19 D. IV, V THE SAME WORK, but in the less amplified form called by Berger 'petite bible historiale', though in certain respects (e.g. by inclusion of Baruch) it approximates to the type of bible moyenne (Berger, La Bible française au Moyen Âge, pp. 213, 393). In two volumes. The rubric at the end of Comestor's prefatory letter (f. 3) states that the author has 'escript le texte de la bible premierement de grosse lettre, et puis apres en ord[r]e les hystoires de plus delie lettre un poi, et...
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...
