ABSTRACT
Some excerpts copied from the letter collection of Heloise and Peter Abelard in the later fifteenth century have recently come to light and the author's purpose is to draw attention to them. The text of the correspondence in all the extant medieval MSS is generally stable and uniform. These extant copies clearly prove that France and particularly Paris provided the most favoured home for the collection in the late Middle Ages, and that poets and humanists mingle with clerics and religious of different types and functions among their owners and readers. It is a unique witness to the diffusion of the letters of Heloise and Abelard because it circulated c.1484 among clerics in eastern Europe. As a witness to the text of the letters of Heloise and Abelard Notre Dame 30 reinforces the impression that it underwent little alteration course of copying in the Middle Ages.
