Collection of Tales, Fables, and Proverbs

Philosophy, history, science, religion, and politics: an exceptional textbook and reference work for the non-clerical, urban patrician audience adorned with 115 imaginative miniatures

Poetry and songs about love for God, love between man and woman, and love for one's neighbor: the beautiful lyric poetry of the troubadours combined with golden 14th century miniatures

The tender rose as a symbol for the woman: perhaps the most famous and controversial allegorical romance novel of the Middle Ages illuminated with 93 gold-decorated miniatures by Berthaud d'Achy

The ideal of medieval chivalry: the famous Old French Song of Roland from the 11th century in a unique late medieval Italian manuscript

Ecclesiastical and secular poetry of outstanding quality: an incomparable treasure of English manuscripts of the Middle Ages due to the rarity and abundance of the collection

The oldest and most extensive surviving copy of what is probably the most famous chanson de geste of the Middle Ages: the genre-defining heroic deeds of the Carolingian captain Roland in a 12th-century Anglo-Norman manuscript