See below, p. xliii. The note (Roxburghe Club ed. p. 54) runs, “Notandum est quod Cristina [fuit] domina præclara natu et moribus et manebat in domo religiosarum dominarum apud Passye prope Parys; et ita virtuosa fuit quod ipsa exhibuit plures clericos studentes in vniuersitate Parisiensi, et compilare fecit plures libros virtuosos, utpote librum arborum bellorum, et doctores racione eorum exhibicionis attribuerunt nomen autoris Cristine, sed aliquando nomen autoris clerici studentis imponitur in diuersis libris; et vixit circa annum Christi 1430, sed floruit ab anno Christi 1400.” Footnote 78: Guiffrey, _Inventaires_, i. p. 249; _cf._ Delisle, _Le Cabinet des MSS._, iii. p. 193, no. 290. Footnote 79: In answer to an inquiry M. Omont, keeper of MSS., kindly states that only one of them, franç. 12,438, a poor copy on paper, contains a dedication to the Duke of Berry. It begins “Le Prologue. Louenge à Dieu soit .... et après ensuivant à très noble fleur .... et puis à vous excellant prince, saige, bon et vertueux, Jehan excellant, redoubté filz au roy de France .... duc de Berry,” etc. Footnote 80: The “Cent Balades d’Amant et de Dame” (_Œuvres Poétiques_, ed. Roy, iii. p. 209), besides ten others. Footnote 81: Printed by Roy, i. p. xiv. The MS. is there described and compared with another rather earlier collection (now Bibl. Nat. franç. 835, 606, 836, 605), which the Duke of Berry bought from Christine for 200 crowns. A reduced facsimile of the first page of the Harley MS., with a large miniature of Christine presenting the volume to the queen in her bedchamber, is prefixed to Roy’s vol. iii. (_cf._ a note by P. Meyer, p. xxii.). A coloured plate of the same miniature is given by Shaw, _Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages_, 1843. Footnote 82: Delisle, _Le Cabinet des MSS._, i. p. 52. Footnote 83: This is the only edition in the British Museum. Its second title runs: _Lepistre de Othea deesse de prudence enuoyee a lesperit cheualereux Hector de troye auec cent hystoires. Nouuellement imprimee a Paris._ Other editions are said to have been issued at Lyons in 1497 and 1519, and at Paris in 1522. Footnote 84: Both date and age were given on his tomb at Bourges erected by Charles VII. in 1457 (Raynal, _Histoire du Berry_, 1844, ii. pp. 504, 513; Champeaux and Gauchery, _Les Travaux d’art executés pour Jean de France, Duc de Berry_, 1894, p. 43). Footnote 85: Ed. 1644, p. 238. Bouchet was born in 1476, and his work first appeared in 1524. I owe the reference to it to Mr. Wylie. Footnote 86: _Histoire du Berry_, ii. p. 375. Footnote 87: _Histoire de France_, 4th edition, 1878, vi. p. 25. The most favourable view of his character is given by Guiffrey, _Inventaires_, p. cxci. Footnote 88: