CiNii Books - The meroure of wyssdome : composed for the use of James IV., king of Scots, A.D. 1490

Author(s)

- Irlande, John, fl.
- McDonald, Craig

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The meroure of wyssdome : composed for the use of James IV., king of Scots, A.D. 1490

by Johannes de Irlandia ; edited by Craig McDonald

（The Scottish Text Society）

Published for the Scottish Text Society [by] Aberdeen University Press, 1990

v. 3

Other Title: Johannes de Irlandia's Meroure of wyssdome

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Gakushuin University Library英文

v. 32/S.T.S./4S.190200367399

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v. 3A934.4;I346;3EL;912011834

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Note

Vol. 3. Book VI and VII

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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This treatise in Scots on the wisdom and discipline necessary to a prince, in the mirrors for princes genre, is one of the earliest examples of original Scots prose A Scottish example of the mirror for princes genre popular in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, John Irelan’d The Meroure of Wyssdome, not only examines theological aspects. Ireland appends a political treatise along the lines of the popular regimen principum, instructing the king in the rudiments of governing the realm.

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