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NOTICE.

In the present Catalogue it is proposed to give a precise account of the MS. sources of Bomance in the British Museum. Its scope is not limited to a description of those works which by their connection with the various cycles or by their own con- struction can claim the title of Bomances, but it also embraces a larger class of literature which more or less directly has to do with the subject. It is thus that, on the one hand, such large works as Geoffrey of Monmouth's History, and, on the other, such ^ small pieces as isolated ballads or tales are included. Taking

I into account also the bibliographical and literary information

^ with which the descriptions are accompanied, and the critical

analysis to which the different texts have been submitted, it is hoped that the Catalogue may serve not only as a guide to the Museum collection, but also, to some extent, as a handbook to the subject.

y The present volume detals first with Classical Bomances,

under which head fall the romances connected with the cycles of Troy and Alexander and with other classical subjects. In British and English Traditions, besides the great cycle of Artliur, are included detached romances such as Havelok, King Horn, and Fulk Fitz-Warin. The French Traditions comprise the cycle of Charlemagne, together with several independent works. Next come the Miscellaneous Bomances, founded upon tales or tradi- tions of uncertain nationality, but treated in the same style and spirit as the great French romances of chivalry ; and to these have been added a few tales, chiefly by Italian authors, which belong to the period of the Benaissance. Lastly, the Allegorical

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and Didactic Bomances are here represented by the Boman de la BoBe and by Sidrac and Boctos ; but those immediately con- nected with theology have for the present been reserved.

In the next volume will be described the Bomances of Oerman origin (including Beowulf), of which, however, there are comparatively few specimens in the Museum; and these will be followed by the great collections of Tales.

The present volume, with the exception of the descriptions of MSS. in the Welsh language, is entirely the work of Mr. H. L. D. Ward, Senior Assistant of the Department.

E. MAUNDE THOMPSON.

Deft, of MSS. July 12, 1883.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Classical Bomamces.

Cycle of Troy: — pagb

Heroica, by FlaviuB Philostratus 1

Iliaca, by Joannes Tzetzes .. .. 2

Dictys Cretensis .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 9

Dares Phrygiiu .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 12

Latin Poems, by Simon Chdvre d*Or, etc. 27

Boman de Troie, by Benolt de Sainte-More .. .. 35

Historia Trojana, by Goido delle Colonne . .. 40

Tr6jamannaSaga .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 62

Blmur af Tr6jumonnum, by J6n J6ns8on 63

Becueil, by Raoul Le Fdvre .. .. .. .. .. 64

Latin History of Troy 66

Filostrato, by Boccaccio .. .. .. .. 67

Troilus and Ghryseyde, by Chaucer 70

Troy Book, by Lydgate 76

Boman d'Eneas .. .. .. .. .. 82

Bomanoe of Troy .. .. .. •• .. .. 84

Romance of Thebes, by Lydgate .. .. .. .. 87

Bomanoe of Jason, from Baoul Le Fdvre (Dutch) 92

Cycle of Alexander : —

Alezandreis, by Gatiltier de Ch&tiUon .. 94

Alexanders Saga, by Brandr J6nsson .. 104

Alexander, abridgisd from Julius Valerius .. .. 106

Alexander, or Historia de Preliis .. .. 120

Marvels of India, etc .. .. .. .. .. 131

Treatise on the Brahmins, ascribed to Palladius of Galatia . . 134

Letters of Dindimus the Brahmin, etc. .. .. .. .. 136

Alexandreis, by Ulrich von Eschenbach 141

La Vengeance d' Alexandre .. .. .. 143

YoBUxduFaon .. •• .. .. .. .. .. 146

Florimont, by Aimtf de Varennes 156

Apollonius of Tyre .. .. .. .. .. 161

Sir Orpheo .. .. .• .. .. 171

AthiB et Profilias, by Alexandre de Bernay .. .. .. .. .. 173*

Titus and Vespasian, a chanson de geste 176

Titus and Vespasian, an English poem 180

VI

CONTENTS.

Prophecy of the tenth Sibyl

Life of Virgil, in loelandic (from the Dutch)

PAOI

190 196

other similar English poems..

BSTTIBH AND EnQLISH TRADITIONS.

Albina and her Sisters, or De origine Gigantnm

Historia Begum Britannia^, by G^firey of Monmouth

Roman de Brut, by Wace

Lafamon's Brut

Chanson de Brut

Gesta Begum Britanniaa, by Pseudo-Gildas

Brutus .. .. •• .. ..

Vita Merllni, by Geffrey of Monmouth

Prophecies of Merlin and others

Thomas of Eroeldoune, etc.

Einge Humber ..

Cycle of Arthur : —

Saint Graal

Merlin .. ..

Lancelot du Lac . . '-'Tristram

Meliadus

Guiron le Courtois

Prophecies de Merlin — M«riadoc, and Gawain

Perceforest

Artus de Bretagne

Cleriadus et Meliadice

Birth of Merlin, in French verse

Merlin, in English verse .. -^ Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and

Iwein, by Hartmann von Aue ..

Ywain and Gawain

Peredur ab Efrawc, and Parcevi^s saga

Sir Lancelot of Dulake, and King Arthur and the King of Cornwall ••

Wigalois, by Wirnt von Gravenberg

Lybeaus Desconus

Gabons saga ok Yigoles . .

Ereks saga Artuskappa ..

Boy and Mantle, and Mottuls saga

Morte Arthur

King Arthur's Death

Samsons Saga Lays of Marie de Fiance Emare

SirGowghter .. Hanos Taliesin ..

••

198 203 259 268 272 274 277 278 292 328 339

340 343 345 356 364 369 371 374 377 382 383 384 385 387 390 392 395 397 398 400 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 418 419 421

CONTENTS. vii

FAQB

Havelok, by Gtoffrei Gkumar .. .. 423

King Horn .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 447

Fbntns et Sidoine .. .. •• .. 469

Guy of Warwick .. 471

Pulk Fitz-Warin .. .. 601

Tale of Qamd^n 509

Bobin and Gbmdeleyn 616

Robin Hood 617

Adam Belly and other Ballads of Fprast life .. 622

Miscellaneous. BaUada .. .. 626

Scottish Ballads 631

Fbench Tbaditions. Cycle of Charlemagne : —

Turpin's Chronicle.. .. .... • .. .. .• 646

Karolellus .. .. 696

Philomena .. .. .. .. .. .. •• ., 696

AspremcMit •• •• .• .• .. .. .. .. .. 698

Ogier le Danois . . . . . . . . . . . . . • 604

En£Buices Ogier, by Adenet le Boi 610

Fierabras . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 616

Quatre Fils Aimon .. .. .. .. 619

Voyage de Charlemagne 626

Simon de Pouille .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 627

Guide Bourgogne.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 630

Battle of Boncevaux .. .. .. .. .. 630

Guillaume d'Orange .. .. .. .. 682

Girard de Bousaillon .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 663

Doon de la Boche .. .. .. .. 671

Beali di Francia .. .. .. .. .. .. 672

Amys and Amylion .. .. .. .. 674

Bicdardetto, by Niooold Fortiguerra 680

Bomance of the Peers of France .. .. 682

Magus saga •• •• ... •• 684

Mdlusine.. .. .. 687

Partonopeiis de Blois .. .. 698

MlBOKLLAlISOUB R0MAMCB8.

Chevalier au Cygne .. .. .. 706

Florence de Bome .. .. .. .. .. .. 711

The Chaste DuchesBi by Jacob Wimpheling .. 713

Floire et Blancheflor .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 714

FilooolOf by Boccaccio .. .. .. 716

Blanohandin et Orgneillose d'Amors 727

Ipomedon, by Hue de Botelande 728

Le Dit de Guillaume d'Angleterre, etc 767

Sirlsombras 760

viii CONTENTS.

FAOI

-Octavian the Emperor 762

King Robert of Sicily , ,. 768

«>SirEglamour of Artoifl 766

VThe King of Tan 767

Theseus de Cologne 769

Petit Jean de Saintr^, by Antoine de la Salle 775

Floridam ^ad Elluide^ by Basse de Brinchamel 779

The Three Kings' Sons 782

Uberto and Philomena 784

Amadis de Gaula (English translation) .. .. .. .. .. 787

Diana, by Jorge de Montemayor (English translation) 789

Fiammetta, by Boccaccio .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 792

Corbaccio, by Boccaccio 794

Theagenes and Stelliana, by Sir Kenelm Digby 796

AronuB and Marina .. .. .. 797

Antiochus, by Leonardo Bmni 798

Tale of Two Lovers, by iBneaa Sylvius 799

Cassandra, by Gautier de Costes (English translation) 803

Contes et Fabliaux 804

Bomanoes and Ballads 817

Tales and Fables, etc. (German) 826

Romantic Tales (Icelandic) 841

Allbgobioal akd DiDAcno Romakces.

Roman de la Bose, by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung .. .. 874

Chemin de Vaillance, by Jean de Courcy .. .. .. .. .. 895

Sydrac and Boctus .. .. .. .. .. .. 903

Livre de rOrdre de Chevalorie 922

Appendix.

Roman de Troie, by Benott de Sainte-More 924

Voeux du Paon .. «• •• •• .. .. .. .. .. 926

Titus and Vespasian •• .. .. .. .. .. .. 928

Athis et Profilias .. .. .. •• •. .. 929

Titurel, by Albrecht yon Scharfenberg 932

Havelok .. .. •. •• •• •• •• .. •• .. 940

Life of Harold, king of England .. .. .. .. .. .. 941

Riohard CoBur-de-Lion .. •• .. .. .. .. .. .. 944

Turpin's Chronicle .• «. .. .. .. .. •• •• 950

Itinerary to Compostella •. .. .. .. •• .. •• 951

Siege of Milan and Sir Otael .. .. •• .. 953

INDEX-TABLE OP MANUSCEIPTS.

4. C. xL ft: 222-249 .. fif. 280-286 b ..

5. F. XV. f. 3 b . . . .

6. C. viiL fif. 123-133 b

6. K iii. fir. Ill b-112 b

7. A. i. flf. 68 b-69 b ..

8. B. iv. fir. 19-71 b .. 8. D. iiL fir. 160 b-163 8. P. ix. fif. 105-159 ..

V. 15. IX. I. A • • • • • •

10. A. X. fif. 188-192 b 12. C. iv. fif. 138-170 .. 12. C. xii. flf. 14-16 b ..

flf. 33-60 b..

flf. 69-76 ..

12. C. XX. flf. 17-46 ..

12. D. iiL fif. 38-143 .. fif. 152b-158

13. A. iiL fif. 1-133 .. flf. 135 b, 136

13. A. iv. flf. 22 b-23 b, 76-81 b 13. A. V. fif. 2-23 b ..

flf.88b-98b

fif. 99-161 b

13. A. xiv. fif. 244-247

13. A. xviu. fif. 136-149 b ..

13. A. xxL fif. 40 b-113

fif. 113-117 b

fif. 113-117 b

13. 0. xiL fif. 6-82 b ..

fif. 8a-109 b

13. D. L flf. 175-212 b

fif. 212 b-222

13. D. ii. flf. 124-173 b 13. D. V. flf. 1-37 b ..

BOYAL MSS.

Historia B^um BritaxmiaB ..

Turpin's Chronicle ..

Prophecy of Merlin Silvester

Dares Phrygius

Letters between Alexander and Dindimns

Alexandreis .. Prophecies of Merlin .. Guy of Warwick Prophecy on Scotland Dares Phrygius Alexander the Great .. Prophecy

Fulk Fitz-Warin

Amys and Amylion .. Tale of Two Lovers .. Historia Trojana

Story of Troy

Alexanderthe Great .. Historia Begum Britannias .. Prophecy of Merlin Silvester

Story of Troy

Alexander the Great .. Dares Phrygius Historia Regum Britannia •• Prophecy of the Tenth Sibyl . .

Earolellus

BomandeBmt Havelok

Historia Trojana Alexander the Great .. HiBtoria Begum Britanniaa .. Turpin*s Chronicle .. Historia Begum Britannias ..

pAoa 227 583 313

17 138 137

98 297 485 327

20 112 316 501 674 801

49

34 106 237 315

27 118

23 237 194 694 264 423 940

50 122 248 572 228 229

INDEX-TABLE OF MANUSCRIPTS.

13. B. i. fiF. 143-146 ..	• •	VitaMerllni	• •	..	PAOB 289
13. E. ix. f. 27..	• •	Prophecies of Merlin Silvester	• •	. .	314
14. C. L ft 80-137 ..	• •	Historia Begum Britanni29 ..	• .	. •	238
14. C. xi. ff. 80-83 b ..	• ■	Apollonius of Tyre ..	» •	. .	170
14. E. iL flF. 1-293 ..	• •	Le Chemin de Vaillanoe	. .	. .	895
flp 007 oeq V		Livre de TOrdre de Chevalerie Saint Qraal ..			922 341
14. B. iu. ff, 3-88 b ..	■ • • •	• •
ff ftO Ifil h		Lancelot dn Lac Alexandreis ..			354 94
15. Ax, ff. 2-89	• • « m	• •	• •
15. A. xxiL ff. 73-90..	• •	Dares Phrygius	• •	. .	13
fF no iifi	• •	Prophecy of the Tenth Sibyl . .	. .	• •	194
15. B. xL ff. 57-66 b ..	• •	Dares Phrygius	■ •	• V	14
ff fi7 fiO	• «	Prophecy of the Tenth Sibyl . .	• •	• •	193
15. 0. vi. ff. 102 b-130 b	• •	Alexander the Great ..	• •	. .	110
15. a xvi. ff. 86-145 ..	• 9	Historia Trojana	V •	* .	44
flP 1/ffl 1QQ h	• •	Historia Begum Britannia . .	• •	. •	239
ff lfl*l h Ifll		Prophecies of Merlin Silvester Peroeforest			313 377
15. E. y.	m m m •	• • • •	• •
15.E.vi. ff.4b-24b..	• t	Alexander the Great . .	. •	• «	129
ff '^S 4f? b		PlimnTi f^p T'nnillA			627 598 615 604 622 469 487
ff 43 fiO b	• •	tJlUMJU UC X, VIUUO • * . . Aspremont FMATn.1tma	. .	t .
ff 7A ftfi h	• •	• t	■ .
ff Rf5 Ifil b	• •	*: miaUiaO . « . . . « Ogier le Danois Quatre fils Aimon	• •	• •
ff Tifi 90f5	• •	• •	• .
flp 007 OOfi 1.	t •	• •	. •
fl? 007 070	• • • t	Gny of Warwick and Heraud of Ardennes ..
ff 079 9Q*>	• •	Ejiight of the Swan ..	. •		708
16. C. iv. A. B.	• •	Iliaca	• •		•1 2
16.0.Txiii.ff. 2-69b..	• •	Heroica	. .		1
16.D.m. A.B.	• •		. *		6
16. B. viii. ff. 73-102 b	• m	Titus and Yesparaan ..	• •		176
ff 131 m b		Voyage of Charlemagne to Jer Constantinople	ilCNiliiTVi avi«)
	9 •	. .	BUX\A	625
16. R V. ff. 1-113 b ..	• •	SydiBC and Boctus	. .		914
16. £m IX. .. ..	• •	Historia Trojana .. ^.	• •		54
16. G. IL	• •	Quatre fils Aimon	m m		619
17. B. xUii. ff. 116-131 b	• •	SirGk>wghter ..	a .		419
17. D. XV. ff. 66 b-79 b	• •	Tale of C^melyn	• •		515
17. E. iL ..	r t	Recueil des Histoires de Trde	. .		64
18. B. iL *. «•	*•	M^lusine	* •		690
18. C. iL ff 56 b-67 b	• •	Tale of Gamelyn	. .		514
18. D. ii. ff. 6-146 ..	• •	Troy Book	• •		81
ff 147 b 1fi2		T^mftn^v) of TfiAliAfl			90 79
18. D. vi	•-• • •	Troy Book	* . . *
19. A. xviii.	« •	Roman de la Rose	• •		885
19. B. viL	• %	Lancelot du Lac	* .		349
19. B.xu.ff 2-147 b..	• •	Roman de la Rose	• •		888
19. B. xilL	• •		. .		874
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INDEX-TABLE OP MANUSCBIPTS.

XI

19. C. xii.

19. C. xiii.

19. D. i. flf. 1-46

ff. 47-67

19. E.ii

19. E. iii.

20. A. V. 20. A xvii. 20. B. viii. 20. B. xix. 20. B. XX. 20. C. ii. flf. 1-209 b

flf. 210-236

20. 0. vi. 20. D. iL 20. D. iiL 20. D. iv. 20. D. viL 20. D. xi.

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Saint Graal	PAOB 342
Lancelot du Lac			.. 345
Alexander the Great ..			.. 123
La Vengeance d' Alexandre .			. 143
Ferceforest			.. 377 377
Alexander the Great ..			• ■ VII . 125
Roman de la Boee			. 880
Lancelot du Lac			.. 349
Guillamne d'Orange ..			.. 654
Alexander the Great ..			. 128
GleriaduB et Melladice			.. 883
Apollonios of Tyre ..			.. 166
Lancelot du Lao			. 350
Trifitram			.. 361
Lancelot du Lac			.. 353 .. 351 . 889
Roman de la Bo8e
Ghiillaume d'Orange ..			.. 632

COTTOK MSS.

Julius A. y. flf. 5, 53-57 b, 177 b-179, and 180-181 b.. Julius D. xi. flf. 2-60 .. JuUus E. viu. AT. 12 b-17 b .. Augustus A. iv. Tiberius A. ix. ff. 2-6 .. Caligula A. U. ff. 5 b-13

ff. 22 b-35 ..

ff. 35b-42b ..

ff 42 b-57 ..

ff. 71-76 b . .

ff. 111-125 . .

ff. 125 b-129 b

ff: 130-134 ..

Caligula A. ix. ff. 3-194 b .. Caligula A. x. ff. 200-204 .. Claudius B. vii. ff. 192-203 b

ff. 210-213 ..

ff: 214-218 b

ff. 219, 220 . .

ff. 220 b-231 b

Claudius E. viii. ff. 1 b, 23 . . Nero A iv. ff. 63-76 b Nero A. x. ff. 90 b-126 Nero A. xi. ff. 8-63 ..

Prophecies of Merlin ..	.. 299
Gesta Begum Britannia^	.. 274
Vita Merlini .»	.. 289
Troy Book	.. 75
Prophecies of Merlin	.. 295
Sir Eglamour of Artois	. 766
Octavian the Emperor	.. 762
SirLaunfal ••	.. 416
Lybeaus Desconos	.. 400
Emare .. ..	.. 418
Titus and Vespasian ..	.. 180
Knight of the Swan ..	.. 710
Sirlsumbras ..	. 760
Lafamon's Brut	.. 268
Prophecy of the Tenth Sibyl . .	.. 195
Turpin's Chronicle	.. 561
Prophecy of Merlin ..	.. 303
Dares Phrygius	.. 22
Prophecy of the Tenth Sibyl . .	.. 193
Prophecies of Merlin ..	.. 296
Prophecies	.. 317
Proi^ecies of Merlin . .	.. 297
Sir Ckwain and the Green Knight ..	.. 387
Turpin's Chronicle ..	.. 546
. • • • • •	.. 950

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INDEX-TABLE OF MANDSOEIPTS.

Nero D. viii. ff. 3-63 ..

flf. 160-174 b ..

ff: 186, 187

NeroD. ix.ff: 1-108 ..

ff: 109-115

Galba E. ix. ff. i-26 ..

ff. 49, 50 . .

Galba K zi. ff. 2-58 b

ff.98b-101b ..

ff. 111-125

Otho C. xiiL .. Vitelliua A. X. ff. 19-114 b .. Vitelliua A. xiil. f. 90.. Vitelliua A. xv. ff. 109-133 b . . ViteUius 0. vuL ff. 5 b-6 b .. ViteUius D. Ui. ff. 6-8 b Vitelliua E. x. ff. 240 b-243 .. Yespaaian A. vii. ff. 37-104 .. VespajBian A. x. ff. 44 b^l .. Yespaaian A. xliL ff. 94-114 b

ff. 132-147 b

Yeapaaian A. xxiii. ff. 4-106 b Yeapaaiaii B. xiy. ff. 1-8 b ..

ff. 18, 18 b ..

Yeapasian B. xxiii Part m.

ff. 118 b-122 b Yeapaaian B. xxv. ff. 98 b-117

^ ff. 117 b-123

Yeapaaian D. ix. ff. 40-43 b .. Yeapaaian D. xvilL ff. 125 b-

127* b

Yeapaaian E. iy. ff. 112 b-138 b

ff. 143-147 ..

Yeapaaian E. vii. ff. 78-126,

129, 130

Yeapaaian B. viii. ff. 16-29 .. Yeapaaian E. x. ff. 271-368 b ..

ff. 390 b-392 ..

Yeapaaian E. xvi. ff. 70-75 b .. Titua A. xviii. ff. 13-82 Titua A. xix. ff. 24-43

ff. 63-73 b

f. 103 ..

ff. 153-155

Titua A. XX. ff. 99-104 Titua A. xxv. ff. 105-116 b .. Titua A. xxvii. ff. 1 b-87 .. Titua C. xviL

PAOS

Hiatoria Regam Britannia^ 230

Alexander the Great .. .. .. 113

Story of Albina and her Siatera 199

Petit Jean de Saintr^.. 775

Floridam and Elluide 779

Twain and Gawun .. 392

Merlin's Prophecy of the Six Kings . . .. 309

Hiatoria Begmn Britanniss •• .. •• 239

Lettera of Dindimus to Alexander the Great 136

Alexander the Gkeat .. .. .. .. 115

Lafamon'a Brut .. .. .. .. 271

BomandeBrot .. .. .. 259

Dares Phrygius .. .. 15

Marvels of India .. .. 134

Dares Phrygius .. .. .. 18

Floyres and Blancheflur 716

Thomas of Erceldoune .. .. .. 330

Ipomedon .. .. •• .. .. 728

Brutna.. •• .. .. .. .. 277

Turpin'a Chronicle .. .. .. .. 576

Apolloniua of Tyre .. 164

Hiatoria Begmn Britannias .. .. 241

Lanval .. .. .. 415

Fall of Troy 31

Fall of Troy and Adventures of ^neas 83

Dares Phrygius .. .. .. 12

Prophecy of the Tenth Sibyl 192

Guy of Warwick .. .. .. ^ 492

Two Prophecies .. .. 325

YitaMerUni 278

Prophecy of the Tenth Sibyl 194

Prophecies of Merlin, etc 320

Whole Prophecy of Scotland ..337

Historia Begum Britannias . . 242

Story of Albina and her Sisters .. 200

Titus and Yespasian .. 185

Hiatoria Begum Britannia) .. .. 243

Turpin'a Chronicle .. .. 578

YitaMerlini 290

Story of Albina and her Siatera 201

Battle of Boncevaux .. .. 630

Story of Troy and Adventurea of ^ueaa .. 29

Hiatoria Begum Britanniaa .. 244

■ — ■ ■ ■ ■ ^dl

■ '■' ■ ™ . . ^Ou

Titus D. iii. flf. 127-137 b ..

ff. 14a-147 b . .

Titus D. vii. ff. 26-36 .. Titus D. xix. f. 118 .. Domitian ziii. ff. 104-107

ff. 132 b-134 b

Cleopatra A. Tiii. ff. 56-58 ..

Gleopatia B. y. ff. 1-108 b ..

ff. 223-250 ..

Cleopatra 0. iv. ff. 74-122 ..

Cleopatra C. x. ff. 55 b and

66-68 b .. .• •• Cleopatra D. iii. f. 184

aeopatra D. y. ff. 165 b-183 .. Cleopatra D. yilL ff. 3 b-5

ff.8-94

Cleopatra D. ix. ff. 67, 68 Faustina A. viii. ff. 109 b-116 Faustina B. yi. ff. 2-40 b Faustina B. ix. ff. 241 b, 242 .. Cotton Appendix iy. f. 102 b .. xxyii. ff. 11-61 ; for- merly ff. 106-130 b, and xxxix. ff. 80-103 b .. Cotton Boll ii. 23

lble of manusobipts.		... xni PAGS
ApoUonius of Tyre ..		169
Prophecy of the Tenth Sibyl . .		191
Prophecy of Merlin ..		301
Prophecies		319
Prophecy of the Tenth Sibyl		193
Fall of Troy		30
Brut y Brenhinoedd ..		255
Dares Phrygius		26
Prophecies of Merlin . .		310
Prophecy of Merlin ..	. • • ■	298
Prophecy of the Lily, the Lion, and the 3on
of Man .. .. ••		318
Alexander the Great ..		114
Story of Albina and her Sisters		200
Historia Begum Britannia ..		249
Story of Albina and her Sisters		198
Prophecies of Merlin . .		292
Meriadoc and Gbwain		374
Prophecies		319
Prophecies of Merlin Silyester		315
Bomance of Thebes ..	. . . •	91
Four Prophecies	.* . •	324

Harley 49

61. ff. 3-105 b

108. ff. 4 b-31 b

176 ..

225.ff.a-78 ..

273. ff. 86-102 b

326. ff. 8-123 b

525. ff. 1-34 b..

ff. 35-43 b

527. ff. 1-52 ..

ff. 47-56 b

ff. 59-73 b

536. ff. 56-61.. 559. ff. 1-13, 31-36,

39^48

64Lff. 1-8 .. 655. ff. 200 b-204 b 746.ff. lb-3 ..

Harlet MSB.

Tristram .. Historia Trojaoa Turpin's Chioniole .. Historia Trojana Historia Begun Britannin Turpin's Chronicle .. The Three Kings' Sons Bomanoe of Troy King Bobert of Sicily Qui de Bourgogne Alexander the Great .. King Horn Historia Begum Britannia

Political Prophedes ••

Dares Phrygius

YitaMerlini ..

Merlin's Prophecy of the Six Kings

358

62

574

47

222

587

782

84

765

630

113

468

226

326

20

288

309

XIV

INDEX-TABLE OP MANUSCRIPTS.

Harley 838. flf. 92-93 b

941. ff. 1-3 ..

978. flf. 118-160

1008. f. 81

1121. flf. 1-140 1239. flf. 1-62 b

xoaX .. .. ••

1605. Art. I

1701. flf. 92-96

1717. flf. 249 b-250b..

1758. flf. 46-65

1883. flf. 119-135 b ..

2252. flf. 54-84

flf. 86-133 b

2253. flf. 67 b, 107 b,

110, 115 b, 118, 122 b

flf. 83-92 b

f. 127, col. 2

2280 2361. flf. 138-139 b 2386. flf. 65 b-67 flf. 131-138

- 2488. flf. 114-117 b ..

- 2492. flf. 154 b-169b..

- 2500. flf. 139-155

- 2678. flf. 93-96 b

- 2682. flf. 180-192

- 3043. flf. 17-31

- 3202. flf. 114 b-115b..

- 3314 ..

- tSul^ '.« .. . • *— oooX « . • • • •

- OUlO . • . • • •

^ ODO f • . a a • .

"• oDox . ■ • • • •

-3773. flf. 7-57..

- 3775. flf. 15-26 b

- 3776. flf. 1-24 b -3810. Parti, flf. 1-10..

- 3830. flf. 11 b-17 b ..

- Ou^O . . . . • .

- 3983. flf. 2-82 b

- 4003. flf. 81-141 b ..

- 4123. flf. 2-49 b

Prophecy of Merlin

Story of Albina and her Sisters Lays of Marie de France Prophecy of the Lily, the Lion, and the Son of Man

Sydrac and Boctus

Troilus and Cryseyde

Guillaume d'Orange • . .

Chanson de Brut

Prophecies de Merlin ..

King Robert of Sicily

Prophecies of Merlin and others

Tale of Gamelyn

Tale of Two Lovers ..

Ipomedon .. .. .. ••

Morte Arthnr..

Six Fablianx .. .. .. ••

King Horn .. .. .. ,,

Prophecy of Thomas of Erceldoune . .

Troilus and Cryseyde

Turpin's Chronicle ..

Story of Albina and her Sisters

Amys and AmyUon

Troilus and Cryseyde..

Letter of Dindimns to Alexander the Great

Tale of Two Loyers .. .. ••

Turpin's Chronicle

Aronus and Marina ..

Alexander the Gk^at ..

Turpin's Chronicle ..

Fall of Troy ..

Fllocolo .k

Dictys Cretensis ••

Corbaccio •• .. .. .. ..

Fiammetta .. •• ..

Historia Trojana

"^^~^^'"'""^"^""^^'^'^*~^ •• .. .«

Historia Kegum Britanniao

QuyofWar^ck

Life of Harold, King of England

Sir Orpheo . . . •

Tale of Antiochus

Troilus and Cryseyde ..

Florimont .. .. .. .. ..

Vceux du Paon

Historia Begum Britanniaa ..

PAGS

302 201 407

318 912 73 660 272 373 765 312 513 799 755 405

813 447 328

70 582 202 677

73 139 802 581 797 109 677

32 725

11 794 793

48

64 223 471 941 171 798

72 159 154 244 236

INDEX-TABLE OP MANUSCRIPTS.

XV

Harley 4123.

4294.

4333.

4334

4361

4387

4389

4404.

flf. 50-126 fF. 1-79 b flf. 115-117 b

4417.

4418

4419

4425

4482

4486.

4487.

4690.

4745

4912

4979

6054.

6116.

5243

5427

5437

5662.

6148.

AT. 1-88

flf. 102-251 b

flf. 1-141 b

flf. 69-146 flf. 3—86 .. flf. 106-115

flf. 124 b-lSl flf. 87-150

flf. 1-66.. flf. 86-98 b

j6223. Art. i. 6340 6341 6342 6358. flf. 2-58 b flf. 60-83

(•

65(^ 6758

7333. flf. 33-35 b

7334. flf. 59-70 b

Historift Trojana Sydrac and Boctos L'Orddne de Gbevalerie Oirard de RouBsillon . . Sydrac and Boctas Historia Trojana Tristram . •

Doon de la Roche Enflances Ogier Sydrac and Boctas .. M^lusine Lancelot da Lao Roman de la Rose Roman de Troie Sydrac and Boctas Florimont

Richard Goeur-de-Lion Alexandreis .. Troilus and Cryseyde Alexander the Great ..

Historia Regam BritannisB

Guv of Warwick

Fiammetta

Alexandreis ..

Iliaca ..

Prophecies taken from Geoflfrey of Monmoath

uid others .. .. Merlin

Lancelot du Lac

Historia Regam BritannisB TuTpin's Chronicle .. Roman de Brut Theagenes and Stelliana Guy of Warwick Tale of Gamelyn

PAOB

40 918 810 663 911

53 356 671 610 908 687 353 892

35 913 156 949 103

74 127 119 246 497 792 103 8

311 385 344

355

235 560 263 795 494 508

Lansdownb MSS.

Kings of Britain Historia Trojana

Lansdowne 214. flf. 85-193 ..

229. f. 164

362. flf. 76*, 75**,

76,77 Florence de Home

380. flf. 36-39 b .. Abridgement of Historia Trojana

388. flf. 381-396 b Chanson de Roland ..

699. flf. 18 b-27 b Gay of Warwick

251 61

711

59

631

496

xyi

INDEX-TABLE OP MANUS0BIPT8.

Lansdowne 732. ff. 1-68 b ..

757

762. ff. 24-31, 4&-

58 b, 61 b-71, 75-88

766. ff. 1-18 b ..

782

——^-^^^—— too ,. ,,

861. ff. 54 b-65 ..

Historia Regain BritannuB Lancelot da Lao

Thomas of Eroeldoone Amadifl de Gbala Gbaofion d'Aspremont Sydrac and Boctns Tale of Gamelyn

«•

TAQM

233 347

331

787 600 915 512

Arandel 6 ff. 242-342 b

10 ..

57. ff. 4 b-11

291b

66. ff. 267-268 b and

. • • • • «

ov . . . • • •

l.X«/ .« •• ••

123. ff. 33-42 b .. ff. 43-71

- 138. ff. 126, 126 b -174.. -220. Art. L.. ff. 284-298 b

Abundel MSS.

Historia Trojana -60

Historia Begam Britannue .. ,. .. 224 Fropheoies of Merlin, Gildas, and Thomas of

Eicildoone 307

«•

Prophecies of Merlin ..

Troy Book

Romance of Thebes

ApoUonioB of Tyre ..

Alexander the Great ..

Letter of Dindimos to Alexander the Great

Historia Trojana

Birth of Merlin

Tnrpin's Chronicle ..

Voenx da Paon

Historia Regom Britannias ..

Marvels of India ••

ApoUonins of Tyre ..

Historia Regam Britannias , .

230 1 181 b

237 ..

242. ff. 160-182

292. ff. 41-61

319. ff. 16-97 b

326. ff. 63-122 b ..

409. ff. 54-77 ..

546. ff. 266 b-280 b Treatise on the Brahmins

• •

301 80 87 164 120 140 51 384 589 155 241 133 163 232 246 225 233 134

Bumey 170

186. ff. 116-126

216. ff. 89-93 b

280. ff. 1-201)

ff. 20 b-38 b

■ ■ ol2 •• ••

BURKTET MSS.

Dictys Gretensis History of Troy Dares Phrygios Alexander the Great Dares Pbrygius Alexandreis

••

9 66 16

118 21

101

Sloane 289. ff. 120-183 467 ..

Sloake MSS.

Historia R^um Britannias Cassandra

*•

260 803

INDEX-TABLE OP MANUSCRIPTS.

XYU

Sloane 780. ff. 46-48 b

1044. 1 626 ..

1619. ff. 3-17 b

ff. 18-29

ffl 29-37 b

1685. ff. 51 b-62 b

1686. ff. 71-86 b 1785. ff. 2-13 1802 ..

2232 ..

2233 .. 2678 .. 2693. ff. 14 b-16 b 3991. ff. 95-97

Life of Robin Hood .. Quatre fils Aimon Guy of Warwick Alexander the Great .. ApoIIoniofl of Tyre .. Dares Fbrygius Tale of Gkunelyn

Alexander the Great ..

Whole Prophecy of Scotland

Sy drao and Boctna

ApoUonios of Tyre .,

Collection of Prophecies

Robyn and Gkmdelyn

Letter of Dindimus to Alexander the Great

PAOB

517 624 489 112 161 19 514 515 131 334 919 165 333 516 140

Add. 4867. ff. 28-56 b ff. 89, 97 b, 110,

134,139 b .. ff. 113 b-133 b

••

— 4859. ff. 10, 16, 142 b, 240, 813, 314, 344 b, 367 ..

ff 32-46 b

ff. 46-65 b

ff. 66-74 b

ff. 75-81 ..

ff.81l>-91

4860. ff. 1, 17, 29, 96, 273,

285, 293, 329

ff. 157-188 b

ff. 189-208

4863. ff. 25, 69, 119, 163, 181,189,229 ff. 47-68 b

Additional MSS. Apollonius of Tyre ..

Five Romantic Tales . . tvents saga

Eight Romantic Tales

Ivents saga •.

Parcevals saga and Valvers ^ttr

Ereks saga Artuskappa

Mdttuls saga ..

Life of Virgilius

Eight Romantic Tales Magus saga Jarls Partal6pa saga

4864. ff. 88-114 b 4869. ff. 2-66 ..

ff. 67-101 b

ff. 161, 206

4870. ff. 62, 69, 83 b .. 4874. ff. 1-66 ..

ff. 98 b, 110, 138..

4876. ff. 1, 26 b, 64 b

4884. ff. 167-178

5474

612Lff. 55-71 .

Seven Romantic Tales Samsons saga Fagra ApoUonios of Tjrre Tr6jumanna saga Magus saga Jarls Two Romantic Tales Three Romantic Tales Magus saga Jarls Three Romantic Tales

Saga of Ajax Frsakni ..

Tristram

MvtUuus Sp& ..

••

167

841 393

843 394 395 403 405 196

846 686 707

847 407 168 62 684 850 851 688 852 854 854 359 304

ZTUl

INDEX-TABLE OF MANUSCBIPTS.

Add. 6796 ••

6924. ff. 73-124 and 164r-

XO V *• .. *• ••

ff. 297-303

10,036. ff. 2-61 b

. 10,094. ff. 1-14 b

10,286. ff. 2-114

10,289. ff. 82-121

ff. 175 b-178 b ..

10,290. ff. 2-161 10,292. ff. 1-76 .. ff; 76-216 b

10.293 >

10.294 J ••

10.295 ..

10.296 .. 10,321 .. 10,808. ff. 1-63 b ff. 64-96 b

••

11,110. ff. 101-144 11,113. ff. 171-281 11,141. ff. 132-147 11,153. ff. 182-263 11,157. ff. 1-46 b

ff. 90, 176, 188 ..

— 11,168. ff. 1, 24, 33, 71, 123, 201, 233, 251, 261 b, 268,289

— 11,163. ff. 120 b-136 b ..

— 11,174. ff. 86-98..

— 11,238. ff. 507-662 b ..

— 11,241. ff. 95, 140 —^ 11,614

— 11,702. ff. 11-88

— 12,042

— 12,196. ff. 1-48 b

— 12,213. ff. 1-184 b

ff. 160 b-181 b ..

12,228 .. 14,100 .. 14,408. ff. 74-77 14,862 .. 14,867. ff. 205-208 b 14,903. ff. 20-177 14,967. ff. 149-167

Mdlusine

Prophecies of Merlin .. Turpin's Chronicle Historia Trojana Titns and Vespasian .. Dares Phrygius Sydrac and Boctns .. Titus and Vespasian .. Jnglet .. .. Romance of Jason Baiut Graal .. Merlin

Lancelot du Lao

Artns de Bretagne Filocolo

Ricciardetto .. Aspramonte .. .. ..

Romance of the Peers of France

Rimur of Remund

Rimur from Trojumanna saga

Life of Virgilius

Collection of Aneodotes

Gabons saga ok Vigoles

Valentine and Orson and Tales

Ten Romantic Tales .. Patient Griselda Argenis

Merlinns 8p& .. Alexanders saga Two Romantic Tales .. Petit Jean de Saintr^ . . Historia Regum Britanniie Roman de la Rose Troilus and Cryseyde . . Uberto and Philomena Turpin's Chronicle Itinerary to Compostella Meliadns Roman d'Eneas Guy of Warwick Filocolo Hanes Taliesin Brut Gruffydd ap Arthur Peredur ab Efrawc

		PAOI
.• •	.	692
»•	1.	304
• • 4	1 *	583
• • «	1 .	67
. . 4	> .	187
• *	■ •	24
• •	1 *	921
« . ■	> .	179
. •	> .	812
. • 1	) «	92
.. i	»•	340
• • 1	>•	343
• •	1 •	352
. * 1	>•	382
. . <	• *	724
. • t	• .	680
• .	> .	602
. . a	>•	682
. . 1	1 .	855
a • >	1 .	63
. . 1	.	197
. . a	.	855
• * •	.	402
. • 1	.	857
. . •	.	858
. . <	.	865
• . t	.	866
. . <	».	307
. . i	1 .	104
. ■ 4	• •	867
. . <	t .	778
. •	• *	247
. •	» .	887
. .	■ ■	71
. •	..	784
. •	■ .	562
. .	>.	951
. .	• .	364
..	> .	82
« *	> .	490
* * 1	> .	716
• .	> *	421
* .	• .	258
• •	1 *	395

INDEX-TABLE OF MANU80B1PTS.

xiz

Add. 15,002. flf. 144 b-147 b..

15,003. flf. 1-13 ..

15,035. flf. 57-61

15,0x2 .. .. ••

15,210-15,213 ..

15,212. AT. 14 b-196 b ..

flf. 197-266 b ..

Xo,zltS •• *• ..

15,4Z«I •« •. a.

lo,47T •■ •( ..

15,566. flf. 6-140 15,606. flf. 110, col. 2,-113,

ool 2; andl40b-152

15,732 .. 16,169. flf. 1, 477 16,441 ..

16,563

16,888

16,955

16,956

17,084

17,443

17,914

17,920.

18,217

18,632.

18,638

18,922.

19,513.

19,554.

flf. 6 b-19 b

. . ■ • flf. 5-33 ..

flf. 204-221 b .. flf. 141-163 flf. 2-56 b

flf. 67-100 b ..

19,709. flf. 1-7 ..

flf. 8-84 ..

flf. 21-26, 30-32 b

Hanes Taliesin

Extracts from Brut y Brenhinoedd ..

larlles y Ffynnawn

Dares Phrygius

Gontes et Fabliaux

Partonopeus de Blois .. Blanchandin et Orgueillose d'Amors

Floire et Blaacheflor

Dijtys Cretenais

Historia Trojana

BmtTysilio ..

Lea deux Chevaliers, and Ledit de

laume d'Angleterre Historia Kegum Britanniaa .. Roman de la Rose Roman d'Athis et Profilias ..

Guil-

. •

• •

••

a •

• •

20,094. 21,218 21,246 22,155 22,283.

flf. 90 b-91 b flf. 126-128 b

■•

I

22,311 22,312

2u,o91 . • . •

23,930. flf. l-«7 b

Bydrac and Boctus

Voeux du Paon and Restor du Paon ..

Theseus de Cologne

VoeaxduPaon

Alexandreis

Lancielot du Lac Bydrac and Boctus .. Turpin's Chronicle ..

Alexandreis

Romance of Thebes . . The Diana of Montemayor Amis and Amylion .. Turpin's Chronicle .. Wigalois

Iwein

Dares Phrygius

Brut Ghruflfydd ap Arthur

MayColvin „

Philomena

Filostrato

Historia Trojana

King Robert of Sicily

The King of Tars and the Boudan of Damas

Scottish Ballads

Reali di Francia Alexandreis .. Tristram

Cuiron le Courtois Tales and Fables

• .

• ■ . .

. •

FAOB

422

259

393

25

804

698

727

714

10

43

254

757 234 894 173 929 903 150 769 146 141 348 909 592 99 89 789 678 573 398 390 26 257 544 596 67 46 763 767

531

672 96 357 369 826

INDEX-TABLE OF MANUSCBIPTS.

Add. 24,969. ff. 25, 62, 69 b, 74, 78 b, 83, 94, 209, 270

— ff. 128 b-151 b..

24,970 ..

24,972. ff. 58-72 b

24,973. ff. 2-69 b

-^— 25,014. f. 119 b, ooL 2 ..

- 25,434

27,569. ff. 15 b-21

' 27,o79 •• .. ,, ff. 2-10 ..

ff. 10-14, 16, 17..

ff.l4b-24

ff. 17l>-24b,101b

-105, 223 b-226 b

ff. 29 b-33 b .. ff. 72 b-89 ff. 89, 91 ff. 116-117 ff. 117 b-210 .. f. 125 .. ff. 129-430 b .. ff. 140, 141 ff. 156 b-171 .. ff. 172 b-176 b .. ff. 194-201 f. 239 b .. f. 248 ..

28,638 29,408 29,409 30,863 30,864 30,984 31,042.

I

94

31,840

ff. 50-66

ff. 66 b-79 b, 82-

.. • • . « ff. 125-163 b ..

•• •« «•

Nine Romantic Tales Ale3uuider8 saga Story of SigurgariSr ,, Fertiama saga Two Romantic Tales .. Prophecy of Merlin .. Prophecies de Merlin .. The Chaste Duchess .. Romances and Ballads Robin Hood .. Sir Lancelot of Dulake Miscellaneoufl Ballads

The Grene Knight, Turke and Qowin,

Marriage of Sir Ghawaine .. SirLambewell Merlin..

King Arthur's Death

Guye and Amarant .. Three Ballads of Forest Life ..

Guy and Phillis

Robin Hood Ballad ..

Boy and Mantle

Libius Disconius

Guy and Golebrande ..

Two Ballads relating to Adam Bell ..

A Propecye ..

Rang Humber

Robin Hood*s Garland

Ballads of Scotland ..

Roman deTroie

VoBuxduPaon

Titurel

Titus and Vespasian

The

Two Charlemagne Romances Richard Coeur-de-Lion Roman de la Rose

FAOB

867

105

871

872

872

292

871

713

817

519

397

525

389 417 386 406 499 523 500 520 404 401 500 522 827 339 520

537

924 926 932 928

953 944 884

Egerton 810. ff. 106-109 b

■ ool •• "— ~~^ 9o*^ •. ..

- 1069 ..

- 2022 ..

- 2516. ff. 3-141

Egebton MSS.

Prophecy of the Tenth Sibyl Roman de la Rose Tristram Roman de la Rose

Ipomedon and Prothesilaus

190 879 362 890 891 746

CLASSICAL BOMANCES

TROY. Royal 16. C. zxiii. ff. 2-69 b.

Vellxun; xvth cent. Small Qnarto; ff. 68, with 21 lines to a page. Headings, glosses, and initials, in red. Formerly belonged to Sir Bobert Cotton.

The Yolume contains two other works by the same author, viz. :

1. Imagines, in two books, with marginal notes, f. 70.

2. Yitad Sophistarum, in two books. 1 139.

Heboioa, or, as it is now said to be more correctly entitled, Heroicos : a disct)nrse upon the heroes in the Trojan War, in the form of a dialogue between a Phoenician traveller and a vine- grower at EUbus, in the Thracian Chersonese, within sight of the tomb of Protesilaus. By Flavins Philostratus. With glosses and marginal notes. Cheek,

This Philostratus, the second writer of that name, was probably bom about *A.D. 172. He is supposed to have belonged to a Lemnian family, but was afberwcuxls known as ^ the Athenian,'' from his having studied at Athens. He settled in Bome, and at the request of Julia Domna, wife of the Emperor Severus (A.D. 193-211), he wrote the Life of ApoUonius of Tyana. He was in Graul with the Emperor Caracalla in the year 213 ; and was still alive, according to Suidas, in the reign of the Emperor Philip (A.D. 244r-249).

The accounts of the heroes in the present work are supposed to have suggested the series of meagre descriptions contained in

B

2 CLASSICAL ROMANCES— TROY.

Dares Pbrygias. They are here arranged under the following names:

1. Protesilaus. f. 11 b.

2. Nestor, f. 29.

8. Antilochas. f. 30.

4:, 5. Diomed and Sthenelos. f. 32.

6. Philoctetes. f. M,

7, 8. Agamemnon and Menelaos. f . 35 b.

9. Idomenens. f. 36.

10. Ajax the Locrian. f. 36 b.

11. Chiron, f. 38.

12. Palamedes. f. Sa

13. Ulysses, f. U b.

14. Ajax, son of Telamon. f. 45 b.

15. Teucer. f. 47 b.

16. Hector, f. 48.

17. ^neas. f. 48.

18. 19, 20. Sarpedon, Glancns, and Pandarus. f. 49.

21. Alexander (Paris), f. 49 b.

22, 23, 24. Helenns, Beiphobus, Polydamus. f. 50.

25. Enphorbus. f. 50 b.

26. Achilles (thongh without any heading), f. 53.

General heading : " ^CKoarpdrov *}lpa)lic<L rh irpoaonrcu 'Afiire- Xovprf6<: Kol if>oZvi^,^^ Begins: "^Kfi^^ladvo^kvo^^fjiroOeir ^. <l>olvi^ afiTTeXovprfk r&v irepl aiJB&vd re zeal TVpovJ* Ends : " [^o«/tf ] ireiJdofiai <roc afiirekovp^k koI oUrto^ Sarcu' irT^wreufu Bk fiipro} TToaetBoW irplv fi leai rovSe cucpodaaxrOcu rov Xiyov"

First printed with the works of Luoian at Florence, 1496. Edited by Olearius, in the entire works of the second and third Pliilostratus, Leipzig, 1709. Edited separately by J. Fr. Bois- sonade, Paris, 1806. In these and other of the earlier editions, the present work is entitled 'HptolKa; but in the editions of C. L. Kayser, at Zurich, 1844, and at Leipzig, in Bibliotheca Teuhneriana, 1871, and also in that of Ant. Westermann, in Didot's Scriptorum Qrxcorum Bibliotheca, Farisy 1849, it is en- titled 'HpO)t^09.

Royal 16* C. iv. A. B.

Paper ; two vols., a.d. 1560 and 1565. Small Quarto ; ff. 46, and ff. 98 ; the full pages of Vol. i. having 35 to 36 and those of Vol. n. 24 to 27 lines of verse.

At the end of the second volume (B) is a copy of the first two and a half chapters of the first hook of the Geographia of Agathemerus, in Greek, with a Latin tran^tion by Pierre Moreau, followed by geographical notes, and verses in Chreek, Latin, and French, together with the date of " 19 d*Aou8t 1579." f.96b.

Iliaca: a Oreek poem, by Joannes Tzetzes, the Byzantine grammarian, who flourished in the middle of the 12th cent. ; in

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1678 hexameters. Divided into three parts : the Antehomerica, Homericay and Poethomerica ; accompanied by the scholia of Tzetzes himself. Together with Latin translations of both the verse and prose ; the verses being in 1848 hexameters, by Pierre Moreau, of Loches, in Touraine. In the handwriting of Pierre Moreau, copied and translated by him in the course of the years 1560-1565.

For some account of Pierre Moreau, see J. L. Chalmel, JSistoire de Tawaine, Paris, 1828, iv. 341-343. This account closes with a list of the Latin and French translations from the Greek, which were published by him at Paris in the years 1568-1580. A less complete list of the same had been given by La Croix du Maine, in his BMioiKeque^ 1584 and 1772, and also by Antoine da Verdier, in his BfUiotK^ue, 1773, in each case under the head of ** Pierre Moreau/' But none of these accoimts meniion the present translation.

Vol. I. 1. Oreek text of the poem and the scholia, in three parts; followed by the Latin translation, as far as line 45 of the first part Written in August 1560. f. 2. The general title is : " *I<»dvpov TpafifjMTiieov rov T^er^ov, tA irpb 'Ofii^poVf Kal tA 'OjJk'qpoVj KoX ra /JLcO^'^Ofi'rjpov, iv XvPTOfup KdK&^ iicBoOiirra, fierk KTXpXUov Tov avTov T^er^ov e& rh airrh irdw i}<f>€\ifi(Dv, 'E#c 7^9 /3ifi\co0i]tcrj^ evSoKlfiov ical <f>cXoX6yov 'loodwov rod %(xrfKTavip4o^^ TlarpiKiov Ilapurlov" And at the foot of the page is added the following: "'Ei/ ry Aevteerla r&v irapuriatv fiereypd^ vapk irerpov MopiJWou roptovkro^ fierarfebTVL&vo^ fieaovvro^ t^ irpdnri " [about the Ist of August].

For a notice of the personage from whose library the present text was copied, see La Croix du Maine, in his BiUiotKeque, under the heading of '' Jean de Sainct Andr6, Chanoine en TEglise de Nostre Dame de Paris," etc.

a. Part i. Antehomerica, in 412 lines: numbered as 502, owing to a mistake at f. 12, where a line is numbered 340, instead of 250. f. 3. Begins : ^ ^ApydKeov iroXApLoto fieyav irovov 'lXia«o!o."

The scholia begin : " *0 irapmv irovqrri^ ^CKoavvroiio^ &p"

I. Part n. Homerica, in 490 lines, f. 16. Begins : " Ainrhp eTrel TO 7' oKovaev 'A^tXeu? 6j3pifi6dvfio<;** The scholia begin: ** a. TovTov hf€Ka jeyovev 17 jjtijvvs tov ' A^^iXeo)?.'*

c. Part ni. Posthomerica, in 776 lines, f. 28. Begins :

B 2

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*^ Airrap errel 7roifj<rav vif} "Kxropi oaaa i^ei,** Ends: **olicaZe T* i\.difi€vai \vyp6v rbv voarov IBovra^,'* The scholia begin : " cb. 'Hot ivl Tpn-aTQ * [a reference to the first words of line 7] rpirrji ripApq, anro t^ "Eucropo^ T€X€vr^9'*; and end: "^paxkelov p/r}vo^ ovro^ iv heK^'i^^ aJOrfVQai, tk OapyrfXi&vo^ 07S017 oi if>6lpovTO^ 17 rpoia kaKjon:' To which is added: ''T^Xo9. 8 Cal. Sept. [25 Ang.] 1560."

Colophon : ** T^Xo9 a-iw ©€^ r&v irpo ofirfpov kcu o<ra irapi" Xei^p^ev op/qpo^. ot^Tx^O ?X^^" [1675]. This number does not agree with the sum total of the lines, as they are numbered in the different parts; according to which numeration (owing to the mistake before mentioned) there should be at least 90 lines more.

This copy of the Iliaca substantially agrees with the printed texts. T^e first complete edition is entitled, ^'loannis Tzetzae Antehomerica Homerica et Posthomerica e codicibus edidit et commentario instruxit Friedericus lacobs. Lipsiae, in Libraria Weidmaunia mdccxgiii." In the preface of this edition the present MS. is described (pp. xxix, xxx) from an English letter among the papers of the critic Heyne. Jacobs' edition contains 1675 lines. Another edition has since appeared (Berlin, 1816), by Immanuel Bekker, containing 1676 lines. Both these editions profess to have used a copy of the present MS. for supplying deficiencies in Antehomerice^ lines 29-104 ; but this is a mistake of the editors, Woide's copies having both been taken from Harley 5662.

2. Latin translation made by Pierre Moreau of Part i. ; the first 45 lines, together with the commentary belonging to them. Headed: "loannis Grammatici TzetzsB, De Bebus apud Troiam gestis, quae ea quorum meminit Homerus, et praecesserunt et secutaB sunt, quae etiam de Homero scriptae sunt. Libri tres. Liber primus, de iis qu8B gesta sunt ante ilia quorum Homerus mentionem facit." f. 42 b.

The first line is : ** Iliaci cineres belli, Troiaeque ruinas '*; and the 45th line : " Seilicet hi long&, quod res erat, ante videbant."

The commentary, translated from the scholia of Tzetzes, begins : " Cvm Breuitatis studiusus sit imprimis hie poeta " ; and ends : " quorum omnium portio effecta parca denominatur."

Ciompare the same passages, as subsequently corrected by the author, in Vol. n. t 2.

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3. Three Oreek epigrams on the graves of the Trojans^ inserted in the title-page, and 20 similar ones (numbered as 16) on the Greeks, inserted at the end : the latter of which are followed by some drafts of translation into Latin verse. These epigrams are copied from the end of the first printed edition of the Epistles of Aristienetns (Antwerp, 1566), as is stated nnder the three epigrams on the title-page. The Latin translations begin with the ninth epigram on the Greeks (** Dux Pylium Nestor," etc.), and end with the 34th, on Automedon (here numbered '^ 30 ") ; but a few of the intermediate ones are omitted, ff. 2, 45.

Vol. n. The Iliaca of Tzetzes, translated into 1848 Laiin hexameters by Pierre Moreau, in the course of the years 1563- 1565 : together with a commentary, translated from the scholia of Tzetzes himself; and with an argument of 15 lines, by the trans- lator, prefixed to each of the three parts. In Latin and French ; to one of which (f. 96 b) is appended the date of 1579. Tbe title is as follows :

'^ loannis Grammatici Tzetzse. De bello Troiano libri tres, quos inscripsit Antehomerica, Homerica, et Posthomerica, vna cum suis ipsius in eosdem scholijs, ex Graecis nondum extantibus Latinj factj. Petro Morello Turonensi interprets Lochis Turonicis. 1565." f. 1.

a. Part i. Antehomerica, in 412 lines. Preceded by an argument, in 15 lines. The text begins : ** Iliacos cineres supre- maque funera TroiiB." £lb.

The commentary begins: ''Cum breuitatis in primis studiosus sit hie poeta."

h. Part II. Homerica, in 566 lines. With argument, in 15 lines. The text begins : '' Talia magnanimus postquam resciuit Achilles." f. 23 b.

The commentary begins : ** Ob pulcram fieri Briseida) Haec fuit causa, cur Achilles irasceretur." f. 25.

At the end of this part is the date, '' 5 Cal. Jul. [27 June] 1563. Lochis." f. 55 b.

e. Part m. Posthomerica, in 870 lines. With argument, in 15 lines, written on a half-leaf (f. 56). This half-leaf had been pasted by Moreau to the upper half of the next page, which contains the argument as originally written : but the half-leaf is now raised.

The text begins : " Ingrato postquam cinori suprema tulere."

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The commentaiy begins : *^ Qaod sperent Danaum) abusiue pro timent." This is, of course, a comment of the translator's : the first comment translated from the scholia of Tzetzes is : *^ Tertia lux aderat) Tertium diem intellige a morte Hectoris."

The poem ends: ^'Et sibi l^talem pelagi est experta per vndas."

The commentary ends: '^Heraclei mensis apud Delphos, Thargelionis autem apud Atbenienses, die 8^ sub cuius finem Troia capta est " ; followed by a note of the translator, upon some mis- take having been made with regard to the name of Thai'gelion, f. 88.

Colophon: '^Joan. TzetassD Fosthomericorum finis, cuius inter- pretationem absolui 5 CaL Jul. [27 June 1565]. In gymnasio liochibellilocensi." f. 88. The towns of Loches and Beaulieu are only separated by a branch of the Indre. See J. L. Chalmel's Towraine^ Tours, 1828, tome iii. p. 28 and p. 137.

A translation of 143 lines of the Antehomerica into Latin verse, to which Harles, in his edition of Fabricius, BihL Or. 1808, xi. p. 217) alludes, as by '^ Morellius," bears no resemblance to the present translation. It was published in the latter part of the 16th cent., by Frederic Morel the younger, together with the Greek lines themselves. The passage corresponds with the Latin translation in the present volume at ff. 11-19 b. Morel entitles his volume : ^ Iliacum Carmen epici poet« Grssci, cuius nomen ignoratur," etc.

Royal 16. D. iii. A. B.

Paper; zvith cent. ; two vol& Folio; ff. 160, and ff. 39; each full pago of Vol. I. (A) having 21 to 25 lines of Greek, and 23 to 26 lines of Latin, and each full page of Vol. ii. (B) having 24 to 28 lines, all of them Latin,

Iliaca: a Chreeh poem by Joannes Tzetzes; in 1669 hexa- meters. In three parts: each part accompanied by the scholia of Tzetzes himself, and the first part by a prose Latin translation. Followed (in Vol. ii.) by the translation of the poem, in Latin hexameters, here amounting to 1825 lines, made by

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Pierre MoreaiL Copied by Jacques Barthelemiy also of Loches. in Touraine.

Vol. I. Oreek text of the poem and the scholia^ written on the reverse of each leaf: together with the prose Latin trans* lation of Part l, on the opposite page, and the first paragraph of the Latin commentary (at t 20), as it was translated by Pierre Moreau. In three parts, containing respectively 403, 492, and 774 lines.

a. Part i. beg;ins : ^* ^ApycCK^ov iroXefJLoio iie^av irovov 'IXmucoZo/' etc £ 1 b. The prose translation begins : '' Asperi belli magnum laborem Iliaci," f. 2; and ends: "£um uero Ylisses occidit dolis inhumauit autem Ajax." f. 19. The scholia upon Part i. begin : '* 'O irapmp 7ro*i;Ti79 <f>iXoavpTOfju>^ Ai/.** f. 19 b. Moreau*s commentary begins: ''Cum breuitatis in primis studiosus sit hie poeta " ; and ends (with the first paragraph) : '* eodem quo Homerus olim sensu interpretatus." f. 20.

J. Part n. begins : ** AirrcLp iirel to 7' axova-ev 'A;^a\€V9 ofipi' fioOviJ^r f.47b.

The scholia begin : '^ a. Tovrov evetca yeyovev 17 firjvi/^ rod 'AxiXia^r f. 71 b.

e. Part m. begins: '* Ainhp iirel iroltfaap v<]> (leropi, Saaa i^ucu^ \ and ends: '^OficaSe r lKJ9ip,anu \vyp6v rov voarov iS6irra9." f. 104 b.

The scholia begin: ''a. 'Hot ivl rpiraTp. Tpirfj riiiipa amo T^9 &TO/009 T€X€vr^9 " ; and end : " ijpa/c\\]€lov fif)P^ Svto^ iv B€X(f>oi^, d0i]vrfai Se 0apyrj\i&vo^ oySoi], ov <l>0ivovTo^ ^ rpola i£X4»r f.l40b.

The present text appears to have been copied from that of Boyal 16. C. rv. A., though the number of lines does not exactly agree, even after making allowance for the mistake made there in numbering the lines of Part i.

Vol. n. Translation of the Iliaca, in 1825 Latin hexameters, by Pierre Moreau ; together with two arguments by the translator of 15 lines each, one of which is prefixed to the first, and the other to the third, part. The argument of Part n. is not in this copy. The title is as follows : ** Ion. Grammat. TzetzsB de bello troiano libri tres; quorum primum Ante-Homerica, Secundum Homerica, Tertium denique Post-Homerioa inseripsit"

a. Part L Antehomerica, in 412 lines, with argument, f. 1 b. The poem begins : '' Iliacos cineres, supremaeque [sic] funera Troia3."

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b. Part II. Homericay in 554 lines, beginning: ^'Talia mag- nanimus poBtquam resciuit Achilles." f. 11.

e. Part ul Posthomerica, in 859 lines, with argument, f. 22 b. The text begins: ^'Hectoreo postquam cineri snprema tulere"; and ends : " Et sibi laetalemy pelagi est experta per yndas.*'

Colophon : " Finis Posthomericorum TzetzcB Transcriptore Jaoobo Barthelomeo Lochio idibus octobris.*' f. 89 b.

The present copy has 23 lines less than the author's copy in Boyal 16. C. iv. B. (taking the numeration of the author himself to be correct), and the text differs from it here and there.

Harley 6662. «. i-56.

Paper; xvth cent Quarto; ff. 56, with 15 lines to a full page. The rest of the yolume containfi :

1. Periegesis of Dionysius Afer ; in Oreek ; in the same hand. f. 57.

2. Tract on the Winds; also in Oreek; in a different hand. tL 97-100 b. The latter is dated 1493, and was written at Messina in Sicily by Leon

Chalciopoulos.

Iliaoa. By Johannes Tzetzes ; in 1669 hexameters. Divided into three parts; with extracts from the scholia of Tzetzes, inserted in the margins in the handwriting of Leon Chalciopoulos.

The general heading is : ** la)[awov] ypa/M/juirucov rov r^er^t) 17 fUKptf tKiit^,**

a. Fart i. Antehomerica, in 406 lines, beginning : *^ ^Apyor Xiov voXifMio fieycof irovov iKuucoto** f. 1.

b. Part IL Homerica, in 487 lines, beginning, without any mark of diyision: ^^airriip eirel to 7' fiKovaev dp^tXXe^ ofipi/iO'' OvyLo^r f. 14 b.

c. Part in. Poethomerica, in 776 lines. Headed : " To5 aSnov irepl T&v irapoKevrropAiHov r^ ofiriptp*^ Begins: ** AvrcLp hrel iroif)<Tav vif> eicTOpl oaaa eci/ret." Ends : " oiKoZi r iXjOifievtu \uypbv voarov ISovra^.** f. 30 b.

Colophon : '* TeXo9 f w 0€^Ap" f. 56 b.

This copy of the Iliaca substantially agrees with the printed texts. In Jacobs* edition, the latter half of the Homerica, lines 225-489, is taken from a copy of the present MS., which was sent by Woide to Eeyne, containing marginal collations from

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Boyal 16. C. iv, (see Jacobs* preface, p. xxxi). The copy of lines 29-l(Xt of the Antehomerica was also taken by Woide from the present MS. ; though Jacobs and Bekker supposed them to be copied from one of the Boyal MSS.

For an account of Tzetzes, see Fabricius, Biblioiheea Chasea, Harles's edition, lib. v. cap. xxxviii. vol. xi., Hamburg, 1808, pp. 228-243 ; this poem being noticed at p. 217, though it had also been noticed in vol. i., Hamburg, 1790, pp. 403-406.

Bumey 170.

Vellum; late xvth cent. Quarto; ff. 71, each page having 23 or, in the latter portion, from 24 to 26 lines. Initials of books are omitted. Written in an Italian hand. On a fly-leaf at the beginning is written, in a modern hand, " Mpt De la Biblioth^ue de la Chevaliere D*£on. Olim Maffeianus." Several of the Bumey MSS. have a similar entry, and some (as Bumey 160, 161, and 259) have the arms of Maffei of Volterra, or of Verona.

DiOTYB Cretensib : the history of the Trojan War ; ascribed to Dictys of Crete, a follower of Idomeneus at the siege of Troy. In six books ; preceded by an epistle from *^ [Sjeptiminus " (some- times called L. Septimius) to Quintus Aradius Bufinus. Latin.

a. The epistle from " [Sjeptiminus " to Quintus Aradius Bufinus (who, according to Perizonius, was Frsefectus TJrbis in A.D. 303 and 309), relating how the Diaries of Dictys, written in Greek, but in Phoenician characters, had been found in the tomb of Dictys, at Gnossus, in Crete, and had been brought to the Emperor Nero; and how '^ [Sjeptiminus " had translated them into Latin, arranging them in six volumes.

Begins : " [Sjeptiminus Qvinto Aradio salutem dicit. Effe^ meridem'[a corrected word, originally written, it would seem, " Effamenidem " j belli troiani ditis Cretensis qui in ea militia cum idomeneo meruit conscripsit litteris punicis." Ends: "Tu Bufine mi, ut par est, faue ceptis atque in legendo dietim." For " dietim," see Dederich's edition, p. 5, note.

For speculations relative to the author of the epistle, see Jacobus Perizonius, of Leyden, in the dissertation prefixed to the Amsterdam edition of 1702, and reprinted by Valpy and Dederich; where it is maintained that the work was really

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translated from Greek by a oertam Septimius, about, the ti^ie of the Emperor Diocletian. The prologue, telling the same story as the above epistle, which is to be found in most of the printed editions, is not in this copy. It is in the copy in Harley 3514.

b. The history begins : ** [CJonti reges qui Minois lone geniti pronepotes grecie imperitabant ad dinidendas inter se Atrei opes cretam connenere.** Ends : ^ Ita Ylizes ubi vim ingnientiu[m] somniorom predictumque ab interpretibns inter [jfro vitse] exitnm recordatus est Yulneratus ab ea quem minime crediderat triduo post mortem obijt senior iam pronecteque etatis ueque tamen innalidns yir[i]am."

The present copy substantially agrees with the printed editions, of which the first was published at Cologne about 1470. The dissertation of Perizonius, as stated aboTe, was reprinted in the Tolume of Yalpy's Classics containing Dictys, Dares, and Josephus IscanuSy London, 1825, and also in the edition of Dictys by Andreas Dederich, Bonn, 1833.

Additional 15,429.

Paper; xvth cent. Octavo ; fL 72, each page containing 22 lines. With four spaces left for initials to the introductory epistle and the first three books; and with initials in red to the last three books. Written, as appears by an inscription at the end, by Jacobus de Trauersagnis. It belonged to the monastery of Sancta Maria de Monte, at Genoa. On the first page is added, in a modem hand: "Pertinet ad Bibliotecam S"* Annunciate, Grenn9.'' Inside the cover is the book-plate of Angustos Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1801*1843).

DiCTYB Cbetbnsis : the history of the Trojan War. In six boohs; preceded by the epistle from *'Septiminus" to Quintus Aradius Kufinus. Latin.

The epistle ; with title, in red : " Septimini de bello Troiano liber incipit ad Quiutum Aradium." Begins : " [S]eptiraiuus Quinto Aradio salutem dicit^. Effamenidem belli Troiani ditis cretensis." And ends: "Tu Buffine mi fane ceptis ut par est: atque legendo dietim." This is conjectured by Dederich to be an imperfect ending; thus: **in legendo dictim . . . ." See his edition, p. 5, note.

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The history is headed, in red : '* Ditis creteDsis liber primus incipit."

It begins : ** [C]vncti reges qui Minois loue geniti pronepotes gr^i§ imperitabiuit.'* And ends : " Senior iam prouecteque §tatis : neque tamen inualidus uirium."

Colophon (which is worm-eaten, in parts): '^Deo Gratias. Septimini de bello Troiano Sextus et ultimus liber feliciter explicit. Per me lacobum de Trauersagnis, die decima mensis Marcij ad honorem dei genitricisque matris [eijus [to]tiusque triumphantis curi§ c^lestis. Amen."

The present copy substantially agrees with the printed editions.

Harley 3514.

Vellum; xvth cent. Octavo; ff. 102, having 23 lines to a page. With seven illuminated initials, and a space left for one which is not filled in ; and with two borders at f[l 1, 2. Written in an Italian hand. At the top of f. 1 is the name of an owner, " Joannis Gaddi/' written in the 17th cent.

DiOTYB Cbetensis : the history of the Trojan War. In six books. With prologue. Latin.

a. The prologuoi headed, *' Dithys Gretensis '* : in which it is stated that the present history was discovered in the tomb of Dictys atGnossus, written in Phoenician characters, and was turned by Nero's orders into Greek, f. 1.

Begins : '^ Dicthys Gretensis genere Gnoeo ciuitate Hisdem temporibns quibus et Atride fuit peritus uocis ac litteris Phoenicum." Ends : " Quorum seriem qui sequitur textus ostendit"

Printed in some of the ancient and all the modem editions of Dictys. See that of Dederich, Bonn, 1833, pp. 6-9, and that in Valpy's Glassies, London, 1825, pp. 15-17. The letter from L. Septimius (or Septiminus), the asserted Latin translator, to Q. Aradius, which is in most of the printed editions, is not here.

b. The history; with title, in red: "H§c sunt dithis ephe- meridos belli troyani liber sextus incipit L[ucii] Septimini translatoris." f. 2.

Begins: " Cvncti reges qui Minois loue geniti." Ends: ''Senior iam prouecte etatis, neque tamen inualidus uirium."

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Cotton^ Vespasian B. zzv. ff. 98b-ii7.

Vellum; xnth cent. Quarto; ff. 19, haying 27 lines to a page. With 31 initials in red, green, and purple. The volume has the ancient press- mark of Christ Church, Canterbury, and the following note of a late owner : "Liber dompni Johannis Holyngbume monachi ecclesie Christi Cantuar- iensis, emptus a quodam fratre anno domini 1543 — precio xx.d.*'

The whole volume contains :

1. SolinuB de mirabilibus mundi. f.L

2. " Pergesis *' : verses " de situ

terrsB," ascribed to Priscian. f.78.

3. The present article, f. 98.

4. Ten moral verses ascribed to St. Jerome, f. 117.

5. Treatise on the Sibyls, f. 117 b.

6. Verses on mortification of the flesh ("Debilitas camis," etc.). f. 123 b.

7. Historia Britonum ; by Nennius. f. 126 b.

8. Notes on the zv Signs of the

Day of Judgment, f. 144.

Dares Phrigius : the history of the siege of Troy ; Baid to have been written in Greek by Dares the Phrygian, a priest of Vulcan at Troy, and to have been translated into Latin by Cornelius Nepos. Divided into 28 sections by the coloured initials. With the introductory epistle, and with two supple- mentary sections. Nos. u. and xviii. of the battles, of which there are 21, as usual, are left without coloured initials. Latin.

a. The epistle; with title, in red: ''Incipit eplstola comelij ad salustium crispum in troianorum hystoria; qu§ in greco i Darete hystoriographo facta est." f. 98 b.

Begins : *' Cornelivs ; salTstio crispo svo salutem. Cum multa athenis studiose agerem." Ends: ''nunc ad poUicitum reuer- tamur."

b. The history itself, together with two supplementary sec- tions ; with title, in red : ** Incipit historia daretis troianorum frigii ; de greco translata in latinvm a comelio nepote." f. 98 b.

Begins : *^ Pelevs rex in pelopensio r^ esonem fratrem habuit. Esonis filius erat iason." Ends: ''Antenorem secuti sunt quin- genti . et duo milia. Andi6machen et helenum . tria milia du- centi. Hue usque hystoria daretis . scripta est."

The two supplementary sections severally begin: "Qvis troianorum quem grecorum occiderit," and " Qvis grecorum quern troianorum occiderit." ff. 116b, 117. The second one ends:

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"Diomedes exantippnm • Nestem . protenorem . hireomeneum . palamonem . epistrophum . scidium."

Colophon : ** Explicit historia daretis."

The present text substantially agrees with that of the printed editions, of which the first was published about 1470. In the modem editions the history (after the epistle) is arranged in 44 chapters^ ending with " Hucusque historia Daretis." See the volume in Valpy's series of the Classics, containing Dictys, Dares, and Josephus Iseanus, London, 1825, pp. 295-839 ; and see also the edition of Andreas Dederich, Bonn, 1835. In the last- mentioned edition the supplementary sections are printed among the notes, at p. 91.

Royal 15. A. xxii^ ff. 73-90.

Vellum; xiith cent. Small Quarto; ff. 18, containing 30 lines to the page. With initials in red and green; and a few headings in red. The volmne formerly belonged to the church of Bochester.

The whole volume contains :

1. Solinus de mirabilibus mundi f.2.

2. The present article, f. 73.

3. " Liber pergesis de situ terre " ;

ascribed to Priscian. f. 90.

4. Tract on the Sibyls, f. 110.

5. Verses on sin and its punish- ments, f. 115.

Dabe8 Phbtgius : history of the Trojan War. Divided into sections by the coloured initials. With the introductory epistle and with two supplementary sections. Latin. There are 32 coloured initials ; but of these the first belongs to the introductory epistle, and the last two to the supplementary sections. Twenty- one of them mark the commencements of the different battles.

a. The epistle ; with title, in. red : ** Incipit epistola cornelii ad salustivm crispum in troianorvm hystoria; qu§ in greco a darete hystoriographo facta est." f. 73.

Begins : ** (Cornelius ; salustio crispo svo salytem ; Cum multa athenis studiose agerem, inueni hystoriam Daretis frigii ipsius manu conscriptam." Ends : ** nunc ad poUicitum reuertamvr."

h. The history itself; with title, in. red: "Incipit hystoria daretis troianorvm frigii ; de greco translata in latinum a cornelio nepote." f. 73 b.

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Begins: "Peleva rex in pelopensio; esonem fratrem habuit. Esonis filius erat iason." Ends : " Antenorem secuti sunt quin- genti . et duo milia . Andromachen et helenum tria milia ducenti . Hucusque hysteria daretis . scripta est."

The two supplementary sections severally begin : •* Qvis troianorum quern grecorom occiderit," and " Qvis grecorum quem troianorum occiderit"; and the second ends with the words: '^Diomedes exantippum . Nestem . protenorem . hircomeneum . palamonem . epistrophum . scidium.*'

Colophon : " Explicit ystoria troianorum."

Royal 15. B. zi. ff. 57-66 b.

Yellmn; xnth cent. Quarto; ff. 10, containing 30 lines to a page. With 28 initials in red, green, and yellow. The volmue formerly belonged to the church of Bochoster (see f. 3).

The whole volume contains :

1. "Pergesis," or verses *'de situ Terre"; ascribed to Priscian. f. 2 b.

2. Solinus de Mirabilibns. f. 12.

3. The present article, f. 57.

4. Treatise on the Sibyls, f. 67.

5. Lamentations of Jeremiah, with a commentary, ff. 70-101 b.

Dakes Phbygius : history of the Trojan War. Divided into sections by the coloured initials. With the introductory epistle. Slightly imperfect at the end. Latin. There are 28 coloured initials, the first belonging to the introductory epistle. Twenty of them mark the commencements of different battles ; of which there are actually 21 in as many sections, but the initial and the number of the 13th have been accidentally omitted (at f. 64, line 4).

a. The epistle ; with title, in red : " Incipit Epistola Cornell. ad salvstium crispum in Troianorum hysteria r^ Que in Greco & Darete hystoriographo facta est." f. 57.

Begins : '' Comelivs :f salustio crispo sno salutem. Cum multa Attbenis studiose agerem." Ends: ^^nunc ad pollicitum reuer- tamur."

I. The history ; with title, in red : " Incipit hysteria Daretis Troianorum Frigij if de Greco translata in Latinum a Cornelio Nepote." f. 57.

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Begins: "PelevsBex in pelopensio:^ esonem fratrem habuit. Esonis filius erat iason."

It breaks off, imperfectly, in the middle of what, in the printed editions, is chapter xliii. (the last but one), with the sacri- fice made of Polyzena by Neoptolemus to the manes of his father Achilles, ending : *^ imperat ut perquirat illam et adducat. Is ad §neam uenit • et diligentius perqoirit :^ ut qnam primum argiui proficiscantur • • • • " The missing leaf seems to be that which is now f. 90 in the Cotton MS. Vitellius A. xui.

For the passage where the present copy breaks off, see Valpy's Classics, the Tolume containing Dictys, Dares, etc., p. 338, and see Andreas Dederich's edition, Bonn, 1835, p. 32.

Vitellins A. xiii. f. 90.

■

Yellnm; xnth cent. Quarto; one page containmg 18 lines, the first words of which are effitced, together with the remains of three lines at the top of the page.

The volume contains eight pages of miniatures of English kings, from Edward the Confessor to Edward I. ; a chartulary of Chertsey Abbey ; the Historia Britonxmi of Nonnius ; and other articles of varioiis dates.

Dares Phbtgics: a single page containing the conclusion of the history, together with the two nupplementary sections. Laiin. Three lines are gone from the beginning of this fragment, and so are the first words of the other lines. It is probably the page which is now missing at the end of the copy of Dares in Royal MS. 15. B. xi. (flf. 57-66 b). That copy breaks off, in the middle of what, in the modern printed editions, is chapter xliii., with the words : " argiui proficiscantur . . . . " f. 66 b. Between these words and the first words that are legible in the present frag- ment, there ought perhaps to be rather more than would fill the three effaced lines at the top of the page (see the passage in the Tolume of Valpy's Classics, London, 1825, p. 338, and in Dederich's edition, Bonn, 1835, p. 32) : otherwise it would be almost certain that this is the concluding page of the copy in 15. B. xi.

The first words that are still legible in the present fragment are : '^ . . . . helena post aliquos dies mesta magis quam alacris

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domui reportat cnm suo menelao. Helenus [cum cjassandra et andromacha et hecuba chersunessum petit." This is the end of chapter xliii. in the printed editions.

The fragment goes on (answering to the beginning of chapter xliv. in the printed editions) : " Hactenus dares frigius," etc., and it ends: "Antenorem secuti sunt qningenti et duo [millia] Andromachen et helenum tria milia ducenti. Hncusque hysteria daretis." This is the ei^d of chapter xliv., and of the history itself, in the modern printed editions. See the volume of Valpy's Classics,. containing Dictys, Dares, etc., London, 1825, pp. 338, 339 ; and see Andreas Dederich's edition of Dares, Bonn, 1835, p. 32.

The two supplementary sections severally begin (as far as the condition of the opening words of each line allows of their being read) : " Quis troianorum quem grecorum occiderit," and " Quis grecorum "; and the second one ends : '* Falamonem . Epistrophum . Cydium."

Compare the copy in Royal 15. A. xxii. f. 90; and see the notes to Dederich's edition of Dares, Bonn, 1835, p. 91.

Bnmey 216. & 89-93 b.

Yellnm ; xiith cent. Octavo ; ffl 5, in double columns, haying from SB to 61 lines to a colmnn. With initials in blue, red, and green. The whole volume contams :

1. Histories of Paulus Orosius.

Slightly imperfect at the begin- ning, f. 2 b.

2. The present article, f. 89.

8. Liber de Melancolia; by Gon-

stantinns Africanus. f. 94. 4. Verses headed : " Doctrina magis^ tri petri abaelardi," beginning : "Astralabifili." flf. 100 b-103 b.

I

Dabes Phbtgiub. Divided into sections by 48 coloured initials, of which the first belongs to the introductory epistle, and the last to a supplementary section. Latin.

1. The epistle ; with title, in red : " Incipit epistola Comelij ad Crispum Salustium," etc. f. 89.

Begins : ^ Cornelius Salustio suo salutem. Cum multa athenis studiosissime agerem." Ends : " nunc ad pollicitum reuertamur."

CLASSICAL ROMANCES— TROY. 17

2. The history ; . with title, in red : " Incipit liber Daretis frigid, de Troia," fol. 89 ; together with a supplementary section.

Begins : " Pelevs rex in peloponenso." Ends : " Andromaeham et helenum M . go. Hue usque historia Daretis frigij."

The supplementary section (f. 93 b) begins : " Dardanus ex loue et Electra filia athalantis natus . ad italiam ex responsis locum mutans . per Trachiam Samon insulam delatus est." Ends : *' Asaracus Capem filium genuit . ex quo Anchises editus r^ Eneam filium procreauit. Finit."

The present copy of the history contains sections, which answer to the chapters of the modem printed editions much more closely than is usual in the MS. copies. The supplementary section in the present copy is nearly the same as that printed as an introduction to the whole work in the edition published at Rome, 1475, where it begins: ''[OJrigo Troianorvm Dardanus fvit: qui ex loue et electra"; and ends: ''qui iEneam filium procreauit.*' #

Royal 6. C. viii. flf. 123-133 b.

Vellum; early xiiith cent Folio; ffi 11, in double columns, haying 37 lines to a colunm. With initials in blue, green, and red. The volume formerly belonged to the Abbey of St. Mary's at Biyaulx, in Torkshire.

The Histories of Paulus Orosius occupy fif. 1-122 b.

Dabes Phryoiub. Divided into 50 chapters, of which the first is the Epistle from Cornelius Nepos to Sallust, and which are preceded by a list of chapters. Latin. Imperfect, so far as this volume is concerned : the list beginning at chapter xli , and the work itseK breaking ofi* at the end of chapter xlvi. But the rest of the manuscript, as originally written, may be found in the Cotton MS. Yitellius C. vin., the list of chapters, from L to XL., being at f . 19 b, and chapters xlvil-l. of the work itself being at fiT. 2, 2 b.

1. The list of chapters. Beginning with chapter "xli. Egressis inducijs . alexander aiacem uulnerat • moxque ab eo

c

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occiditar . qnem helena magno nlnlata prosequitur." Ending with chapter ^ L. Genealogia priami et enee . ab ione dedocta.** f. 123.

2. The introductory epistle, with title, in red: **Incipit epistohi comelij ad crispum salustiumy in troianomm historiam. i." B^ins : ^ Cornelius • salnstio sue . salutem." Ends : '' Nunc ad pollicitum reuertamur." £ 123.

Colophon : " Explicit prologus."

3. The history itself (chapters n.-XLVi.) ; imperfect ; with title, in red : ** Incipit historia daretis frigii de bello troiano. ii." f. 123y col. 2. It begins : '' Peleys rex in peloponenso . esonem fratrem habuit. Esonis filius iason erat." It ends with chapter XLYT. : ^' Tota nocte argiui non cessant uastare . predam asportare.

XLVII."

In the modem editions the work is arranged in 44 chapters only ; and the epistle is not now reckoned as a chapter. What is here chapter xlvi. is in the modem editions chapter xli.

Cotton, Vitellins C. viii. ff. 5b-«b.

Yelluin; early zmth cent. Folio; double columns, each fall column haymg 37 lines. With initials in red and green.

The whole yolmne contains : 1. " Uersns Petri Abaelardi ad As- 8. LcUin chronicle of English kings

tralabimn filimn snum." f. 4. 2. The present article, f. 5 b.

and prelates to 1121. ff. 6 b- 21b.

Bound up with remains of several other Tolnmes, of various dates (ff. 22-212).

Dabes Phbtgius. Two leaves^ the first and the last, of a copy, the rest of which is part of the Boyal MS. 6. C. Yiii. Latin.

1. List of chapters from L to xl. f. 5 b.

2. End of the history, chapters xlvu. to l. (the last being a supplementary chapter), ff. 6, 6 b.

Chapter xlvii. begins: "Postquam dies illuxit.'* Chapter XLix. ends : ** Andromacham et helenum • mille ducenti . Hue*

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usque historia daretis," Chapter l. begins : " Dardanus ex ioue et electra." It ends : " Assaracus capem filium genuit . ex quo anchises editus . eneam filium procreauit."

Colophon : " Explicit historia daretis fri^ii de bello Troiano." Chapter l. is substantially the same as that which is printed as a preface to the whole work (before the epistle) in the Dares (together with extracts from Sallust), published at Rome in 1475.

Sloane 1619. ff. 29-37 b.

Yellum; early xmth cent. Octavo; ff. 9, having 38 lines to a page. With 40 coloured initials ; 39 in bine and red, and one in green. The present article is preceded by :

1. The Alexander of Julius Valerius, f. 3.

2. Apollonius of Tyre. f. 18.

At the end (f. 38 b) are twelve hexameters, in a later hand, headed : " Medi- cina ad plagas sanandas'* ; and above them is the following entry : " nf idus maii vigilia scilicet ascensionis domini anno gratie : M'^oofLxxi . audita sunt prima tonitrua In domo sancti oswaldi poet prandium In quo die tanta fuit habundantia florum in p . . . . quod mirabantur omnes qui faerunt in processione rogacionum." The '' domus Sancti Oswaldi " may be the priory of St. Oswald at Gloucester.

Dares Fhrtgius. Divided into sections by the coloured initials, of which there are 40, the first of them belonging to the introductory epistle. Latin.

1. The epistle, f. 29.

Begins : '^ Cornelius nepos salustio crispo sno salutem." Ends : " nunc ad poUicitum reuertamnr." f. 29.

2. The history, ff. 29-37 b.

Begins: " Eelias [a clerical error for Pelias] rex in penelo- penensi." Ends : " Andromachen et helennm • in • milia • OG • huc- usque hysteria daretis scripta est."

0 2

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Royal 10. A. z. ff 1 88-1 92 b.

Vellmn ; xinth cent. Quarto ; ff. 5, in doable colnmns, having 53 lines to a column. With 8 initials in red and green, and spaces left for 26 more* and one initial in blue at the beginning of the last section.

The volume contains Galfridus de Trano super titulis Decretalium, and tracts of various dates. The present article is followed by the commence- ment of the Conmientary on the .^Ineid by Servius, left imi)erfect after the third column.

Dares Phbtgius. Divided into sections by the coloured initials and spaces left for them, amounting to 35 altogether, the first of which belongs to the introductory epistle. Latin.

1. The epistle, f. 188.

Title: "lucipit prefieicio frigii daretis." Begins: '^Cornelius salnsti[o] crispo suo salutem. Gum multa athenis studiose agerem." Ends : *' nunc ad poUicitum reuertamur.*' f. 188.

2. The history itselt ff. 188-192 b.

Title: "Indpit liber frigii daretis.** Begins: "Peleus rex in peloponenso." Ends : ^* Andromacam et helenum • i * GO • hue usque historia daretis scripta est."

Harley 641. flf. 1-8.

Vellum ; early xrvth cent. Folio ; ff. 8, having 49 lines to a page. With one ornamental initial (f. 3), of later insertion, and spaces left for 30 more.

The present article is followed by the Chronicles of John Bever (or Castor), in the same hand. On the fly-leaf, now lining the cover, is the inscription (written in the 14th cent.), "Cronica de edicione domini Johannis dicti Beuere monachi Westmonasteriensis De Libraria Monasterii Sancti Augustini Cantuarie . Distinotio. T . Abbatis '^ ; by which it appears that this MS. stood in the press of books belonging to Thomas Fyndone, abbat of St. Augustine's in 1283-1309, or Thomas Poucyn (or Poncy), abbat in 1334-1343. The inscription is repeated at f. 1, and again at the end of the MS. (f. 115 b). This 14th cent. MS. was subsequently bound up with a 15th cent, copy of the Chronicles of Martinus Polonus, ff 118-206 b. Both boards of the present binding are stamped outside with the arms of Sir Symonds D'Ewes. On the first fly-leaf (f. 1*) is pasted a memorandum by Thomas Heame the antiquary, that this volume had been lent him by Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford, on the 9th of March 1733 [1734], adding a list of the contents.

Dares Phrtgius. In 31 sections, denoted by the spaces left for ornamental initials, the first space belonging to the intro-

•CLASSICAL BOMANCES— TROY. 21

ductory epistle, and the last i^o to the supplementary sections. Laiin.

1. The epistle, f. 1.

Headed, in red : *^ Licipit epistola Comelii ad salustium.** Begins : ** [C]omeliu8 salustio crispo suo salutem." Ends : *' nunc ad poUicitnm reuertamur."

2. The history, with the two supplementary sections, ff. 1-8. Title, in red: ** Incipit hysteria daretis," etc. Begins : " [PJeleus

rex in pelopensio." Ends : ^ andromachen et helenum tria milia ducenti. Hue usque hystoria daretis scripta est.*'

The two supplementary sections severally begin : " [Q]vis troianorum quem grecorum Occident"; and « [Q]uis grecorum." ff. 7b, 8. The second one ends: ''palamonem.Epystrophum. Sddium."

Colophon : ^ Explicit hystoria daretis troianorum frigii.^'

Barney 280. ff. 20 b-38 b.

Yellum ; late xmth or early xivth cent Octavo ; ff. 18, having 29 lines to a page. With two initials in blue and red. The whole volume contains :

1. The Alexander; abridged from Julius Valerius. 1 1.

2. The present article, f. 20 b.

3. Chronicles of Martinns Polonus. Imperfect flf. 38b-117.b.

Dabes Phbygius. In 18 sections, denoted by paragraph marks. With the introductory epistle. Latin, At the end of the history are the names of the chiefs killed on both sides, but not arranged, as they usually are, in two separate sections.

General title, in red : " Dareti^ . frigij . eutellij . liystoria de uastacione troie . incipit a comelio nepote salustij de greco in latinum sermonem translata."

The epithet of enteUias given to Dares seems to be due to the account of the prize-fight between Dares and Entellus, in the fifth book of the ^neid. The present copyist, it will be seen, makes Cornelius Nepos a nepoa of Sallust.

1. The epistle, f. 20 b.

Title, in red : " Incipit prologus . Cornelius nepos salustio," etc. Begins : " Cum multa uolumina legerem athenis curiose . inueni hystoriam deiretis frigij ipsius manu scriptam,*' etc. Ends : '' nunc ad pollicitum reuertamur.'*

22 CLASSICAL BOMANCES— TBOT.

2. The history, with the lists- of names at the end. ff. 21- 38 b.

The history itself begins: ''Peleas rex fait in pelopenso opido." It ends : ** Greci pagnauerunt apud troiam annis decern mensibus . sex diebus • xxiin • Ex quibus cecidenint • docolxxxvii • milia hominnm . Ex troianis • dclxxxiii • milia hominum ceci- derunt ante prodicionem . Et post • gcgvii • milia."

The numbers that followed Helenus and Andromache out of Troy, with a statement of which most copies close, occurs in the present copy before the passage just quoted. The lists of the killed on both sides begin : '^ Hector interfecit . protheselaum . patroclum." End : ^ diomedes . mesten . protenorem . et alios quinque . Actenus id dares . frigius mandauit litteris." f. 38 b.

The present text is very corruptly written, but it agrees substantially with the printed editions. See that of Andreas Dederich, Bonn, 1835, in which thp lists are printed among the notes, at p. 91.

Claudius B. vii. ff. 2i4-2i8b.

Vellum ; xmth cent Folio ; fL 5, double columns, haying 62 lines to a column. Initials in blue and red. Probably belonged to the church of Lichfield.

Bound up with many other articles, some of which are quite modern; Those which may have originally belonged to the same MS. are :

1. Turpin's Chronicle of Charle- magne, f. 192.

2. Notes on the counties of Eng-

land, f. 204.

3. Prester John's Letter to the

Emperor of Constantinople, f. 204 b.

4. Lists of English bishops, ff. 207-209 b.

6. The present article, f. 214.

9f

6. Treatise on the Sibyls, f. 219.

7. Prophecies of Merlin, f. 220 b.

8. "Prophetia Merlini siluestris (or Prophetia Aquilae). f. 231.

9. "De Mirabilibus Brittanie." f. 232.

10. " Cursus planetarum." f. 233.

11. Poem, in elegiacs, on the names of rivers. Imperfect, ff. 236 b, 237. The last leaf is mutilated.

Dares Phrygius. Divided into 33 sections, denoted by the coloured initials, the first belonging to the introductory epistle, and the last two to the supplementary sections. Laiin.

General title, in red : ** Troianum bellum."

1. The epistle, f. 214.

CLASSICAL EOMANCES-^ TROY. 23

Title, in red : " Incipit epistola Coruelii," etc.

Begins : ^* Cornelius SaJustio crispo suo salutem." Ends : " nunc ad poUicitum reuertamur."

2. The history, with the supplementary sections, flf. 214-218 b.

Title, in red : " Licipit hystoria Daretis troianorum frigii de greco translata in latiimm a Comelio nepote."

Begins : " Peleus rex in pelopensio." The history ends : " Hele- num et andromachen r^ tria milia ducenti . Hucusque historia Da- retis :^ scripta est."

The two supplementary sections are severally headed, in red : ** Quis Troianorum quern grecorum occiderit " ; and " Quis greco- rum quern Troianorum." The latter one ends : ** Palamonem . Epistrophum . et Scidium."

5. The Historia of Geofirey of Monmouth. Lnperfect. f. 99.

6. Theological treatise, beginning: " Sicud in apoteca." Imperfect, f. 162.

7. Albertos Magnus deMineralibus. In another hand. f. 190.

Royal 13. A. v. ff. 88 b-98 b.

Vellmn; late xmth cent. Small Quarto; fll 11, in double columns, each full coliunn containing 33 lines. The whole volume contains :

1. The Alexander of Julius Valerius. f.2.

2. Chronicles of Martinus Folonus. 124.

3. Three leaves of notes from a theological treatise. In plummet. ff:85b-87b.

4. The present article, f . 88 b.

Dabes Phbtoius. An abridgment 6f the history, not divided into chapters or sections. With the introductory epistle. Latin.

1. The epistle, f. 88 b.

Begins : *' Comelinus nepos . Salustino prisco salutem." Ends : ^ nunc ad ordinem reuertamur."

2. The history, ff. 89-98 b.

Begins : '' Pelias rex tesalie . [altered to tesilie] frater Esonis patris lasonis." Ends: ''Ex achiuis uero acta diurna indicant • D • CGC et 67 homines perierunt . Ex troianis antem usque ad urbem traditam • DC • Yrbe vero tradita • D • cc • Bellum uero istud post diluuium fuit anno • d • oo • 16 actum est."

Ciolophon : '' Explicit dares de gestis troianorum et grecorum."

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Additional 10,094. ff. i-i4b.

Vellum; xvth cent. Quarto; fL 14, having 31 to 32 lines to a page. With 15 initials in red.

Bound up with other articles of various dates, one of which (f. 66) has the inscription : " Liber Sancte Marie in Parcho " [near Louvain]. The volume is from Richard Heber's collection.

Dares Phrygius. Divided into sections by the 15 red initials, of which the first belongs to the introductory epistle, and the last two belong to two supplementary sections (not the usual ones, but) abridged from Dictys Cretensis. Latin.

General title, in red : ** Incipit historia Troiana Daretis phrigii."

1. The epistle, f. 1.

Title, in red : " Prologus in historiam troianam daretis." f. 1. Begins : *^ Cornelius nepos SaJustio crispo salutem." Ends : **Ita nunc ad policitum reuertar." f. 1.

2. The history itself, with two supplementary sections, ff. 1- 14 b.

The history itself begins : " Pelias rex fult in pelopenenso." Ends : '' Andromacham et helenum mille 00 hucusque hysteria daretis perscripta fuit."

The first supplementary section (which is an account of the doings of ^neas and Antenor, abridged from the end of the fifth book of Dictys Cretensis) begins : " Igitur eneas cum ad hue apud troiam post profectionem maneret grecorum cunctos ex archadia." Ends : " Nunc reditum nostrorum narrare libet."

The second supplementary section (which is an account of the return of the Greeks, ending with the death of Ulysses, abridged from the entire sixth book of Dictys Cretensis) begins : " Igitur postquam impositis cunctis que singuli bello acquisierant." Ends : ^'ab eo quem miuime credit volnieratus obijt senior iam prouecte- que etatis neque tamen inualidus uir[i]um."

To this are added the following lines : *' Forsitan lector diuersa requirit uocabula infrascripta Cognoscat quod gri [sic] graiugene uel argiui uel achiui greci fuerunt . Medi mirmidones caldei . Dardani . Troiaui qui et friges . Ilium troia ab illo [i/io] rege condita . Troia vero a troilo rege dicta."

In the edition of Dictys Cretensis by Andreas Dederich, Bonn,

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1833, p. 212y note, it is mentioned that in the Codex of Dares at St. Gall there are two Supplementa, abridged from Dictys. Dederich makes use of them in his edition of Dictys, 1833, pp. 212-238; and they are almost literally the same as the two supplementary sections in the present MS.

Additional 15,042.

Paper; aj). 1801. Small Quarto; ff. 58, haying 15 lines to a paga The writer has used the Greek d to represent the Welsh dd,

Dabes Fhbyqius : the history of the siege of Troy. Trans- lated from the Latin version attributed to Cornelius Nepos, with the introductory epistle, into Welsh. On f. 1 b is the following note: ''Myfi Huw Morus a ysgrifenais Ystoria Daret o Lyyyr Paul Fanton yswain (a ysgrifenwyd gan Jeuan Brydydd Hir Ofifeiriait) a hyn a fu yn mis Mai B[lwydden] A[rglwydd] mdcoci." [I, Hugh MorriSy wrote the history of Daret from a book of Paul Panton, Esq., of Plasgwyn, Anglesea, written by Jeuan Brydydd Hir, the Priest (a poet who flourished between 1440 and 1470 in Merionethshire), and this was in the month of May, a.d. 1801.]

1. The epistle, f. 2.

Title : " Proloc y w hwnn yn ystoria Daret yr hwnn a draetha gwir am ddestrywedigaeth Troea, ac fal i lias Gwyr groec a gwyr Troea," [This is the prologue to the history of Daret, which treats truly of the destruction of Troy, and of how the men of Greece and the men of Troy were slain.] Begins: ** Cornelius yn anfon annerch at Salwstiws Bengrych." [Cornelius sending greeting to Salustius the Curly-headed, i.e. Crispus.]

2. The history itself, fl*. 3-58 b.

Begins ; " I Belews Brenin Pelopes ir oedd frawt a elwit Eson." [Peleus, King of Peloponnesus, had a brother called Eson.] Ends : '' Ag wedi ynnill y gaer ar Castell deg mil a thriugain a saith mil a dau can mil." [And after the taking of the town and castle, two hundred and seventy-seven thousand.]

Colophon : ** Yma i terfyna Ystoria Daret." [Here ends the history of Daret.] f. 58.

3. Table of the numbers of Greeks and Trojans killed, etc., during and after the siege of Troy. English, f. 58 b.

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Dabes Phbygius: history of the siege of Troy. Trans- lated from the Latin attributed to Cornelius Nepos into Wehh, Being nearly the same version as that in Additional MS. 15,042. Imperfect at the beginning. Begins: "[Castor a PhoUux a ddywedasant na wnaethasont wy ddim sarhaed i Briaf namyu rygael coddiant o honynt wy yn gyntaf gan Laome]don ac wynt a archassant y Antenor adaw eu kyfoeth wynteu." See the Latin text, beginning : " Castor et Pollux negaverunt," etc. Cap. v. The MS. ends with the usual list of Greeks and Trojans killed during the war.

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Two Poems on the Story of Tboy. The first by an anonymous writer, and the second by Simon Ch^vre d'Or, Canon of the Abbey of St Victor, in Paris, in the middle of the 12th cent., but both of which have sometimes been ascribed to Hildebert, Bishop of Le Mans, 1097, and Archbishop of Tours, 1125-1134. LcUin.

1. The Fall of Troy : a poem in leonine elegiacs, carrying the same rhyme through each couplet. Imperfect at the 113th line. f. 22 b.

Begins : ** Pergama flere nolo fato danaum data solo t^

Solo capta dole . capta redacta solo." It ends with the three lines (lines 111-113) :

*' Pellicis obscene . commouit forma lacene. In scelus effrene t^ pectora troiugene. Sic facies helene fuit exitus urbis amene." f. 23 b. For a notice of the printed copies, see the end of the description of Cleopatra A. viii. (ff. 56-58) ; and see also the end of the article below.

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2. The Story of Troy and the AdveDtures of Mneaa: a poem by Simon Chevre d'Or. In two books, containing 442 elegiacs altogether.

a. Book i.^ containing 168 h'nes. f. 76. Heading, in red, half effaced : " I^ber • . . magistri Simonis ^e excidio troie . . . aurea capra."

Begins : *^ Dinitiis . ortu . specie . oirtnte . triumphis:^ Bex priamus clara clams in urbe fuit."

Ends : '^ Nene stet urbis honos populantur cetera qneque r^ Macro :^ viros . aries:^ menia . tecta rogus."

h. Book II. An epitome of the .S^neid, containing 274 lines. Heading, in red : " Explicit . primus liber . Incipit secimdus." f.78.

Begins : '' Ignibns eneas cedens non bostibas r^ nrbem t^ Deserit . assumptis r^ coniuge . prole . patre."

Ends : " Regina fruitnr cum regno troyus heros.

Flet ruitura [sic] yenus gaudet amata perit" (This last line ought to begin : " Flet Juturna." See Hist. Litt. xii. p. 489.)

Colophon : ** Explicit liber ii" et uotandum quod nulli duo uersus repperiuntur absque aliquo colore rethorico vel aliquo scemate." f. 81 b.

At the end of No. 8430 of the MSS. in the Biblioth^ue Nationale is a colophon beginning: ^Explicit Bias a Magistro Simone Aurea-Gapra." See the article in Histaire littSraire, tome xii., 1830, pp. 448, 449, where the MS. is wrongly numbered as 430.

The first book of this poem forms a part of the Versus de excidio TrojsB, published by Polycarp Leyser in his Bistoria Poetarum . . Medii Aevi^ Halle, 1721, pp. 398-408, as No. xix. of the poems of Hildebert, Archbishop of Tours (1125-1134). Leyser only conjectured it to be by Hildebert, on account of its occurring amongst others of his poems in a Leipzig MS. It has been reprinted by the Abb^ Migne, in the Latin series of his Patroloffia, tome clxxi., Paris, 1854, at the beginning of the Supplementum ad SUdeberti Carmina. ' The poem in these printed editions is in 276 lines, of which the first 150, relating the stcjry of Paris and Helen, and the fall of Troy, correspond substantially with book i. of Simon's poem in the present MS. The next couplet of the printed poem '(lines 151, 152) is also in tliisMS., but in a different

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position (see f. 78, lines 3, 4). Bnt after this the style of the printed poem changes, and the verses become leonine, carrying the same rhyme throughout each couplet. They consist chiefly of a lament for Troy ; and many of the couplets are the same as those in the first poem on Troy in the present MS., and as those in Harley 3202 (ff. 114b-115 b), Vespasian B. xiv. (ff. 18, 18 b), and Cleopatra A. vin. (ff. 56-^58). Tn the last-mentioned MS. this poem (which in all these MSS. begins : " Pergama flere nolo ") is headed : " Versus Magistri Hildeberti." In Eoyal 12. D. in. (ff. 15&-158) is a similar poem, but the line "Pergama," etc., does not there occur till the middle (f. 156 b).

Titus A. XX. ff. 99-104.

Yellum; zrvth cent. Octayo; ff 6, each page having 34 to 40 lines. With an initial in blue, flourished with red.

The Yolmne contains also the Speculum Stultoram of Nigel Wireker ; nine Goliardic poems ; many other Latin poems, historical and satirical, some of them attributed to Robert Baston (prior of Scarborough about 1810) ; together with the Latin poems containing the stories of Babio, Gteta, and PamphUus ; and a tale (in rhyming hexameters) of two twin children at Home.

The Story of Troy, and the Adventures op ^Ineas: a poem in 421 elegiacs (three different couplets having one line omitted). By Simon Chfevre d'Or, Canon of St Victor's at Paris in the middle of the 12th cent. Latin,

In the Boyal MS. 13. A. iv. this poem is divided into two books. There is no such formal division here ; but there is a certain mark of division at the corresponding passage. Considering this mark, then, as dividing it into Parts i. and ii., Part i., in 154 lines, begins :

** Diuiciis . ortu . specie uirtute . triumphis Bex priamus clara clarus in vrbe fuit." f. 99. It ends : '^ Neue sit vrbis honor deuastant cetera queque Mucro viros . aries menia tecta xogus Quod tamen vrbs capta est quod victa quod obruta totum Arte sinon partu ligneus egit equs."

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(The last line^ which is line 152 of Leyser's edition, is printed by him, "Arte Sinon paryi ligneus egit eqnus.")

Part ii.y in 267 lines (one line of a couplet being omitted at three different places, ff. 101, 101 b, and 102 b), begins : ** Ignibos eneas cedens non hostibus vrbem Deserit assumptis coniuge prole patre." f. 100 b. It ends : '' Lauina [pro Lavinia] fruitur cnm regno troicus heros Flet viturna [pro Jutuma] venns gandet amata perit." In this copy the name of the author is altered from '* Simon '* into " Synon " (line 24 of f. 101) i evidently from a mere mis- apprehension of the sense.

Part I. was printed by Leyser, 1721, and by Migne, 1854. See the description of Boyal 13. A. iv. (ff. 22b-23b, and ff. 76-81 b).

Cleopatra A. viii. ff. 56-58.

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1. A poemj in three books, De Con- temptu Mundi, by Bemardus Morianensis (see Joh. Pits, De Illustribus Anglicd Scriptortbus, under the year 1140), and two epigrams by the same. f. 2 b.

2. The present articla f. 56.

3. Flavins and Af&a, a tale, in elegiacs, of the revenge of a jealous husband, f. 59.

4. A full index to the poem of Bemardus. ff. 63-81 b.

At the beginning are a few Latin epigrams (f. 2), and at the end are 123 lines from the commencement of a French poem in honour of women and of the Virgin (ff. 82, 82 b). The volume formerly belonged (see f. 3) to William Charke, the Puritan writer (fl. 1680).

The Fall of Troy : a poem in 128 leonine elegiacs, in which the same rhyme is carried throughout each couplet Latin.

Headed : " Hie incipiunt Versus Magistri Hildeberti." f. 56.

A portion of this poem corresponds with part of the latter half of the Versus de excidio TrojaB, published by Leyser^ Hist. Poetarumy Halle, 1751, pp. 398-408, by whom it is placed among the works of Hildebert, Bishop of Le Mans (1097) and Archbishop of Tours (1125-1134).

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Begins : ^' Pergama flere nolo fato danais data solo

Solo capta dolo capta redacta solo." Lines 89, 90 are as follows :

*' Causa rei talis meretrix fuit exicialis Femina fatab's femina plena malis." f. 57. These are almost the same as lines 181, 182 in Leyser, and they are here very nearly repeated in verses 121, 122 (f. 58). Lines 91-128 begin :

'* TJiribus arte minis danaum data torba minis Annis bis qmnis fit rogus . atqne cinis." f. 57 b. They end (concluding the whole poem) :

*' Partes ultoris iuuat . auget . &ma pudoris Baptam raptoris qnesta iacere toris."

These 38 lines are nearly the same as the 36 in Leyser which are numbered 153-188.

The first couplet, " Pergama," etc., and the couplet, " Causa rei talis," etc., together with a few more lines, are very similar to 18 b'nes printed at the end of a Dares Phrygius, without date, but which seems to have been published at Lyon about 1520 ; and 14 of these lines had previously been printed by Caxton, in his first dated work, BecfuyeU of the Eidoryes of Troye^ Cologne, 1471. Migne, in his Latin Patrologiay tome clxxi., has reprinted the poem from Leyser. See also the remarks at the end of the description of Eoyal 13. A. rv. (ff. 76-81 b).

Vespasian B. xiv. ff. 18, isb.

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Fall of Tbot: 82 lines of a poem in leonine elegiacs. Imperfect at the end. Latin. As far as it goes, it agrees pretty

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closely with the first 90 lines of the copy in Cleopatra A. vin. (ff. 56-58), where the poem is headed : " Versus magistri Hilde- berti."

Begins : ^' Pergama flere nolo^ fato danais data solo.** After line 23y the second line of the couplet is omitted.

Ends : ** Yrbs uetus et clara bona ualde tam bona rara Tam bona tam clara fit pecualis ara Dines ab antique ,dum fato fertur iniquo Deperit in modico . fit nichil ex aliquo Causa rei talis meretrix fuit excicialis." These last lines correspond to lines 85-89 of the copy in the Cotton MS. Cleopatra A. viii. at f. 57.

Harley 3202. ff. ii4b-ii5b.

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The Fall of Tbot: a poem in 63 leonine elegiacs^ one couplet being imperfect. Latin, f. 114 b. Begins :

" [P]ergama flere nolo . surto [furto] danais data solo." It agrees with Cleopatra A. vin. as far as line 61 :

" Concutit ora metus . fit spiritus irrequietus." f. 115 b. Here it breaks off, and after a vacant space comes the couplet :

" Causa rei talis meretrix fuit exitialis Femina fatalis . femina plena malis." These two lines (which are Nos. 89, 90 of Cleopatra A. viii.) conclude the present copy.

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Cotton, Vespasian B. zxiii. Part iii. ff. Ii8b-i22b.

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Fall of Troy and Adventures of -^neas: a poem in two parts, containing 406 elegiacs. By Simon Chevre d'Or, canon of St Victor in Paris, in the middle of the 12th cent. Latin. In the present copy the parts are not numbered, but the second part begins with a coloured initial, f. 118 b. a. Fart l begins : ** Nobilifl vrbs ortu specie virtute triumphis

Bex priamus clara clarus in orbe Aiit." Ends: ^'Neue stet yrbis honos deuastat cetera queque Mucns \jpro mucroj viros . aries menia • tecta rogus.' I. Part n. begins (f. 121) : '^ Ignibus eneas cedens non hostibus yrbem

Deserit asumptis coniuge prole patre." Ends:

'' Lauinia fruitur cum regno troius heros Flet diutuma [jpro Jutuma] yenus gaudet amata pent.' Colophon : '' Explicit destruccio troiana." Between this and the last line is inserted a pentameter: ** Auspiciis tantum non probitate minor," which had been omitted from the antepenultimate couplet.

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Royal 12. D. iii. fil I52b-i58.

YellTim ; xvih cent. Quarto; fL 6, having 82 to 83 lines to a page. With two ooloored initials, one in blue and the other in red. The whole volume contains :

1. Secreta Secretomm. f. 1.

2. Historia Trojana of Guido delle Golonne. f. 38.

8. Dialogue between the emperor Adrian and the philosopher Se- cundus. Latin, f. 144.

4. Epistola, by Walter Map. f. 146.

5. The present article, f. 152 b.

6. Vita gloriosi Neminis. f. 158.

7. Modus coronandi Begem, etc., for kings and queens of England, ff. 161-167.

Two Poems on the Story of Troy: the first by Simon Chfevre d'Or, and the second by an anonymous writer. Both in elegiacs, those in the second poem being leonine verses. Latin,

1. Poem i.y in 153 lines (a couplet at the bottom of f. 154 b being defective), f. 152 b.

Begins : '^ Diniciis ortu specie virtnte triumphis

Bex Priamus . clara clarus in vrbe fait." Ends : ** Mere stat vrbis honos, denastant cetera queque Muoro vires aries menia tecta rogus Quod tamen vrbs capta quod victa quod obruta tota Arte set in parte ligneus egit equs." See these lines in Leyser's edition of the Versus de Excidio TroJ8B, where they are lines 149-152, beginning : " Neve stet/' etc., and ending : ** Arte Sinon parvi ligneus egit equus."

2. Poem n., in 198 lines (with the title : ** Alij versus," written in the margin), f. 155.

Begins : *' Miribus atque minis daneis data Troia ruinis

Annis bis quinis fit rogus atqne cinis." See Leyser's edition of the poem, lines 153, 154, beginning : ** Viribus arte," and ending : " atque cinis." Lines 97, 98 are as follows :

'' Sic ex Enea surgunt Romana trophea Sic gens Bomulea surgit ab hectoria." f. 156 b. ' These are the last lines (275, 276) in Leyser's edition. After them follows the couplet : ** Pergama flere volo," etc., which begins the poem in the other MSS. (Vespasian B. xrv., Cleopatra A. viii. and Harley 3202).

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The poem ends :

'^ Alter Omerus ero vel eodem maior omero Tot clades nmnero scribere si potero.*' f. 158, Colophon: "Explicit versus de excidio Troie." This MS. closely corresponds in most places with certain portions of the copy published by Leyser, which, howeyer, is yery different in arrangement^ and contains only 122 lines.

Harley 4482.

Vellum ; about A.D. 1800. Oblong Octayo ; ft IBS, in double columns, haying 40 lines to a column. With initials in red and blue ; and 15 illu- minated initials enclosing figures, the first of them (f. 1) being also accompanied with a border. '

The Boman de Tboib. By Benoit de Sainte-More. In 29,896 lines, diyided into a prologue and 14 parts by the 15 illu- minated initials (ff. 1, 5, 14 b, 26 b, 35 b, 41 b, 52 b, 69, 76, 95, 109, 119 b, 140, 151, 161). French.

This poem is supposed by A. Joly, who edited it in 1870 (see his Premise Fartie, p. 57), to haye been composed about 1184. It is the original of the Historia Trojana of Guido delle Oolonne, who has followed not merely the narratiye, but the substance of the speeches, and most of the other details. For instance, after the description of Troy, it is here said of the Trojans :

*^ geux estaublirent et trouuerent ou maites fois se deporterent nonques ne fa riche maistrie ne festement ne courtoisie dont on oust deduit ne ioie que ne trouuaissent cil de troye eschas et taubles gieus de dez i farent ce sachies trouue et mainte autre oeure deportaule Biche yaillant et pourfitaule." f. 20 b, col. 2. This passage is thus translated by Guido, in his Historia Trojana: ''Huius autem ciuitatis diuersorum ludorum diuersa

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genera diuersis in ea adinuentionibns statuerant. Ibi primo adinuenta fuerunt schacorum solacia curiosa ibi ludi subito iras- cibiles aleamm/' etc. (See the first edition, at the end of the section headed : ^ Descripcio fnndacionis ciuitatis troie.")

Some insertions indeed, and some omissions, are made by Guido. Thus, when Achilles goes to consult Apollo at Delphi (see the present MS. f. 37), Guido (who is responsible for the confusion made in his work between Delphi and Delos) inserts dissertations on the worship of Apollo, and on idolatry in general. On the other hand, in the section of Guide's work headed : ** De morte panthasUee," he translates the description of the land of the Amazons (see the present MS. f. 144 b), but omits the pre- ceding 170 lines, which give a general description of the world. Still, upon the whole, Guido follows the present author pretty closely. • The prologue begins :

" Salemons nous ensaingne et dit

si le trouuons en son escrit

que nus ne doit son sens celer

ancois le doit si demostrer

que on i ait preu et honour

anci firent nostre ancessour." It goes on to speak of Homer, his mistakes and his fabulous inventions. With regard to the latter, it says :

'^ Quant il en ot son liure fait

et a athenes lot retrait

si ot estrange contenson

dampner le vorrent par raison

pour ce quot fait les damrediex

combatre o les hommes mortex

tenu li f u a deruerie

et a merueille et a folic

que les dieus o hommes humains

faisoit combatre as troyens

et quant son liure reciterent

pour itant si le renfuserent

mais tant fu omers de grant pris

que taut fist puin si com ie lis

que ses liures fu receus

et en auetoriteit tenus.'* f. 1, col. 2.

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The above passage is thus paraphrased by Guide : '^ Introduxit enim decs quos coluit antiqua geutilitas impugnasse troianos et cam eis fuisse velut viuentes homines debellatores, cuius errorem postmodum poete curiosius insecuti/' etc.

After relating the story of the discovery of the work of Dares Phrygios, and its translation by Cornelius Nepos^ the prologue continues thuis :

" Ceste hystoire nest pas vsee

ne en gaires de lieus trouuee

ja retraite ne fust encore

mais beneois de sainte more

]a commencie et faite et dite

et a ses mains la toute escrite

jci taillie . ici ouuree

jei escrite ici posee

et plus ne mains ni a mestier

ci wet lestoire commencier

le latin siurra et la lettre

ne plus ne mains ni yodra mestre

sensi non com le trueue escrit

ne di mie caucun bon dit

ni mete . se faire le sal

mais la matiere iensurrai." f. 1 b^ col. 2. This is followed by a summary of the whole poem, ending : ** des songes que ylixes sonja

que iamais nus hons telz norra

comment ses fis thelegonus

quil auoit quis • Yii • ans et plus

locist puis par mesauenture

jci com retrait lescriture

les oeures que ci ai nommes

sont el liure ci recontees

qua toute rien iert a plaisir

et molt les fera bon oir." f. 5, col. 2. After the prologue, the poem itself begins thus : " Peleus fa vn riches rois

qui mout fa sages et courtois

par grece auoit sa signorie

del regno tenoit grant partie

sa terre tenoit quitement

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bien et en pais et loialment

jcis rois auoit • j • sien frere

fil de son pere et de sa mere

en penelope la cite

lont par non eson apele

ne sai sil iert ou cuens ou das

que li liures ne men dit plus

jcis eson vn fil auoit

qni jason apelez estoit." f. 5, coL 2. Guide begins with confounding, not merely the names (as Benott has done) of Pelias and Peleus, but the histories also. He makes the uncle of Jason to be the father of Achilles, and proceeds to descant on the fjEible of the Mirmidons. But, after this^ he returns to the narrative thus : ^' Hunc autem peleum deseribit in hysteria quondam habuisse fratrem esonem nomine sibi ex utroque parente coninnctum/* etc.

The story of Troilus and Briseida (called Griseida by Boccaccio, and Cressida by Chaucer) is told in various scattered passages. The first mention of the heroine is as follows :

*' calcas 11 preus et li courtois

ot vne fiUe moult prisie

bele et courtoise et ensaingnie

de li estoit grant renommee

briseida iert apelee." f. 82. (See the printed edition, lines 12,952-12,956, p. 183.) The conclusion of the poem follows Dictys Cretensis very closely. After relating how Pyrrhus was killed, and how the two children of Andromache (one by Hector, and the other by Pyrrhus) were brought up together under the protection of Thetis, it turns to the story of Ulysses in the following lines :

'' Or entendez ici apres

com faitement dans vlixes

fu mors et trespasseis de vie

tex merueille ne fu oie

entrepris fu et angoissoz

poerous fu . pensis . doutouz

de songes et danguremens." f. 185. It relates how Ulysses, frightened at the prediction that he would be slain by his own son, imprisoned Telemachus, and shut liimself up in a strong place; and how Thelegonus, his son by

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Circe, came there to claim him as his father, and slew the guards that opposed him, and eventually Ulysses himself. To the nar- rative of Dictys several details are added, which are nearly all adopted by Guide, though the latter condenses the whole story more than Benott. One of these additions is at the end, after the death of Ulysses, with which Dictys concludes. It is here said that Telemachus assumed the sovereignty, and per- suaded Thelegonus to remain with him two years (in the printed edition one year), or more, after which Thelegonus returned to Circe.

The last leaf is mutilated. It originally contained the last 42 lines, and 40 of them are still nearly entire, but a few words are torn away here and there. The conclusion is as follows :

^' Ci ferons fin bien est mesure

auques tient nostre liure et dure

ce que dit daires et dithis

lauois ici retrait et mis

que cil plaisoit au iougleor

qui de ce sent encuseor

quautres ont &it et reprenant

et en tout bien sent anuiant

ne que ia nus naura honor

qui! nen aient ire et dolor

jcil se porroit moult bien tair[e]

qui lueure blame et loit retre[ire]

que tex i vodroit afaitier

qui tost i porroit empirie[r]." f. 188. The second column of this leaf, containing the last two lines, is torn away, only the '* E " of the Explicit remaining.

This text is not so good as that of the printed edition, but it agrees with it generally. The edition by A. Joly is taken from a 13th* cent. MS. in the Biblioth^ue, No. 2181; it is entitled : BenoU de Sainte-More et le Soman de Troie (large 8vo., Paris, 1870). The Premiere Partie is an historical introduction (pp. 109), dealing chiefly with Benott himself; at the end of this (p. 109), M. Joly promises to give an historical account of the subject on some future occasion. The Deuxi^e Partie (pp. 446) contains a comparison of the MSS. (pp. 8-16), a summary of con- tents (pp. 17-24), the poem itself, in 30,108 lines (pp. 25-393), notes (pp. 394r414), glossary (pp. 415-445), and errata (p. 446).

40 CLASSICAL ROMANCES— TEOY.

Harley 4123. ff. 6O-126.

Yelltun ; about a.d. 1350. Folio ; £f. 77» in double columns, each column containing 46 lines. With initials and rubrics in red. Although the present article seems to haye at one time formed a volume by itself, yet the preceding one (the Historia of GeoflErey of Monmouth) was transcribed by the same man, " Albertus filius Johannis Alberti presbyter de Dyst " [Diest in Brabant?]. In his colophon to Geoffrey's Historia, he has given the date of the 12th of December 1349.

The whole volume contains : • .

1. Historia Begum Britannite, by I 4. Table of the Ages of the WorM

Geoffirey of Monmouth, f. 2.

2. The present article, f. 50.

3. Chronica of Martinus Folonirs. f. 127.

f. 166b. .

5. Liber provincialis. f. 167 b.

6. Mappa mundi. ff. 171, 171 b.

Historia Trojana. By Giiido delle Colonne, Giudice di Messina. Professedly compiled &om Dares and Dictys; but in reality a rather close translation of the Boman de Troie of Benoit de Sainte-More. In 28 books ; of which the first was written about 1270, and all the others in September to November 1287. With a prologue and epilogue ; preceded by a table of contents. Latin.

For some comparison between the works of Guide and Benoit, see the description of the Harley MS. 4482, containing a copy of the Boman de Troie.

1. Table of contents, flf. 50-53.

Begins: ''Incipit tabula hystorie troiane et prime prologus, Cum et." The prologue, however, in this copy does actually begin. Si d. The table goes on : '' Liber primus • Quomodo Jason per peleum regem insidiose ut ad vellus aureum habendum se conferat et dolose inducitur." Ends : "^ Quomodo Firrus Amore hermonie vxoris Horrestis ad insulam delphon . ut sacrificaret deo . AppoUim veniens ab Horreste ibidem occiditulr." Colophon : " Explicit tabula Historic troiane." The table is followed by a supplement, f. 53. Begins : *' Finito opere . ad hec additum est quanto tempore preliatum est." Ends : ^ Item . Nomen auctoris libri • scilicet . Guide de columpnis."

2, The prologue, f. 54, col. 1.

Begins : '' Si et cotidie uetera recentibus obruant nonuulla tamen iam dudum uetera precesserunt/que sic sui magnitudine viuaci sunt digna memoria nee ut ea cecis morsibus uetustas abolere

CLASSICAL ROMANCES— TEOY. 41

preualeat/." On the 2iid column (line 5), it continues : " ea que per ditem grecum et frigium daretem qni tempore troiani belli bontinue in - eoram exercitibus fuere presentes/et honim que uidernnt fuerunt fidelissimi relatores . in presentem libellum per me iudicem goidonem de columpna Messanensem transsuropta legentur." After mentioning Cornelius Nepos as being hitherto the chief Latin authority on the siege of Troy, through the version (ascribed to him in the middle ages) of Dares Phrygius, the prologue promises that the predent work will be found to complete the whole history, and it ends: ''superest ergo ttt ad ipsius narrationis serjem accedatur." Colophon: " Explicit prologus."

3. The history itself, f. 54, col. 2, to f. 125 b, col. 2.

Book I. is headed : '^ Incipit liber primus de peleo rege thesalie inducente Jasone[m] ut se conferat ad aureum vellus habendum." It begins: '^In regno thesalie de predicte scilicet pertinentiis Bomanie . cuius incole Mirmidones dicti sunt . quod nos hodie wlgari denominatione Salonichium appellamus • Begnabat tunc temporis Bex quidam iustus et nobilis nomine peleus cum eius consortf^ thetide nuncupata,"

The last book, according to the table of contents, and the last that is numbered in the history itself, is the 28th. It is headed, in red : *' Liber 28^ adhuc de ordinatione et contractibus diuersis per proditores dictos et grecos quomodo troia destrue- retur." Begins : ** Ulixe ergo et Diomede ad eorum castra reuersis." L 112b. Ends: *' propter memoriam Heccube uocatus est locus infestus quod nomen usque nunc uiget communiter ipsi loco." f. 115, col. 2. After this there are three sections styled ^^capitula," and another section headed, in red : ** Liber adhuc de naufragio nanium grecorum et de morte Agamemnonis." f. 117 b.

This is followed by six more sections styled *' capitula," the last of which is headed : '' Capitulum . De morte vb'xis." It begins : ^De narranda igitur morte vlixis obmissis ad presens [aliis] historie stilus acuitur.'' f. 124, col. 2.

The history concludes, after narrating the death of Ulysses, according to Dictys Cretensis, with yarious items out of Dares Phrygius, ending : '' Sed et Pirrus Interfecit Panthasileam . regem Priamum . el^eius filiam Polixenam." f. 125 b, col. 2.

4, Three epitaphs, the first two on Hector, and the third on Achilles: the first consisting of a single hexameter, and the

42 CLASSICAL ROMANCES— TROY.

second and third being each in 10 lines of elegiacs. £ 125 b, coL 2. They are headed : *^ Epitaphia nero Hectoris Achillisqne sunt ista:^ Hectoris enim sunt hec et saffecisset primns uersns qui nalde compendiosns est et omnia comprehendens qui talis est." The first epitaph is as follows : '^ Troium protector danaum metus hie iacet hector." The second and third begin severally thus:

a, ^ Defensor patrie iuuenum fortissimus hector

Qui muras miseris ciuibus alter erat." h, ^ Pelides ego sum Thetidis notissima proles Cui uirtus clarum nomen habere dedi[t]."

5. The epilogue begins: ^Ego autem Guide de Columpnis predictum Ditem grecum in omnibus sum secutus." f. 126. After saying that he had tried to render Dictys into a finer style than the original, he goes on to say : *^ in tantum institi spiritus sancti gratia ministrante quod infra tres menses a • 15 • die uidelicet mensis septembris prime indictionis usque ad • 25 • diem mensis Nouembris proximo subsequentis opus in totum per me perfectum extitit et completum . licet longe ante ad instantiam domini Mathei de porta uenerabilis salemitani archiepiscopi [1263-1272] magne sdentie uiri de presenti opere tantum et non plus compoeuerim primum librum."

The epilogue ends: **ad presentis opens perfectionem effi- cadter laborauL" £ 126, col. 2.

To this is added : '* Factum est autem presens opus . Anno dominice incamationis • 1000 • 200 • 87 • eiusdem prime Indictionis feliciter."

The transcriber of the present copy has appended to it: *^ Explicit liber de casu Troie dictus Troianus. Quem scripsit Albertus filius Johannis alberti presbyter de dyst [Diest in Brabant ?]. Orate pro eo."

The text agrees with the printed editions, of which the first dated was published at Cologne in 1477. See Brunet^ under '^ Columna Messan. (Guide de)."

CLASSICAL ROMANCE&-TR0Y. 43

Additional 15,477.

Velltiin; about a.i>. 1B50: Large Folio; ff. 58, in double columnB, each column containing 58 lines. With initials in red and blue, and nine illu- minated initials, the first of which (f. 1) encloses a figure, and is connected with a border; and with 137 miniatures. These miniatures are executed on broad margins left for the purpose at the bottoms of the pages ; a few of the spaces remain unfilled, but most of them contain either one or two miniatures. In an Italian hand.

HiSTOBiA Tbojana. By Guido delle Coloime. In 35 books. With a prologue and an epilogue. Latin.

The exact date of the second period of composition is here (as usual) stated to be the 15th of September to 25th of Koyember 1287.

1. The prologue, f. 1, col. 1. Begins : ** Et si cotidie uetera recentibus obuiant" Ends : " Superest enim ut ad eios naracionis seriem adeedamus."

2. The history itself, f. 1, col. 2.

The first book is headed, in red : ** Incipit liber primus de Jaxone quern Bex Pelleus pro aureo uellere a[c]quirendo ad se in colchos InsuUam oonferendum induxit. Bubrica." Begins : '' In regno texalie de predicte scilicit prouinciis Bomanie . cuius incoUe mirmidones dicti sunt"

The last book is headed, in red : ** Incipit xxxY-et vltimus de morte Ylixis interfe[c]ti per telagonnm filium eius ipso in- 8[c]io quod esset suus pater." Begins : " De narranda igitur morte yllixis omissis ad presens allijs presentis ystorie stillus acuitur." £57.

At the end are the usual items from Dares Phrygius, but the lists of the killed • are more tabular in arrangement. They end : ** Diomedes autem interfecit infrascriptos Beges . Anchipum . Extenon . Protenorem et Obtomenium." f. 58.

3. Three epitaphs, two on Hector, and the third on Achilles ; the first in a single hexameter, and the two others in ten elegiacs each. f. 58, col. 2. The first is as follows: ^'Troum protector dampnaum metus hie iacet Hector." The second and third begin severally thus :

a. " Defensor patrie iuuenum fortissimus Hector. Qui mums miseris ciuibus altus erat."

44 CLASSICAL B0MANCB8— TBOY.

b. " Pellides ego snm Tetidis notissima proles. Cni uirtus clarnm nomen habere dedit."

At the foot of these epitaphs is written : '^ Explicit liber de caxa et Buina Troie tarn prime quam secunde . Edictos a discreto uiro domino Guidone de colnmpna Deo Gratias. Amen."

4. The epilogue begins : ** Et Ego Guido de colampnis pre- dictum Ditem in omnibus sum secutus." f. 58, col. 2.

It ends: '^Ad presentis opus [sie] perfectionem efficaciter laboraui."

To this is added the following : ** Factumque est autem prexens opus anno dominice incarnacionis millesimo • n • c • lxxxyii eins- dem prime indictionis felliciter . Amen." f. 58 b.

The text agrees with the printed editions, of which the first dated was published at Cologne, in 1477. See Brunet, under '* Columna Messan. (Guido de)."

Royal 15. C. zvi. ff. 86-145.

Yellum; xivth cent Folio; ff. 70, in double columns, each full column haying 52 lines. With initials in blue, flourished with red. The volume at one time belonged to St. Thomas of Aeon (or Acre) in Cheapside. At f. l*b is inscribed : " Ex dono venerabilis viri domini Henrici Spy cere Canonici de Wyndesore" (1402-1487). At f . 2* is a note (also of the I6th cent.) of its having been at one time deposited by John Nele, Master of Si Thomas of Aeon (who died 10th November 1463), as a pledge for the return of a volume of Origen's Homilies (" super Jhesum naue," etc.) borrowed from the rector of Ashridge, in Buckinghamshire.

The whole volume contains the following works, in Latin :

1. Moralizations of Ovid's Meta- morphoses, f. 1.

% Philobiblon of Kichard d'Aunger- ville. f.59b.

8. De Flanctu Natnras, by Alanus

de Insnlis. f. 71.

4. The present article, t 86.

5. Historia of Geofi&ey of Mon- mouth, f. 146.

6. ProphetiaAquilsB. ff. 183b-184.

HiSTOBiA Trojana. By Guido delle Colonne. Divided into sections by the coloured initials. With a prologue and epilogue. Latin.

At the top of each folio is the general heading of " Excidium Troianum." The beginning of the second book is noted in the margin (f. 87 b), probably in consequence of the statement made

CLASSICAL EOMANCES— TBOT. 45

in the epilogue, that the first book was composed at the request of Matteo della Porta, Archbishop of Salerno (1263-1272), and the rest not until many years afterwards ; the exact date of the composition of the later portion being stated here (as usual) to have been the 16th September to 26th November 1287.

1. The prologue, f. 86, col. 1. Begins : "Licet cotidie Vetera recentibus obruant." At the foot of the column it proceeds : " per me iudicem Guidonem de columpna Messana transumpta legentur," etc. Ends: '^Superest ergo vt ad eius narracionis seriem accedatur."

2. The history itsel£ f. 86, ool. 2. Begins: ''In regno thessalie de predicte scilicet pertinenciis Bomanie cuius Incole Mirmidones dicti sunt."

The last section but one of the history begins : ^ De narranda igitur morte vlixis omissis ad presens aliis presentis historie stilus acuitur." L 143 b, col. 2. It ends : '' vlixes autem vixit annis nonaginta tribus et infeliciter mortuus est in regno sue."

The last section begins : ** Sed in hoc loco dares presenti operi finem fecit." f. 144 b. It chiefly consists of items taken from Dares, and ends : '' Diomedes vero interfecit r^em antipum regem esterion regem prothenorem et regem opthome[n]um." f. 144 b, 001.2.

3. Three epitaphs, the first two on Hector, and the third on Achilles: the first consisting of a simple hexameter, and the second and third being each in ten elegiacs, f. 145.

The lines are marked by points, but are not in any other way distinguished from the text of the last section, though they are pre&ced by the following (which is also written as part of the text) : '' Epithafia vero hectoris et achillis sunt ista hectoris enim sunt hec et suffecisset primus versus qui valde compendiosus est et omnia comprehendens qui talis est." The first epitaph is : ^ Troum protector danaum metus hie iacet hector."

The second and third begin severally thus :

a. '* Defensor patrie iuuenum fortissimus hector/Qui murus miseris duibus alter erat."

h " Epitafium achiUis . pelides ego sum Thetidis notissima proles . Cui nirtus clarum nomen habere dedit."

4. The epilogue begins: ''Ego autem guide de columnis predictum ditem grecum in omnibus sum secutus," etc. f. 145. After saying that he had tried to render Dictys into a finer style

46 OLASSIOAL BOMANOES—TBOT.

than that of the original, he says : ^' in tantnm institi spiritos sancti gratia ministrante qnod infra tres* menses a xy • die yidelicet mensis Septembris prime indictionis Tsqae ad xxy • diem mensis Nouembris proximo subsequentis opus ipsum in totnm per me perfectnm extitit et completam licet longe ante ad instanciam domini Mathei de porta venerabilis salemitani archiepisoopi [1263-1272] magne scientie yiri de presenti opere composuerim primnm librum.*' f. 145.

The epilogue ends : ^ ad presentis opens perfectionem effica- citer laboraui." To this m added : ** Factum est autem presens opus anno dominioe incamacionis millesimo duoentesimo octo- gesimo septimo eiusdem prime indictionis felidter."

Colophon : ^^ Explicit excidium troianum." f. 145, col. 2.

The text agrees with the printed editions, of which the first dated was published at Cologne in 1477. See Brunet, under the heading of *' Columna Messan. (Ouido de)."

Additional 22,155.

Vellum ; xirth cent. Folio; ff. 61, in doable columns, having 52 lines to !

a column. Written in an Italian hand ; with two illuminated initials (the firgt containing the figure of a man) at the beginning, and about 40 initials coloured red and blue in the body of the volume. Bound in oak boards, with clasps, and a figured leather back.

HiSTOBiA Trojana. By Gruido delle Colonne. In 35 books, together with a prologue and an epilogue. Laiin. The date of the composition (with the exception of the first book) is given in the epilogue as 15th September to 25th November 1287.

1. The prologue is headed, in red : '' Incipit prologus super storiam de casu Troie compositus per iudicem Guidonem de colu[m]pna messane.*' Begins : *' Etsi quotidie uetera reoentibus obruant." f. 1. Ends : ^ ad eius narrationis seriem acoedamus."

2. The history itself, ff. 1-61. The first book is headed, in red: '^De Peleo rege thesalye

ducente Jasonem ut se oonferat ad aureum uellus habendum. Rubrica." Begins: *'In regno Thesalie de predicte . s[cilicet] prouinciis Bomanie cuius incole Mirmidones dicti sunt."

The last book has the space left for the heading unfilled ; but

CLASSICAL EOMANCE&-TEOY. 47

the heading is given below, thus : *^ Licipit liber xxxv et nltimus de morte nlissis etc." The book begins : ^ De narranda igitar morte Yiixis ad presens alijs omissis presentis historie stilus acuitur." f. 59.

The history concludes^ after narrating the death of Ulysses according to the work of Dictys Cretensis, with various items out of Dares Phrygius, ending: '^Diomedes uero Interfecit Begem Antipum . Begem Esterion . Begem Protenorem . Begem Opto- menum."

3. The epilogue begins: ''Et Ego Guide de Columpnis pre- dictum Ditem Grecum . in omnibus sum secutus." fol. 61, col. 2. It ends : ^ ad presentis operis perfectionem efficaciter Laboraui."

To this is added : '' Factum est antem presens opus/ Anno dominice incamatiouis/millesimo/et GCLXXxyn? eiusdem prime Indictionis feliciter Amen«"

Colophon : '' Explicit liber de Casu Troie Deo gratias." f. 61b.

4. Three epitaphs, the first two on Hector, and the third on Achilles ; the first consisting of a single hexameter, and the two others being each in 10 elegiacs, as described from the preceding copies, f. 61 b.

Harley 176.

YeUTun ; xvth cent. Bnodeciino ; fif. 180^ each page having from 28 to 39 lines. Written in England ; with initials in blue, flooiished with xed, and

with an illuminated initial and border at the beginning.

.

HiSTOBiA Tbojana. By Guide delle Colonne. In 35 books, with a prologue and an epilogue. Latin.

1. The prologue, ff. 1, 2. Begins : " Licet cotidie Tetera re- oentibus obruant." Ends : Superest igitur vt ad eius narracionem accedatur." To this is added : " Finitur prohemium."

2. The history itself; beginning: ^'YnThesalie de predicto regno pertinencijs romanie cuius incole Mirmidones dicti sunt." f.2.

The 35th (and last) book is headed : ^' Incipit liber trice- simus quintus et vltimus de mirabili casu mortis vlixis facta per quemdam filium eius." fiegins : *^ Yeneranda [no] igitur morte vlixis obmissis ad presens alijs presentis historie stillus acuitur."

48 CLASSICAL ROMANCES— TEOY.

f. 177. Ends: '^Diomedes uero interfedt Begem, amtypum Begem Esteriom Begem protLenorem et Begem Optomennm.*' f. 180.

Colophon : " Explicit deo gracias." f. 180.

3. Three epitaphs, the first two on Hector, and the third on Achilles. In that upon Achilles, the sixth line (a pentameter) has been omitted by mistake.

4. The epilogue, f. 180. Begins : '* Ego guido<le columpnis predictum ditom grecum in omnibus sum sequtus." Ends : '^ ad presentis operis perfeccionem efficaciter laboraui." To this is added : '^ Factum est autem presens opus Anno dominioe incar- nacionis millesimo ducentesimo octuagesimo Septimo eiusdem prime indictionis feliciter."

Harley 3637.

Vellum; xvth cent. Folio; flf. 88, in double columns, each column having 43 lines. Written in Italy; with initials in blue and red, and an illuminated border, etc., at the beginning (t 3), where a modem owner has added his initials, "F.M."

HisTOBiA Trojana. By Guide delle Oolonne. In 30 books. With a prologue and epilogue, and with a table of chapters at the beginning. Latin.

1. Table of chapters, f. 1.

Heading, in red : " Incipit liber de casu Troye prologus.'* f. i . Ends : " Capitolo • i • Liber • xxx • De piro poet recessum a troya . Capitolo • n? De morte vlixis." f. 2.

2. The prologue, f. 3.

Heading, in red : '' In nomine dei etemi saluatoris nostri Incipit liber de casu troie prologus." Begins : ** Si et cotidie Vetera recentibus obruantur/non nulla tamen dudum iam uetera preces- serunt que sic sui magnitudine uiuaci sunt digna memoria." Ends : " superest enim ut ad eius narrationis seriem accedamus."

To this is added, in red : " Finit prologus.**

3. The history itself, f. 3 b.

The first book is headed, in red : " Incipit tractatus de rege Pelleo inducente Jasone mire ad aureum uellus." To this is added

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on the margin: ''Capitolo i^" (the whole book being only one chapter). It begins : ** In regno thesalie de predicte . 8[cilicet] prouincijs romanie cnins incole mirmidones dicti sunt."

The last book, which is the 30th, is here mistakenly headed^ in red : " Uber xxxnn'"." f. 85. After the death of Ulysses (re- lated in the second chapter) comes the usual concluding section, in which various items out of Dares Phrygius are given, ending : "Diomedes uero interfecit regem Antipum regem Esterion et regem P[ro]thenorem/regem Optomenum et sagittarium.'*

4. Two epitaphs, the one on Hector, and the other on Achilles, each in 10 elegiacs, f. 87 b, col. 2.

5. The epilogue, f. 87 b, col. 2. Begins : ''Et ego Guido de columnis predictum Ditem grecum in omnibus sum sequtus." Ends: "ad presentis operis prosequtionem efBcaciter laboraui." To this is added : " quod quidem opus factum est Anno dominice incamationis Millesimo ducentesimo octuagesimo septimo prime Indictionis feliciter . Amen."

Colophon : "Explicit liber de casu troie . deo gratias . Amen.'*

Royal 12. D. iii. & 38-143.

Vellum; xvthcent. Quarto; ff. 106,haYing firom d0to36 lines to a page. Written in England ; with initials in blue and red.

For an accoimt of the contents of the whole volume, see the description of the Latin poem on Troy by Simon Chdvre d'Or.

HiSTOBiA Tbojaka. By Guido delle Colonne. In 37 boohs. With a prologue and epilogue. Latin. Between the 26th book (£ 118 b) and the 30th (f. 128 b) the books are left unnumbered.

1. The prologue, f. 38. Begins: "Licet cotidie Vetera recenii bus obuiant.'' Ends : ** superest ergo vt ad eius narrandam seriem accedatur."

2. The history itself, f. 38 b.

Begins: "In regno Thesalie de predicte scilicet pertinenciis Bomanie cuius Incole mirmidones dicti sunt." f. 38 b.

The last book is described in the margin thus: "Liber 3 et vlterius [37 et ultimus] de morte vlixis a Thelagonio filio sue interfecti"; and the text is very corrupt. It begins: ^' Ee narrando igitur de morte Ylixis superius omisso . ad presens

JB

^

50 CLASSICAL ROMANCES— TROY.

historie stilus acuitur." f. 140 b. The narrative of the death of Ulysses ends : '^ Ylixes antem vixit annis septuaginta tribos et infeliciter est mortaus in regno sue."

After this there is a concluding section, beginning : ''Set in hoc loco dares presenti operi finem fecit " ; and ending : '' Set et Firms interfecit Panthasilleam Begem Priamum et eius filiam Polixenam." f. 142 b.

3. The epilogue begins : '' Ego autem . Guide de Columpna predictum Ditem Orecuin in omnibus sum secutus/' f. 142 b. It ends : " ad presentis operis perfeccionem e£Scaciter laboraui."

To this is added : '' Factum est autem . presens opus similiter et finitum . anno dominiee Incarnacionis MLUesimo ducentesimo Octogesimo septimo." f. 143.

Royal 13. C. zii. ff. 6-82 b.

Vellum; xvth cent Folio; ffl 77, hATing 41 to 48 lines to a page. Written in England; with initials in red. Followed by :

1. Bomance of Alexander, known as Historia de Preliis. f. 83.

2. Flos Historiaram, by Haito the Armenian, ff. 110-142 b.

Historia Trojana. By Guide delle Colonne. Divided into sections, but without any headings or numbers. Latin. The date of the composition (after that of the first book) is wrongly given at the end as 1297, for 1287.

1. The prologue, f. 6. Begins : " Si et cotidie vera recentibus obuiant.'' Ends: ^'Superest ergo vt ad eius narraeionis seriem accedant."

2, The history itself, f. 6 b.

The first section begins : '' In regno Thesalie de predicte scilicet pertinencijs romane . cuius Incole Mirmidones dicti sunt."

The last section begins : " De narranda igitur morte Vlixis. omissis ad presens alijs presentis historie stilus autor [acuitur]." f. 80 b.

At the end are the names, taken out of Dares Phrygius, of those principal chiefs that were slain, on the one side by Hector and Paris, and on the other by Achilles and Diomed. f. 82.

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3. Three epitaphs, two on Hector, and tiie third on Achilles* f.82.

4. The epilogue, f. 82 b. Begins : ** Ego autem Guido de columpnis predictam Ditem grecum in omnibus sum sequutus." Ends : ** ad presentis operis perteccionem eSicaciter laboraui . etc."

To this is added : '^ Factum autem est presens opus . Anno Dominice Incarnacionis . Millesimo co™**iin" • xvii • eiusdenr prime indiccionis felici certamine."

Colophon : « Explicit liber de casu Troie :^ etc. qd' J.S." f. 82 b.

Arundel 174.

Yellom; xvth cent. Octayo; £f. 145^ each page having from 25 to S7 lines. Written in England. At the beginning is the signature of "William Howarde • 1500 " ; that is to say, Belted WtU, of Naworth Caatle, son of the 4th Duke of Norfolk, and ancestor of the present earls of Carlisle.

HiSTORiA Tbojana. By Guido delle Colonne. In 37 books ; with a prologue and an epiloorue. LaHn,

1. The prologue, f. 1. Title : ** Incipit prologus super his- toriam Troianam compositam per iudicem guidonem de columpna messanensem . Bubrica."

Begins : ** [L]icet cotidie yetera recentibus obuiant" Endsj: ''Superest igitur vt ad ipeius narracionis seriem accedatur."

2. The history itself, f. 2.

The first book is headed : " Incipit liber primus de peleo "; and begins : *^ [I]n regno Thesalie de predicte . scilicit pertinenciis Bomanie cuius incole mirmidones dicti sunt."

The 37th book is headed : *^ liber yitimus de morte ylixis interfecti a Thelagonio filio suo." Begins : " De narranda igitur morte vlixis." f. 142.

The last book of the history concludes with the usual items out of Dares Phrygius, ending : " Dyomedes vero interfecit Begem Xantipum . Begem Etherion . Begem Prothenorem . et Begem Opthomenum." f. 145.

3. Three epitaphs^ two on Hector^ and the third on Achilles, f. 145.

4. The epilogue, f. 145. Begins: "Ego autem Guydo de columpnis predictum Ditem Grecum in omnibus sum secutus."

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Ends : ** ad presentis operis perfeccionem eflScaciter laboraui." To this is added : '^ Factum est autem presens opus Anno Dominice Incamacionis Millesimo . Ducentesimo . Octuagesimo Septimo eiusdem prime indiccionis feliciter Deo gracias referamus amen." At the foot of this is written : *^ Non reperitur . ybi Jason moriebatur." £ 145 b.

Barley 51. ff. 3-i05b.

Vellum ; xvth cent. Folio; ff. 133, each fall page having 36 lines. With initials in blue, flourished with red, and with an illuminated initial and border at the beginning. Haying note of donation from " frater Bobertus Wesinham " to the monastery of St. Edmund's.

Followed by Peccatorum Consolatio, by Jacobus de Theramo [or do Ancharano]. flf. 106-184 b.

HiSTORiA Trojaka. By Guide delle Colonne. In 85 books ; with a prologue and an epilogue. Latin.

1. Prologue, f. 3. Begins : ** Licet cotidie Tetera recentibus obuient" Ends: ^'Superest ergo vt ad eius narracionis seriem aceedatnr.*'

2. The history itself, f. 3 b. The first book begins : ^ In regno Thessalie de predicte scilicet pertinenciis romanie cuius incole Mirmidones dicti sunt" The 35th (and last) book begins : '^ De narranda igitur morte vlixis." f. 103. It ends : " Diomedes yero interfecit regem Exanthipum Begem Ethiorion regem Prothenorem et regem Optomemam." f. 104 b.

3. Three epitaphs^ the first two on Hector, and the third on Achillea, f 104 b.

4. The epilogue. £ 105. Begins : "Ego vero Guide de colump- nb predictum ditem grecum in omnibus sum secutus." Ends : " ad presentis operis perfeccionem e£5caciter laboraui."

Colophon : '^ Factum est autem presens opus anno dominice incamacionis millesimo ducentesimo octogesimo septimo eiusdem prime indiccionis feliciter a Guydone de columpnis.''

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Harley 4387.

Paper and yellum, every eight leaves of paper being enclosed between two of yellum; late xvth cent Quarto; ff. 175, each page having 28 to 35 lines. With initials in red, and an illuminated initial at the beginning. Written by a French hand. On a fly-leaf at the end is written, in a hand of the 16th cent. : " Hunc libnun ego papie emi pro quo solui vnum florenum aureum." The signature of the writer is erased, with the exception of the designation of his native place, which is written " besantinus " [of BesanQon]. On the binding are stamped the arms of Foucault, and ioside is a book-plate bearing the same arms, and the inscription : " Ex bibUotheca Nicolai Joseph Foucault Gomitis Consistoriani."

HiSTORiA Tbojana. By Guido delle Colonne. Li 85 books ; with a prologue and an epilogue. Latin.

1. The prologue, f. 1. Title, in red : "Licipit prologue super ystoria Troiana composita per Guidonem iudicem de columpnis messanensem Bubrica."

Begins : *^ Si et cothidie yetera recentibus obruant/nonnulla tamen iam dudum Vetera precesserunt/que sic sui magnitudine vinaci sunt digna memoria." Ends : '' Superest ergo vt ad ipsius narracionis seriem accedatur."

2. The history itself, f. 2 b.

Each of the books is preceded by a rubric, in red. That of Book I. begins : " Incipit liber primus de peleo rege."

Book I. begins : '^ In Regno thesalie."

The rubric of the last book is as follows : ^* Incipit liber. XXXV • et vltimus de morte vlixis," f. 171.

The book begins : "De narranda Igitur morte Vlixis." f.lTlb.

It concludes with the usual items out of Dares Phrygius, ending : " Dyomedes yero interfecit Begem Antipum Begem Esterion Begem Prothenorem et Begem Optomenum." f, 174 b.

3. Three epitaphs, two on Hector, and the third on Achilles.

f. 174 b.

4. The epilogue, f. 175. Begins: "Ego autem guido de

columpnis predictum ditem greceni \8%c\ in omnibus sum secutus." Ends : ** ad presentis operis perfectionem efficaciter laboraui." To this is added : " Factum est autem presens opus anno dominice incamacionis millesimo ducentesimo octuagentesimo [sic\ septimo eiusdem prime indictionis feliciter Amen."

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Harley 3681.

Paper; late xvth cent. Folio; ff. 140, haying SO to 36 lines to a full page. With initials in red. In a foreign hand.

HiBTORiA Trojaka. By Guido delle Colonne. Divided into sections, but without any headings or numbers. Imperfect to- wards the end of the last book but one. Latin,

1. The prologue begins: ^'Et si cottidie yettera recentibus obruant non nuUi tamen iam dudum Vetera preoessenint que sue sic magnitudine viuaci stmt digna memoria." f. 2.

The prologue has been commenced also on f. 1, but was dis- continued, probably on account of its having been badly written.

2. The history itself. Imperfect, ff. 2 b-141 b.

Begins: ^'In regno Thesalie predicte cum suis pertinencijs Bomane cuius Incole liirmidonefl dicti sunt."

It breaks off in the middle of the narrative of Ulysses, where he is relating his escape from the Sirens, ending with the words : ^'In has igitur Syrenes incidi Et ne socij mei mecum involuerentur simili soporis errore meis artibus."

Royal 16. F. iz.

Vellum; late xvth cent Folio; ft 100, in double oolumns. Written in two different French hands, a full column of the one (ft 18-24 b) containing 58 lines, and a fall column of the other (ff. 25-100 b) containing 41 lines. With illuminated initials and 34 miniatures and borders. On the last fly-leaf (f. 101 b) is the following in another hand : " en cest liure sont zu caiers et demy et zzxv historez."

HiSTOBiA Tbojana. By Guido delle Colonne. Translated in 1380y by order of the Mayor of Beauvais, for the purpose of presentation to King Charles. With the prologue. French, Charles V. of France died, and-was succeeded by Charles VL, on 16th September 1380.

The first rubric is as follows : " Cy commence la vie de la piteuse destruction de la noble et suppellatiue cite de troye la

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CLASSICAL EOMANCES-TEOY. 55

grant £eucte et ordonnee par abrege de moy guy de la coulompne messaae [messane] . Et translatee en francois . Premierement du commandement dii maire de la cite de beaunais. En nom et en lonneur de . Earles le Boy de franee . Ian mil - ccc • quatrevingz." f. 1.

This is followed by : " Cy commence le prologue." The pro- logue begins : ^* Combien que tons les iours les anciennes choses oommnnement soyent mises en oubly pour la cause des nouueles naturelement plaisans a oyr ou a Begarder. Neantmains aucunes choses passees sent ou furent de si grant excellence . et si notables a recorder et remembrer . que ne vielesse ne mors de yer ne les peult deffacer." f. 1.

After complaining of the fables of Homer and the other poets, it goes on : ^' Mais pource que la verite des aucteurs qui loyau- ment et proprement ont escript puisse demourer tout tempz aux habitans en la region doccident Pource au profilt et deduit de ceulx qui eutendent gramaire . et qui scoyuent la verite distinguer de la fauscete . je propre iuge de la coulompne messane . ce que jay peu lyre et comprendre de la verite de la dicte hystoire veul cy ordonneement escripre . et registrer sans aucune fiction/' etc. f. 1, col. 2.

The prologue gives some account of Dictys and Dares, and of what will be added to them in the work itself, and it ends : ** Ces choses sont presuposees. U est tempz que nous commencons a racompter la maniere de la dicte destruction." f. 1 b.

The work itself seems to have been intended to be divided into 85 Jbooks, but many of them are left unnumbered. The first that is numbered is the seventh (£ 17 b), and the last is the 29th (f. 76). The commencement of each book, excepting the first and 14th, is denoted by a miniature. The last numbered book, the 29th, only relates the incidents just following the death of Penthe- silea ; and after this there are six miniatures. The miniatures are on the following pages : ff. 1, 3, 4, 8 b, 11 b, 14 b, 17 b, 20, 24 b, 25 b, 28, 30, 32 b, 39, 47, 48 b, 50, 51 b, 55, 56, 58, 60 b, 62 b, 64, 66 b, 71, 73, 76, 80, 85, 88 b, 92, 95 b, 98 b.

The first book begins : " Ou Eoyaume de thesalie de la pro- uince de la dicte romanie • eji quel habitent vne gent quon appelle myrioudons. combien que maintenant nous les appellons solondns . regna iadis ung roy noble home et iuste quon nommoit pelleuB auec sa femme quon appelloit thetide." f. 2 b.

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At the end of the first destruction of Troy are inserted 82 lines of verse, most of them in the form of an address to ^* Lam- medon " (Laomedon), beginning :

^' O tout homme noble et gentil desperit Se entendu bien vous aues cest escript." f. 11. And ending :

** Car myeux souuent vault amy en haye Que or ne argent ne denier en couroye." f. 11 b. At the end of the rape of Helen, and the drowining of Castor and Pollux when in pursuit of Paris, are 192 lines of verse, moralisiug on three subjects, which are stated in the 14 opening lines, as follows :

** Par tons ces points cy dessus recitez Peult estre engin dentendans ezcitez De trois choses apperceus au mains La premiere est que tons desirs humains Qui pour le moins met le plus en peril Na pas le sens aduise ne subtil La seconde est quen toute compaignie On doit croire sa plus saine partie Et la tierce est que ieune ou belle fiUe Tant soit sage bien a prinse et subtille Se na conduit seur puissant et ferme Ne doit yssir les bournes ne le terme De son hostel et quant elle a mari A feste ou gieu ne doit aller sans luy." f. 22 b. These verses end : •

" Gentilles dames prenez a exemplaire Ne vueilles pas aux gens estranges plaire Soyes simples* et en voz maisons coyes Et ne vueilles tant aller par les voyes." f. 23. The last (and 35th) book, as indicated by the miniature, begins : ** Ceste preste histoire cy toutes autres choses laissees se reueille et rauoye de racompter de la mort de vlixes." f. 98 b.

It concludes with the usual item« out of Dares, of which the laat begins as follows: ''Et puis derrainement dit dares que les plus notables et principaulx des deux parties des troyens et des grees occis et occises furent cestuy comme le plus vaiUant." At this point is inserted : '' Explicit la destruction de troyes la grant." The last item then continues with the list of the

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slain, beginning : ** ^ector occist " ; and ending : ** Dyomede occist le Toy antippe . le roy exeteron . le roy protenor . et le roy optho- mene."

Colophon : " Cy fine listoire tresplaisant de la destruction de troye la grant."

This MS. does not correspond with any of the printed editions. There is another copy of the same text in the Bnrgnndy Library in Brussels : see the Catalogue de$ MwMiscrits de la BiU. Bayale des Dues de Bourffoffne, tome ii., 1842, p. 202, where it is described as being a MS. of the latter part of the 13th cent.

Additional 9785.

Paper; about aj>. 1500. Quarto; ff. 243, baying from 28 to 31 lines to a fall page. Written by a French hand ; with initials in bine and red.

HisTORiA Tbojana. By Guido delle Colonne. A translation, with additional sections on the adventores of Landramatha, son of Hector. Imperfect at the beginning. French.

The first page, which is mutilated, relates to the gifts that Medea gave to Jason, and it begins : ** Apr[es] defferma medea [yn]g pitit escrinher sien et traist hors vne ymage par art aabtillement fiedcte et la bailla a Jason et dist . Tu pourteras cecy auec toy car tant com ta laoras Biens qui soit ne te fault doubter Apres lui bailla vng onguement et dist quil en deust oindre son corps Car jl le deffendroit du feu et de venim." f. 1.

After f. 18, which ends with the rubric : ** Goument paris se offry daler En gresse/' there is a gap ; and the speech of Paris, his voyage to Greece, and his first meeting with Helen are missing. The next leaf begins with the harangue made by Paris, to his men, before the rape of Helen, thus : ^' A sa voulente. Et quant Tint le soyr paris et see compaignons sen alerent vers leurs nefs/et quant ils furent tons assambles paris parla/et dist/ ** etc. f. 19.

The first of the three sections corresponding with that which is the last in the original Historia Trojana is headed with the following rubric : '* Comment Ylixes arriua en sa terre/et yit sa mort par vision/Et comment jl fist mectre son filz thelamacus en prison/Et comment lui mesmes senferma dedens vne forte- resse pour la dite vision.'* f. 231 b.

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The section headed as above and the two following ones lelate the death of Ulysses, ending with the departure of his son, here called ^' Theologns/' to rejoin his mother Circe, here called ** Cizis." After this there are nine sections, of which the first is headed thus: ^^Ci appres parle le Compte de landramatha le filz Hector/comment jl Betourna a troye/£t comment jl fist mourir honteusement le vieil Calcas de troye qui encores yiuoit" f. 236 b.

The other sections relate how Landramatha conquered the whole East; and the last of them is headed: ^Comment landra- matha Tsa sa vie auec themarida sa femme." f. 242 b.

It ends : '' Et quant il ot tant yescu comme il pleust a ceUuy qui cree lauoit si sen ala par la Toye ou vont tons les humains corps." f. 243.

This son of Hector is only just mentioned by Guide, who calls him Laumedon. Guide's original, Benott de Sainte-More, calls him Landomata (printed edition), or Laudomanta (Harley 4482, f. 184), or Laudomenta (Harley 4482, f. 184 b).

At the end of this romance is the following : ** Gi yous ay orez menne a la fin de la yraye ystoyre de Troye Sellon ce quelle fut trouuee et escripte en larmoyre de saint poul de chounte [?] en gregoys lengaige. — Et de gregoys je lay translatee en francois/ non pas par Byme ne par yers/ou il conuient Par force men- songes maintes mectre Gomme font ses menestiers qui de leur langue font mainteffoys de quoy ilz font souuent leur prouffit/et aultruy domaige. — Mais par de droit compte cellon ce que je le trouay sans reus couurir de yerite ou de mensonge demonstre en telle manyere que nulz ny pourroit reus ajoindre ne muer qui pour yray deust estre remue."

Golophon : '' Ge la fin de la yray ystoire de Troye/ou tant de roys et de princes moururent en tant de douloureuses batailles pour si petit docasion comme dit est."

The present translation of Guide is more floridly paraphrased than the printed editions, one of which is called Troye la QraMt (Lyons, 1480?), and the other, Les lliades de Ebmere (Paris, 1530). The translation in Boyal 16. F. ix. is difierent from all of them ; and the same might probably be said of the fragment on one leaf in Lansdowne 229, only that it cannot be compared with the present MS., the corresponding passage here (the first meeting of Paris and Helen) being lost.

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Lansdowne 380. ff. 36-39 b.

Paper ; xYith oeni Octayo ; ff. 4, each full page having 28 to 80 Imes. With the first initial of the rubric in bine, and the first initial of the yerses in red.

The rest of the yolmne, consisting of 280 leaves altogether, contains miscel- laneons French poems, chiefly by Pierre de Nesson, and Charles, Dnke of Orleans, intermixed with a few religions and medical treatises in prose. At the b^inning (f. 1) is the name of an owner, Thomas Kendall, and at f. 8 that of " E. de Kyngstone," both of the 16th cent.

Abbidgment of the Histobia Trojana of Guide delle Colonne, entitled, •* Listoire de troye la grant abregee." In verse. French, It is in 51 stanzas, of which 50 contain four lines each, and one stanza (the fourth) contains six lines, amounting to 206 lines altogether. The first stanza is as follows :

** Yason et Hercules yers colcos sen aloyent A yng port des troyens . rafreschir se cuidoyent Mais tost les fist partir . le roy laymedon Dont troye fut puis arse . et lui mort sans pardon." f. 36. The last stanza is as follows :

'« Dix ans dura le siege • xii Jours . et • yi • mois vm? et • yi mil hommes morurent des gregois Des meilleurs des troyens • vi? cinquante six, Cy fine labregie . selon daire . et • titia" Colophon : " Cy fine listoire abregiee de la destrnooion de troye la grant." f. 39 b.

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Arundel 6. ff. 242-^42 b.

Paper; xTth cent Folio; ft 101, in double colnznns, each oolmnn having 40 lines. With initialB in red.

The whole yolume contains the following, in German :

1. Bulla Aurea of the emperor

Charles IV. (1346-1878). 1 1.

2. Two short accounts of the statutes and of the proyinces of the empire; one in Terse and the other in prose, ff. 25, 26 b.

3. Das puch genant Frouinciale; lists of bishoprics in both Western and Eastern churches, f . 29 b.

4. Lists of monastic and military orders. 1 40, col. 2.

5. Papers on the rules for obtain- ing indulgences, f . 42 b.

6. Voyage from Venice to Alex- andria, in 1434. f . 53 b, col. 2.

7. Chronicles of Martinus Polonus. 159.

8. The present article, ff. 242-342.

At the end of the yoyage to Alexandria (f. 58) is written : " Finitum et completum per me Johannem Schumann de luczenburg Anno domini mil- lesimo quadringentesimo sezagesimo feria secunda post exultacionis [sic] sancte crucis" (Monday, 15th September 1460).

HiSTOBiA Tbojana. By Goido delle dolonne. In 30 books. South German.

The prologue is omitted : and the translation ends with the first half of the section of the Historia entitled : *' De exilic enee et religacione anthenoris a troia et morte thelamonij aiacis.'* It appears, howeyer, as if it had been intended to continue the translation, as on the last page (f. 342 b, col. 2) there is the commencement of another heading : '^ Hie hebt s." Moreoyer, the printed edition, with which the present MS. pretty closely agrees (namely, that of Augsburg, 1488), continues the work to the end, though in a somewhat condensed form, and rearranged.

The present copy begins : ^ Ein kunckreich hiesz Thesalia in dem lande zu Bomani die lewt in dem landt hiessen Mirmidonee Ton den selben leuten man schreibt in sandt Matheus legend/das selb lant heist iecz aprucz/Zu den czeiten was ein konig in dem lanndt Edler ynd gewaltiger geheischen Peleus vnd sein weip hiesz Thedida."

It ends, after some account of Cassandra's prophecy of the death of Agamemnon, with the following sentence : '' Es [the initial of which was first written 17] ging in allenn vbell ynnd das man yon jglichen besunder suldt schreyben des wurdt zu mall Till Es war vor Troy gestrietenn zehenn jar sechs menet vnnd xii tag da wardt die stadt verraten vonn Anthenor ynd Bnea die

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da allczeit in der stadt mechtig vnnd wol geporen waren ynd woll geeret yon dem kunig ynd teten vnd tetenn [sic] doch ein gros mort vnd vbel ann dem kunig vndd ann der stadt/' So far this copy agrees with printed edition (Augsburg, 1488), which, however (f. 147 b), only adds the words "zu Troya/* etc., and closes the section, but continues the work for ten leayes more. The present copy continues thus : *^ gemeyntlich vnd das geschach pey xii hundart Jaren vor Christus gepurt vnnd der Krichenn wurdenn erslagenn viii hundart tausent vnd Achtzig Tausent. So wurdenn apff der von Troy seytenn erslagenn ee die stadt gewunnen wart Sechs hundart moll tausent vnd sechs vnd achtzig Tausent als man in den altenn puchemn geschriebenn findet." To this is added : ** Et sic est finis.** But at the top of the second column, as before mentioned, is the beginning of another heading, in red : *' Hie hebt s."

Li the printed edition (Augsburg, 1488) the numbers of the slain on the Greek side are stated to be 947,000 ; those on the Trojan side are the same as in the MS.

Lansdowne 229. f. 164.

Vellum; znrth cent. Folio; one leaf in double columns, each column having 42 lines. With initials in red and blue.

Bound up at the end of a i)aper yolmne of misoellanea, taken ftom chronicles, etc., in the handwriting of William Camden, dated 1573.

HiSTORiA Tbojana. By Guide delle Colonne. A single leaf from a free paraphrase of Gaido's Historia, or rather, perhaps, from some romance founded upon it. Frendh.

This leaf contains the conclusion of an account of the arriyal of Paris at the island of Cythera, a description of *'la bele Helayne la fame an Boi Menelaus," and the commencement of the account of their meeting in the temple. There is an especially minute description of the gems in Helen's coronet, including an account how Ulysses increased his powers of per- suasion by the virtues of an amethyst in his ring. The description of Helen is here inserted before her meeting with Paris, whereas Guide has first described their meeting in the temple of Venus,

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and then be tells how Paris inspected the person of Helen, and thns a description of Helen is introduced. The description given by Guide seems to be one of the few original passages in his work ; it does not occur in that of Benott de Sainte-More.

The present fragment begins : '^ . . • • a meruoilles furent bele gent::^ Parmi le chastel sen passerent et regarderent sua et ius. riche gent i nirent assez . et moult se pristrent garde entapissaige sanoir se il peussent de riens greuer ceus dou chastel • mes il ni nirent chose nnle dont il peussent son pron &ire • Tant i passerent et alerent et tant entrerent en parfunt et uindrent insques a eel temple de madame dyane et a celui de madame yenus ou la feste estoit . et nirent ciaus de grece qui fesoient les sacrefices riches et les riches offrendes et les beaus presanz a la deesse:^ — A cele feste estoit uenne la bele Helayne."

It ends : *^ Qvant Paris uint au temple si nestnz et si atomez conme nos anons deuant dit . li murmures dou pueple lieue et la nonele uient a madame Helayne qui estoit hautemeut assise."

For the passage describing Helen in Ouido, see the middle of the section headed : ^* De numero nauium quas troiani duxerunt in grecorum depopulacionem."

Additional 4869. «. 2-66.

Paper; ajd. 1679. Folio ; ff. 65, haying 37 to 89 lines to a page. With initials in red and green. Forming the first of five sagas, written by J6n Th6r%arson, at the expense of Magnds Jdnason of Yigur, an island in IsafjorVr, in the north-western peninsula of Iceland, in the years 1679, 1680. The whole Yolume contains:

1. The present article, f. 2.

2. Magus Jarls saga. f. 67.

3. Orkneyinga saga. f. 102.

4. Octayiani saga. f. 161.

5. Addonii saga. ff. 206-235.

Tb6jumanna Saga : translated from a Danish abridgment of the Historia Trojana of Guide delle Golonne. Diyided by the ornamental initials into 28 sections. Icelandic.

Heading : ** Hier hefur Troiu Manna Saugu fra IJpphafe til Enda og so hvominn Troia hin vollduga borg yar af gryckinmm unninn og inntekinn fra upphafi yeraUdar ]fi liiSinn yoru 2782 aar J^a Abdon yar Doomari biaa Israels L/d." Begins: *'Pelias hefur kongur beited hann bio i kongs ryke )>ui er Tessalia heiter,

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broder atti hann er Eson hiet." Ends : " Suo hefur nn bardage J^ease sorglegur yered jafnvel ]^im Gryckium sialfum, suo sem Troiu monnumm Upptokenn lytel, framm drattariun moedu samlegur, og haska fullar. Og suo feinged ymm s^der Eim hormulegami og sorgarfullaun Enda." This is followed by the account of the nuodbers killed on both sides, ending : ^ Hector drap atian konga, Paris fi6ra Eneas tuo, Achilles x konga." Below this is an omament, enclosing the date ^ 1679."

The Danish work of which this is a translation is entitled : BdliMn Trqjanvmy hisUyriske Beshrwehe om den trqjwnske hriffy itdsaetpaa Danske af Ghrutopher Sivendsifn OUmagrio (Copenhagen, 1623, 4to.). For an account of it, see Basmus Nyerup, Alminddig Morskabslaeminff (Copenhagen, 1816), p. 32. There is another Trojumanna Saga, published by the Boyal Society of Northern Antiquaries, in the Anruderfor Nordisk Oldhy^idighed (Copenhagen, 1848), pp. 4-101 ; but it is quite a different yersion, which was merely intended as an introduction to the Breta Sogur, an adaption of the Historia of Geoffrey of Monmouth. The opening sentence of Guide is at p. 16 of the printed edition, beginning : " Peleus h^t konungr 1 Pelap6nense."

Additional 11,113. ff. i7i-28i.

Paper; xvnith cent. Folio; fif. Ill, each page haying from 17 to 21 lines, in which the yerses are written like prose. The whole yolnme contains :

1. Yemnndar saga og Viga-Skntu. 8. Brandkrossa )>4ttr. f. 84.

f. 1. 4 GuU-p6ris saga, t 92.

2. Gnnnars )>4ttr Pi^randahana. 5. Eonnaks saga. 1 127.

f. 71. 6. The present article, ff. 171-281.

Lays upon the Story op Troy: versified from the Tr6- jnmanna Saga by Jon J6nsson of Berunes in E&st Iceland. In 80 Rfmur (lays). Imperfect at the end. Icelandic.

Title : " Eymur af Troio-Monnum kveBnar af Jone Jons syne a Berunese." Begins:

" Fro&r meistarar fyrr um heim foru og Idndin vySa, liSugt neitte Laungum )>eim Lio^Sa vess aS smy^" ^

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The narrative begins with the acconnt of Pelias, whom it calls ** Felias/' and is brought down to the retnm of the Greeks, including Agamemnon and Diomed, breaking off with the words :

'^ Menelaus yariS miog ut fl8Bm%ur mest af grick — *' f. 281 b. At the foot of the page is written the following, also imperfect : '^YerS til goSa vinur minn p6 vandal litt sie ]^tt aiS band p?i kveSur einginn betnr."

Royal 17. E. ii.

Vellmn; xrth cent Folio; ff. 368, in doable columns, each column haying 30 lines. With illuminated initials, and with 65 miniatures, three large and 62 small, accompanied with borders. Each of the borders attached to the three large miniatures (ff. i, czliii, and cczliii) contains the arms of England at the foot of the page. At the beginning of the Yolnme are seven more leaves, containing the table of contents. Probably executed at Bmges for King Edward IV., about 1470-1480.

Becueil des Histoires de Tboie, here entitled Hercules. By Baoul Le Fevre, chaplain to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. Composed in 1464. In three books, containing 100 chapters altogether. With a table of contents at the beginning. Frmeh,

1. The table of contents is thus headed : *' Cy commence la table des rubrices du liure nomme Hercules." It contains the rubrics of 97 chapters, the first chaj>ter of each book being left without a rubric.

Colophon : '' Et a tant fine la table du liure dercules."

2. Book I., in 89 chapters, ff. i-cxlii b. The first chapter is introductory, and begins : " Tons les filz de Noel espars par les climatz regnes et les estranges habitacions des siecles "; and ends : ^ Je te sauueray la vie ou je morray pour ton salut requerant aux dieux mercy do la maliuolence que jay eue centre toy."

This is followed by 38 chapters with rubrics. The first rubric is as follows : ** Comment dame Cybelle a layde de vesta sa mere sauua Jupiter son filz de mort oultre et pardessus le commandement du roy satume son mary et lenuoya secretement a nounir aux deux fiUes dn roy meliseus." f. x b, col. 2.

This first book treats of Saturn and Jupiter, and the origin of the Trojans, and finally of the history of Perseus, and the birth

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and youthfal exploits of Hercnles. The last rubric of this book is as follows; ^Comment hercnles eut bataille centre le roy laomedon et le vaincqui et destruisy la cite de troyes la premiere fois." f. cxxxvii b.

The first book ends thus : ^* Et ainsy fut troyes destruitte la premiere fois . pourquoy Je metteray fin a ce premier liure/et commeneeray le second/ou sera monstre comment troyes fat reedifiee/et comment elle fut destruicte la seconde fois . en con* tinuant les nobles fiais dhercules ia encommenciez."

Colophon : " Cy fine le premier liore." f. cxlii b, col. 2.

3. Book n., in 30 chapters, ff. cxliii-ccxlii.

The first chapter begins : ** Comme doncquez la vieille Juno par sa mauuaise enuie se donna a ymaginer et songier comment elle pourroit faire mourir heroules.*'

In the printed editions there are seven or eight introductory lines, which are not hera

This second book is taken up with the deeds of Hercules. His destruction of Troy for the second time is in the ninth chapter (ff. clzvib-clxviiib). It concludes with his death, and ends: *^Et icy apres pour la perfection de ce liure traitteray de la generalle destruction de troyes qui vint a loccasion du rauisse- ment de dame helaine femme du noble roy menelaus de grece conmie cy apres sensuit"

Colophon : ** Cy fine le second liure dercules."

4. Book ni.| in 31 chapters, ff. ccxUii-ccclzviiL

This book is preceded by a general rubric, which is almost a repetition of the last sentence of Book n., and which occurs on the same page, as follows : '' Cy apres sensuit le troizieme et derrenier liure dicellui hercnles traictant de la generalle destruc- tion de troyes qui vint a locasion du rauissement de dame helaine . femme du noble roy menelaus de grece."

This third book is little more than a translation of the portion of the Historia of Guide delle Colonne which relates to Priam and his sons. The first chapter is only a very brief introduc- tion, beginning : *' Les [for Es] deux liures precedens nous a layde de dieu auons traittie des deux premieres destructions de troyes."

The first rubric begins : ^ Comment le Boy pryamus assembla iatiB ses barons pour sauoir sil enuoyeroit en grece pour rauoir sa suer exionne • Et de loppinion dector/et de son bon conseil . Et comment pans declaira a son pere la vision et promesse de Venus

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la deeese . Et comment le Boy priamus reedifia la cite de troyes." t ccxliii b.

The last rubric is : ^' De la vision que Ylixes eat en dormant et comment il fut occis de son filz." f. ccclxy b.

After the account of the death of Ulysses occur the usual items from Dares, which conclude the work. They end thus: ^^ Dyomedes occist le roy antiphus . le roy estorius . le roy pro- thenor/et le roy obtomeus." £ ccclzviii.

Colophon : '^ Et atant fine ce present liure nomme hercules.*'

The present copy agrees with the printed editions of the Becueil (with the first of which it is contemporary), except that the printed editions have a general prologue, headed with the title: ** le recueil des hystoires de troies," and ascribing the authorship to Baoul le Feure in 1464, and except also that the second book of the printed editions begins with seven or eight lines which are not found here.

The first printed edition is usually ascribed to Oaxton, and is supposed to have been printed abroad (in the. Low Countries or Cologne) by him about 1470.

Barney 186. ff. ii6-i26.

Paper; about aj>. 1403. Folio; fEl 10, each full page having from 31 to 37 lines.

The present article is preceded by the Histories of Justinus, at the end of which the writer describes himself as " Johannes Stephani de Golognora," a citizen of Lucca, and as having written the Histories on the 15th November, 1403.

A HiSTOBY OF Tbot, £Fom its foundation to its fall : followed by an account of the migrations of the surviving Trojans, and of the cities founded by them in Italy, Spain, France, and Germany. Latin.

The incidents are often mere modem invention& At the time of the fall of Troy, Paris and Helen are spoken of as king and queen; they escape together; and Paris (after sending his follower, ^ berich," to kiU Achilles, f. 124 b) leads a large array of Trojans through Sicily, Italy, and Grermany, into France,

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founding many cities, and ending his days in that of Paris. After this the wanderings of iBneas are described. He is here said to have sailed along the west coast of Italy, the south of France, and the east of Spain, and to have founded Pisa, Marseilles, etc., before he went to Carthage. After the death of Dido, he returns to Italy.

Title, in red : " De Troia."

Begins : '' Anno centesimo quinquagesimo octauo ab aquarum undatione ysque ad ciuitatis troie edificationem." f. 116.

Ends : ^' Post mortem uero dicte Begine cum Ascalfio filia suo, et alijs per mare nauigando iter arripuit, et transiens per sciciliam tandem ubi Tiber in mare fiuit peruenit . Sed uisione habita et responsione vbi nuuc Boma condita est peruenit, sicut habetur in cronica martiniana circha principium." £ 126.

By Ascalfius must be meant Ascanius, though his name is rightly spelt in other places. The *' Cronica Martiniana " is the work of Martinus Polonus, which begins with some brief account of .^Bneas.

Additional 21,240.

Yellmn ; early xrth cent. The date 1374 in the colophon seems to be copied from an earlier MS. Folio ; ff. 90 of verse, having four stanzas of ottava rima to the full page ; preceded by ff. 41 of prose, having 31 lines to the page. With initials in red and blue ; and with the first initial of the poem an illuminated A (f. 5), enclosing a portrait of Boccaccio, and a leopard snrmounted by a scroll bearing the inscription, " Filostrato." To this initial is attached an illuminated border, containing figures in medallions.

FiLOSTRATO : a poem by Giovanni Boccaccio, on the loves of Troilus and Griseida, in 713 stanzas of ottava rima. Preceded by an epistle to '^ Phylomena," saying that the subject of the poem had been first suggested to him by a debate on a Question in a court of love, and then by his reflections upon the same during '' Philomena's " absence from Naples. The story is taken from the Bomance of Troy, whether the French metrical version of Benott de Sainte-More or the Latin prose one of Guide delle Colonne. Italian.

In the present MS. the poem is not divided into regular parts. There are 45 different paragraphs, indicated by coloured

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initials ; which J&eqnentlyy howeyer, only mark the different portions of the dialogue.

In the printed editions the poem is divided into nine parts ; of these. Part i. (containing 57 stanzas) corresponds with the paragraphs in the present MS. from f. 5 to f. 12 ; Part n. (143 stanzas), with ff. 12-30 ; Part in. (94 stanzas) ff. 30-41 b ; Part lY. (167 stanzas) with f. 41 b to the end of the second stanza of f. 62 b, but here there is no indication of the end of a paragraph ; Part V. (71 stanzas) with f. 62 b (from beginning of third stanza) to f. 71b; Part vi. (34 stanzas) ff. 71b-75b; Part vii. (106 stanzas) f. 75 b to the end of the first stanza of f. 89, but without any indication of a paragraph here ; Part vin. (33 stanzas) f. 89 (from beginning of second stanza) to the end of the second stanza of f. 93, but without any indication of a paragraph here ; Part ix« (eight stanzas) f. 93 (&om beginning of third stanza) to f. 94.

The introductory epistle is headed, in red : '' Comincia il libro chiamato phylostrato composto per lo eloquente meser iohanni di boccaccio da certaldo poeta illustre . Pistola alia sua piu che altra piaceuole phylomena." £ 1.

Begins : ** Molte fiate gia nobilissima donna auenne che io il quale quasi dalla mia puen^ia infino ad questo tempo ne seruigi damore sono state." Ends : ^ II mio lungo sermone da se medesimo chiede fine • et percio dandoglele/prjego colui che nolle yostri mane a posta la mia uita et la mia mortechelli nel uostro cuore quelle disio accenda che solo essere puo cagione della mia Salute.'^ f.4.

The paragraph, which occurs at the banning of this epistle in many MSS., and in all the printed editions, beginning : ** Filostrato h il titolo di questo libro," and proceeding to explain the meaning of the name, is not found in the present MS. There are three MSB. described by Bandini, in his CkUalogus BMiotheem Medieeas La/u/renti(msB, tom. v. (Florence, 1778) coll. 134, 193, 379, which begin with this paragraph ; but they are all of the 15th cent, whereas the only copy of the 14th cent, described by him begins like the present MS. See the same volume (tom. v.), col. 134^ cod. xxviii.

The poem is headed, in red : '^ Qui chomincia Ilibro chiamato Filostrato . ordinate et conposto da Messer Giouanni bochaoci . Poeta fiorentino . H quale tratta della morose f&tiche di troylo . Figluolo del Ee priamo, di Troya." f. 5.

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The first stanza is as follows :

" Alcim di gione solgliono il fauore ne lor principij pietosi inuocare altri dapoUo chiamano il nalore Jo di Pamaso le muse pregare solea ne mie bysogni ma amore nouellamente ma facto mntare il mio costume anthico et usitato poi fu di uoi ma dompna inamorato." f. 5. At the beginning of the poem, in Stanzas m., xi. and xix. (ff. 5y 6, 7), the heroine is called'' Briseyda " (the name that is given her in the books of Benott de Sainte-More and Guide delle Colonne)| although she has already been called " Griseyda ** in the introduc- tory epistle. In the rest of the poem she is called " Griseyda." The last stanza is as follows:

" Ma guarda che cosi alta Ambasciata non fiEtcei san^a amor che tu saresti per auentura assai mal raccettata et ancor ben sau^a lui non sapresti se seco yai sarai credo honorata or ua duo priegho AppoUo che ti presti tanto di gratia chascoltata sij et con lieta risposta amme tinuij." f. 94. Colophon, in red: "Finite e il libro decto Filostrato nelli anni • MCGCLXXiiij il quale assai inan^i copose Messer Giouanni Bocchaccij da Gertaldo Fiorentino, nella sua Giouane^ga et in questo anno moij : Amen."

This places Boccaccio's death in 1374, whereas Manni {htoria del Beeamerane, Florence, 1742, pp. 129-136) quotes authorities to show that it happened the 20th December 1375.

The present MS. agrees with the printed editions. The early editions, of which three were published at Venice, Bologna, and Milan, at the dose of the 15th cent., and that in the Opere Vdgari of Boccaccio, vol. xiii. (Florence 1831), are divided into nine parts in the manner stated above. The edition of Paris, 178l>, is differently divided.

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Harley 2280.

Vellum; early xvth cent. Small Folio; with the top margin clipped close; ff. 98, each full page having six scTen-line stanzas. With illtuninated initials to each book and proem. At the end of the yolume is written, in a hand of the 17th cent. : " Mr. Beomonte in Aldersgate streete."

Tboilus and Cbyseyde : a poem txanslated from Boccaccio's FilostratOy with some alterations and considerable additions^ by Geoffrey Chaucer (said to haye been born in 1328, and to have died on the 25th December 1400). In five books and an envoy, containing altogether 1151 seven-line stanzas, with 12 Latin hexameters inserted in Book v. English.

The stanzas are distributed as follows : Book i. contains 155 stanzas, f. 1 ; Book ii. (including a proem) 251 stanzas, f, 14 ; Book III. (including a proem) 252 stanzas, f. 35; Book iv. 238 stanzas, f. 57; Book v. 253 stanzas, f. 77; envoy, two stanzas, f. 98. The poem begins :

"• The double sorowe of troilus to tellen That was the kynge Friamus sone of Troye In louynge how bise auentures fellen Fro wo to wele and after out of ioye My purpos is er that I parte fro ye Thelphone thow help me for tendite This woful vers that wepen as I write." f. 1. In the middle of the address of Cassandra, when she is telling Troilus of the war against Thebes, are inserted 12 hexameters, containing arguments of the 12 books of the Thebais of Statius. They begin : " Associat profugum Tideo \for Tideus] primus polymytem " ; and they end : ^' Argiua flentem narrat duodenus et ignem." f. 93 b. The poem ends :

'' Lo here the forme of olde clerkes speche In poetrie if ze hire bokes seche." The envoy is as follows :

" O moral Gower this boke I directe To the/and the philosophical Strode To vouchen sauf ther nede is to correcte Of zoui'e beuienites and zeles good And to that sothfast criste that sterf on roode With al myn herte of mercy euere I preye

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And to the lord right thus I speke and seye Thow oon and two and thre eteme on lyue That regnest ay in in • and ii • and oon YncircumBcript and al maist circumscrine Ys from Tisible and invisible foon Defende and to thi mercy euerichon So mak ys ihesu for thy mercy digne For lone of maide and moder thyn benigne." Colophon : " Explicit liber Troili et Criseydis. Amen." Printed several times, both separately and in the works of Chaucer, in the 15th and 16th cents. The present MS. has been collated with Harley MSS. 1239 and 3943 by Eobert Bell, in vol. V. of the Poetical Works of Chaucer (1855) ; and it has been taken as the foundation for the text in the last Aldine edition of Chaucer 3 Poetical Works (1866), edited by Richard Morris, For a comparison, by William Michael Bossetti, between this poem and the Filostrato, see the Chaucer Society's publications for 1875.

Additional 12,044.

Vellmn; xvth cent. Quarto; fif. 118, each page, except f. 112, having five seven-line stanzas. With initials in blue and red. At the beginning of the volume are two book-plates, one inscribed: "Ex. bibl. Phillipus D'Auvergne, LL.D, F.RS. Prcef. Class. Eeg. Mag. Brit." and the other with the arms and name of Sir Francis Freeling.

Troilus and Cryseyde. By Geoffrey Chaucer. Imperfect in the middle and at the end of Book v., containing altogether 1128 stanzas, and the 12 Latin hexameters inserted in the fifth book. English,

The stanzas are thus distributed: Book I. contains 155 stanzas, f. 1; Book II. 251 stanzas, f. 16