Largely a compilation from the works of Vegetius, Frontinus, Valerius Maximus, Honoré Bonet, and a contemporary anonymous authority on sieges; books three and four, in the form of questions and answers, are based on Bonet's "L'arbre des batailles
Early English Text Society's list of publications, etc. (8 p.) at end
"Short bibliography of works on Christine de Pisan": p. xiii-xiv. "The manuscripts": p. xiv-xxxvi
