The Buik of Alexander

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The Buik of Alexander

Buik of Alexander
OR
TH]~ BUIK OF THE MOST NOBLE AND VALlANT
CONQUEROUR ALEXANDER THE GRIT
BY
JOHN liARBOUR
ARCHDEACON OF ABERDEEN
ElllTED, IN FOUR VOLUMES, FROM THE UNIgUE PlUNTED COPY IN THE
POSSESSION OF THE EARL OF DALHOUSIE, WITH INTRODUCTIONS,
NOTES AND GLOSSARY, TOGETHER WITH THE FRENCH
ORIGINALS (LI FUERRES DE GADRES AND LES VŒUX
DU PAON) COLLATED WITH NUMEROUS MSS.
,,\./
By R L. GRtEME RITCHIE, D.LITT.
PROFESSOR OF FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
VOLUME III.
CON'rAINING PART Ill. OF . THE BUIK OF ALEXANDER (NAMELY PP. 248-352)
,~ND PART II. (1) OF LES VŒUX DU PAON, NOW EDITED FOR THE
FIRST TIME FROM MS. FR. 12565 OF THE BIBLIOTHÈgUE
NATIONALE, AND COLLATED WITH NUMEROUS MSS.
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WILLIAM BLACKWO OD & SONS LTD.
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
MCMXXVII

PREFACE.
WE would express here our grateful thanks to friends
who have helped us in the three parts into which the
present volume falls-Scots text, French text, and Classi
fication of the French MSS.: to our colleague, Miss L
Maitland Smith, who has read the Scots text in proo!,
and suggested several ingenious and convincing emenda
tions; to our former student, Miss Aileen A. Calderwood,
who has coUated our copy once again with Manuscript
12565, revised the proof of the present Introduction on
an
the Paris MSS., and removed the few errors which
either contained,' and has also settled many queries for
us at the Bibliothèque Nationale; and to our former
student and present colleague, Dr. F. T. H. Fletcher, who
has read the Introduction in proof.
On what may to some readers appear the excessive
number of pages devoted here and in Volume II. to the
classificaTion of the French MSS. we would make only
one remark. But it is of gold. If there had been only
ten MSS. of 'Les Vœux du Paon,' and if, following
illustrious examples, we had collated only ten lines
selected from the beginning and (or) the end, we should
have reached quite definite conclusions which would
pmbably have satisfied every one. But they would have
been quite eXToneous.
R. L. Go R.
UNIVERSITY O:l' BIRMINGHAM,
'June 1926.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.
11:iiTRODUCTION TO VOLUME III.-
PAGE
1. THE MSS. OF ' LES VŒUX DU PAON' •
II. LIST OF ALPHABETICAL DESIGNATIONS OF THE
MANUSCRIPTS USED IN VOLUMES III. AND IV. xxxix
III. CLASSIFICATION OF THE FRENCH MSS. (con-
cIuded from Volume II.) • xl
IV. EXTRACT III. AND ApPARATUS CRITICUS OF
LINES 38r2-88 lxviii
V. EXTRACT IV. AND ApPARATUS CRITICUS OF
LINES 748I-7579 . lxxviii
VI. EXTRACTS V. (r) AND V. (2) xciii
VII. THE ENGLISH FRAGMENT ci
VIII. ARGUMENT OF 'LES VŒUX DU PAON,'
PART II. (r) . cil
TExT OF 'THE BUIR OF ALEXANDER' (PART III.)
Right-hand pages 248-35r
TEXT OF 'LES VŒUX DU PAON: PART II. (I).
Left-hand pages 248-35I
F ACSIMILES.
MS. I2565, f. 99 • Page 248
MS. Bodl. 264, f.. I38v • Ta fac~ page 277
MS. Bodl. 264, 1'. I46v . " 330
MS. Bodl. 264, f. I64v . " 35I

INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME III.
L THE MSS. OF 'LES VŒUX DU PAON.'
THE MSS. utilised in the present volume and in Vol. IV.
aJre those described in Vol. IL, pp. xix-xlviii, and, in
addition, p4 and the fragments n2, pl, and p2, which do
not concern the text of Vol. II. The description which
follows is thus merely supplementary. For convenience'
sake, MSS. are arranged in the order of their alphabetical
designations.
[l\II] BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE.
Fr. 24365.
(anc. S. Victor 420.)
Descr. VoL IL, pp. xliii-iv.
There is no miniature on po. r60 to mark the beginning of
Part II. of V.JP. at l. 38r2, but a large capital, and the first
two linesare written as four. The verso of thelast Fo. of
this MS., which 1S otherwlsein an excellent state of preserva
tion, has been smeared, apparently of set intent, because the
margin is not affected. The text has thus partially perished
(see infra, § 69). On the same page, ' Explicit ' and
, Hic liber est Sancti Vietoris Parisiensis
lnveniens quis ei reddat amore Dei.'
VOL. III. b