THE OLDEST LOMBARDIC MANUSCRIPT.

Facsimile from an Edict of King Rotharis,

A.D. 643.

Translation.

LXX  If anybody of another the great toe from the foot
severs, he pays solidi sixteen.
LXXI        If the second toe from the
foot he severs, he pays solidi six.
LXXII            If the third toe he
severs, he pays solidi three.
LXXIII        If the fourth toe he severs,
he pays solidi three.
LXXIIII        If the fifth toe he severs,
he pays solidi two.
LXXV        Upon all these damages
or injuries, above
described, which
among men exempt occurred,
therefore, a heavier punishment,
have we placed than
our ancestors, that the Faida (feud, vendetta), that
is, the hatred, after the receiving the above described
(ssta—suprascripta)
punishment, may cease, and,
moreover, not be required, nor craftiness

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CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER

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HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE

LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE

GEORGE HENRY WARNER

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Connoisseur Edition

VOL. XI.

1896

THE ADVISORY COUNCIL

CRAWFORD H. TOY, A.M., LL.D.,
Professor of Hebrew,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY, LL.D., L.H.D.,
Professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School of
Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

WILLIAM M. SLOANE, PH.D., L.H.D.,
Professor of History and Political Science,
Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.

BRANDER MATTHEWS, A.M., LL.B.,
Professor of Literature, Columbia University, New York City.

JAMES B. ANGELL, LL.D.,
President of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.

WILLARD FISKE, A.M., PH.D.,
Late Professor of the Germanic and Scandinavian Languages
and Literatures,    Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

EDWARD S. HOLDEN, A.M., LL.D.,
Director of the Lick Observatory, and Astronomer,
University of California, Berkeley, Cal.

ALCÉE FORTIER, LIT.D.,
Professor of the Romance Languages,
Tulane University, New Orleans, La.

WILLIAM P. TRENT, M.A.,
Dean of the Department of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of
English and History, University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.

PAUL SHOREY, PH.D.,
Professor of Greek and Latin Literature,
University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

WILLIAM T. HARRIS, LL.D.,
United States Commissioner of Education,
Bureau of Education, Washington, D.C.

MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, A.M., LL.D.,
Professor of Literature in the
Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

VOL. XI

RICHARD HENRY DANA, SENIOR — 1787-1879
The Island ('The Buccaneer')
The Doom of Lee (same)
Paul and Abel ('Paul Felton')

RICHARD HENRY DANA, JUNIOR — 1815-1882
A Dry Gale ('Two Years Before the Mast')
Every-Day Sea Life (same)
A Start; and Parting Company (same)

DANTE — 1265-1321

BY CHARLES ELIOT NORTON

From 'The New Life':
Beginning of Love
The First Salutation of His Lady