Okay--our last manuscripts of the season!

These are both very important.  The first is maybe not the prettiest hand in the world--but I guarantee you'll be interested in the author.  From before 1536, our reading assignment:

And the second is a secretarial hand (from the last quarter of the sixteenth century).  The scribe, therefore, is anonymous, but the signature is not...

It'd be too bad to have you copy anything from the first manuscript--so your forgery, I think, should be from the second manuscript: first two lines, beginning with "Msr de Poyanne, jay sceu par vos le[ttr]es du xvii du mays passe ce qui est[oit] passé en l'entreprise" etc.

Can you copy the signature, too?

For the record, here is the verso of the same letter:

Good luck!  See you in class.