Voeux du paonJacques, de Longuyon, active 1290-131214th centuryfrmManuscript on parchment of two sections of Jacques de Longuyon's Voeux du paonIn French.Script: copied by a single hand writing Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria. 2-line half inset flourished initials alternately in red and blue, respectively with purple and red penwork extending into the margin. At the opening of the second section, a 6-line littera duplex with penwork. At the opening of the first section, a half-page miniature in three compartments in a decorative frame: at left a tent in which two knights in armour are seated; in the center a tent with two ladies standing; at right Alexander and Cassamus. Under the miniature 14 lines of text, opening with a 5-line foliate initial ending in a bar in the left margin, continued with a foliate bar border in the lower and the right margins; the horizontal section ends at left in the head, forelegs and wings of a monster; at right a bird is sitting.Two sections of the poem "Voeux du paon" by Jacques de Longuyon, composed 1312-1313.Binding: 18th century. French dark olive green morocco gilt, lined with pink silk. Bound by Bisiaux (his ticket); arms of Edward Vernon Utterson on covers. Folio 8 is bound between ff. 1 and 2.