Recueil Général des Isopets, Tome Deuxième

Abstract

The first two volumes of Pierre Ruelle's Recueil Général des Isopets, from 1982 covering Macho appeared in 1929, and here they are. This valuable gathering of medieval collections includes, in this volume, L' Isopet de Lyon, L'Isopet I - Avionnet, and L'Isopet III. Also here are the Latin sources, the Romulus in verse attributed to Walter of England and the fables of Avianus. The first collections presented are thus, in Latin, the Romulus and Avianus. There follow in French: the Isopet de Lyon, the Isopet I-Avionnet, the Avionnet, and the Isopet III de Paris. Valuable early material includes two tables of correspondence. The first includes five collections, namely the three Isopets presented here (Isopet I in two versions) with the ordinary Romulus and Walter's Romulus (1). The second shows the correspondence between Avianus and L'Avionnet (5). This pari of volumes was a lucky find from some routine searching of the web. The next step for me in this area would be to understand the relationship between L'Isopet I - Avionnet (199) and the Avionnet (349).