When Robert Steele edited the ME prose version of the Secretum Secretomm known as The Book of the Governaunce of Kyngis and of Pryncis, Callid the Secrete of Secretes in Three Prose Versions of the Secreta Secretorum (London, 1898), one leaf of MS. London, B.L., Royal 18.A.Vll was missing. A version of the missing physiognomy section is to be found in MS. London, B.L., Cotton Vespasian E.xvi, f. 83r, and an edition is provided in the appendixDans IMB 30/1, janvier-juin 1996, n° 2788 Mots-clés : Litt comparée angleterre//Secret des secrets//