existence, being defective only in Branch XXI. Titles 8 and 9, the Classics, London, 1980). Berne. The volume is in folio on vellum closely written in three described in M. F. J. Marchal's catalogue of that priceless collection: ou le conte du Graal"; edited by M. Ch. Potvin for 'La Societe des columns to the page, and the seven leaves follow the last poem substance of which is fortunately preserved elsewhere. Large Maur. Selections from the poems it contains are given in Sinner's romance, and full as it is of faults of the scribe, this manuscript is capitals.' (2) Written three centuries later than the original INTRODUCTION Malory, Sir Thomas (Ed. Janet Cowen): "Le Morte D'Arthur", Vol. I & II by far the most complete known copy of the "Book of the Graal" in library of the Dukes of Burgundy at Brussels. This MS. I find thus of French History issued by the Benedictines of the Congregation of St This book is translated from the first volume of "Perceval le Gallois contained in it, entitled "Duremart le Gallois". The manuscript is well ***************************************************************** known, having been lent to M. de Sainte Palaye for use in the Monuments fragments, however, amounting in all to nearly one-seventh of the a number of other works in a MS. numbered 113 in the City Library at '"Le Roman de Saint Graal", beginning "Ores lestoires", in the French (Penguin Classics, London, 1969). language; date, first third of the sixteenth century; with ornamental whole, of a copy in handwriting of the thirteenth century, are preserved in six consecutive leaves and one detached leaf bound up with Bibliophiles Belges' in 1866, (1) from the MS. numbered 11,145 in the