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[[9.1]]

Piers Plowman.

[[9.2]]

Hous of Fame, 1. 1198.

[[9.3]]

Troilus, Bk. v. Il. 1797-98.

[[9.4]]

Furnivall's ed., Rolls S., pt. 1, p. 1.

[[9.5]]

MS. Reg. 17, C, viii. f. 2; cited in Skeat's Chaucer, v. 194.

[[9.6]]

Warton, 96-99; Rashdall and Rait, New Coll., 60

[[9.7]]

Stubbs, Lect. on Med. Hist., 137.

[[9.8]]

James (M. R.), 148.

[[9.9]]

Coulton, Chaucer and his England, 99.

[[9.10]]

James (M. R.), lxxli.; this number is probably correct, but owing to confusion between three Abbots of this name it is not certainly right.

[[9.11]]

Ibid., lxxiv.

[[9.12]]

Robinson, 4-7.

[[9.13]]

O. H. S., 32, Collect. 36-40; also 9.

[[9.14]]

Blakiston, Trin. Coll. 5, 7; A. de Murimuth, 171.

[[9.15]]

R. de B., 197-199.

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"R. de Bury . . . qui ipsum episcopatum et omnia sua beneficia prius habita per preces magnatum et ambitionis vitium adquisivit, et ideo toto tempore suo inopia laboravit et prodigus exstitit in expensis."—Murimuth, 171.

[[9.17]]

"Volens tamen magnus clericus reputari."—Murimuth, 171.

[[9.18]]

Skeat's Chaucer, vi. 381.

[[9.19]]

Hous of Fame, Works, iii. bk. ii. l. 656-58.

[[9.20]]

Book of the Duchesse, 44.

[[9.21]]

Legend of Good Women, prol. 30ff.

[[9.22]]

Valerie: possibly Epistola Valerii ad Rifinum de uxore non ducenda, attributed to Walter Mapes; it is a short treatise of about eight folios; it is printed in Cam. Soc. xvi. 77. Theofraste: Aureolus liber de Nuptiis, by one Theophrastus.

[[9.23]]

Ll. 669-85.

[[9.24]]

Troilus, ii. 81-105.

[[9.25]]

It seems to be Chaucer's own; only ahout one-third of the poem comes from Boccaccio's Filostrato. Chaucer had a copy of the Thebais of Statius.— Troilus, v. 1. 1484.

[[9.26]]

Letter book K, fo. 39, July 4, 1426.

[[9.27]]

From schedule of the possessions of the Guildhall College, July 24, 1549.— L. A. R., x. 381.

[[9.28]]

Chichele Register, pt. I, fo. 392b, Lamb. Pal.; L. A. R., x. 382.

[[9.29]]

Conf. of Librarians (1877), 216; L. A. R., x. 382.

[[9.30]]

Hist. MSS., 8th Rept., pt. I, 268a

[[9.31]]

Gasquet2, 20; Sandys, ii. 220; Legrand, Bibliographie Hellénique, i. (1885) xxiv., where the date is 1405-6.

[[9.32]]

Epp. (ed. Tonelli, 1832-61), i. 43, 70, 74.

[[9.33]]

"Cest livre est a moy Homfrey Duc de Glocestre, lequel je fis translater de Grec en Latin par un de mes secretaires, Antoyne de Beccariane de Verone." —Cam. Soc. 1843, Ellis, Letters, 357.

[[9.34]]

Gherardi, Statuti della Univ. e Studio Fiorentino, 364; Sandys, ii. 220; Einstein, 15.

[[9.35]]

O. H. S., 35, Anstey, 17, 45.

[[9.36]]

"Messer Andrea Ols" in Italian authority; identified by Dr. Sandys.

[[9.37]]

O. H. S., 36, Anstey, ii. 380-01; Sandys, ii. 221-26; Einstein, 26.

[[9.38]]

MS. 587 Bodl.

[[9.39]]

Leland3, 463; Leland, iii. 13; Einstein, 23, 54-5; C. A. S., 8vo ser., No. 32 (1899), 13.

[[9.40]]

E. H. R., xxv. 449.

[[9.41]]

Rymer, Foedera, xii. 214, 216; E. H. R., xxv. 450.

[[9.42]]

Now MS. lit 4, 16, at Cambridge University Library.

[[9.43]]

On Shirwood's books see E. H. R., xxv. 449-53.

[[9.44]]

Leiden, Voss. MSS. Graec., 56.

[[9.45]]

On this group see Harris, Jas. Rendel, The Leicester Codex.

[[9.46]]

E. H. R., xxv. 446-7; James.

[[9.47]]

Literae Cant. (Rolls Seh), iii. 239; cf. Campbell, Matls for Hist. of H. VII., ii. 85, 114, 224.

[[9.48]]

Leland3, 482. The Obit in Christ Church MS. D. 12 refers to Selling as "Sacrae Theologiae Doctor. Hic in divinis agendis multum devotus et lingua Graeca et Latina valde eruditus."—Gasquet2, 24.

[[9.49]]

Gasquet2, 24; James, li.

[[9.50]]

Homer and Euripides are in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, the others are in Trinity College, Cambridge.—James16, 9; Gasquet 2, 30.

[[9.51]]

Gasquet 2, 37

[[9.52]]

The point is disputed; cf. Einstein, 32; Lyte, 386; Camb. Lit., iii. 5, 6; Rashdall and Rait, New. Coll., 93; Dr. Sandys does not mention Vitelli.