Royal MS 19 B I

'LE LIVRE de linformacion des princes': a different translation of the same work as 19 A. XX. The preface is translated from the form of text given in 12 D. XV (and probably also in 12 B. XVIII, the beginning of which is lost), in which the reference to Louis X is eliminated; but in the arrangement of chapters this translation differs from both Latin texts and the other translation, having, e. g., only 23 chapters in pt. ii instead of 33. Neither of these translations includes the extracts from the Fathers which are appended in 12 B. XVIII and 12 D. XV, but they seem to be translated in a Paris MS., Bibl. Nat., fonds fr. 1212. Preface beg. 'Regnabit rex et sapiens erit, &c.: Ces paroles sont les paroles de nostre seigneur pa (sic) la bouche de Iheremie'; bk. i, 'En considerant la dignite de la royale maieste'. Bk. iv ends 'par linfini siecle des siecles. amen'. Colophon, 'Explicit le liure de linformacion des princes escriptpar dan Viuien Predargent ou chastel de Pernes [Pernes-en- Artois, Pas-de-Calais] en la conte de Saint Pol en lan mil iiiic soixante et cinq'.

Paper; ff. 141. Folio. 113/4 in. x 8 in. A.D. 1465. Gatherings (beg. f. 2,) of 16 leaves (i¹⁷, iv¹⁶, last¹²). Sec. fol. in table 'Comment le Roy'; in text 'Et comment'. Initials in red. Either this or 19 A. XX is probably no. 83 of the cat. of MSS. at Richmond Palace in 1535 (cf. 15 D. I); cat. of 1666, f. 11 or 11 b; not in CMA.