Ramon Llull’s thirteenth-century handbook on chivalry explains what a knight is for, how a squire should be examined and made a knight, and which virtues the order demands. This is the Scots translation made from the French by Sir Gilbert Hay in 1456, printed in 1847 for the Abbotsford Club from the manuscript in Sir Walter Scott’s library.
An important medieval statement of the knightly ideal and among the earliest Scots prose, for readers happy with old spelling. Download the free EPUB.