[The flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy].
Dunbar, William,1460?-1520?
Kennedy, Walter,approximately 1460-approximately 1508.
Chepman, Walter,1473?-1538?
Myllar, Androw,active 1503-1508.
Henryson, Robert,1430?-1506?Praise of age.
[Edinburgh : W. Chepman and A. Myllar,
1508?].
One of nine black-letter tracts printed for Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar, bound together, with two other tracts, to form the volume known as "The Chepman and Myllar prints".
Imperfect: wanting first 6 leaves (signature [a⁶])
Includes a poem in praise of age, "The praise of age", attributed to Robert Henryson, beginning on p. [20] (leaf [b4]): Wythin a garth. vnd[er] a rede rosere; and an anonymous poem, attributed to Chaucer, beginning on p. [21] (leaf [b5]): Devise prowes an[d] eke humilitee. cf. Beattie "The Chepman and Myllar prints" (E.B.S., 1950) p. xiii.
With device of Androw Myllar on final page (recto is blank except for MS inscription); there is no colophon and the work is undated.
A facsimile can be found in W. Beattie "The Chepman and Myllar prints" (E.B.S., 1950), and a facsimile of complete copy reconstructed from the text of the Bannatyne MS can be found in "The knightly tale of Golagrus and Gawane and other ancient poems" D. Laing's type-facsimile of the Chepman and Myllar prints, published in 1827.
Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy -- Praise of age -- Device, prowess and eke humility.
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Aldis, H.G. Scotland,
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