Uniform title from Mémoire sur les ouvrages de Guillaume de Nangis / par M. Léopold Delisle. In Mémoires de l'institut national de France. Paris : Imprimerie nationale, 1877, v. 27, p. 342-364. First line of text: "Pour ce que mout de genz et meesmement li haut ho[m]me et li noble qui souuent uiennent en leglise mo[n]seignour saint dyonise de france ou g[ra]nt p[ar]tie des uaillans roy[s] de france gisent en sepouture desirent cognostre et sauoir la naissance [et] la descendue de leur tres haute generation ... frere guill[aum]e dit de nangys ... ay translate de latin en francois ..." Text in an even gothic script in brown ink, 17 lines per page; leaves [54]-[55], [57]-[58], [62]-[74], [78] in a different hand; bounding lines and lines of text lightly ruled in brown; headings in red; large and small alternating red and blue capitals, embellished with contrasting pen flourishes, infill, and surround in blue and red. Verso of leaf [87], and leaves [88] and [89] are ruled, but contain no text. Added note in a third hand on verso of leaf [89]. Bookplate of "Jacobi P.R. Lyell". Presentation inscription on front endpaper: "Presented to Mrs. Francis, 29 June 1847, by her most hum[bl]e & obed[ien]t serv[ant], Francis Moire."
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