Crane,] 64 [March 16, 
Lyons. Further details are furnished in his work itself (L. de La Marche, 
pp. iv. e¢ seg.). He studied at the University of Paris, and relates some in- 
teresting stories of student life (c. 860). He probably entered the order of 
St. Dominick at Lyons, where he became well acquainted with the Wal- 
densian heresy. Like most of his order, he became a missionary, and 
preached the crusade against the Albigenses, as L. de la Marche says, 
probably at the time of the expedition of Louis VIII, in 1226. He was 
made an inquisitor by the Pope, and gives many curious anecdotes about 
his way of dealing with heretics. His long life, for he must have been 
nearly seventy at his death, was spent in the discharge of the busy duties 
of his office, which took him on frequent missions, some of which have left 
their traces in his work. One of the objects of the book, like those already 
mentioned, was to furnish preachers with ewempla. These he does not 
give separately, and in alphabetical order, but incidentally in the course 
of a treatise on the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost (Isaiah xi. 2, 8): Timor, 
Pietas, Scientia, Fortitudo, Oonsilium, Intellectus, and Sapientia, whence 
the usual title Liber de Septem Donis.* ach of the seven parts is divided 
into titul’, these again into chapters. Unfortunately, the learned author 
was overtaken by death in the midst of his fifth division (Consilium). 
In the prologue he conscientiously cites his authorities, and an interesting 
list it is, giving an excellent idea of the state of learning at that day. 
The editor notices the comparatively few classic authors cited; on 
the other hand, Etienne de Bourbon was perfectly acquainted with the 
whole range of medieval theology, and borrowed freely from the 
exempla contained in the sermons of Jacques de Vitry. The editor 
roughly divides the evempla in Etienne de Bourbon into two classes : 
First, those taken from previous writers, historical works, sacred or 
profane, theological compilations, lives of the saints, legends, poetry, 
fables, etc.; secondly, those borrowed from events contemporaneous 
with the author, from his own recollection or that of his friends, and 
from traditions communicated to him by word of mouth, We shall follow, 
in the main, these divisions and mention first those stories which have no 
historical value, but are of importance for comparative storiology, indica- 
ting by means of his initials those which are borrowed from Jacques de 
Vitry. 
First, fables and apologues: No. 43, the son who bit off the nose of his 
father who had trained him up so badly that he ended his life on the gal- 
lows (Pauli, No. 19) ;{ No. 225 (J. de V.), the traveler and the viper 
* The MS. used by Lecoy de la Marche for his edition is that of the Bibl. Nat., 
fonds lat, 15,970. The work is reprodneced in a mutilated form in other MSS, 
mentioned by the editor, p. xxii, These contain generally mere réswmés not ex- 
tending further than the first division of the subject (de dono Timoris) hence 
the title applied to the work in the Catalan collection above mentioned, 
+ These numbers refer to the divisions introduced by the editor for conven- 
jence of reference, and which generally correspond each number to one exempla,. 
{ In order to economize space, we refer where possible to the corresponding 
stories in Pauli, Schimpf und Hrnst, Stuttgart, Litt. Ver,, Bd. 85, and Kirchhof’s 
Wendunmuth, same series, Bde, 95-99. These two works are edited by Hermann 
Oesterley, who has added the most exhaustive references to each story. 
