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1. Add MS 27699

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Title:
Gaston Fébus, Livre de la chasse; Livre des oraisons
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of the Livre de la chasse (Book of the Hunt), a treatise on hunting in Middle French, written between 1387 and 1389 by Gaston III (b. 1331, d. 1391), count of Foix, commonly known as Gaston Fébus. Fébus was regarded as one of the greatest huntsmen of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. Add MS 27695

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Title:
Cocharelli, Treatise on the Vices and Virtues (fragment)
Scope & Content:
Contents: This item comprises 15 parchment leaves from the ‘Cocharelli Codex’, of which only 27 leaves and fragments in three different collections survive. The original codex included two richly-illuminated texts, the first on the vices and virtues and the second on historical events during t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1330-1340
Extent:

15 parchment leaves and fragments, bound in an album.

3. Add MS 27697

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Saluces Hours')
Scope & Content:
A Book of Hours, described by John Plummer as ‘one of the finest and most inventive manuscripts illuminated during the fifteenth century’ (Plummer, The Last Flowering, p. 56). The manuscript was created in two or three stages, with an initial phase of production around 1440-50, and a second arou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1440-1470
Extent:
A parchment codex