It goes without saying that any manuscript, however fragmentary, can have considerable importance in the field of textual criticism. We believe that even more effort should be made to dig up missing or forgotten manuscripts of the Roman de Renart. It is for this purpose that we present to our readers the fragmentary manuscript that has just been discovered and which currently belongs to the Hiroshima University Library in Japan [Hiroshima University Library, 953/R-16], where one of us, Noboru Harano, teaches. It is the second manuscript of Renart to be found outside Europe, after manuscript F [Morgan Library, MS M.932], which passed from England to the United States, at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. We said "discovered" previously, but it must be specified, because it was the antiquarian bookseller Bernard Quaritch of London who first gave information about this fragment to our colleague Professor Matsubara of Keio University in Tokyo. But he was kind enough to inform us of this find and to spare no effort to have it obtained at Hiroshima University. With the approval of the International Renardian Society, we would like to give this manuscript the acronym t according to the chronological order of discovery. - [Authors]

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Language: French