A tretice in englisch breuely drawe out of ??e book of quintis
e{ess}encijs in latyn, ??{a}t hermys ??e p{ro}phete and
kyng of Egipt, aft{er} ??e flood of Noe
fadir of philosophris, hadde by
reuelaciou{n} of an aungil
of god to him
sende.
Edited from
British Museum MS. Sloane 73
about 1460-70 A.D.
by
FREDERICK J. FURNIVALL
_Published for_
THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY
_by the_
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON ?· NEW YORK ?· TORONTO
FIRST PUBLISHED 1866
REVISED EDITION 1889
REPRINTED 1965
Original Series, No. 16
Reprinted in Great Britain by Richard Clay
(The Chaucer Press) Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk
* * * * *
The odd account of the origin of this Treatise--in its first
lines--caught my eye as I was turning over the leaves of the Sloane
Manuscript which contains it. I resolved to print it as a specimen of
the curious fancies our forefathers believed in (as I suppose) in
Natural Science, to go alongside of the equally curious notions they
put faith in in matters religious. And this I determined on with no idea
of scoffing, or pride in modern wisdom; for I believe that as great
fallacies now prevail in both the great branches of knowledge and
feeling mentioned, as ever were held by man.
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