In this part of the work she plagiarizes largely from the so-called Travels of Sir John Mandeville (see article by P. Toynbee in _Romania_, xxi. 1892, p. 228). Footnote 20: Printed in Petitot’s _Collection des Mémoires_, 1824, vols. v. vi. and elsewhere. Footnote 21: Analysed by Koch, p. 73. Footnote 22: As in the dedication of the “Épître d’Othéa” partly printed below, p. xxxvi. Footnote 23: The original of _The book of fayttes of armes and of Chyualrye_, printed by Caxton in 1489. He tells us in a note that it was given to him by Henry VII. on 23rd January, 1489, to translate and print, “to thende that euery gentylman born to armes and all manere men of werre captayns souldiours vytayllers and all other shold haue knowlege how they ought to behaue theym in the fayttes of warre and of bataylles.” He adds that the translation was finished on the 8th July and printed on the 14th. A French edition appeared at Paris in 1488, and others in 1497, etc. Footnote 24: An English translation by Bryan Anslay, entitled _The boke of the cyte of Ladyes_, was printed at London, 1521. Footnote 25: For the dedication to the Dauphiness and the table of chapters see Thomassy, _Essai sur les écrits politiques de Christine de Pisan_, 1838, p. 185. Footnote 26: Printed by Thomassy, p. 133. Footnote 27: _Ibid._, p. 141. Footnote 28: For an analysis of its contents, with extracts, see _ibid._, p. 150. The Dauphin Louis was born in 1396 and died in 1415. Footnote 29: See Thomassy, p. xlii.; Martin, _Histoire de France_, 4th ed. 1878, vi. p. 192. It is dated 31st July, 1429, a fortnight after the coronation of Charles VII. at Reims. Footnote 30: “Je Christine, qui ay plouré xi. ans en l’abbaye close.” It was perhaps the abbey of Poissy, of which her daughter was already an inmate in 1400 (above, p. xiv.), and which may possibly be meant by “Passy” in the passage from the _Boke of Noblesse_ quoted in a note on p. xxxiii. Footnote 31: See below, p. xxxv. Footnote 32: Koch, p. 81. Louis was born 13th March, 1372. Footnote 33: Robineau, p. 89, speaks as if it was addressed to Charles himself, but the words are “Dorliens duc Loys” (see below, p. xxxvi.). Footnote 34: See pp. xxxiv., xxxvii. Footnote 35: “Les enseignemens que je Cristine donne a Jehan de Castel mon filz” (_Œuvres poétiques_, ed. Roy, iii. p. 27). Footnote 36: See the comparative table in Roy, i. p. xxii. Footnote 37: This was first pointed out by the Abbé Sallier, _Mémoires de l’Académie Royale des Inscriptions_, xvii. 1751, p. 518. Footnote 38: See articles by B. Hauréau in _Mémoires de l’Académie des Inscriptions_, xxx. 1883, p. 45, and by G[aston] P[aris] in the _Histoire Littéraire de la France_, xxix. 1885, p. 502. Footnote 39: Guiffrey, _Inventaires de Jean, Duc de Berry_, 1894, i. p. 237, “escript en françois rimé”; Delisle, _Le Cabinet des MSS._, iii. p. 192.