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concludes. (See fF. cxiv., recto et verso, and cxvii.-cxviii. ed. 

 Blaze). The Jugement ends thus : — '* Explicit le jugement que 

 fist le Comte de Tancarville." The third point seems to have 

 been overlooked by all my predecessors in this inquiry, and the 

 fourth by all except M. Bouton. 



There are several copies of the MS. in the Bibliotheque 

 Royale, Paris, most of them illuminated. One of these (No. 

 632-12) was written in 1379. Another (No. 7096-2) was 

 copied by Alexandre Danes de Maigny for Mgr. Jehan de 

 Hangest, Chevalier, Seigneur de Genly et du dit Maigny in 1406. 

 These MSS. begin : — " Cy commenche le livre du Roy Modus et de la 

 Royne Ratio qui parte des deduitz des Chiens et des Oiseaux^ It 

 was first printed in 4to, black letter, with woodcuts, at Cham- 

 bery in i486, the same year in which the English "Book of 

 St. Albans " appeared. A second edition, also in 4to, but un- 

 dated, tvas printed in Paris by Jehan Janot. A third, Paris, 1526, 

 in 4to, black letter, with cuts ; a fourth, full of blunders, was 

 published in 8vo, by Corozet, and by Guillaume Lenoir, Paris, 

 in 1560, and the last by Elzear Blaze in 1839. 



In regard to the peculiar title of the work, it may be re- 

 marked that, at the period when it was written, authors were 

 fond of concealing their identity under some allegorical pseudo- 

 nym. In this case the writer explains the reason for his selecting 

 the names Modus and Ratio to be that there can be no good 

 method without reason, and no reason without good method. '• Le 

 Roi Modus " discusses the various methods of hunting and 

 hawking ; " La Reine Ratio " the natural instincts of the beasts 

 and birds of the chase. The cuts have been reproduced by 

 Elzear Blaze (see p. 65), and by MM. Lacroix and Ser€ 

 (No. 194). 



Autre Edition. S'ensuyt le livre du Roy Modus 

 et de la Royne Racio qui parle du deduyt de la chasse 

 a toutes bestes sauvaiges come cerfz : biches : daims : 

 chevreulx : lievres : sangliers : leus : reynardz et 

 loutres. Avec le stille de Faulconnerie : et aussi les 

 subtillitez d' Archerie : contenat plusieurs manieres pour 

 predre toutes sortes d'oyseaulx : tat a la raitz a la 



