Clumber Park ChartierChartier, Alain, active 15th century[circa 1455-1460; circa 1475]frmManuscript on parchment, in at least two scribal hands, containing works by Alain Chartier, including Le quadrilogue invectif, Le livre des quatres dames, Le lay de paix, Le livre d'esperance, Le breviaire des nobles, Le debat du reveille-matin, Le lay de plaisance, La belle dame sans mercy with La requeste baillee aux dames contra l'acteur and Lettres envoyees par les dames a l'auteur, L'excusation aux dames, Le debat des deux fortunes d'amour, and La complainte contre la mort. The volume also contains poems by Michault Taillevent, Boton de Grandson, Achille Caulier, and Simon GrebanIn Middle French.Script: lettre bâtarde.Layout: 43 lines in two columns.Decoration: Rubricated.Text capitals and versal initials highlighted in yellow. Numerous one- to eight-line initials in pink or blue on burnished gold grounds with pansies and numerous stanza markers with pansies on a gold ground. 22 initials with full borders. 11 small and 8 large figurative miniatures.Modern foliation, in pencil, 1-136.Byname: Clumber Park Chartier.Binding: 18th-century full red morocco, gilt. Gilt-tooled six-compartment spine. Spine title in second compartment, in gilt: Alain Charti.