Note 81 — INTRODUCTION.

Printed by Roy, i. p. xiv. The MS. is there described and compared with another rather earlier collection (now Bibl. Nat. franç. 835, 606, 836, 605), which the Duke of Berry bought from Christine for 200 crowns. A reduced facsimile of the first page of the Harley MS., with a large miniature of Christine presenting the volume to the queen in her bedchamber, is prefixed to Roy’s vol. iii. (cf. a note by P. Meyer, p. xxii.). A coloured plate of the same miniature is given by Shaw, Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages, 1843.