Royal MS 20 B X

'MAUNDEVYLE': the French text of the travels (cf. 20 A. I). The present MS. seems closely akin to Harley MS. 4383, see G. F. Warner, Buke of John Maundeuill (Roxburghe Club, 1889), introd., p. ix, and is therefore used in the Roxburghe edition to supply that part of the French text (from p. 103, f. 56 b of this MS.) for which the Harley MS. is deficient. A table of chapters prefixed (ff. 1-2) is in a later hand, perhaps (from the marks over u) Scottish or Dutch. The text (headed 'Ici comence Maundeuyle') beg. 'Come il ensi soit qe la terre doutremere cestasauoir la terre seynt'; ends 'par toutz siecles et par toutz temps. Amen'. Then follows (f. 83 b) 'La copie de la lettre maunde ouesque cet escript a tresnoble prince mounsire Edward de Wyndesore roy dengleterre et de Fraunce par monsire Johan de Maundeuilie autour suisdit', in Latin (cf. 20 A. I), beg. 'Principi excellentissimo pre cunctis mortalibus precipue venerando'; ending 'se extendunt. contenta tradantur'. Another Latin letter (interpolated in the text at f. 10 b) from Balthazardy, son of Sultan Melik-en Nésir, to the Pope (cf. Sloane MS. 560, f. 10, Egerton MS. 672, f. 73 b) is noticed by Warner, p. xxix, note, and printed by Vogels, Die ungedr. Lat. vers. Mand., p. 15. Vellum; ff. 85. 101/4 in. x 7 in. Early XV cent. In an English hand. Gatherings (beg. f. 3) of 8 leaves (last 4), lettered, with catchwords. Sec. fol 'en oblye'. Initials in red. At the end (f. 83b) in a late 16th cent. hand is a flourish between the letters I. G. (?). The MS. however seems to have been in the Royal library at an earlier date, being no. 143 of the cat. of MSS. at Richmond Palace in 1535 (cf. 15 D. I); cat of 1666, f. 14b; not in CMA.