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Dits des philosophes. Le mireon aux pecheurs. Le livre Griseledis. Le mireon des pecheurs

Guillaume, de Tignonville, -1414, translator. Dits morauls des philosophes, Mubashshir ibn Fatik, Abu al-Wafaơ, active 11th century. Mukhtar al-hĐikam wa-mahĐasin al-kalim · [France] · 14 pictures

A late medieval French manuscript of moral sayings and wisdom texts, the Dits des philosophes, translated by Guillaume de Tignonville (died 1414) from Arabic-derived sources, likely made in France for a courtly or clerical reader. The pages are handwritten in black ink in two columns, with red and blue penwork initials, rubrics and paragraph marks, and a few marginal annotations; a designer might take the clean justified text blocks and the restrained red and blue initial accents as a model for historical page layout.

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