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xciv 14. Hebrew version of No. 4, by Joel (?), before 1250. Exists only in a single MS. in Paris, of which the first part is missing.

15. Latin version of No. 14, by John of Capua. Written 1263-1278. Printed about 1480, without date or name of place. Next to No. 3 it is the best evidence of the contents of the lost books Nos. 1 and 2.

16. German version of No. 15, also about 1480, but without date or name of place.

17. Version in Ulm dialect of No. 16. Ulm, 1483.

18. Baldo's '.' A translation direct from Arabic into Latin (? thirteenth century.) Edited in du Meril's 'Poesies inédites du moyen age,' Paris, 1854.

19. Spanish version of No. 4 (? through an unknown Latin version). About 1251. Published in 'Biblioteca de Autores Españoles,' Madrid, 1860, vol. 51.

20. Latin version of the last, by Raimond de Beziers, 1313.

21. By Don Juan Manuel (died 1347), grandson of St. Ferdinand of Spain. Spanish source not certain.

22. or Book of the Seven Wise Masters. See Comparetti, 'Ricerche intorno al Libro di Sindibad,' Milano, 1869.

23. By Bonaventure des Periers, Lyons, 1587.

24. 1493. Spanish version of the Directorium.

25. Italian of last, by Ange Firenzuola, 1648.

26. By Doni, 1552. Italian of last but one.

27. North's English version of last, 1570.

28. by La Fontaine. First edition in vi. books, the subjects of which are mostly taken from classical authors and from Planudes's Æsop, Paris, 1668. Second edition in xi. books, the five later taken from Nos. 12 and 23, Paris, 1678. Third edition in xii. books, Paris, 1694.