Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873, William Pickering (Firm) · London : William Pickering · leaf 66
ently gratified with splendid tournaments, and he is supposed to havecomposed his famous Traite about the year 1450. Several manuscripts ofthis work are preserved ; but the one from which our plate is taken, andwhich is now in the Bibliotheque du Roi at Paris (ancien fonds, No. 8352),was Renes own… … * A very splendid edition of this work, with accurate fac-similes of the illuminations, was publishedat Paris in 1826, in a larcre folio volume. The celebration of a tournament was preceded and accompanied by manyacts and ceremonies, which were exactly defined and determined by a regularcode of…
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