189S.] SMYTH — PERICLES AND APOLLONIUS. 239 



and is well written in Gothic characters. Thirty-five minia- 

 tures illustrate the MS. The work has been printed (at Bel- 

 linzona) in a limited edition (loo copies), edited by Carlo 

 Salvioni {La Storia di Apollonio di Tiro, Versions Tosco- Ven- 

 eziana, della met a del Sec. xiv edita da Carlo Salvioni). The 

 editor detects the presence in the MS. of the hand of a second 

 scribe whose work of correction follows close upon the labor of the 

 original amanuensis. The second writer was probably a Veronese 

 and his changes give to the text a more Tuscan aspect.^ Salvioni, 

 with the aid of Prof. Count Carlo Cipolla, has succeeded in repro- 

 ducing the original text. 



The oldest Italian edition is La Storia di Apollonio di Tiro in 

 ottava ri?na,'Vt\\tz, i486; reprinted in 1489, 1490, 1492, 1520, 

 1535? i555» 1560, 1598, 1610, 1629, 1679 and 1709. The edi- 

 tion of 1492 is entitled '■^ Historia di Apolonio di Tiro reforniata 

 per Paulo de Taegia in f anno I4g2 nel mese settemdre a contem- 

 plazione della magnifica Madona S. da Ferrara e poi per placer del 

 popolo,^^ Milafi, I4Q2 (cf. Paitoni, Bibl. degli Volgarizz, i, 79; 

 and Leone del Prete : Storia di ApolL, etc., Lucca, 1861). 



An edition said to have been made in Florence in 1580 is adorned 

 with wood cuts. It contains six cantos and thirty-two pages. It 

 is devout, each canto beginning with an invocation to Jesus Christ, 

 the Father of Mercies. It is entitled Historia d^ Apollonio de 

 Tiro nuovamento Ristampota. 



It ends with 



" Mi fu recato in questa lingua prima 



perche ciascum si bella storia intenda 

 et io k voi ve I'ho contato in rima 



perche diletto ciasche dun ne prenda 

 signer c'havete dal pie alta cima 



da me udita la bella leggenda 

 io prego Dio, che a tutti sia in acoto 



Al vostro honor questo libro e finito." 



Spanish Versions. 



In the library of the Escurial there is a Spanish MS. (iii, 

 k, 4to) containing three compositions: (i) *' Libro de Apo- 

 lonio," (2) *' Vida de Santa Maria Egipciaqua," (3) ''Adoracion 



1 Notice oio for olio (oil), and perdti for perso (lost), alto for olto (high) and 

 tieni for tienis (hold). 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS, SOC. XXXVII. 158. P. PRINTED DEC. 15, 1898. 



