This MS., published in facsimile by Baron A.E.  Nordenskioeld, belongs to the “Cepoy” type of MSS.  Yule wrote in The Athenaeum (17th June, 1882):  “I gather that it has been produced by partial abridgement from one of the earlier MSS. of the type in question.”  And again (p. 766):  “It will be seen that though the publication is a beautiful example of facsimile, it contributes, as far as I have been able to examine it, nothing to the amelioration or elucidation of the text or narrative.”

  The changes and suppressions are much less considerable than in the
  Paris MSS., 5631 and 2810.  Cf L.  Delisle, Bib. de l’Ecole des
  Chartres, XLIII., 1882, pp. 226-235, 424.

  It is incomplete, and ends:  “Et se aucuns disoit qui a lui.”—­Cf.  Paris
  MS., 1880. [Our No. 22]

It belonged to the Library of the French King, Charles V. (1364-1380), and later, as marked on the recto of the last folio, “Pour Symon du Solier demorant a Honnefleu,” who was “procureur-syndic des manants et habitants de la ville de Honfleur.”

H.  Cordier.

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STOCKHOLM
Royal Library, French, No. 38
French.

  Translated from the Latin version.

G.  Raymond, Romania, XI.

[1] + This MS. Fr. 2810 (formerly 8392), known as the Livre des
    Merveilles, belonged to the Library of John, Duke of Berry, at the
    Chateau of Mehun-sur-Yevre, 1416, No. 116 of the catalogue; also No.
    196, p. 186, of Le Cabinet des Manuscrits de la Bibl.  Nationale,
    par.  L. Delisle, III.  Count A. de Bastard began publishing some of the
    miniatures, but did not finish the work.  Of the miniatures, Nos. 1,
    12, 19, 35, 41, 37, 45, 47, 52, 56, 57, 60, 66, 70, 75, 78, 81 are
    engraved, pp. 258, 273, 282, 310, 316, 317, 328, 332, 340, 348, 350,
    354, 381, 392, 406, 411, 417 in Charton’s Voyageurs du Moyen Age,
    vol. ii., besides two others, pp. 305, 395, not identified; [in my
    edition of Odoric, I reproduced Nos. 33, 41, 70, pp. 439, 377,
    207.—­H.C.]; in the present work, Nos 5, 31, 41, 52, 70 are engraved,
    vol. i. pp. 15, 244, 369; Nos. 52, 70, vol. ii. pp. 5, 311.  Nos. 60
    and 75 have been reproduced, pp. 97 and 98 of Faguet’s Hist. de la
    Litterature Francaise, 2nd ed., Paris, 1900.

[2] [Mr. E.W.B.  Nicholson, who thought at first that this MS. was
    written at the end of the 14th century, in his Introduction to
    Early Bodleian Music, by J.F.R.  Stainer and C. Stainer,
    London, 1901, has come to the conclusion (p. xviii.) that it belongs
    to the first half of the 15th century.  I agree with him.  Mr. Nicholson
    thinks that the writing is English, and that the miniatures are by a
    Flemish artist; Mr. Holmes, the King’s Librarian, believes that both
    writing and miniatures are English.  This MS. came into the Bodleian
    Library between 1598 and 1605, and was probably given by Sir Thomas
    Bodley himself.—­H.C.]