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    This article discusses the Romulus Metricus, a collection of Aesop's fables found in an 11th century English manuscript. The author argues that the Romulus Metricus represents an intermediate version of the fables between the original Romulus Nilantii and the version adapted by Marie de France. By comparing the first ten fables, the author finds similarities between details and wording in the Romulus Metricus and Marie de France's versions, but not in earlier sources. This suggests Marie's version was derived from a version similar to the Romulus Metricus rather than directly from the original Romulus Nilantii. The author plans to further analyze the relationships between these collections in future work.

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    A Note on the Sources of Marie de France.

    Author(s): D. S. Blondheim
    Source: Modern Language Notes, Vol. 23, No. 7 (Nov., 1908), pp. 201-202
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    VOL. XXIII. BALTIMORE, NOVEMBER, 1908. No. 7.

    his examination any further, however, and con-


    A NOTE ON THE SOURCES OF MARIE cludes that the collection is a derivate of the
    DE FRANCE. Romulus Nilantii, though perhaps only a me-
    diate one. The following facts appear to indi-
    In the valuable study, Die Quellen des Esopc cate that his alternative conclusion is correct,
    der Marie de France, which Professor Karl and that both the Romulus Mletricus and the
    Warnke published in the Forschungen zur Ro- Romulus Anglo-Latinus, the hypothetical lost
    nanischen Philologie, Festgabe fiur Iernnann ancestor of the Marie family, are derived from
    Suchier (Halle, 1900, pp. 161-284), a serious a modified version of the Romulus Nilantii.
    omission consists in the failure to include in A study of the fable of the "Nightingale
    the material studied the fables entitled by Her- and Hawk" (Romulus Nilantii, Bk. ii, f. xi;
    vieux Ex Rornulo NTilantii Ortce Fabulme Me- Marie, LVII [ed. Roquefort]; Romulus Metri-
    tricca, and published by him in the second cus xxvii), made in connection with the work
    edition of his Fabulistes latins (Paris, 1894, of the Romance Seminary of this University,
    vol. ii, pp. 653-713). This collection of fables, f-irst led me to take this view. In this fable
    known to the Romance Seminary of the Johns tlle Metricus differs from the Nilantinus only
    Hopkins University as the Romulus Metricus, in inserting the incident of the nightingale's
    is found in avs. Lat. B. N. 111 of the Bodleian refusal to sing unless the hawk moves off, as
    Library at Oxford. Tlle codex, according to his presence terrifies her so that she is unable
    F. Madan's Summary Catalogue of Western to sing. The hawk complies, and the fable
    Mlanus8cripts in the Bodleian Libr-axry at Oxford
    continues as usual in the Romulean tradition.
    (vol. iii, Oxford, 1895, p. 363, No. 14836), This incident occurs in the Mediaeval versions
    was written in England in the eleventh century; accessible to me only in the Romulus Metricus
    certain "notes and glosses" in Old English and in the Marie family (including the Romu-
    are found in it. lus Treverensis, and the Dutch versions of
    The importance of this collection for the Gerhard von Minden [ed. Leitzmann, Halle,
    study of Marie de France is due to the fact 1898, f. cxviii] and the Mlagdeburger Asop
    that it presents in a nuinber of cases a form [Pseudo-Gerhard von Minden, ed.W. Seelmann,
    of the version of the Romulus Nilantii, from Norden, 1878, f. xxxi]). In the latter, how-
    which a large portion of the fables of Marie ever, except in the late Magdeburger Asop,
    are ultimately derived, intermediate between the fable terminates abruptly with the night-
    the Nilantine original and the modified type ingale's reply, and a very lame moral explains
    represented by Marie. The resemblance of the that many people cannot speak well when
    Romulus M{etricus to Marie's Esope did not frightened or overawed. Here the version of
    entirely escape the attention of Hervieux.,Mariewho seems clearly to come from a form of
    noted (op. cit., vol. i, 1893, p. 804) that in the fable similar to that of the Romulus Me-
    the fable De lupo regnante (Marie, xxxvii, tricus, with its conclusion lost or omitted.
    ed. Roquefort), the Romulus Metricus (Fable The following examination of the first ten
    xxxiv) agrees with Marie and the closely re- fables in Marie's collection furnishes evidence
    lated versions of the Romulus Treverensis ( to confirm this view. Thle traits peculiar to
    LBG) and the Romulus Roberti, in making Marie have been summarized and numbered by
    the wolf the king of the animals in place of Professor Warnke in the article cited; certain
    the lion. He does not seem to have extended of these traits, referred to by his numbers, are

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    202 MODERN LANGUAGE NOTES. [Vo. xxiii, No. 7.

    here paralleled by similar points in the Romu- centenoque domum pastu potuque refertum,
    lus Metricus. References to other collections and, infra, mellifluis cenis.
    are derived from Warnke. Where no compari- Fable x, 2. RN: nest in arbor; M: chestne;
    sons are made except with the Romulus Me- Rm: robur.
    iricus, it is to be understood that he quotes no 3. RN: Curnque fumus et flamma. . . ad
    parallels from literature antecedent or closely sumnmitatem arboris pene pertitngerent, aqui-
    subsequent to Marie. la, . . . pullorum cura, ne perirent, vulpinos
    Fable i. 1. M (= Marie): gemme; RN ( catulos incolumes rmatri reddidit, obsecrarns ut
    Romulus Nilantii): margarita; RR (= Romu- adductu'm restritngeret incendium.
    lus Rhythmicus, lervieux, 2d. edit., vol. Ii, pp.
    M: Li aigles vit le feu e8pri8;
    714-757): lapis preciosus; Berechiah: iaspis,
    Al gupil prie e dit: ' Anis,
    lapis pretiosus; RM (= Romulus Metricus)
    Estein le feu!I Pren tun chael!
    gemma. Ja serunt ars tuit mi oisel.'
    3. Moral. Cf. M: le mtielz despisent, and Cf. RM: Cum . . . aquila ardentem pertingere
    RM: contempnunt optima queque. nicdum
    Con8pCeret flammam, clanans tuno
    voce precatur
    Fable ii, 1.
    Ut vu4pis fetus proprios jam spreta
    M: Ireement parla li lou,
    teneret
    Ki mult esteit contrarious,
    Lenius atque ardor puflie eatinotue
    par maltalent parla a lui
    adesset
    Ra: Tune WU7pU8 ore minaa fera verba tonabat.
    RM: Improbu8 lUpU8 . . . ferow . . . true..
    dicit. As soon as possible I expect to publish a
    study of the forty-three fables contained in the
    Fable iv, 1. M, RT, and RR have two wit- Romulus Metricus compared with the same
    nesses, correcting RN, which speaks of three but fables as found in collections belonging to the
    mentions only two. Rx makes the same cor- Marie group and in other Mediaeval fabularies,
    rection. including the Romulus Nilantii, the Romulus
    Rhythmicus, Berechiah, and the Odo group,
    Fable vii, 2. in order to treat more thoroughly of the re-
    M: Mei, ki 8ui loush, tieng jeo pur fol, lations indicated in the present article. This
    qu'od mes denc ne trenchai tun col.
    study will also include a detailed discussion of
    RM: . . . non gaudes, rustice latro,
    the relations of the Romulus Treverensis and
    Quod cobbm 8orp8i non dentibus asperis.
    Berechiah to Marie.
    Fable viii, 1. The error in RN, which speaks D. S. BLONDHEIM.
    Paris.
    of the second warning as the third, is also
    found in RR; M corrects by referring to the
    second warning as the second; RT corrects by
    introducing a third warning; Rm = RT. THE SOURCE OF THE STORY SAPI-
    Fable ix, 1. M has a mouse traveling from ENTES IN THE SEVEN SAGES
    city to city and overtaken by night; cf. RM: OF ROME.

    . . . mnuri urbano linquenti tnenia castri


    Serea canpe8tri8 tribuit tnus hospita noetis. In my edition of The Seven Sages of Rome,
    recently published in the Albion Series of
    2. Ml suiriz de bois; cf. Rm: glandesque Anglo-Saxon and Middle English Poetry, I
    nzuces murnera siluQ. Odo calls the mouse cam- assert (p. c) that Sapientes, the eleventh story
    pestris and silvestris. in the Mliddle English versions, was probably
    4. RN: cellarium omnibus bonis refertum; an invention of the redactor of the Wetern
    M speaks of plente de farine e de mieB; RM: parent version of The Seven Sages. I am now

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