Les Responses des cent Balades (Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire de Lausanne, Ms 350)

Man and woman ride out of a castle, f. 1r.

Colloquial name(s): Les Responses des cent Balades

Official name(s): Lausanne, Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire de Lausanne, Ms 350

Date: later than 1425, c. 1430 (source - click on the "description" tab in the right-hand box)

Origin: probably Burgandy (source - click on the "description" tab in the right-hand box)

Online facsimile available via: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland and in Mirador viewer 

A book of ballads, containing (source):

• Book of Hundred Ballads, Untitled (ff. 1r-73r)
• The Hundred Ballads Responses (ff. 73r-82v)
• Lament (ff. 83r-83v)
• Walks, roundels, lais, virelais and autrez say compile by nobleman Sir Ode of Grandson, a knight (ff. 84r-151v)
• The lai peace, Untitled (ff. 152r-157r)
• Rondeau, Untitled (f. 157v)
• Rondeau, Untitled (f. 157v)
• The Beautiful woman without mercy (ff. 158r-175v)
• The Response (ff. 175v-180v)

It is illustrated with low-quality pen-and-ink sketches and thus is interesting as a contrast in art style with exceedingly expensive illustrated and illuminated manuscripts of similar dates, e.g. the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.

A list of the folios containing illustrations will be added here in due course.