The Buke of the Order of Knyghthood: Translated from the French by Sir Gilbert Hay, KnightLlull, Ramon
Philosophy
The Buke of the Order of Knyghthood: Translated from the French by Sir Gilbert Hay, Knight
Llull, Ramon
Chivalry
"Next to this follows our Author's translation of Dr Bonet's Book of
Chevalry or Knighthood, which contains eight Chapters: In the first
Chapter he tells us, how that a Batchelor, Squire of Honour, travelling
to the Coronation of a great Prince, with an intention to take upon him
the Order of Knighthood, he went astray in a wilderness, where he
happened to light upon a hermitage, in which lived an old and venerable
Knight, that had forsaken the world for the love of God; and how this
old Knight taught the Squire all the points of honour, and all that
belonged to the duty of a Knight, which is the subject matter of all
the following Chapters; where in the second Chapter, he, the old Knight
shows, how he ought to receive that high Order, and how he ought first
to be instructed in every thing that belongs to it. The third contains
all the duties of a Knight. The fourth contains their form of
examination, and how he ought to be examined before he receives the
Order. The fifth contains directions for him at the receiving of the
Order, and the form of giving it. In the sixth is explained the
signification of the Arms of Knighthood. In the seventh he shows the
many advantages that Knights have above others by this honourable
Order; and the last shows the great respect that ought to be shown to
all that Order,--ending with these words,
"EXPLICIT L'ORDRE DE CHEVALRIE.
"After this follows our Author's translation of Dr Bonet's Book of
Government of Princes, which is a translation of Aristotle's Politics,
and contains 40 Chapters, with a Prologue, shewing into how many
languages it had been translated, and how it was first found in the
Temple of the Sun, built by Esculapius. Then follows a translation of
King Alexander the Great's letter to Aristotle, after his conquest of
Persia, with Aristotle's answer, and two other letters of King
Alexander's and Aristotle's."
The Manuscript, of which the preceding was an analysis, is not mentioned in
any more recent work, and as it could not be traced in any public
repository, it was considered to be irrecoverably lost. But in the
"Catalogue of the Library at Abbotsford," printed in 1838, at page 232,
there occurs the following title:--
"_Here begynnys the buke call't the Buke of the Law of Armys, the quhilk
was compilit be a notable man, Doctour in Decrees, callit Bennet, prioure
of Sallan, &c._ MS. _fol._"
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