Recueil Général des Isopets, Tome Premier

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, Neckam and the Isopets of Paris and Chartres -- Latin for the former and French for both of the latter. Neckam's Novus Aesopus was apparently the source for the latter two. Valuable early material includes a classification of Isopets (i) and a table of correspondence of the three presented here (1). This was a lucky find from some routine searching of the web.