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CATALOGUE,

Historical and Descriptive,

OF THE

MOST INTERESTING MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED

WORKS EXTANT,

RESPECTING

THE LIFE AND EXPLOITS

OF

JEANNE D'ARC,

COMMONLY CALLED

LA PUCELLE D'ORLEANS.

CATALOGUE.

THE number of works extant, as well in manuscript as printed, relative to the History of Jeanne d'Arc, most of which have been referred to in the progress of the present undertaking, afford incontestable evidence of the extraordinary part performed by our heroine on the page of history, and are so many sterling records of the fame she acquired, which must be handed down to the latest posterity.

In arranging the following catalogue, the writer's object has been to present to the public a systematic nomenclature of all the bibliographical notices hitherto published appertaining to La Pucelle, from the period of her birth, to the melancholy close of her magnanimous career; and, as no such summary has hitherto appeared in England, it is conceived, that in the event of any new history of our own country being intended by the Government, the following pages may serve to point out documents worthy the attention of those literary characters to whom may be confided the charge of such a noble undertaking.

CATALOGUE.

Jacobus Gelu, Archiepiscopus Ebrodunensis, de Puella Aurelianensi; Manuscript in quarto, inter Latinos, No. 6199, in the Royal Library at Paris.

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The author of this work, who had been archbishop of Tours, was transferred to the see of Embrun in 1427, where he died in 1432. As he was consulted in 1429, by command of Charles VII. he replied to the five questions proposed to him, by writing this treatise. The manuscript contains seventy-two pages; written in the ancient scholastic manner, the style being very confused: a succinct extract has been given by Lenglet du Frenoy of this work.

Sibylla Francica, seu de admirabili Puellá Johanná Lotharinga, pastoris filid, ductrice exercitus Francorum sub Carolo VII. Dissertationes aliquot coæcorum scriptorum, ex Bibliotheca Melchioris Haiminsfeldii Goldasti, in 4to. Ursellis 1606.

This little work, consisting only of seventy-nine pages, contains several treatises written during the lifetime of Jeanne d'Arc, viz.

I. Laudayani cujusdam anonymi clerici de Sibylla Franciæ, Rotuli duo.

-The author was a German, in all probability of Landau in the vicinity of Spires.

In the first part of his work, he compares La Pucelle to the ancient Sibyls; and in the second, he seems to believe that she possessed some knowledge of the occult sciences. He wrote prior to the capture of Jeanne in

1429.

II. Henrici de Gorckeim propositionum de Puella militari in Francia, libelli duo.

This writer, who was a Flemish theologian, and conse

quently of the Burgundian party, wrote upon the very first appearance of La Pucelle. His treatise comprises twelve propositions, the whole of which are contained in six pages. The first six are in favour of La Pucelle, and the last are against her. The production was written previous to the capture of Jeanne.

III. Joannis Gerson, Cancellarii Parisiensis, Apologia pro Johanna Puella.

This is a species of apology for the Pucelle, written a considerable time before her incarceration. Goldast, as well as father Berthier, entertained doubts respecting this treatise being composed by Gerson.

IV. Joannis Gerson veritas ad justificationem Puella ductricis exercitus Francorum.

We have here an apology for the Pucelle having adopted male attire.

V. Petri Episcopi Cameracensis et S. R. E. Cardinalis dialogi duo, de querelis Franciæ et Angliæ, et jure successionis in Regno Francia.

These two dialogues, which merely occupy twenty-six pages, are the production of cardinal Peter Ailli, who died in 1425, four years prior to the appearance of La Pucelle.

Processus Condemnationis Joanne d'Arc Puelle Aurelianensis, factus anno Domini 1431, Rothomagi, in folio. Manuscript preserved in the Royal Library, among those in Latin, numbered 5965. Seculo XV. exaratus; the

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