The Epistles on the Romance of the Rose, and other documents in the debate

by Charles Frederick Ward

NOTES

[l. 1] (Ms. A) (commencent) commence le liure des epistre B.

(Ci commencent) Apres s’ensuiuent C.

[l. 2] (sur) sus B E.

[l. 3-4] (general conseillier du roy, maistre Jehan Johannes) wanting B. There is the slight change in order in B that le preuost de Lisle is mentioned before maistre Gontier Col.

[l. 4] (du roy) followed by nostre sire & A.

[l. 5] (maistre Pierre Col) wanting C D E (which do not contain letters to or by this personage).

(Pierre Col) followed by son frere B (cf. change of order mentioned [above]).

[l. 6] (Christine) preceded by damoiselle C.

[l. 7] (La premiere epistre, a la royne de France) followed by Christine B.