Larbre des batailles
Subtitle: autreme[n]t dit Larbre de douleur.
Published: 1400
Place of publication: [France
Language: frm
Number of pages: 109
Subjects: Military art and science -- Early works to 1800.; Military ethics -- Early works to 1800.; Chivalry -- Early works to 1800.; Honor -- Early works to 1800.; Manuscripts, French -- Washington (D.C.)
Other titles: Larbre de douleur; Arbre de douleur
Notes: Former owners: Mellon(?) Preudomme (i.e. Preudhomme ?) (inscribed, ca. 1780?); Signor Santorio, of Venice (Bibliotheca Santoriana sale, London, 1791).
Purchased from H.P. Kraus in 1945 (LL 5952D1).
Ricci, S. de.  Medieval and Renaissance mss. (suppl.), p. 112, B 6
Dobbs & Haun.  Law Library of LC, p. 42
Ms.
Title from explicit.
Prefatory text (leaf 1a) begins: Ce liure est deuise en quatre parties ... Text of the work begins (leaf 7a): La saincte couronne de france, en laquelle aujourd'huy ...
Differs from other mss. in having only 17 chapters in book 2 and 137 in book 4; numerous variant readings.
One large col. ill. on leaf 7a; coat of arms on leaf 1a; decorative frames on leaves 1a, 7a; illuminated initials; rubricated.
Written, probably in France, all by one professional scribe; the script is a French-style formal cursive (36 long lines).