[1] ✛ This MS. Fr. 2810 (formerly 8392), known as the Livre des
Merveilles, belonged to the Library of John, Duke of Berry, at
the Château of Mehun-sur-Yevre, 1416, No. 116 of the catalogue;
also No. 196, p. 186, of Le Cabinet des Manuscrits de la Bibl.
Nationale, par. L. Delisle, III. Count A. de Bastard began
publishing some of the miniatures, but did not finish the work.
Of the miniatures, Nos. 1, 12, 19, 35, 41, 37, 45, 47, 52, 56,
57, 60, 66, 70, 75, 78, 81 are engraved, pp. 258, 273, 282, 310,
316, 317, 328, 332, 340, 348, 350, 354, 381, 392, 406, 411, 417
in Charton’s Voyageurs du Moyen Age, vol. ii., besides two
others, pp. 305, 395, not identified; [in my edition of Odoric,
I reproduced Nos. 33, 41, 70, pp. 439, 377, 207.—H. C.]; in the
present work, Nos 5, 31, 41, 52, 70 are engraved, vol. i. pp.
15, 244, 369; Nos. 52, 70, vol. ii. pp. 5, 311. Nos. 60 and 75
have been reproduced, pp. 97 and 98 of Faguet’s Hist. de la
Littérature Française, 2nd ed., Paris, 1900.
[2] [Mr. E. W. B. Nicholson, who thought at first that this MS. was
written at the end of the 14th century, in his Introduction to
Early Bodleian Music, by J. F. R. Stainer and C. Stainer,
London, 1901, has come to the conclusion (p. xviii.) that it
belongs to the first half of the 15th century. I agree with
him. Mr. Nicholson thinks that the writing is English, and that
the miniatures are by a Flemish artist; Mr. Holmes, the King’s
Librarian, believes that both writing and miniatures are English.
This MS. came into the Bodleian Library between 1598 and 1605, and
was probably given by Sir Thomas Bodley himself.—H. C.]
[3] [This List was printed in vol. ii. pp. 449–462 of the first
edition of the Book, but was omitted in the second edition. My
own experience has shown me the usefulness of this table, which
contains 85 MSS. instead of 75, and some additional particulars.—H. C.]
[4] [Ser Petri de Faganea (Fagagna, in Friuli).—H. C.]