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” 124, line 29, _for_ Bron _read_ Brons
” 156, line 11, _insert_ comma _after_ specially
” 159, line 11, _for_ Henessey _read_ Hennessy
” 163, note, _ie_, _for_ Graal _read_ Gaal
” 183, line 23, _insert_ comma _after_ more
” 188, line 5, _for_ euphemerised _read_ euhemerised
” 188, line 5, _for_ invasion _read_ invasions
” 188, line 17, _for_ mystic _read_ mythic
” 189, line 1, _for_ LXXVII _read_ LxxxII
” 197, note, _for_ Carl the Great _read_ Karl the Great
” 200, line 12, _insert_ coht; _dele_ comma _after_ love
” 201, 1 line from bottom, _insert_ late _before_ mediaeval
” 204, note, _for_ Percival _read_ Perceval
” 217, line 23, _for_ mystic _read_ mythic
STUDIES ON THE LEGEND OF THE HOLY GRAIL
CHAPTER I
Description of the leading forms of the Romance: Conte del Graal--Joseph d'Arimathie--Didot-Perceval--Queste del Saint Graal--Grand Saint Graal--Parzival--Perceval le Gallois--Mabinogi of Peredur--Sir Perceval--Diu Crone--Infor date and authorshi+p of these works in the MSS
The following are the forend of the Holy Grail has come down to us:--
A--=Le Conte del Graal=, a poem of over 60,000 verses, the major part of which (45,379 verses) was printed for the first time by Potvin: Le Conte del Graal, six volu our poem), Mons, 1866-71, from a MS preserved in the Mons Library[1] The portion of the poem which is not printed in full is summarised by Potvin in the sixth volume of his edition The poem, so far as at present known, is the work of four men:
A I Chrestien de Troyes, who carried the work down to verse 10,601
A II Gautier de Doulens, who continued it to verse 34,934
A III Manessier, who finished it in 45,379 verses
A IV Gerbert, to whom are due over 15,000 verses, mostly found interpolated between Gautier de Doulens and Manessier
A MS preserved in the Library of Montpellier[2] differs in important respects from the Mons one as far as Gautier de Doulens and Manessier are concerned It intercalates 228 verses between verses 20,294 and 20,296 of the Mons MS, and gives a different redaction of verses 34,996-35,128 in agreement with the aforesaid intercalation It likewise mentions two visits of Gawain to the Grail Castle The intercalation in Gautier may be called A II_a_, and the variant in Manessier A III_a_
B--=Joseph d'Ari MS (Bibliotheque Nationale, No 20,047 Fonds St Germain, No 1,987) Li R(o) of 4,018 verses, 3,514 for the Joseph, the remainder, for about one-fifth of the Merlin First printed by Francisque Michel: Le Roman du St Graal Bordeaux, 1841 Secondly by Furnivall: Seynt Graal or the Sank Ryal Printed for the Roxburghe Club, two volumes, 4to, London, 1861-63, where it is found in an appendix at the end of vol i (2) A prose version of which several MSS exist, all of which are fully described by E Hucher: Le Saint-Graal, ou le Joseph d'Arimathie, three volumes, 12mo, Le Mans, 1875-78, vol i, pp 1-28
The chief are: the Cange MS (_circa_ 1250) of which Hucher prints the Joseph, vol i, pp 209-276, and the Didot MS, written in 1301, of which Hucher prints the Joseph, vol i, pp 277-333 Hucher likewise gives, vol i, pp 335-365, variants from the Huth MS (_circa_ 1280)
These different versions may be numbered as follows:--