This is a complete edition of the Bestiare, based on a collation of three manuscripts: British Library MS Cotton Nero A V; Merton College, Oxford MS. 249; and Copenhagen Gl. kgl. S. 3466 8*. It includes the full text with critical apparatus, many corrections to the 1841 edition of Thomas Wright, a description of the three manuscripts, a classification of the manuscripts, notes on the author, plus notes on the versification and language of the poem.

Reprinted by: Slatkine Reprints, Geneva, 1970.

174 pp., indexes, list of texts cited, glossary (Anglo-Norman to modern French).

Language: French

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