Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1
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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1
Jataka stories, English
7. _Barlaam und Josaphat._ By RUDOLF VON EMS. Written about 1230.
Latest and best edition by FRANZ PFEIFFER, in ‘Dichtungen des
deutschen Mittelalters,’ vol. iii., Leipzig, 1843. This popular
treatment of the subject exists in numerous MSS.
7. _Die Hÿstorí Josaphat und Barlaam._ Date and author not named.
Black-letter. Woodcuts. Title on last page. Fifty-six short chapters.
Quaint and forcible old German. A small folio in the British Museum.
8. _Historia von dem Leben der zweien_ H. _Beichtiger Barlaam Eremiten,
und Josaphat des König’s in Indien Sohn, etc._ Translated from the
Latin by the Counts of HELFFENSTEIN and HOHENZOLLERN, München, 1684. In
40 long chapters, pp. 602, 12mo.
Dutch:--
9. _Het Leven en Bedryf van Barlaam den Heremit, en Josaphat Koning van
Indien._ Noo in Nederduits vertaalt door F. v. H., Antwerp, 1593, 12mo.
A new edition of this version appeared in 1672. This is a long and
tedious prose version of the holy legend.
French:--
8. Poem by GUI DE CAMBRAY (1200-1250). Edited by HERMANN ZOTENBERG and
PAUL MEYER in the ‘Bibliothek des Literarischen Vereins,’ in Stuttgart,
vol. lxxv., 1864. They mention, also (pp. 318-325):--
9. _La Vie de Seint Josaphaz._ Poem by CHARDRY. Edited by JOHN KOCH,
Heilbronn, 1879, who confirms the editors of No. 8 as to the following
old French versions, 10-15; and further adduces No. 11_a_.
10. A third poem by an unknown author.
11. A prose work by an unknown author--all three being of the 13th cent.
11_a_. Another in MS. Egerton, 745, British Museum.
12. A poem in French of the fifteenth century, based on the abstract in
Latin of No. 4, by JACOB DE VORAGINE.
13. A Provençal tale in prose, containing only the story of Josafat and
the tales told by Barlaam, without the moralizations.
14. A miracle play of about 1400.
15. Another miracle play of about 1460.
Italian:--
16. _Vita di san Giosafat convertito da Barlaam._ By GEO. ANTONIO
REMONDINI. Published about 1600, at Venezia and Bassano, 16mo. There is
a second edition of this, also without date; and a third, published in
Modena in 1768, with illustrations.
17. _Storia de’ SS. Barlaam e Giosafatte._ By BOTTARI, Rome, 1734,
8vo., of which a second edition appeared in 1816.
18. _La santissima vita di Santo Josafat, figluolo del Re Avenero, Re
dell’ India, da che ei nacque per infino ch’ei morì._ A prose romance,
edited by TELESFORO BINI from a MS. belonging to the Commendatore
Francesco de Rossi, in pp. 124-152 of a collection ‘Rime e Prose,’
Lucca, 1852, 8vo.
19. A prose _Vita da Santo Josafat_. In MS. Add. 10902 of the British
Museum, which Paul Mayer (see No. 8) says begins exactly as No. 18, but
ends differently. (See Koch, No. 9 above, p. xiii.)
20. A _Rappresentatione di Barlaam e Josafat_ is mentioned by Frederigo
Palermo in his ‘I manuscritti Palatini de Firenze,’ 1860, vol. ii. p.
401.
Skandinavian:--
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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