Early English Meals and Manners

by Unknown

[1.] He was born about 1295. See Abbé Gouget’s Bibliothèque française, Vol. IX, p. 73-4.—P. M. The Roxburghe Club printed the 1st version in 1893.

[2.] The Roxburghe Club’s copy of this 2nd version was lent to Mr. Currie, and unluckily burnt too with his other MSS.

[3.] These 3 MSS. have not yet been collated, but are believed to be all of the same version.

[4.] Another MS. is in the Pepys Library.

[5.] According to Lord Aldenham’s MS.

[6.] These were printed in France, late in the 15th or early in the 16th century.

[7.] 15th cent., containing only the Vie humaine.

[8.] 15th cent., containing all the 3 Pilgrimages, the 3rd being Jesus Christ’s.

[9.] 14th cent., containing the Vie humaine and the 2nd Pilgrimage, de l’Ame: both incomplete.

[10.] Ab. 1430, 106 leaves (leaf 1 of text wanting), with illuminations of nice little devils—red, green, tawny, &c—and damnd souls, fires, angels &c.