[MANUSCRIPT]. GUILLAUME DE NANGIS. Chronique des Rois de France. [French, 15th century]. FRENCH MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. 89 leaves (18 of which are written in a later hand); written in Gothic script on 17 lines per page, chapter headings in red, initial capitals in red or blue with penwork decoration in blue or red, 2 large capitals in red and blue with penwork decorations extending the full length of the margins. 8vo, bound in nineteenth-century green morocco, gilt, g.e. A French translation of this Chronicle. De Ricci records only one manuscript of it in the United States.

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[MANUSCRIPT]. GUILLAUME DE NANGIS. Chronique des Rois de France. [French, 15th century]. FRENCH MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. 89 leaves (18 of which are written in a later hand); written in Gothic script on 17 lines per page, chapter headings in red, initial capitals in red or blue with penwork decoration in blue or red, 2 large capitals in red and blue with penwork decorations extending the full length of the margins. 8vo, bound in nineteenth-century green morocco, gilt, g.e. A French translation of this Chronicle. De Ricci records only one manuscript of it in the United States.
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