Author: Lumby, J Rawson [editor]
Title: Ratis Raving And Other Moral And Religious Pieces In Prose And Verse [bound with] Bernardus De Cura Rei Famuliaris With Some Early Scottish Prophecies From A MS KK 1. 5. In The Cambridge University Library
Description: Trubner & Co - Early English Text Society, 1870, 1st edition. Library cloth, G. xii+139+xii+46pp, plain library rebind, Ex-Library [Camden Public] with stamps & bookplates, index to each part, text clean & unmarked. A good copy. EETS OS 43 & 42. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ Two volumes in one. The book contains Latin & OE transcripts from a MS at Cambridge. The Ratis Raving is subtitled 'The Advice of A Father to His Son' . The first book contains 11 pieces, all written in the same hand & in the Lowland Scots dialect. Includes is a Scots version of a Chaucer ballad.

Keywords: scottish, gaelic, literature, theology, history