The Prose Works of Sir Gilbert Hay Volume III: The Buke of the Ordre of Knychthede and The Buke of the Gouernaunce of Princis

1993. First edition thus (STS 4th Series, No. 21). xiii, 174pp. plus 2 double-page facsimile illustrations. Gilbert Hay (born c.1403, last mentioned in 1456) was a Scottish poet and translator, and perhaps a kinsman of the house of Errol. This third volume of 'The Prose Works of Sir Gilbert Hay' presents an edition of the second and third articles found in the Hay Manuscript, now National Library of Scotland, Acc. 9253. Article 2 is the 'Buke of the Ordre of Knychthede'; and Article 3 is the 'Buke of the Gouernaunce of Princis' (volume I of this edition treats Gilbert Hay, the Hay Manuscript, and matters of text and language in detail; volume II offers the text of the manuscripts first article, the 'Buke of the Law of Armys'). The introductory pages to the present volume offer a survey of Hay's sources for the texts edited here. The book is bound in the original green cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. The book is in excellent condition and the contents are tight and clean with no inscription. The book comes in a clear plastic wrapper, as issued.…