The Buke of the Law of Armys; Or, Buke of Bataillis

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I. Gilbert Of The Haye's Prose Manuscript

VOLUME I.

THE BUKE OF THE LAW

OF ARMYS

OR

BUKE OF BATAILLIS

EDITED

W/T/l INTRODUCTION .'

J. H. STEVENSON:

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WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND

SONS

EDINBURGH AND LONDON

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19OI

All Rights reserved

Prefatory Note

To the courtesy of the Honourable Mrs Maxwell-Scott

of Abbotsford, in the first place, the Scottish Text

Society is indebted for permission to print the Haye

Prose Manuscript. The Dean and Council of the Faculty

of Advocates, as trustees of the older Abbotsford Library,

of which the volume forms a part, readily added their

consent.

The making of the transcript for the use of the printer

was intrusted to the Rev. Walter MacLeod, but as the

editor has carefully collated the transcript with both the

print and the MS., he desires to take his full share of

the responsibility of any mistakes which may still have

crept into the print.

J. H. S.

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CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

INTRODUCTION —

1. DESCRIPTION OF THE MANUSCRIPT

2. THE TRANSLATOR • rAGB

Vll

xxiii

3. THE FORTUNES OF THE MANUSCRIPT . . XXXVl

4. THE PLACE OF HAYE'S MS. IN EARLY SCOTTISH

PROSE ...... lii

5. THE PRINCIPLES OF THE EDITING . . lix

HONORS BONET AND HIS 'ARBRE DES BATAILLES ' . Ixiv intitulacioun

rubrics of first part

translator's introduction

author's prologue •

first part of the book .

rxtbrics of the second part

second part.

rubrics of the third part

third part .

rubrics of the fourth part

fourth part

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ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE FIRST VOLUME.

I. PAPER-MARKS* . . • PP* xvii, xviii

II. FACSIMILE (collotype) OF PORTION OF MS.* tO fact p. Xxii

IIL FACSIMILE (COLLOTYPE) OF THE BINDING OF^ /„ ^^^^ ^ ^^ THE MS. J 'f^^^^^'

IV. FACSIMILE (COLLOTYPE) OF *ARBRE DES BAT-' AILLES' FROM MS. 20, C VIII (BRITISH

MUSEUM) *

* PresenteH to the Scottish Text Society by Mr J. H. Stevenson.