ABSTRACT
Completely independent of any of the other early translations of Machiavelli’s Principe, including Edward Dacres’s version printed in 1640, this is probably the most mysterious text, since there is almost no clue to the identification of the translator or the scribe, the origin of the manuscript or any association it might have had. It is now Oxford, Queen’s College, MS 251, a small and anonymous quarto including 96 leaves of text, plus a number of blank pages and an incomplete index of names and topics, marked as fol. 97.
