Manuscript 526 (anc. 299) of the municipal library of Dijon [Bibliothèque Municipale de Dijon, Ms. 526] was imperfectly described in the General catalog of manuscripts of public libraries of France (Departments, t. V). The author of the notice did not identify the anonymous pieces; he did not notice, consequently, that several of them provided as many new articles to the bibliography of a writer well known in the literary history of the 3rd century; finally, he did not see the interest that some marginal annotations could offer and did not report them; these notes are however by Claude Fauchet. In a study on Richard de Fournival, P. Paris, wondering how Fauchet could have known the author of the Puissance d’Amours, anonymous in all the manuscripts, supposed that he had had at his disposal a text that is now lost. Fauchet’s manuscript still exists; it is precisely the one in Dijon, which gives the name of Richard de Fournival to the explicit of the Puissance d’Amours. The same volume contains other works by the chancellor of Amiens, which are not found elsewhere, and which have remained unknown until now; I will therefore redo the manuscript notice in its entirety. - [Author]

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DOI: 10.3406/bec.1904.448203