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Excerpt from Early English Versions of the Gesta Romanorum: Formerly Edited by Sir Frederic Madden for the Roxburghe Club, and Now Re-Edited From the Mss. In British Museum (Harl. 7333 and Addit. 9066) And University Library, Cambridge (Kk. 1. 6)
We must be careful not to confuse the work which we are now con sidering with numerous other compilations sometimes designated by the same title. Thus Barbier, Diet. Dos Wa'vres Anonymes, 1824, says that the author of the Dialogas C'reatnrarnm jlioral'isatns ascribes the Gesta to Helinand, Now the work thus referred to in Dialogue 68 is certainly not the Gesta, but the Chronicle of Helinand, which is again quoted by the same title in Dialogue 64. In the same manner Holkot refers to the Gesta Romanornm for the story of Romulus and Remus (moralisat., cap. And again, more precisely, he says, N arrat Fulgencius in gnodam libro de Gestis Romanornm, &c., by which he probably means the Libri Mytholog'iarnm Warton (hist. Of Eng. Poetry, 1. 241) has given several other instances In which the title Gesta Romanornm is given generally to a history treating of Roman affairs, and it is actually so quoted in the printed Latin edd. Of present work, capp. 19, 35, 39, 850. By the same rule we must explain the Romayn Gestes of Chaucer, Man of Lane's Tale, 1126; the grete boke of Rome, referred to as an authority in the Romance of Sir Eglamonre (ed. Halliwell, 1. 408, and see also 1. 1339) and the Romance of Torrente of Portugal; the gestg/s Romanorum, cited in the Moor Festivalis, leaf clxxiii., ed. Wynkyn de Worde, 1496. Hence may be corrected tg/tnhitt, iv. 252; Ellis, Metrical Romances, iii. 284, ed. 1811; and Swan, ii. 401. Barbier also repeats the blunder of Panzer, Warton, and the printed catalogue of books in the British Museum, of ascribing to Robert Gaguin a French translation of the Gesta, when in reality his work is a. Translation of Livy.conclusions. Which he has arrived will be found inothe following Ingest, as well as an analysis of the various mss. Enamrned by.h1m.
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