March 11 2013

Okay, this could be fun.  Let's follow all the directions as carefully as possible.  The first thing: please don't read into the bibliographic materials, as I want you to try this out my way first.  (I include the biblio citation below the image, for purposes of academic honesty).

Then, let's do this in order, just to see how this works.

• Make a forgery of the left column, beginning at the eighth line from the bottom, P[ar]quoy... up to the 5th line from the bottom, ...sont issu. Do this first, before going on to the next bullet point.
• Transcribe, as best you can, the section immediately preceding what you just forged, from the 19th line from the bottom (left column), Oultre le gue..., to ...la mo[n]tee.  Just for reference, "un gué/guet" is a crossing point or lookout point.

Cambridge, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 0555
Description: - ff. 293 and 274 - 18th-century red morocco, with arms of Cardinal François Paul de Neufville, Maréchal de Villeroy, by Boyer or possibly Duseuil - Made for King Charles V of France; Villars family, successive archbishops of Vienne, 1576-1693; acquired by Gayot de la Regasse in 1697; acquired by Cardinal François Paul de Neufville, Archbishop of Lyons, 1714-1731; Prince Galitzine, 1825 - Wieck, Late Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts, 2-3 and 136-137.  Folio 38r.  Likely 3rd quarter of the 14th century.