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M. Thompson was able to begin the work of transcription. The MS. in its present state consists of forty-four leaves, but some of them are imperfect, and of those numbered 34 and 37 only small 236 APPENDIX I. fragments remain. The portions of the translation thus preserved belong to Books I. and III., and are partly in the hand of an amanuensis and partly written by Bellenden himself, as stated by Mr Warner,* Bellenden has also freely altered the part written by the scribe, which extends as far ...as the end of fol. 30, and consists of four quires of 8, 4, 10, and 8 leaves respectively.' The leaves which are entirely in his own hand contain three portions of Book III., but the second fragment is only an earlier draft of part of the third. This part of the manuscript, and especially folios 31-38, is rather scrawled than written, and presents many difficulties of transcription. It is often quite impossible to make out the precise spelling of the words, and at times the words themselves are doubtful, even with the help afforded by the finished text of the other two copies.
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