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Le Livre des simples medecines - translation into French from the 12th century Latin manuscript of Matthaeus Platearius,physician in Salerno,Italy. Middle 15th,Parchment,29 x 20 cm,221 pages. A hive with bees. Fol.149
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Le Livre des simples medecines - translation into French from the 12th cen...

Le Livre des simples medecines - translation into French from the 12th century Latin manuscript of Matthaeus Platearius,physician in Salerno,Italy. Middle 15th,Parchment,29 x 20 cm,221 pages.A stag, whose antlers were said to have medicinal properties.
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Le Livre des simples medecines - translation into French from the 12th cen...

L'Estrif de Vertu et Fortune - The Fight Between Virtue and Fortune,poem by Martin Le Franc for Philippe Le Bon of Burgundy.Illustrations perhaps by Fouquet. French,parchment,28,5 x 20,5 cm,101 pages.Fortune and Virtue vaunt their merits before Reason.Fol.1 verso.
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L'Estrif de Vertu et Fortune - The Fight Between Virtue and Fortune,poem by Mart...

Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French, parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm 441 pages.Probably written and painted in the Abbey of St.Bertin.The coronation of Charlemagne:right Charlemagne is crowned in St.Peter in Rome;left:presents from the king of Persia.Fol.120 v
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Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French, parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm...

Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French, parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm 441 pages.Probably written and painted in the Abbey of St.Bertin.The story of Roland,the treacherous Ganelon and Charlemagne.An angel carries Roland's soul to heaven. Fol.154 verso.
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Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French, parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm...

Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French, parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm 441 pages.Probably written and painted in the Abbey of St.Bertin.Charles Martell imprisoned in Cologne;he flees and wins three battles and conquers Alemannia,Suabia and Bavaria.Fol.102
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Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French, parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm...

Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French, parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm 441 pages.Probably written and painted in the Abbey of St.Bertin. The battle of Crecy,1346,when the French suffered a defeat by English troops under King Edward III.Fol.422.
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Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French, parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm...

Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French, parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm 441 pages.Probably written and painted in the Abbey of St.Bertin.The uprising of the counts of Flanders,in the center Robert d'Artois, commanding the French, falls from his horse.Fol.373
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Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French, parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm...

Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French, parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm 441 pages. Good King Louis IX (the Saint)during the 7th crusade: his ships on the Nile;battle against the Sarazens; burial of masons killed by the Sarazens. Fol.338
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Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French, parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm...

Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French, parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm 441 pages.Probably written and painted in the Abbey of St.Bertin.The coronation of Philippe VI in Reims,1328.The battle of Cassel in which the French subdued the Flemish uprising.Fol.398
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Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French, parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm...

Chronique de la Bouquechardiere,world-history composed by Jean de Courcy (1350-1431),seigneur de Bourg-Achard. Around 1470,French,parchment,43 x 31 cm,364 pages. King Priam greets his son Paris and Helena,whom Paris has abducted.Volume 1,fol.85
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Chronique de la Bouquechardiere,world-history composed by Jean de Courcy (1350-...

Epistres en Vers Francois,dedicated to Anne de Bretagne Early 16th,French and Latin,parchment,29,5 x 19,5 cm, 112 pages.King Louis XII writes to his wife Anne de Bretagne,asking her to join him in Italy.fol.51 verso.
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Epistres en Vers Francois,dedicated to Anne de Bretagne Early 16th,French and La...