Chapitre 1

Transcriber's Note.

Textual notes in the original are not numbered but start with the line number and the word(s) to which they apply, such as 4. Treschier sire] wanting F. indicating that those words do not appear in manuscript F. In the transcription the line numbers have been placed in square brackets and the pertinent word(s) in round brackets: [l. 4] (treschier sire) wanting F.

All notes have been placed at the end of each document. In a few places the order of the notes has been silently corrected.

Words marked ~underlined~ are underlined in the original.

Corrections made are detailed at the end of this text.

A table of contents has been added.

The University of Chicago FOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

The Epistles on the Romance of the Rose and Other Documents in the Debate

A DISSERTATION

SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND LITERATURE IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

BY CHARLES FREDERICK WARD.

1911

SECTION II., 1910.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA

VIII.--The Epistles on the Romance of the Rose and other Documents in the Debate.

By C. F. WARD, M.A.

(Communicated by the Rev. Dr. George Bryce, President of the Royal Society of Canada, and read by title, 28 September, 1910.)

PREFATORY NOTE.

I am indebted for the subject treated in the following pages to suggestions made in a course on the history of the French language at the University of Chicago. I desire therefore first of all to express my sincere gratitude for the encouragement of Professor T. A. Jenkins, whose advice has been of inestimable value in the preparation of the dissertation.

The little work owes much to several writings of M. Arthur Piaget, particularly to his adjustment of the difficult question of the chronology of the letters, and to the essay on Martin Le Franc.

I desire to thank also, for several timely hints and very valuable suggestions, Professors W. A. Nitze, Karl Pietsch, P. S. Allen, and J. W. Thompson of the University of Chicago. I am also indebted to the late Professor John E. Matzke of the Leland Stanford, Jr., University.