Les Sources de l'Histoire de France depuis les Origines jusqu'en 1815 by MM. Molinier; Hauser;Bourgeois; Yver; Tourneux; CaronReview by: James Westfall ThompsonThe American Historical Review, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Jul., 1903), pp. 742-743Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Historical AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1834352 .

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that he was not a Benedictine of Reichenbach. In 1466 he appeared in Florence, where he presented to Duke Borso di Este a work entitled CosnoyatfIlziz. In the following years he produced several copies of this work of Ptolemy, dedicating the earlier ones to Duke Borso and the later ones to Pope Paul II. These dedications with a few other extracts from the sources are given in an appendix.

The earlier maps of the northern regions, as the Clavus map, indicate with accuracy the relative positions of Greenland, Iceland, and Scandi- navia. Professor Fischer shows how in all probability the change of location indicated in so many of the maps of later date came about, and why in point of accuracy they are inferior. He traces the error primarily to Donnus Nicolaus, whose authority, however, must have been Scandi- navian records. The Ulm edition of Ptolemy first indicates the change in location, and what is unmistakably the manuscript original of this edi- tion was very recently discovered bv our author in the library of Wolfegg Castle.

It was while searching the archives of this castle that he likewise dis- covered the WaldseemUiller map of 1507 and that of I5i6, of which dis- coveries the first mention, with a brief description, is given in this work. The first of the Waldseemiiller maps reproduces the Ulm type, and as this map was printed in I,OOO copies and in all probability widely dis- tributed, we have an easy explanation of the false notions so generally entertained concerning the relative position of the lands of the north.

Some attempt is made to ascertain the exact location of Helluland, Markland, and Wineland and to identify certain other regions referred to in early records. Ten plates of maps are appended, selected chiefly from the WVolfegg and Vatican manuscripts, and from the Waldseemiiller maps of 1507 and I5i6.

It is to be hoped that Professor Fischer will continue his researches in this field, for we have in this piece of work the evidence that a scholar has entered it who proceeds with the sympathy, caution, and knowledge so characteristic of Reeves and Storm, two of the most reliable investiga- tors, whose work has been but recently ended.

E. L. STEVENSON.

Les Soz;-ces de I'Histoire dc Fralce depizs les OrigiVncs jiisqzu'en 1815. Vol. III. Les Cap'tieins (I8IO-I328). [Manuels de Bibliographie Historique.] Par MM. MOLINIER, HAUSER,

BOURGEOIS, YVER, TOURNEUX, et CARON. (Paris: A. Picard et

Fils. 1903. Pp. 248.) THE rapidity of the work done by M. Molinier and his co-laborers is

excelled only by its perfection. For condensed excellence these MAanuels are model products of bibliographical scholarship, unless one is disposed to quarrel with the method adopted. For here is ground for disagree- ment. The field is not so accurately defined as in Professor Gross's work upon the sources and literature of English history, and one know- ing that work wishes that the Harvard professor's French emulators had

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1Iio1inier. Les Sources de 1'Hisfoire de France 743

endeavored to include also a fuller account of the literature of the sub- ject, the allusions made of this nature being tantalizingly few. It is true this method would have much enlarged the volumes, but it would also have much enhanced their value to the scholar; and some space might have been saved by the use of smaller type in explaining titles.

A most excellent feature of the work is the brief and synthetic his- torical summary which is prefixed to certain of the chapters, though the characterization of the story of the fourth crusade as " cette lamen- table et ridiicule histoire" (p. 27) has the grimness of William the Con- queror's famous comment upon the prowess of the abbot of Hyde Ab- bey. American scholarship is given signal recognition, of course, in the chapter of sources and authorities upon the Inquisition, Mr. Henry Charles Lea's three volumes being declared to be a work " de premier ordre, le seul a consulter aujourd'hui " (p. 70). But why not mention the appendixes of original documents, which fill fifty printed pages?

There are a few notable omissions: In item 2237 Miss Norgate's article upon the trial of King John, printed in the fourteenth volume of the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, is omitted from the literature of the subject, an important omission, for Miss Norgate joins issue with French scholars as to the probability of John's trial in I202.

The letters of Stephen, bishop of Tournai (Scriptores, XIX. 282-306), which throw considerable light on Philip Augustus's early years, do not appear among the sources of the reign. The paragraph on pp. 39-40 upon the literature of the Fourth Crusade ought to include Streit, V7ene- d4-r uind die WYendung des vierten Kreuzzuges gegen Constantinopel; Win- kelman, Phzilip zvon Schwaben und Otto IV., in the Jahrbticher; Heyd, Lezanthandel; and even Pears's Fall of Constantinople. In the long chapter devoted to the reign of St. Louis one fails to find among the docuiments adimiinistratifs Etienne Boileau's Re,glements sur les Arts et Aktiers de Paris, compiled under the direction of the provost of Paris. The Letters of Henry LIZ. (Rolls Series) is missing also from the sources etrangt-ires. Parenthetically, it may be said at this point that the Rolls Series and the Calendar of State Papers are more than once confused, e. g. Nos. 2883, 2884, 3056. In Chapter LIII., that upon Charles of Anjou, Professor Richard Sternfeld's writings fail of mention unless he be included in the statement made of Cadier's Rovaume de Sicile sous CYlizrles d ' A4iou, that " on y trouvera la bibliographie complete du sujet," which seems an unjust discrimination, since Sternfeld is pioneer and peer in the Angevin field. Finally, Rishanger's Gesta Edwardi (I297-

I 307 ) and the three fragments of Aninales Regis Ediwardi Primi attrib- uted to him fail to appear among the chironiques anglaises bearing upon the rule of Philip IV.; and what is more surprising, no reference is made to the discussion of the bull Unam Sanctam and its origin, to be found in the Revue des Questions Historiques for x879 (Vol. XXVI.).

JAMES WESTFALL THOMPSON.

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