• Colophon reading 'Icy fine la grande histoire / cesar tiree de pluiseurs ac/teurs comme lucan suetonie oro/se saluste iulius celsus et autres / laquelle a este faitte a bruges du / commandement de treshault tres / excellent et tres victorieux prince / le roy Edouard quatrieme de ce / nom lan de grace mil cccc lxxix'., La grant hystoire Cesar, i.e. Les faits des Romains, with additional texts

by labels of three or five points for his sons, Edward the Prince of Wales and Richard Duke ofYork, the arms of the saint patrons of England, George, Edmund and Edward the Confessor, and the Yorkist badge of the

• Miniature of Caesar on his triumphal chariot entering Rome, with a partial border., La grant hystoire Cesar, i.e. Les faits des Romains, with additional texts

by labels of three or five points for his sons, Edward the Prince of Wales and Richard Duke ofYork, the arms of the saint patrons of England, George, Edmund and Edward the Confessor, and the Yorkist badge of the

• Miniature of a banquet of Caesar and Cleopatra, with a partial border containing the royal arms of England and the Yorkist badge of the white ~rose-en-soleil~., La grant hystoire Cesar, i.e. Les faits des Romains, with additional texts

by labels of three or five points for his sons, Edward the Prince of Wales and Richard Duke ofYork, the arms of the saint patrons of England, George, Edmund and Edward the Confessor, and the Yorkist badge of the

• Detail of a border with a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family, with a Yorkist badge 'Dieu et mon droit' in the margin., Le chemin de Vaillance, and other texts (see Notes below for contents)

record of books in the Great Wardrobe Accounts of 1480 (see McKendrick 1994). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 26; and in the Catalogue of 1666,

• Detail of a border with a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family, with a Yorkist badge 'Dieu et mon droit' in the margin., Le chemin de Vaillance, and other texts (see Notes below for contents)

record of books in the Great Wardrobe Accounts of 1480 (see McKendrick 1994). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 26; and in the Catalogue of 1666,

• Miniature of Charles the Bold enthroned with the arms of Burgundy above, receiving the book from Vasco de Lucena, with a tapestry in the back of the room decorated with the flint and steel of Burgundy and Charles' motto 'Je lay emprins; encircled by a full border containing the royal arms of England on a shield and on two banners held by a siren and a knight, with a foliate initial 'A'(tres), at the beginning of the prologue., Cyropaedia (Cyropédie)

the beginning of the prologue. Contains Cyropaedia of Xenophon translated in French as the Cyropédie from a Latin version of Poggio Bracciolini by Vasco da Lucena, a Portuguese in service of Isabella of Portugal and then Margaret ofYork; preceded

• Miniature of the meeting of Cyrrus and Hyrcanian, with a partial border containing the royal arms of England., Cyropaedia (Cyropédie)

royal arms of England. Contains Cyropaedia of Xenophon translated in French as the Cyropédie from a Latin version of Poggio Bracciolini by Vasco da Lucena, a Portuguese in service of Isabella of Portugal and then Margaret ofYork; preceded by

• Miniature of Cyrrus enthroned and Chrysanthes addressing the Persians, with a partial border containing the Yorkist badge., Cyropaedia (Cyropédie)

Contains Cyropaedia of Xenophon translated in French as the Cyropédie from a Latin version of Poggio Bracciolini by Vasco da Lucena, a Portuguese in service of Isabella of Portugal and then Margaret ofYork; preceded by a list of contents

• Detail of a miniature of Cyrus and his troops in a phalanx, and an illuminated initial 'T'(andis)., Cyropaedia (Cyropédie)

Contains Cyropaedia of Xenophon translated in French as the Cyropédie from a Latin version of Poggio Bracciolini by Vasco da Lucena, a Portuguese in service of Isabella of Portugal and then Margaret ofYork; preceded by a list of contents

• Detail of a miniature of Cyrus and his army marching off to war., Cyropaedia (Cyropédie)

Contains Cyropaedia of Xenophon translated in French as the Cyropédie from a Latin version of Poggio Bracciolini by Vasco da Lucena, a Portuguese in service of Isabella of Portugal and then Margaret ofYork; preceded by a list of contents

• Detail of a miniature of the meeting of Cyrrus and Hyrcanian., Cyropaedia (Cyropédie)

Detail of a miniature of the meeting of Cyrrus and Hyrcanian. Contains Cyropaedia of Xenophon translated in French as the Cyropédie from a Latin version of Poggio Bracciolini by Vasco da Lucena, a Portuguese in service of Isabella of Portugal

• Detail of a large miniature of an army on the march with a king on horseback., Cyropaedia (Cyropédie)

Contains Cyropaedia of Xenophon translated in French as the Cyropédie from a Latin version of Poggio Bracciolini by Vasco da Lucena, a Portuguese in service of Isabella of Portugal and then Margaret ofYork; preceded by a list of contents

• Large miniature of an army on the march with a king on horseback., Cyropaedia (Cyropédie)

Contains Cyropaedia of Xenophon translated in French as the Cyropédie from a Latin version of Poggio Bracciolini by Vasco da Lucena, a Portuguese in service of Isabella of Portugal and then Margaret ofYork; preceded by a list of contents

• Detail of a miniature of Cyrrus enthroned and Chrysanthes addressing the Persians., Cyropaedia (Cyropédie)

Contains Cyropaedia of Xenophon translated in French as the Cyropédie from a Latin version of Poggio Bracciolini by Vasco da Lucena, a Portuguese in service of Isabella of Portugal and then Margaret ofYork; preceded by a list of contents

• Detail from the lower margin showing a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit'., Le miroir historial (a French translation of the Speculum historiale) books 1-5

included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 26.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. White rose of the York family Vincent of Beauvais, French translation

• Miniature of Charles V, king of France with his court, receiving a book from the translator, Jean Corbechon, with a full border containing the royal arms of England on banners held by two angels and on a shield encircled by the Garter with the motto 'Honny soit qui mal y pense', and surmounted by a crowned helm with mantling in Edward's IV colours of red and blue, with two shields with the same arms differenced, for the king's two sons, in the lower margin; and a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', in the outer margin, at the beginning of the prologue., Ruralia commoda in French translation (Rustican des ruraulx prouffiz du labour des champs)

and a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', in the outer margin, at the beginning of the prologue. Contains the Commoda Ruralia of Petrus de Crescentiis, in twelve books,

• Miniature of Pennon of St George hoisted at 'Ville Viciouse', with a partial border containing a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family, at the beginning of chapter 23 of book 2., Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre

bearing a white rose of the York family, at the beginning of chapter 23 of book 2. Includes the third volume of the Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre of Jean of Wavrin, preceded by a list of contents (ff. 1-9v). According

• Miniature of the death of Manlius Capitolinus, with a full border containing two shields with the royal arms of Edward IV, and a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', at the beginning of book 4., De casibus virorum illustrium in French translation (Des cas des ruynes des nobles hommes et femmes)

arms of Edward IV, and a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', at the beginning of book 4. Contains the second translation of De casibus virorum illustrium of Boccaccio

• Detail of a miniature of the author, Jean de Courcy, brought to Reason by Prowess and Boldness, with a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', in the margin., Le chemin de Vaillance, and other texts (see Notes below for contents)

record of books in the Great Wardrobe Accounts of 1480 (see McKendrick 1994). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 26; and in the Catalogue of 1666,

• Miniature of the author, Jean de Courcy, sleeping at a fountain with Nature as a young woman approaching, with a full border containing the arms of Edward VI and four lozenges with a white rose of the York family, and a Yorkist badge 'Dieu et mon droit', at the beginning of book 2., Le chemin de Vaillance, and other texts (see Notes below for contents)

record of books in the Great Wardrobe Accounts of 1480 (see McKendrick 1994). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 26; and in the Catalogue of 1666,