It is a pleasure to acknowledge generous financial assistance from the Mediaeval Academy of America and from the authorities of Connecticut College. Meredith-Jones’s valuable critical edition of the Pseudo-Turpin (Paris: Droz, 1936) came to hand too late for use in the preparation of this volume. With the latter purpose in mind, I have sought to make the Synopsis also applicable to the ‘longer’ Turpin published by Castets and Thoron, by describing, on pages 12-16, the principal omissions of the shorter text and by distinguishing those few notes that do not apply equally to both versions. The annotated Synopsis is offered to the larger group of antiquarians of less specialized interest, in the hope that it will prove useful as an introduction at once to the matter of the chronicle and to the problems arising from it. The text itself, with its variant readings, is primarily meant for students of the manuscript tradition. THIS edition of the ‘shorter’ Pseudo-Turpin is addressed to two groups of readers. France and the Routes through the Pyrenees.APPENDIX V PREFATORY LETTER FROM BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL, MADRID, MS.APPENDIX IV A SPECIMEN CHAPTER FROM THE LONGER PSEUDO-TURPIN.De ecclesiis quas Karolus rex magnus fecit.Incipit historia famosissimi Karoli magni quomodo terram hispanicam et galicianam a potestate Sarracenorum acquisivit.Qualiter sanctus Iacobus beato Karolo magno apparuit. Tulpini remensis archiepiscopi Leobrando aquisgranensi decano transmissa sanctitatis beati Karoli magni. MATTERS OF THE LONGER TURPIN OMITTED IN MS.THE PSEUDO-TURPIN B.N., Fonds Latin, MS.