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Directoi'iuyn ad Passagiiini Trausniariiuini 813 in the first place, to print the Paris MS. intact, and, in the second, have endeavored to mark every place where the Magdalen copy differs from the Paris. But I have not thought it necessary to mention every instance of certain regularly recurring forms natur- ally differing from those of P., such as d for t in sicud, velud, etc. ; c for t in words like pocins; i for y in words like tipus; y for i in Ytalia, etc.; n for m, as in inpugnant; mpn for mn, as in solempnis, dampnum, etc.; if for F or /, as in ffrancia, Aifrica; p for b, as in optinent; f (more rarely) for ph, as in farctra; the invariable e for ae and oe, as in emulatio ; the equally necessary medieval i for j, as in iugnm ; the single r for double r, as in Saraceni ; the single s for double s, as in Assasini; the / for ct, as in cuntns; and the insertion or omission of the h as settled by usage before P.'s time, as in habiDidans. hiis. Icrusalcm. In the following (October) number of the Reie', I hope, while printing the remainder of the Dirccforiiiin, to discuss the document, as a whole, and in each of its more interesting passages, in greater detail. C. Raymond Beazley. DiRECTORIUM In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Incipit directorium 'ad faciendum passagium transmarinum,^ editum per quendam^ fratrem ordinis Praedicatorum, scribentem experta et visa potius quam audita, quod dirigitur serenissimo Principi et Domino Domino Philippo Regi Francorum, compilatum anno Domini millesimo CCC. tricesimo.* De celsitudinis vestrae sancto proposito, Domine mi Rex. in Romana curia fama celebri diuulgato exultat et jubilat orbis totus quod scilicet tanquam alter prouisus de superis Machabaeus pro aemulatione legis,* pro zelo fidei, pro liberatione terrae Christi sanguine consecratae sumitis bellum Dei. Et quia pauper ego non possum obsequi vestrae regiae magestati^ in curribus et in equis quod Deo teste libentius et uberius facerem si haberem, cum hoc opusculo ad passagium directorio in nomine Domini, qui in tabernaculum testimonii pelles arietum et pilos caprarum praecepit et docuit offerenda, et plus quam diuites larga munera exhi- bentes pauperculam commendauit duo tantum aera minuta in gazophy- lacium ofiferentem vestrae felicitatis pedibus humiliter me prosterno. In quo quidem directorio non tam aliorum relatione audita quam ea 'Ad passagium faciendnin, M. ^ Quetndam, M. 3 Sic, P. ^ Ad sereiiissimum principem et Doniinum Philippiim Francorum regem illustrem. Anno domini M'CCC. xxxij" [1332]. »M. omits legis. ^Sic, P. AM. HIST. REV., VOL. XH. — SV