Cover illustration: Aimery de Poitiers consulting a book with a diagram to study the heavens. From the Roman de Mélusine, by Jean d’Arras (1393), adapted c. 1400 by Coudrette to octosyllabic French verse, as the Roman de Lusignan; ou, Histoire de Lusignan, for Guillaume Larchevêque, Lord of Parthenay. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, MS Français 12575 fol. 8. Parchment, fifteenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, with permission.
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