Note 307 — APPENDIX XIV LIST OF BOOKS AT BURTON ABBEY

Perhaps (1) Apollonius of Tyre, a Greek love-story of the 3rd or 4th century, perhaps translated into Latin verse in the fifth century, and re-translated into Latin prose in the twelfth or thirteenth century. An ancient Anglo-Saxon translation was printed by Thorpe in 1834. Gower’s Confessio Amantis (Bk. viij) is an adaptation of it, and it is also one of the sources of Shakespeare’s Pericles. The earliest English version now known was made in 1510 from the French. (See Encyclopædia Britannica, Vol. XX, p. 635.) (2) Or, The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, by Philostratus (born c. 175 A.D.).