Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1
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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1
Jataka stories, English
19. CALILA É DYMNA. Spanish version of No. 4 (? through an unknown
Latin version). About 1251. Published in ‘Biblioteca de Autores
Españoles,’ Madrid, 1860, vol. 51.
20. CALILA ET DIMNA. Latin version of the last, by _Raimond de
Beziers_, 1313.
21. CONDE LUCANOR. By _Don Juan Manuel_ (died 1347), grandson of St.
Ferdinand of Spain. Spanish source not certain.
22. SINBAD THE SAILOR, or Book of the Seven Wise Masters. See
_Comparetti_, ‘Ricerche intorno al Libro di Sindibad,’ Milano, 1869.
23. CONTES ET NOUVELLES. By _Bonaventure des Periers_, Lyons, 1587.
24. EXEMPLARIO CONTRA LOS ENGAÑOS. 1493. Spanish version of the
Directorium.
25. DISCORSE DEGLI ANIMALI. Italian of last, by _Ange Firenzuola_,
1548.
26. LA FILOSOFIA MORALE. By _Doni_, 1552. Italian of last but one.
27. _North’s_ English version of last, 1570.
28. FABLES by _La Fontaine_.
First edition in vi. books, the subjects of which are mostly taken
from classical authors and from Planudes’s Æsop, Paris, 1668.
Second edition in xi. books, the five later taken from Nos. 12 and 23,
Paris, 1678.
Third edition in xii. books, Paris, 1694.
TABLE III.
THE BARLAAM AND JOSAPHAT SERIES.
1. _St. John of Damascus’s Greek Text._ Seventh century A.D. First
edited by BOISSONADE, in his ‘Anecdota Græca,’ Paris, 1832, vol. iv.
Reprinted in Migne’s ‘Patrologia Cursus Completus, Series Græca,’
tom. xcvi, pp. 836-1250, with the Latin translation by BILLY[105] in
parallel columns. Boissonade’s text is reviewed, and its imperfections
pointed out, by SCHUBART (who makes use of six Vienna MSS.) in the
‘Wiener Jahrbücher,’ vol. lxiii.
2. _Syriac version_ of No. 1 exists only in MS.
3. _Arabic version_ of No. 2 exists only in MS., one MS. being at least
as old as the eleventh century.
4. _Latin version_ of No. 1, of unknown date and author, of which
MSS. of the twelfth century are still extant. There is a black-letter
edition (? Spiers, 1470) in the British Museum. It was adopted, with
abbreviations in several places, by VINCENTIUS BELLOVICENSIS, in his
‘Speculum Historiale’ (lib. xv. cap. 1-63); by JACOBUS A VORAGINE, in
his ‘Legenda Aurea’ (ed. _Grässe_, 1846); and was reprinted in full
in the editions of the works of St. John of Damascus, published at
Basel in the sixteenth century.[106] From this Latin version all the
later mediæval works on this subject are either directly or indirectly
derived.
4_a_. An abbreviated version in Latin of the fourteenth century in the
British Museum. Arundel MS. 330, fol. 51-57. See Koch, No. 9, p. xiv.
German:--
5. _Barlaam und Josaphat._ A poem of the thirteenth century, published
from a MS. in the Solms-Laubach Library by L. DIEFENBACH, under the
title ‘Mittheilungen über eine noch ungedruckte m.h.d. bearbeitung des
B. and J.’ Giessen, 1836.
6. Another poem, partly published from an imperfect MS. at Zürich, by
FRANZ PFEIFFER, in Haupt’s ‘Zeitsch. f. d. Alterthum,’ i. 127-135.
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