SOURCE: A Preface to De Nugis Curialium, by Walter Map, edited by Montague Rhodes James, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1914, pp. v-xxxix.
In the following excerpt from the introduction to his Latin transcription of De Nugis Curialium, James describes the physical condition of the manuscript from which he is working; discusses the errors made by an earlier transcriber (Thomas Wright); explains his own methods of transcription; speculates on the initial publication date of Map's work; and describes the contents of Map's work.
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