All of the images on this site taken from manuscripts are part of the collection at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, digitised and publicly available on the Gallica platform (gallica.bnf.fr). Further information about the specific manuscripts from which the images are taken can be found below.
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, français 844 (MSS M and Mt; Troub MS W)
Two Artesian chansonniers from the 1260s or 1270s bound together, containing trouvère and troubadour songs and their melodies as well as motets, French-Occitan lais, and a number of miniatures, some of which have been excised.
Home, banner image and image to left (f. 49v)
About, banner image (f. 53r), in-line image (f. 87r)
Performance, in-line image (f. 50v)
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Arabe 3333
A fourteenth-century manuscript containing the poetry-filled letters sent by the head of the Ayyubid chancery al-Qāḍī al-Fāḍil to the famous poet Ibn Sanā’ al-Mulk.
The team, banner image and image to left (f. 71)
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, français 846 (MS O)
A Burgundian chansonnier dating to the 1280s or 1290s containing trouvère songs and their melodies (and one Occitan song) with significant marginalia and two melodies added by J-P Châtre de Cangé in the eighteenth century.
Advisory board, banner image and image to left (f. 86v)
Performance, banner image (f. 48v)
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, français 20050 (MS U; Troub MS X)
A trouvère and troubadour chansonnier with melodies in Messine notation copied in Lorraine in the first half of the thirteenth century and showing the work of multiple scribes. Notably, it contains the only copies of several pastourelles and chansons de toile.
Temple partnership, banner image and image to left (f. 6r)
Privacy Policy, banner image (f. 16v)
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, arabe 3139
A seventeenth-century manuscript containing the dīwān (collected poetic works) of Ayyubid-era Egyptian poet Ibn Qalāqis, who also traveled in Sicily and Yemen.
About, in-line image and image to left (f. 2)
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal 5198 (MS K)
A Picard or Artesian chansonnier dating to the 1270s containing trouvère songs and their melodies, believed to have belonged to Marie d’Albret, Countess of Rethel and Countess of Nevers.
Manuscripts, banner image and image to left (f. 1r)
Partnership with Siglo de Oro, banner image (f. 54v)
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Latin 12999
A twelfth-century Latin manuscript from northern France containing various excerpts of scientific, philosophic and theological texts.
About, in-line image and image to left (f. 7v)