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Barlaam in Europe
Of the wide extent to which the Barlaam was translated in the European languages no better evidence could be afforded than the pedigree in which I have attempted to sum up Dr. Kuhn's elaborate bibliographical lists of translations and versions. These number no less than sixty separate translations, many of which have gone through very many editions. From Italy to Iceland, from Spain to Russia, there is scarcely a land or a language into which Barlaam has not penetrated. Even in the distant Philippines, it will be seen from the pedigree, a Tagol version was made from the Spanish and printed at Manilla in 1712. Even the Fables of Bidpai have scarcely attained to such œcumenical diffusion.
Restricting ourselves to Europe, we find that it is chiefly the patronage of the Church that
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