and comparing these various
attempts at identification, will find all the evidence and arguments of
any value set forth in the writings of M. Frank, M. de Montaiglon and
Miss Robinson, which are specified in the Bibliography annexed to this
appendix.--Ed.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Fourteen MS. copies of the _Heptameron_ are known to exist. Twelve
of these are at the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, one is at the town
library of Orleans, and one in the Vatican library. We also have some
record of four other copies which were in private libraries at the end
of the last century.

The twelve MSS. at the Bibliotheque Nationale are the following:--

I. (No. 1511 in the catalogue). A folio volume bound in red morocco,
bearing the Bethune arms. This MS. is on ruled paper, and only one leaf,
the last, is missing.

II. (No. 1512). A small folio, calf gilt, 350 leaves, from Colbert's
library. The handwriting is that of the middle of the sixteeenth
century, and is the same throughout; the last page bearing the signature
"Doulcet." This supplied the text followed in the present translation.

III. (No. 1513). A small folio, half-bound in red morocco, stamped with
King Louis Philippe's monogram. It contains only twenty-eight of the
tales.

IV. (No. 1514). A large quarto, calf, from the De Mesmes library.
Contains only thirty-four of the tales.

V. (No. 1515). A small folio from Colbert's library, bound in calf,
in Groslier's style. The text is complete, but there are numerous
interlinear and marginal corrections and additions, in the same
handwriting as MS. VII.

VI. (Nos. 1516 to 1519). Four quarto vols., red morocco, Bethune arms.
The first prologue is deficient, as is also the last leaf of tale lxxi.

VII. (No. 1520). A folio vol., calf and red morocco, stamped with
fleurs-de-lys and the monogram of Louis XVIII. This MS. on stout ruled
paper, in a beautiful italic handwriting of the end of the sixteenth
century, is complete. Unfortunately Queen Margaret's phraseology has
been considerably modified, though, on the other hand, the copyist has
inserted a large number of different readings, as marginal notes, which
render his work of great value. It is frequently quoted in the present
translation.

VIII. (No. 1523). A folio vol., calf, from the De La Marre library. The
first two leaves are deficient, and the text ends with the fifth tale of
Day IV.

IX. (No. 1522). A small folio, bound in parchment, from the De La Marre
libr