Note 1 — Front matter
Reading edition
He was born about 1295. See Abbé Gouget’s Bibliothèque française, Vol. IX, p. 73-4.—P. M. The Roxburghe Club printed the 1st version in 1893.
2. The Roxburghe Club’s copy of this 2nd version was lent to Mr. Currie, and unluckily burnt too with his other MSS.
3. These 3 MSS. have not yet been collated, but are believed to be all of the same version.
4. Another MS. is in the Pepys Library.
5. According to Lord Aldenham’s MS.
6. These were printed in France, late in the 15th or early in the 16th century.
7. 15th cent., containing only the Vie humaine.
8. 15th cent., containing all the 3 Pilgrimages, the 3rd being Jesus Christ’s.
9. 14th cent., containing the Vie humaine and the 2nd Pilgrimage, de l’Ame: both incomplete.
10. Ab. 1430, 106 leaves (leaf 1 of text wanting), with illuminations of nice little devils—red, green, tawny, &c—and damnd souls, fires, angels &c.
11. Of these, Mr. Harsley is preparing a new edition, with collations of all the MSS. Many copies of Thorpe’s book, not issued by the Ælfric Society, are still in stock.
Of the Vercelli Homilies, the Society has bought the copy made by Prof. G. Lattanzi.