19 D. VI, VII THE SAME WORK, in the form called by Berger 'grande bible historiale'. In two volumes. The contents agree precisely with those of 15 D. III (see under 19 D. III), even to such blunders as the numeration of three epistles to the Corinthians and the rubric 'lepistre saint Symon apostre' prefixed to 2 Peter. For description see Berger, op.cit., pp. 219, 290, 394. Translator's preface beg. 'Pour ce que le dyable qui chascun jour enordist'. At f. 59 of vol. i is a marginal note 'Qu...
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO, Decameron: French translation made by Laurens de Premierfait from a Latin version which was made for him, as he states in the preface prefixed to the Duc de Berry's copy, by Antonio of Arezzo. This copy is now in Paris, Bibl. Nat. fonds fr. 129 (formerly 67983, see Paulin P...
This manuscript contains the third volume of Le Roman de Perceforest (Anciennes croniques Dangleterre, faictz et gestes du roy Perceforest, et des chevaliers du Franc Palais), revised by David Aubert (fl. 1458-1479), librarian to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy The other two volumes of the set...
19 E. II, III ANCIENNES CHRONIQUES de la Grande Bretagne, or romance of Perceforest, professedly a French translation made by a monk of S. Landelin at Crespin, for William, Count of Hainault, of a work which a clerk named Cressus of the household of Alexander the Great wrote in Greek and partly translated into Latin, and which Count William found in an abbey called 'Wortimer' on the Humber when he visited England in 1307: the third and second volumes (numbered in wrong order) of the work (c...
This manuscript contains the second volume of Le Roman de Perceforest (Anciennes croniques Dangleterre, faictz et gestes du roy Perceforest, et des chevaliers du Franc Palais), revised by David Aubert (fl. 1458-1479), librarian to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy The other two volumes of the se...
'LA FORTRESSE de la Foy', translated by Pierre Richard, dit l'Oiselet, from a Latin original attributed to Alphonso de Spina: an unfinished copy very similar to 17 F. VI, VII (see above), but not in the same hand. Imperfect, wanting a quire after f. 42, a pair of leaves after ff. 126, 132, three...
'LES CRONIQUES DE BURGUES des le commencement du monde par lordre des aages compilees et ordenees en Latin par reuerent pere en dieu Guillaume (sic) euesque de Burgues. Et par le commandement du roy de France Charles le quint translatees en francois par son petit clerconnet frere Jehan Goulein d...