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of Gerson or the feminine appeals of Christine, he concludes the contro- 
versy by a reply to Christine’s letter (the one dated October 2, 1402), of 
which only a short fragment has been preserved (document XIV). 
This, briefly, is the general course of the debate, which we shall 
be satisfied to outline, preferring to let the documents speak for them- 
selves rather than to attempt further analysis here. 
II.—MANUSCRIPTS. 
The first six letters: 
IV. Christine’s letter to Jean de Montreuil. 
V. Gontier Col’s first letter to Christine, requesting 
a copy of IV. 
VI. Gontier Col’s second letter to Christine. 
VII. Christine’s reply to VI. 
VIII. Dedicatory letter of Christine to Queen Isabelle 
of Bavaria. 
IX. Dedicatory letter of Christine to Guillaume de 
Tignonville 
are contained in mss. A.B.C.D.E. (letter IV also in ms. F). They 
have been already edited by F. Beck (in 1888) from a comparison 
of A.D.E. only, but this edition contains a number of serious errors in 
the text, and of course, as the author says (p. V.), it is not a critical one. 
The remaining letters, which have not been printed before, are found 
in mss. as follows: 
XI. Pierre Col’s letter to Christine and Gerson. Ms. F. 
XIII. Christine’s reply to XI. Mss. A.B.F. 
XIV. Pierre Col’s reply to XIII—a fragment. Ms. F. 
A brief summary of the manuscripts follows: 
A. Paris, Bib. nat. fr. 835, fol. 87 a; B. London, Brit. Mus. Harl. 
4431; C. Brussels, Bib. royale, 9561; D. Paris, Bib. nat. fr. 604, fol. 
112 a; EK. Paris, Bib. nat. fr. 12779, fol. 26 a; F. Paris, Bib. nat fr. 
1563, fol. 178 a (for IV); fol. 185 b (for XI); fol. 190 b vo. (for XIII). 
It has been impossible to determine accurately the date of these 
manuscripts. They almost certainly belong to the fifteenth century, 
very probably (with the possible exception of F.) to the first part of that 
century. They have already been described,' with the exception of C 
(9561 Brussels) and F (1563 Bib. nat.) 
! Cf..M. Roy, Oeuvres Poétiques de Christine de Pisan, in the Société des anc. 
Textes fr., 1886, vol. I., pp. V. sqq., and also P. Paris, Manuscrits franç. de la Bib. du 
roy, 1842, vol. V., pp. 72-73, 94-100, 133-81, 399-403. 
