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Lancelot Of The Laik From Cambridge University Library MS The Scottish Text Society by Margaret Muriel Gray - 1912: Original 1912 Hardcover

by Margaret Muriel Gray

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Lancelot Of The Laik From Cambridge University Library MS The Scottish Text Society: Original 1912 Hardcover

by Margaret Muriel Gray

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Near Fine Handsome Collectible Quarter Leather Hardcover First Edition Of This Scottish Tale of Lancelot. Beautifully bound in brown leather and dark green cloth. Wonderful facsimile fold out manuscript pages and complete Scottish text. Excellent collectible condition as well. Except for a little foxing on blank end papers this Scottish Lancelot of the Laik volume is very handsome Arthurian Text for one's library or as a gift. No writing or underlines NOT a library book. Since 1977 Three Geese In Flight Celtic Books wraps our books in brown paper before packing
  • Bookseller Three Geese In Flight Celtic Books US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Fine
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher William Blackwood and Sons
  • Place of Publication Edinburgh
  • Date Published 1912
  • Keywords scottish arthur scots arthur arthurian text lancelot scottish lancelot middle scots lancelot of the laik
  • Size 8vo

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Lancelot of the Laik from Cambridge University Library MS
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Lancelot of the Laik from Cambridge University Library MS

by Margaret Muriel (editor) Gray

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Scottish Text Society, Edinburgh, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Near Fine Condition. quarter leather with gilt border line to green cloth covers; printed for the Society by W. Blackwood and Sons & illustrated by three fold-out facsimiles of the original manuscript & a 36-page introduction. The romance known as 'Lancelot of the Laik' survives in only one manuscript, Cambridge University Kk.1.5, and even there it is incomplete (only three Books and a Prologue remain), ending abruptly in the middle of the 3487th line. The ms. dates from very late in the fifteenth century & the writing of the poem has generally been placed not much earlier. Derived from the French prose Lancelot (c. 1215–30) the poem was written in a Scottish dialect, although that appearing in the Cambridge manuscript is far from uniform. Book 2 features an extensive “Advice to Princes” section in which King Arthur is given instruction on good kingship,… Read More
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