[Footnote 3: The scribe first wrote _longius se uehi_. The _e_ which precedes _uehi_ was added by him when he later corrected the page and deleted _se_.] [Footnote 4: _uale_: The abbreviation is marked by a stroke above as well as by a dot after the word.] {fol. 51r} ·LIBER·III· _A tout ceulz qui ces presentes lettres verront et orront Jehan de sannemeres garde du scel de la provoste de Meaulx & francois Beloy clerc Jure de par le Roy nostre sire a ce faire Salut sachient tuit que par._[1] ·C̅·PLINIUS·MAXIMO SUO SALUT_EM_ QUOD IPSE AMICIS TUIS OPTULISSEM·SI MI HI EADEM MATERIA SUPPETERET ID NUNC IURE UIDEOR A TE MEIS PETITURUS ARRIA NUS MATURUS ALTINATIUM EST PRINCEPS 5 CUM DICO PRINCEPS NON DE FACULTATI BUS LOQUOR QUAE ILLI LARGE SUPER SUNT SED DE CASTITATE IUSTITIA GRA UITATE PRUDENTIA HUIOS EGO CONSI LIO IN NEGOTIIS IUDICIO IN STUDIIS UT 10 OR NAM PLURIMUM FIDE PLURIMUM VERITATE PLURIMUM INTELLEGENTIA PRAESTAT AMAT ME NIHIL POSSUM AR DENTIUS DICERE UT TU KARET AMBITUI[2] IDEO SE IN EQUESTRI GRADU TENUIT CUM 15 FACILE POSSIT[3] ASCENDERE ALTISSIMU_M_ MIHI TAMEN ORNANDUS EXCOLENDUS QUE EST ITAQ_UE_ MAGNI AESTIMO DIGNITATI EIUS ALIQUID ADSTRUERE INOPINANTIS NESCIENTIS IMMO ETIAM FORTASSE 20 NOLENTIS ADSTRUERE AUTEM QUOD SIT SPLENDIDUM NEC MOLESTUM CUIUS GENERIS QUAE PRIMA OCCASIO TIBI CO_N_ FERAS IN EUM ROGO HABEBIS ME HABE BIS IPSUM GRATISSIMUM DEBITOREM 25 QUAMUIS ENIM ISTA NON ADPETAT TAM GRATE TAMEN EXCIPIT QUAM SI CONCU [Footnote 1: A fifteenth-century addition, see above, p. 21.] [Footnote 2: The scribe originally divided _i-deo_ between two lines. On correcting the page he (or a contemporary corrector) cancelled the _i_ at the end of the line and added it before the next.] [Footnote 3: _i_ changed to _e_ (not the uncial form) possibly by the original hand in correcting.] {fol. 51v} ·EPISTULARUM·