154 NOTICE OF JOHN DE TREVISA. 



2. — Translations into English. 



Polychronicon Eanulphi Higden, Monachi Cestrensis.* 



Bartliolomseus de Glan villa de proprietatibus rerum.t 



Ricliardi Armacliani defensorium curatorum. 



Vegetii de re militari. ;}: 



-iEgidii Eomani de regimine Principum. 



Gulielmi Occam dialogus inter militem et clericum. |I 



Sermon by Fitzralf, Arclibp. of Armagh, preached in the year 



1357, at Oxford, against the Mendicant Friars. 

 A spui-ious production " on the beginning and end of the world," 



ascribed to Methodius. 



* Printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1495. See page 152 of this notice. 

 Eeprinted page for page in 1527, from this edition, by Peter Treveris, in 

 Southwerke. See note * at page 153, of a copy offered for sale by Quaritch, 

 who says that another copy of Treveris's edition was sold in 1864, by Sotheby, 

 at a very high price. It is printed in black letter, folio, with some wood- 

 cuts, title in red, with woodcut of George and the Dragon, which is also on 

 the last page. MS. copies of this are in the British Museum and at Hel- 

 minghamHall [see note* page 152], and elsewhere. See Mr. C. Babington's 

 recent edition of this once popular work, in vol. i of the Master of the Eolls' 

 series of Chronicles of the Middle Ages. 



f MS. copies of this curious translation of a Cycloptedia of the Middle 

 Ages are to be found in the British Museum, Cambridge University Library, 

 and at Helmingham Hall. Watt enumerates nine editions of it in print, 

 including original and translations [Bibliotheca Brit, in loco] ; and the Early 

 English Text Society are about to issue a reprint from the MSS. 



I Bishop Tanner mentions this as attributed to Trevisa, in Codd. Bodl. 

 Digby, 233. 



li This also is attributed to Trevisa by Bishop Tanner, in these words, 

 " Forte Trevisa ejus auctor." 



