[warp] ROMANCE OF THE ROSE 201 
The following diagram, therefore, exhibits the relationship of the 
manuscripts as nearly as it is possible to determine it with the material 
which we have: 
O 
o | À 
/ x ï à 
For the orthography, A, apparently the most reliable manuscript, 
has been followed, when available; 7.e., for letters IV-IX and XIII. F 
is the only one containing letters XI and XIV. The text has been 
determined by a comparison of all the manuscripts according to the 
diagram above, t.e. of FAB with CDE. Where there,was a deadlock of & 
and 8, what seemed the better according to the context has been se- 
lected. When in the last case there was no preference, the reading 
of a has been arbitrarily chosen. Variant readings will be given as 
footnotes, as also occasional interesting differences in orthography. I 
have also modernized the punctuation and paragraphing. 
III. —BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
In connection with my work I have consulted the following works: 
Petitot, Collection des mémoires, 1717, V., p. 203. 
Boivin (Jean) de Villeneuve, Vie de Christine de Pisan et de Thomas 
de Pisan son père, in the Mém. acad. inscrip. et Belles-Lettres, 1717, I],, 
p. 762; 1736, IT, pp. 704-14 (2a IV., pp. 465-S0). 
Lebeuf, Dissert. hist. Paris, 1743, III., p. 89. 
Abbé Goujet, Bibl. frang., 1745, IX., pp. 422-25, x. p. 424. 
Sec. II, 1910, 14. 
