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114638654.23.Pdf SCS ST£S!.lf-lj- ZTbe Scottish ZTcyt Society GILBERT OF THE HAYE’S PROSE MANUSCRIPT I. THE BUKE OF THE LAW OF ARMYS V" GILBERT OF THE HAYE’S PROSE MANUSCRIPT (A.D. 1456) VOLUME I. THE BUKE OF THE LAW OF ARMYS OR BUKE OF BATAILLIS EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION BY J. H. STEVENSON for tlje Societg bg WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON 1901 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. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. INTRODUCTION— page 1. DESCRIPTION OF THE MANUSCRIPT . vii 2. THE TRANSLATOR ..... Xxiii 3. THE FORTUNES OF THE MANUSCRIPT . XXXvi 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 THE BUKE OF THE LAW OF ARMYS— INTITULACIOUN ..... I RUBRICS OF FIRST PART .... I translator’s INTRODUCTION ... 2 AUTHOR’S PROLOGUE ..... 2 FIRST PART OF THE BOOK .... 5 RUBRICS OF THE SECOND PART . 35 SECOND PART. .36 RUBRICS OF THE THIRD PART . -72 THIRD PART ...... 73 RUBRICS OF THE FOURTH PART . .89 FOURTH PART ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE FIRST VOLUME. i. paper-marks* . • PP- xvii, xviii II. facsimile (collotype) of portion of ms.* to face p. xxii III. FACSIMILE (COLLOTYPE) OF THE BINDING OF In pocket at end THE MS. } of volume. IV. FACSIMILE (COLLOTYPE) OF ‘ARBRE DES BAT-1 AILLES’ FROM MS. 20, C VIII (BRITISH MUSEUM) * Presented to the Scottish Text Society by Mr J. H. Stevenson. INTRODUCTION. I. DESCRIPTION OF THE MANUSCRIPT. In one of the libraries at Abbotsford stands a tall folio,1 General, which in respect of its age and its origin, its contents and its binding, is unique and remarkable. The volume contains the earliest dated literary prose in the Scottish language—if we except such literature as we find in official documents and miscellaneous corre- spondence—and it is also our earliest prose manuscript of that same literary sort. It consists in the main of translations of three of the most popular works of the middle ages: (l) ‘ L’Arbre des Batailles’—not known to have been translated into any other language of the Teutonic family; (2) ‘L’Ordre de Chevalerie’; and (3) ‘ Le Governement des Princes.’ It records that it was made in the year 1456, in Roslin Castle, at the com- mand of the Earl of Orkney and Caithness, Chancellor of Scotland, by Sir Gilbert of the Haye, knight, late chamberlain to the King of France; and in the beautiful design of its stamped leather cover is the name of an unknown or long-forgotten binder — maybe a fifteenth- Press-marked, “Abbotsford Library, Z I.” VOL. I. viii INTRODUCTION century Scot. Scattered through the volume are the signatures and notes of several of its many owners, which are interesting in relation both to the book and to the writers ; and at the end are added in the writing of one of the earliest of them two pieces of prose of considerable independent interest—namely, a translation of a fifteenth-century genealogy, and a sixteenth-century account of a Church procession, both of which are in sixteenth-century vernacular.1 Binding. The volume is i6}4 inches in height and broad. It is in its original boards ; and they have their original brown calf-hide covering outside, and original parchment linings and end papers inside. The outer leather, which has been injured, mostly at the lower end of the boards, has been partially raised, and relaid after the insertion of patches of new leather where the old had failed ; but the new is easily distinguished by the shapes of the stamps which have been used on it and in other ways. Enough of the original leather is left to show what the whole design of its ornamentation has been; but it seems to have suffered from pressure, perhaps during the patching operations. 1 These writings are on the three last folios. They are—(i) on f. 130, “The ordour of the Processioun and Bering of the Sacrament in Antuarpe, the first day of Junii, the Jeir of God imvclxii” ; (2) on ff. 131, 132, a translation of a kind of Birth Brieve, in the form of a letter sent by Thomas Bishop of Orkney and the members of his Chapter, on 1st June 1440, to the King of Norway, testifying to the right to the earldom of Orkney possessed by the Sinclair earl of that date. The document ends with the words, “Translatit out of Latin into Scottis be me Deine Thomas Gwld, munk of Newbothill, at the request of ane honourable man William Santclair, baroun of Roslin, Pechtland, and Harbershyre, Anno Domini m v° liiij. ” But it is probably only a copy of Dean Gwld’s translation, the handwriting of both pieces appearing to be that of Sir William Sinclair himself. See below, p. xxi. i *w>» 4jl-Sk ii »i Hi |. f ^ '■ >i; > S&W&jKJZS? i “• ,v^:JflySSI ,y - ' ■ >x^*r # !!® .>vw v,; v’- * f M - ' Illii V |Mj v5 ' *. % a.«< *.‘^'■'''?§&*>M * m§ X\ 'i' - ^ ^|| ZINCO COLLOTYPE CO. SCOTTISH TEXT SOCIETY HAYE’S MANUSCRIPT (see VoL I. Introduction, p INTRODUCTION ix There are two brass clasps on leather hinges. One The clasps, of the clasps at least is apparently entirely original. Their style, v/hich may be gathered from the appear- ance of the catches in the illustration of the binding,1 is of the date of the manuscript, and the same as that of the remains of the clasp of one of the Advocates’ Library copies of Wyntoun’s Chronicle (MS. 19.2.3). The ornamental design on the cover is of unmatched The designe interest. It is “stamped binding” of a quality that is °”Vgr rare as the product of any country; and the country to which it belongs is a matter of question. The design is too elaborate, and the stamps too numerous, to be described only verbally; the Hon. Mrs Maxwell-Scott has therefore added to her courtesy to the Society by allowing it to issue a collotype reproduction of one of the boards, and to this the reader is requested to refer. The reproduction, which is placed map-like in an end pocket of the present volume, is made of the exact size of the original, to facilitate the comparison — if it is desired—of the stamps which are used there, with those on other books. Thirty-three separate stamps have been employed to complete the design, and they are by no means apparently used without selection. They include four, or perhaps five, sets of two or more dies, and those that are not in sets are still not used irrespective of their sizes and characters.2 This enumeration does not include the stamps used on the new leather, though the identifica- 1 See collotype reproduction of binding in pocket at the end of this volume. 2 The stamps may be roughly catalogued as—one set of twelve (apostles); three sets of three dies (containing words); a set of two dies (containing rampant unicorns), and ten separate stamps of various kinds. INTRODUCTION tion of these might go to complete a more modern chapter of the history of the book and its fortunes. The disposition of the stamps on the board is also remarkable; along with a certain amount of tooling in perpendicular and horizontal lines, they compose a single design which occupies the whole board, and each impres- sion of each individual stamp has been made with care and great accuracy. As the collotype reproduction of one of the boards is in the reader’s hands, it is scarcely necessary to call attention to many of the individual stamps, such as that which represents the Paschal Lamb with the chalice and banner; the stamp with the I h 0; the curved, fish- shaped stamps with the words, JHarta, and ; the large conventional rose stamps ; the line of lozenge- shaped stamps with rampant unicorns facing dexter-ways toward the panel in the centre ; and the corresponding line, on the other side of the panel, of similar dies with unicorns facing sinister-ways ; or, lastly, the stamp con- taining the lion and bear combatant, and the tree beside them.1 The twenty figures in the central panel are those oi twelve of the apostles with their symbols. After the binder has exhausted his admissible2 stamps here, he has begun again at the beginning, and made up his number with the first eight repeated. In each case he has begun at the upper corner of the panel nearest the fore-edge of the board, and worked towards the back. 1 Le Comte Theodore de Renesse, in his ‘ Diet, des Figures Heraldique,’ ii. 677, gives a bear and lion affronti as the cognisance of Cambous de Casalis. 2 Whomever the medisevals included among the “apostles,” they restricted the number to twelve. INTRODUCTION xi He has followed all orders in placing St Peter first, and the canon of the mass in inserting St Paul, and placing him next, between St Peter and St Andrew.
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