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oftheorderingoftheelementsinacompilation27.Thefollowingisanover-
viewoftheordonnance,ororder,ofthesevenpartsoftheRoseDebatedossier
thatChristineincludesintheQueen’sMS:
1.237r:Christine’slettertoQueenYsabeldeBavière,whichincludes
alistofparticipantsintheDebate.Theauthorfrstwriteshername
asIxpinedePizan’,thenusesxpinetointroduceastatementshemakes,
andfnallysignstheletter,Ixpinedepizan’.
2.237v:Christine’sExplanatoryLetter.Christine’sname,whichshe
writesasIxpinedepizan’,isthenfollowedbyfveinstancesofIxpine’.
3.237v:GontierColasksChristinetosendhimacopyofherreplytoJean
deMontreuil.IMaistreGontierCol’addresseshisepistletoherwith
thewords:«Aprudent,honoreeetsçaventdamoisellexpine».
4.238r:InChristine’sreactiontoJeandeMontreuil’streatiseontheRose,
hername,Ixpine’,appearsintherubricsofheraddresstoMontreuil.
Nearthebeginningofthelettershereferstoherselfsaying,«Moy,
xpinedepizan».Thereisnosignatureattheendoftheletter.
5.241v:InGontierCol’sreplytoChristineaftershehadsenthimacopy
ofherlettertoJeandeMontreuil,therubricreads:«ladictexpine».
MaistreGontierColaddressestheepistleauthorwiththesalutation,
«AfemmedehaultentendementdamoiselleCristine».Theletteris
signed,«GontierCol».NotethatGontier’ssignatureiswritteninthe
Xhand,apointtowhichIwillretournbelow.
6.242r:Christine,asIxpine’,repliestoGontierCol’sletter.Fol.243rbears
hersignature,«Latienne,xpinedepizan».
7.254v:AttheendofChristine’sresponsetoPierreCol,shesignsherself,
saying,
«Amen.Escriptetcompleitparmoy,xpinedepizan,le.iie.jourd’octobre,
l’anmil.IIIIc.etdeux.Tabienveillantamiedesciencexpine».
AmajorelementinChristine’sordonnanceoftheDebateEpistlesisher
placementofherselfatthetopofthehierarchyofauthorities.Shepositions
threemarksofhertranscendentauthorityattheopeningofthedossier,
inherdedicatorylettertotheQueenfoundonfol.237
r
,asnotedabove
andwhichcanbeviewedathttp://www.pizan.lib.ed.ac.uk/gallery/
pages/237r.html.
Christine’sdedicatorylettertotheQueenis,asitwere,Iframed’byher
fullsignatureasIxpinedepizan’.
27SeeMalcolmB.Parkes,"TheInfluenceoftheConceptsofOrdinatioandCompilatioonthe
DevelopmentoftheBook",inMalcolmB.Parkes,Scribes,ScriptsandReaders:StudiesintheCom-
munication,PresentationandDisseminationofMedievalTexts,London–RioGrande(Ohio),The
HambledonPress,1991,p.35-69.
