 3 to 8 are Scottish
documents written in Scots by a Scottish scribe, and had
apparently been gathered together before Nos. 1 and 2
were bound up with them. This appears from the signa¬
tures which begin as a with No. 3 and continue con¬
secutively to the end of No. 8. These signatures on the
gatherings are in an early hand (sixteenth century). On
the other hand. No. 2 cannot have been included before
the end of the sixteenth century, to which date the MS.
belongs, or more probably before the seventeenth century.
Nothing is known of the history of the MS., nor how and
when it came into the possession of Cambridge University.
The Catalogue states that on the last leaf of No. 8 appear
the words Liber Jacobi Logan. The name Logan is common,
several individuals with the Christian name James are
mentioned in Scottish documents of the sixteenth and
early seventeenth centuries, and it does not seem possible
to establish the owner’s identity. It must also remain
uncertain whether he had in his possession No. 8 alone
or the whole Scottish collection, Nos. 3-8. The legal
character of No. 8, and in part of the rest, suggests a
INTRODUCTION.
4. A Scots version of The Rolls of Oleron (in 21 chapters),
Scots Burgh Laws and some miscellaneous Scots
writings, prophecies, etc., in part printed in Lumby,
ut infra, No. 5.
5. Bernardus, De cura rei familiaris in a Scots version,
edited by Lumby, E.E.T.S. 42.
6. The MS. here printed. For details see below, p. xiv ff.
7. Lancelot of the Laik, edited by Stevenson and Gray, as
noted above, and by W. W. Skeat, E.E.T.S. 6.
8. Numerous Scots legal documents, including proceedings
of the Parliament of Scotland, extracts of Scots laws,
etc. One or two are printed in Stevenson’s edition of
No. 7, and the MS. was utilised by T. Thomson in
his edition of The Acts of the Parliament of Scotland.
In this part have been inserted two unrelated leaves
in a fourteenth century hand containing Scottish
legal instruments.
Of the parts enumerated above, Nos. 3 to 8 are Scottish
documents written in Scots by a Scottish scribe, and had
apparently been gathered together before Nos. 1 and 2
were bound up with them. This appears from the signa¬
tures which begin as a with No. 3 and continue con¬
secutively to the end of No. 8. These signatures on the
gatherings are in an early hand (sixteenth century). On
the other hand. No. 2 cannot have been included before
the end of the sixteenth century, to which date the MS.
belongs, or more probably before the seventeenth century.
Nothing is known of the history of the MS., nor how and
when it came into the possession of Cambridge University.
The Catalogue states that on the last leaf of No. 8 appear
the words Liber Jacobi Logan. The name Logan is common,
several individuals with the Christian name James are
mentioned in Scottish documents of the sixteenth and
early seventeenth centuries, and it does not seem possible
to establish the owner’s identity. It must also remain
uncertain whether he had in his possession No. 8 alone
or the whole Scottish collection, Nos. 3-8. The legal
character of No. 8, and in part of the rest, suggests a
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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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