Medieval Francophone Literary
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Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, nouv. acq. françaises 3576

General

Library:	Bibliothèque nationale de France
Sheflmark:	nouv. acq. françaises 3576
Information source:	Physical description: InformationSource object (6) Segmentation: InformationSource object (6)
Described by:	sgaunt

Bindings

Description:
Date :	?1500 to 1600
Title on binding:
Cover material:	Material object (5)
Board material:	None
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Digitisations

Link (subject to external change and may not function consistently.)
Colour?	Colour
Completeness	Full
Notes

Bibliography

Reference	Oltrogge, Doris, Die Illustrationszyklen zur 'Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César' (1250-1400) (Frankfurt and New York: Peter Lang, 1989)
Notes	pp. 307-9

MS Parts

Title	Date	Place	Dedicatee
Histoire du Commencement du Monde jusqu'à la Mort de Julius César	?1360 to 1370	Paris

Folio sequence

Folios: 1 - 345
- 8r - 19r
  
  (§00-00) Table of Contents (N/A)
- 20r - 55r
  
  (§1-513) Genesis (Common redaction)
- 56r - 58v
  
  (§3-22) Orient I (Common redaction)
- 58v - 70v
  
  (§23-125) Thebes (Common redaction)
- 70v - 72v
  
  (§126-147) Greeks and Amazons (Common redaction)
- 72v - 83r
  
  (§1-71) Troy (Common redaction)
- 83r - 95r
  
  (§1-57) Eneas (Common redaction)
- 95r - 105v
  
  (§00-00) Rome I (Common redaction)
  
  Includes:
  - On generosity (Verse) from folio 95v to 96r,
  - One should lead a pious life (Mixed) from folio 100r to 100r
- 105v - 118v
  
  (§00-00) Orient II (Common redaction)
- 118v - 136v
  
  (§00-00) Alexander (Common redaction)
- 136v - 196v
  
  (§00-00) Rome II (Common redaction)
  
  Includes:
  - On the importance of money (Prose) from folio 145v to 145v,
  - On the vanity of grief (Prose) from folio 146v to 146v,
  - One should fear death when one has not lived well (Prose) from folio 151r to 151v
- 197r - 345r
  
  (§00-00) Li Fait des Romains (N/A)