Described Hardwick & Luard: iii.558–63. Folio volume made up of nine different parts. Parts 8 and 9 have been sorted out and renumbered by Jayne Ringrose (see the typed notes which accompany the MS), and should be considered in reverse order.

[1]

Part 1, f. 1

Iff it be possible that of vyce myght growe vertue it wolde please me well in this partie to be passioned as a womman like as many men holden opinyoun that nature of womman cannot kepe undir sylence the habondaunce of hir corage nowe come hardely and i will tell and shewe oute by many clere ryuers and cristallyn sprynges …

f. 79v

… whiche three estates and all in on oure lorde for his holy mercy will mayten and incresse fro bettir to bettyr in all perfeccioun of soule and body amen.

‘The body of polycye’ (f. 1). The Body of Polycye, Middle English translation of Christine de Pizan's Livre du corps de policie. IPMEP 332. Ed. by D. Bornstein, The Middle English Translation of Christine de Pisan's ‘Livre du corps du policie’. MET 7 (Heidelberg, 1977).

Other texts: Unique MS. Printed by John Skot 17 May 1521 (STC 7270).

[2]

Part 3, f. 5

Her begynnys ye buke of regem magistatem the quhilk comprehendis within the lawis of ye kynrike of scotland the quhilk within the tyme of pece is richt mystirfull wiþin ye kinrike to rewle and to gouerne it for richt as the kynrike is defendit and gouerni[d] be fors of armes in the tyme of wer …

f. 40

… and of all ye thynges fundine in ye fee in ye tyme of his sesing take tyll hyme ande halde of law ande resoun.

‘Here begynnys the titill of ye grete lawis of scotland of þe gude king dauid the quhilk lawes are conteint in ye buke the quhilk is callit regiam magestatem’ (f. 3). Preceded on ff. 2–4v by a list of contents. Middle Scots translation of Regiam Majestatem Books I–III.

See also [10] below.

[3]

Part 4, f. 2