Note 853 — Chapter XLVIII
Reading edition
The preliminary table of contents, however, gives only chapter headings, which in BN 6584 are 82 in number, but the beginnings of the ten books are indicated in the text in BN 6584 as follows. The numbers in parentheses are the corresponding leaves in Bodleian 67 which, however, omits mention of the book and its number except in the case of the fourth book.
Fol. 3v (5r), Incipit liber primus. Epistola ad Alexandrum.
Fol. 6r, Secundus liber de dispositione Regali et reverentia Regis.
Fol. 12r (18v), Incipit liber tertius. Cum hoc corpus corruptibile sit eique accidit corruptio....
Fol. 22r (36r), Incipit liber quartus. transtulit magister philippus tripolitanus de forma iusticie.
Fol. 28r (44v), Liber Quintus de scribis et scriptoribus secretorum.
Fol. 28r (45r), Liber Sextus de nuntiis et informationibus ipsorum.
Fol. 28v (46v), Liber Septimus de hiis qui sr’ intendunt et habent curam subditorum.
Fol. 29r (47r), Liber Octavus de dispositione ductoris sui et de electione bellatorum et procerum inferiores (?).
Fol. 29v (48r), Liber Nonus de regimine bellatorum et forma aggrediendi bellum et pronatationibus eorundem.
Fol. 30v (50v), Sermo de phisionomia cuiuslibet hominis.