Excerpt from The Northern Passion: French Text, Variants and Fragments, EtcLvolume I of The Northern Passion, published in 1913, contained readings from nine manuscripts. In this volume will be found specimens of five others, which were not discovered until the texts in Vol. I were already in type. Of these five, Rawlinson C. 655 and Rawlinson Poetry 175 deserve special mention the former, because it adds several hundred lines to the normal text of the poem, the latter, because it is in some respects the best ms. Of the expanded version.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.