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1883. | 59 (Crane, 
sources, for, as can well be imagined, such a collection could only be a 
compilation, nor does the author, as we have seen, make any claim to 
originality.* Herolt himself mentions the following : Arnoldus (Geilhoven 
de Roterodamis, author of Gnotosolitus sive Speculum conscientiae) ; Beda 
(Gestis Anglorum); Caesarius Heisterbacensis (Dialogus Miraculorum) ; 
Gregorious (Gregory I, Dialogi); Gregorius Turonensis; Gulielmus 
(Thomas Cantinpratensis, Liber de apibus); Gulielmus Lugdinensis (Peral- 
dus, whose Summa virtutum et vitiorum will be examined later) ; 
Tistoriis Britonum (Geoffrey of Monmouth); Jistoria ecclesiastica ; 
Holgot (Robert Holkot whose Liber super Sapientiam will be examined 
later) ; Hugo de St. Victor; Isidorus ; Jacobus de Vitriaco (Jacques de 
Vitry) ; Liber de donis (Etienne de Bourbon, to be mentioned hereafter) ; 
Petrus de 8t. Amore ; Petrus Cluniacenses ; Vincentius (of Beauvais, Spe- 
culum historiale) ; Viridarius ;+ Vitae Patrum and Zosimas To this list 
may be added Jacobus de Yoragine whose Legenda aurea is frequently 
used without acknowledgment, and some Oriental sources which will be 
mentioned later. The ecclesiastical character of Herolt’s collection is evi- 
dent at a glance. The compiler gathered his material largely from a few 
writers like Caesar of Heisterbach, and does not draw upon his own 
experience like Etienne de Bourbon. There are only two or three 
fables, and but few traces of the earlier Oriental collections. The Dis- 
ciplina clericalés contributes four stories: M. 67 = ed. Schmidt, p. 106 ; 
8.5 =< Schmidt, p. 46; V. 12 == Schmidt, p. 51; Sermones de tempore, 
120 = Schmidt, p. 86. There are other Oriental elements as we shall 
afterwards see, one may be. mentioned here, the story in Barlaam 
and Josaphat, c. 29, which furnished Boccaccio with a well-known tale 
(Dec. iv, introduc.), is found in Herolt, L. 24. We shall relegate to the 
notes a few widespread stories in order to show the value of the work for 
the diffusion of popular tales, and proceed to characterize briefly the more 
original part of the work.§ Of original historical anecdotes there is scarcely 
* Fabricius gives a very incomplete list of Herolt’s sources, which is somewhat 
increased by Mansi in the Florentine edition of 1858, 
+ We are not acquainted with this work, but the Speculum exemplorum cites a 
work, Viridarium sanctorum ea Menaecis Graecorum translatum. We must con- 
fess and deplore our distance from a large library of reterence, which prevents 
our settling some doubtful points in the present essay, the materials for which 
are drawn almost exclusively from our own private library. Our thanks are, 
however, due to the library of the Auburn (N. Y.) Theological Seminary which, 
with the utmost liberality, put at our disposal its copy of Migne’s Patrologia. 
{Of the above, Arnoldus, Cesarius, Gregory, Gulielmus (Cantinpratensis), and 
the Vite Patrum furnish about two hundred exempla or nearly one-third of the 
whole, 
2A. 18 B( Pauli, 260); A. 15 (Gesta Rom, 188); A. 18 (Pauli, 93); B. 9(Gesta Rom. 
45); C. 82 (Gesta Rom. 48); C, 89 (Leg. aurea 142); C. 40 (Pauli, 278); D. 3 (Pauli, 
546); E. 5 (Pauli, 140); BH. 6 (Wright’s Latin Stories, 65); B. 12 ( Wendunmuth 5, 127); 
KF, 2 (Pauli, 891); F. 6 (Pauli, 683); F. 15, 16 (Pauli, 486); F, 17 (Pauli, 435); J. 16 
(Pauli, 692); I. 83 (Pauli, 647); I, 88 (Pauli, 129); I. 39 (Pauli, 507); I. 40 (Pauli, 226) ; 
I, 41 (Pauli, 118); I, 42 (Pauli, 125); I. 48 (Pauli, 124), I, 44 (Pauli, 186); I. 49 (La 
Fontaine, Bk, 1. 7); L. 8 (Pauli, 387); L. 21 ( Wendunmuth I, 220); L. 85 (Pauli, 385); 
