Vie et Miracles de saint Louis (BNF Fr. 5716)

A king travels by ship, f. 39v.

Colloquial name(s): Vie et Miracles de saint Louis

Official name(s): Bibliothèque nationale de France, Français 5716

Date: 1330-50 (source)

Origin: Paris, France (source)

Online facsimile available via: Bibliothèque nationale de France Gallica digital library

Grandes Chroniques de France (BL Royal MS 16 G VI)

Priam sends Paris, the rape of Helen, the siege of Troy, f. 4v.

Colloquial name(s): Les Grandes Chroniques de France

Official name(s): British Library, Royal MS 16 G VI

Date: 1332-50 (source)

Origin: Paris, France (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Digitised Manuscripts

Bible Historiale Complétée (BNF Fr. 5707)

Three men meet a seated king, f. 2r.

Colloquial name(s): Bible Historiale Complétée

Official name(s): Bibliothèque nationale de France, Français 5707

Date: 1360-65 (source)

Origin: Paris, France (source)

Online facsimile available via: Bibliothèque nationale de France Gallica digital library

Bible of John the Good (BL Royal MS 19 D II)

Birth of Jacob and Esau, f. 26r.

Colloquial name(s): Bible of John the Good

Official name(s): British Library, Royal MS 19 D II

Date: c. 1350-56 (source)

Origin: Paris, France (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Digitised Manuscripts

Hours of Philip the Bold (Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 3-1954 & Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, MS 11035-37)

Presentation in the Temple, 
Fitzwilliam Museum MS 3-1964, f. 104r.

Colloquial name(s): Hours of Philip the Bold

Official name(s): Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 3-1954 and Brussels, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, MS 11035-37

Date: 1376-79, 1390, c. 1445-50 and 1451 (source)

Origin: Paris, France then Bruges, Flanders then Brabant, Brussels (source)

Online fascimile available via: select folios available via the Fitzwilliam Museum's Illuminated: Manuscripts in the Making, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, MS 11035-37 not currently online

The Coronation Book of Charles V (BL Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII/2)

The Duke of Bourbon (the Grand Chamberlain) vests the King with the royal shoes, f. 48r.

Colloquial name(s): the Coronation Book of Charles V, king of France

Official name(s): British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII/2

Date: 1365-80 (source)

Origin: Paris, France (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Digitised Manuscripts

Roman de Brut (BL Egerton MS 3028)

Octa and Eosa ravage Northumberland, f. 36r.

Colloquial name(s): Roman de Brut

Official name(s): British Library, Egerton MS 3028

Date: 2nd quarter of the 14th C (source)

Origin: England (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Digitised Manuscripts

The Divine Comedy (BL Egerton MS 943)

Dante and Virgil watch wretches in a procession in Hell, f. 7r.

Colloquial name(s): Dante's Divine Comedy

Official name(s): British Library, Egerton MS 943

Date: 1st half of the 14th C (source)

Origin: Emilia or Padua, N. Italy (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Digitised Manuscripts