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bellenden’s boece
betuix all Cristin Princes, f>at J>ai mycht the bettir invaid
the Turkis and Sara3enis.
In the tyme of King lames Ipe First war sindry marwellis
sene in Albion. Ane sow had ane litter with doggfs heddis.
Ane calf was sene with ane horft hede. Ane comette apperitt
afoir pe Kingis dede with terribill bemys ; and sa vehement
586 frost | was pe wyntir afoir pat wyne and ayill was sauld be
pund wechtis, and meltit agane be pe fyre. Ane sucrde was
sene fleand in pe air, to na les dredoure than admiracioun of
pe pepill. And sa endis pe xvij Buke of pir Cronikillis.1
Here endis pe Translacioun of pe Cronikillis of Scottland,
drawin be Maister lohnne Bellantyne, Channon of Roft,
in oure wlgair langage at pe desyre of pe Richt Hye,
Richt Excellent and Nobill Prince lames, pe Fifte of pat
name, King of Scottis, and writin be pe hand of Maister
Dauid Douglas, Notare Public, seruitoure to Maister lames
Douglas, Archidene of Murraye.
Ad Lectorem et Zoillum Disticon :—
Vtere si qua placent nostrum lacerare volumen,
Aut ede vtilius, desine liuor edax.
1 In the printed text there follows the Epistle direckit be the Trans-
latoure to the Kingis Grace. See Vol. I. of this edition, pp. 15-20.
The remaining pages of the MS. are not numbered, but for convenience
they are numbered here within square brackets.
bellenden’s boece
betuix all Cristin Princes, f>at J>ai mycht the bettir invaid
the Turkis and Sara3enis.
In the tyme of King lames Ipe First war sindry marwellis
sene in Albion. Ane sow had ane litter with doggfs heddis.
Ane calf was sene with ane horft hede. Ane comette apperitt
afoir pe Kingis dede with terribill bemys ; and sa vehement
586 frost | was pe wyntir afoir pat wyne and ayill was sauld be
pund wechtis, and meltit agane be pe fyre. Ane sucrde was
sene fleand in pe air, to na les dredoure than admiracioun of
pe pepill. And sa endis pe xvij Buke of pir Cronikillis.1
Here endis pe Translacioun of pe Cronikillis of Scottland,
drawin be Maister lohnne Bellantyne, Channon of Roft,
in oure wlgair langage at pe desyre of pe Richt Hye,
Richt Excellent and Nobill Prince lames, pe Fifte of pat
name, King of Scottis, and writin be pe hand of Maister
Dauid Douglas, Notare Public, seruitoure to Maister lames
Douglas, Archidene of Murraye.
Ad Lectorem et Zoillum Disticon :—
Vtere si qua placent nostrum lacerare volumen,
Aut ede vtilius, desine liuor edax.
1 In the printed text there follows the Epistle direckit be the Trans-
latoure to the Kingis Grace. See Vol. I. of this edition, pp. 15-20.
The remaining pages of the MS. are not numbered, but for convenience
they are numbered here within square brackets.
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > Third series > Chronicles of Scotland > Volume 2, 1941 > (416) |
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| Description | Compiled by Hector Boece ; translated into Scots by John Bellenden, 1531 ; edited, in continuation of the work of the late Walter Seton, by R.W. Chambers and Edith C. Batho. Volume 2 edited by Edith C. Batho and H. Winifred Husbands. Edinburgh : Printed for the Society by William Blackwood and Sons, 1938-1941. |
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