A French manuscript from 1344 contains an illustration of clerics playing a game, possibly la soule, with similarities to baseball.
Mostly, he collected contemporary illuminated works, French manuscripts and books.
He later acquired such a valuable collection of French literary manuscripts that he was able to leave teaching in his 50s.
It can be compared instead to French illuminated manuscripts of that time, as well as to paintings from Germany or England.
Wissous appears in an 11th-century French manuscript as a town called "Vizoor."
A recipe for Abramelin oil based upon the French manuscript:
Fiammetta narrates this tale, whose earliest source is a French manuscript written by a man named Thomas.
First, one of the four books was missing entirely from the French manuscript with which he worked.
Some images from French manuscripts.
Henley replied that his book was merely a translation from an unpublished French manuscript.