The _Cabinet des Livres_ at Chantilly, still just as it was when occupied by the Duc d'Aumale, with his chair, his writing-table, his reading-lamp and half-burnt candle, contains no less than fourteen thousand manuscripts of the very highest importance. The most noteworthy amongst these are: the first ten books of St. Augustine's _Cité de Dieu_ (translated by Raoul de Presles); Aristotle's _Ethics_ (translated by Nicolas Oresmes); Livy's _Second Decade_ (translated by Pierre Bersuire); all of which at one time belonged to the Duc de Berry. Then there is the third volume of the _Gallic War_, a free translation of the Commentaries of Cæsar,[31] on the last page of which is the following inscription: _Albertus Pichius, auxilio Godofredi pictoris Batavi faciebat praecipiete Francisco Molinio mense novembris anno quinquimillesimo vigesimo_; whence we derive information regarding the date of its completion, the names of the artists who were entrusted with it and even the name of the man who commissioned it on behalf of Francis I. Most interesting are a selection of the _Table Ronde_ used by Gaston Paris in Vol. XXX of the _Histoire littéraire de la France_ and a copy of Dante's _Inferno_ with a _Commentary_ by Guido of Pisa. Furthermore a French translation of Cicero's _Rhetorics_ written in 1282 by Master Jean d'Antioch and commissioned by a monk called Guillaume de Saint-Etienne of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem: a MS. which throws interesting light on still more ancient translations and is ornamented with fine old miniatures; a French translation of _Valere Maxime_ (in two volumes), which belonged to the Cardinal George d'Amboise; a translation of _Diodorus Siculus_, with a frontispiece representing _King Francis and his Court_; and an illuminated manuscript, known to have been the _Book of Hours_ of Anne de Montmorency, offer more than ordinary interest. This last belongs to the sixteenth century and contains miniatures in the style of Jean Cousin. Next comes a _Legenda Aurea_, which once belonged to Charles V of France and which in its time has travelled back and forth between England and France (as was so often the case with old books and manuscripts); for on the last page we read in an unknown hand: _And yf my pen were better_ _Better shuld be my letter._ [Illustration: Plate XXIX. Photo. Giraudon. APRIL. Pol de Limbourg. From The "Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry." _To face page 158._]