ANCIENT FRENCH MANUSCRIPTS. (Fourteenth Century.) Although it does not appear that any translation of the Scriptures into the French language was made previous to the beginning of the fourteenth century, versions of detached parts of the Bible, of an earlier date, exist in MSS. which are regarded as of great value by the French philologists. LIBRARY OF FAMOUS LITERATURE SELECTIONS FROM THE WORLD'S GREAT WRITERS ANCIENT, MEDIÆVAL, AND MODERN, WITH BIO- AND CRITICAL ESSAYS BY MANY EMINENT WRITERS. EDITED BY DR. RICHARD GARNETT, C.B. of the British Museum IN ASSOCIATION WITH M. LEON VALLÉE DR. ALOIS BRANDL Professor of Literature in the Imperial University, Berlin AND DONALD G. MITCHELL (IK MARVEL) the Author of "Reveries of a Bachelor." With Nearly Five Hundred Full-page Ellustrations and Colored Plates IN TWENTY VOLUMES VOLUME IX LONDON ISSUED BY The Standard 1899 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBRARY OF NOTE. IT has been the Editor's continual endeavour to render due acknowledgment, in the proper place, for permission generously granted to make use of extracts from copyrighted publications. Should any error or omission be found, he requests that it may be brought to his notice, that it may be corrected in subsequent editions. |