Contains the Bestiaire d'amour en vers of Richard de Fournival on folio 89v-94v. This is the only manuscript that contain the verse version of Richard's Bestiaire. Only the prologue and six animal sections are included (cock, onager, wolf, cricket, swan, dog).

Also contains a fragment of the stories of Reynard the Fox on folio 21v-24v). Branch VIII La confession Renart et son pelerinage. This is the manuscript designated c by Ernest Martin.

Also contains 63 of the fables of Marie de France, and other fables.

The manuscript is not illustrated.

From the Bibliothèque Nationale de France:

Exceptional by the number of its illustrations, the French manuscript 12584, in the first half of the 14th century, contains more than five hundred vignettes of very small dimensions. The voluntarily naive aspect, the stylized characters to the extreme and the abundance of miniatures on the same page evoke, for a modern reader, the world of comics . Particularly original, the work of the illuminator cannot be attached to a school. The artist knew how to grasp the parodic character of the novel, to which the comic arrangement of bodies and physical features perfectly responds. Like the goupil, the designer of this work is part of the register of humor and excess.

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Arthur Långfors, 1924

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Bibliothèque Nationale de France