[The porteous of noblenes] /
Chartier, Alain,active 15th century.
Cadiou, Andrew.
Chepman, Walter,1473?-1538?
Myllar, Androw,active 1503-1508.
[Edinburgh] : Impre[n]tit in y[e] southt gait of Edinburgh be Walter Chepma[n] [and] Androw Millar,
the .xx. dai of ap[r]ile the yhere of god [M].CCCCC. [and] viii. yheris [1508]..
A Scots prose version of Alain Chartier's poem "Le bréviaire des nobles", translated by Andrew Cadiou.
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".
Title and imprint taken from colophon, which reads: Heir endis the porteous of noblenes translatit [etc.].
Final leaf verso contains the device of Androw Myllar.
Imperfect: wanting all but the last 3 leaves; final leaf is cropped and mutilated with slight loss of text from colophon. The complete work must have run to 8 leaves, to judge from the text in the Asloan MS (cf. Beattie "The Chepman and Myllar prints" (E.B.S., 1950) p. ix), including a title leaf (verso blank) with the device of Walter Chepman.
A facsimile can be found in W. Beattie "The Chepman and Myllar prints (E.B.S. 1950), and a facsimile of a complete copy constructed partly from the text of the Asloan 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.
Identified as STC 20120 on UMI microfilm.
Formerly STC 20120.
STC (2nd ed.)
Aldis, H.G. Scotland,
ESTC
Nobility of character