The Buke of the Order of Knyghthood
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- No scanning noise detected (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand)
- Extent:
- ~47,200 words · 224 passages
Cite this work
- APARamon Llull. (n.d.). The Buke of the Order of Knyghthood. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/ramon-llull/the-buke-of-the-order-of-knyghthood
- MLARamon Llull. The Buke of the Order of Knyghthood. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/ramon-llull/the-buke-of-the-order-of-knyghthood.
- ChicagoRamon Llull. The Buke of the Order of Knyghthood. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/ramon-llull/the-buke-of-the-order-of-knyghthood.
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What it is about
The Book of the Order of Chivalry in Gilbert Hay's fifteenth-century Scots.
Context and history
The most widely read manual of knighthood in Europe: Caxton made the English version and every kingdom had its own. Llull, who had been a knight before his conversion, writes from the inside. The Catalan original is not in the catalogue.
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The Literature of Scotland, during the Fifteenth Century, is entitled to a much greater share of attention than it has hitherto received; more especially, as it is a period in which the contemporary Literature of England is comparatively so devoid of interest. Among the persons who then flourished, and to whom but a scanty share of justice has been awarded, we may reckon Sir GILBERT HAY, KNIGHT. Dunbar the Scotish Poet,[1] who adorned the reign of James the Fourth, in his "Lament for the Death of the Makars" or Poets, includes the name of Hay; so likewise does Sir David Lyndesay, in the reign of James the Fifth; but no other writer seems to have been aware that such an author had ever existed, until we reach the year 1722, when there appeared the Third Volume of "The Lives and Characters of the most Eminent Writers of the Scots Nation, &c. By GEORGE MACKENZIE, M. D."[2] This volume, the last which the author lived to publish,[3] commences with "The Life of SIR GILBERT HAY, Chamberlain to Charles VI. King of France.…
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