Note 505 — Chapter IV · THE SOURCES FOR THE PERIOD 1100–1250 A. D.
Reading edition
This poem was entitled Le Roman de toute chevalerie. Meyer (op. cit., vol. ii, p. 275) knew of four manuscripts. In one of these, in Paris, the Roman is ascribed to Thomas of Kent, and in a manuscript in Cambridge it is attributed to Eustace of Kent—Meyer holding that the latter is correct. There is much of geographical interest in the poem. The following are some of the chapter headings of parts dealing with 413material of geographic significance (from a manuscript in Durham, Library of the Chapter of Durham, C. iv, 27b, as cited by Meyer, op. cit., vol. i, pp. 177–190).
“.i. Le proloug
\.ij. La descripcion del mond....”
“.lxxxiiij. De genz de grant age en Inde.
\.lxxxv. De Gangarides l’idle e de son poeple.
\.lxxxvj. De Polibatre e de son poeple.
\.lxxxvii. Del mont Malens le plus haut del mond.
\.lxxxviij. De genz qe vivent de veneison et de pesson....”
[Further details of races and marvels of India follow.]
“.cxlviij. De Gog et Magog qui mangerent la gent....”
“.ccxxxij. Del pople qu’est apellés Serres et de lur dreiture.”