Here may a young man see how he should speak subtly in court. Translated from a thirteenth or fourteenth century manuscript / by Helen M. Briggs, with a foreword by Hilary Jenkinson, F.S.A.

London : Sweet & Maxwell, limited, 1936.

ix, 13 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 28 cm

"This curious little formulary in dialogue ... [is] at the beginning of a volume recently acquired by Messrs. Sweet and Maxwell at a sale of mss. from the Phillipps collection ... It is written in French ... Early in the history of the Selden society Maitland printed [in vol. IV of the society's Publications] another version of it, differently arranged, from a ms. in the Cambridge university library and was able to correct this from three other versions in the British museum." cf. Foreword.
The original manuscript is headed: Cy poet vn juuenes homme ver coment il deyt sotylement parler en court. cf. p. ii.

KD6968 .H47

English