The ''Asloan Manuscript'' is an anthology of

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prose and poetry dating to the early sixteenth century. It was compiled by the Edinburgh notary ''John Asloan''.National Library of Scotland
/ref> The manuscript's poetry consists of works by Henryson, Dunbar, Richard Holland and anonymous authors. The prose works consist of historical chronicles and religious and moral texts, often translations of famous works from elsewhere in Europe. It is held by the

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Works represented in the manuscript

Among the pieces preserved in the ''Asloan Manuscript'' are: *''Ane schort memoriale'' also known as the Auchinleck Chronicle, a history of the reign of

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preserved only in the ''Asloan manuscript''. * Henryson's "The tale of the twa mys" from the ''

Morall Fabillis ''The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian'' is a work of Northern Renaissance literature composed in Middle Scots by the fifteenth century Scottish makar, Robert Henryson. It is a cycle of thirteen connected narrative poems based on fables f ...

'' and ''The Tale of Orpheus and Erudices his Quene''. *William Dunbar, Dunbar's ''The justis betuix the talzeour and the sowtar'' and The Fenyeit Freir of Tungland, ''Off the fenzeit fals frere of Tungland''. *Richard Holland, Holland's ''Buke of the Howlat''. *''The Buke of the Chess''. A Scots translation of Jacobus de Cessolis, Jacobus de Cessolis' Latin ''Book of Chess'', a series of essays on moral themes. *''The Porteous of Noblenes''. A Scots translation of Alain Chartier, Alain Chartier's ''Breviaire des Nobles'', a guide to courtly manners.

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