ed last century in a collection
at Lucca. It is the seal of the prisoners as a body corporate:
SIGILLUM UNIVERSITATIS CARCERATORUM PISANORUM JANUE DETENTORUM, and
was doubtless used in their negotiations for peace with the Genoese
Commissioners. It represents two of the prisoners imploring the
Madonna, Patron of the Duomo at Pisa. It is from _Manni, Osserv. Stor.
sopra Sigilli Antichi_, etc., Firenze, 1739, tom. xii. The seal is
also engraved in _Dal Borgo_, op. cit. ii. 316.

[5] The Abate Spotorno in his _Storia Letteraria della Liguria_, II. 219,
fixes on a Genoese philosopher called Andalo del Negro, mentioned by
Boccaccio.

[6] I quote from Galignani's ed. of Prose Works, v. 712. This has
"Rusticien de _Puise_." In this view of the fictitious character of
the names of Rusticien and the rest, Sir Walter seems to have been
following Ritson, as I gather from a quotation in Dunlop's H. of
Fiction. (_Liebrecht's_ German Version, p. 63.)

[7] _Giron le Courtois_, and the conclusion of _Tristan_.

[8] The passage runs thus as quoted (from the preamble of the
_Meliadus_--I suspect in one of the old printed editions):--

"Aussi Luces du Gau (Gas) translata en langue Francoise une partie de
l'Hystoire de Monseigneur Tristan, et moins assez qu'il ne deust.
Moult commenca bien son livre et si ny mist tout les faicts de
Tristan, ains la greigneur partie. Apres s'en entremist Messire Gasse
le Blond, qui estoit parent au Roy Henry, et divisa l'Hystoire de
Lancelot du Lac, et d'autre chose ne parla il mye grandement en son
livre. Messire Robert de Borron s'en entremist et Helye de Borron, par
la priere du dit Robert de Borron, _et pource que compaignons feusmes
d'armes longuement_, je commencay mon livre," etc. (_Liebrecht's
Dunlop_, p. 80.) If this passage be authentic it would set beyond
doubt the age of the de Borrons and the other writers of Anglo-French
Round Table Romances, who are placed by the _Hist. Litteraire de la
France_, and apparently by Fr. Michel, under Henry II. I have no means
of pursuing the matter, and have preferred to follow Paulin Paris, who
places them under Henry III. I notice, moreover, that the _Hist.
Litt._ (xv. p. 498) puts not only the de Borrons but Rustician himself
under Henry II.; and, as the last view is certainly an error, the
first is probably so too.

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