Hay, Sir Gilbert

Hay, Sir Gilbert

▪ Scottish translator
also called Sir Gilbert Of The Haye
flourished 1456

      Scottish translator of works from the French, whose prose translations are the earliest extant examples of literary Scots prose.

      Hay may have been the Gylbertus Hay named in the registers of St. Andrews University in 1418 and 1419. That he received a degree as a master of arts, that he became a knight, and that he was at some time chamberlain to the king of France (Charles VII) are facts known from his own description of himself at the beginning of the manuscript of his prose translations: he is known to have been in France by 1432. By 1456 he had returned to Scotland and had entered the service of the Earl of Orkney and Caithness, at whose request he began in that year the translation of three of the most popular works of the Middle Ages: Honoré Bonet's L'Arbre des batailles (as The Buke of the Law of Armys, or Buke of Bataillis); Le Livre de l'ordre de chevalerie, a French version of Ramon Llull's Libre de cavayleria (as The Buke of the Order of Knyghthood ); and Le Gouvernement des princes, a French version of the pseudo-Aristotelian Secreta secretorum (as The Buke of the Governaunce of Princes). These remained in manuscript until found in Sir Walter Scott's library at Abbotsford and edited by D. Laing in 1847.

      By 1456 Hay must have become a priest, for the earl's father-in-law, in a will dated then, left him instructions to say 10 psalters for his soul.

      His only extant poetical work, The Buik of Alexander the Conqueror, is a translation of the French Roman d'Alexandre.

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