Excerpt from The History of the Seven Wise Masters of Rome: Printed From the Edition of Wynkyn De Worde, 1520, and Edited, With an Introduction The history of the Seven Mse Masters forms an important epoch in the history of European popular stories, because it affords the most remarkable evidence of the literary descent and origin of stories, as distinct from a traditional descent. Professor Comparetti in his Researches respecting the Boo/5 of Sindibad, published by the folk-lore Society, Mr. Clouston in his Bali/z tyar ...
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Excerpt from The History of the Seven Wise Masters of Rome: Printed From the Edition of Wynkyn De Worde, 1520, and Edited, With an Introduction The history of the Seven Mse Masters forms an important epoch in the history of European popular stories, because it affords the most remarkable evidence of the literary descent and origin of stories, as distinct from a traditional descent. Professor Comparetti in his Researches respecting the Boo/5 of Sindibad, published by the folk-lore Society, Mr. Clouston in his Bali/z tyar Nama and in his Book of Sindibad, two privately printed books, and Mr. Wright in his Sefvyn Sages, printed by the Percy Society in 1846, have practically exhausted the literary history of this famous collection of stories. Shortly summarised from these three sources the main facts are these. There was an ancient original Indian book of stories which became so popular that it was copied frequently, and thus handed down from one generation to another. From this book two separate groups of texts have descended. To the first belong all the texts in the Eastern languages; to the other belong the Dolo pathos, the Historia Septem Sapientum, the Erasto, and other numerous texts of the various European literatures of the Middle Ages. With the Eastern group of texts we have now. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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