Title from printed catalog. Support: Parchment. Script: Bâtarde. Layout: 12(+ 3; ff. iii-iv and 1) 2-64. 19 lines of verse, ruled in lead with double bounding lines. Span folios: ff. 1-21v. Decoration: Sixteen miniatures in narrow gold frames painted in camaïeu gris with gold and flesh tones. Other Decoration: 2-line initials and ribbon line fillers in painted gold on a black ground. Assigned Date: s. XVI1. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 3/4/2012. Written by "Tant brun" (author/copyist?) in eastern France in the first half of the sixteenth century, and dedicated to the Duke (presumably Antoine, 1489-1544) and the Duchess of Lorraine by the three "Penitens de vostre mayson d'Arches" (near Épinal, in the Vosges). Found in 1793 in the Château de Guise, according to a note on f. iii: "Guise, vu Desforges"; Desforges collection; given by...
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