This work is a collection of oriental tales of moralizing character, translated from Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit.
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An outline of the tales, by Douce, is prefixed to Ellis' "Early English Metrical Romances."
Petrus Camper | Petrus Plancius | Petrus | Petrus Ramus | Petrus Christus | Lars Petrus | Jacques Fred Petrus | Petrus Van der Velden | Petrus Hofstede de Groot | Petrus de Natalibus | Petrus Codde | Petrus Canisius van Lierde | Petrus Astronomus | Petrus Alphonsi | Petrus Alfonsi's Tetragrammaton | Joseph Petrus Hendrik Crowe |
The collection contains some seventy-five fables, twenty-six of the from the Aesop corpus, others taken from the Roman writers Seneca, Ovid and Juvenal, from the Medieval writers Petrus Alphonsi, Jacques de Vitry and Stephen of Bourbon, from the Bible and from English folktales.