Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, Vol. 3The first two volumes of this Catalogue of Romances, issued in 1883 and 1893 respectively, were compiled by the late Mr. H. L. D. Ward. In the final revision of Vol. II. he was assisted by Mr. J. A. Herbert, who is now solely responsible for Vol. III., though in many cases he has been able to make use of Mr. Ward's preparatory notes. This volume includes no separate romances of any length, such as are to be found in its predecessors, but deals with the popular collections of Exempla, or short stories used for illustration by mediaeval preachers, and of similar tales, moralized or otherwise, both in prose and verse. Among them are the well-known works of Jacques de Vitry, Odo of Cheriton, Etienne de Bourbon and Robert Holcot, the Gesta Romanorum, William of Waddington's Manuel des Péchés, Robert Manning's Handlyng Synne and the Dialogus Miraculorum of Caesarius of Heisterbach.A fourth volume, completing the Catalogue, will include Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and their precursors in Boccaccio's Decameron and elsewhere, and romances by Petrarch, Aeneas Sylvius and others, together with an Appendix containing Mss. acquired since the publication of the previous volumes or inadvertently omitted from them. A General Index to all four volumes will also be added.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.