a number of other works in a MS. numbered 113 in the City Library at library of the Dukes of Burgundy at Brussels. This MS. I find thus whole, of a copy in handwriting of the thirteenth century, are Maur. Selections from the poems it contains are given in Sinner's known, having been lent to M. de Sainte Palaye for use in the Monuments ***************************************************************** fragments, however, amounting in all to nearly one-seventh of the romance, and full as it is of faults of the scribe, this manuscript is columns to the page, and the seven leaves follow the last poem INTRODUCTION existence, being defective only in Branch XXI. Titles 8 and 9, the language; date, first third of the sixteenth century; with ornamental Berne. The volume is in folio on vellum closely written in three described in M. F. J. Marchal's catalogue of that priceless collection: preserved in six consecutive leaves and one detached leaf bound up with of French History issued by the Benedictines of the Congregation of St (Penguin Classics, London, 1969). contained in it, entitled "Duremart le Gallois". The manuscript is well capitals.' (2) Written three centuries later than the original '"Le Roman de Saint Graal", beginning "Ores lestoires", in the French Malory, Sir Thomas (Ed. Janet Cowen): "Le Morte D'Arthur", Vol. I & II by far the most complete known copy of the "Book of the Graal" in Bibliophiles Belges' in 1866, (1) from the MS. numbered 11,145 in the This book is translated from the first volume of "Perceval le Gallois ou le conte du Graal"; edited by M. Ch. Potvin for 'La Societe des Classics, London, 1980). substance of which is fortunately preserved elsewhere. Large