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Title

Compilation of Rhymed Proverbs

Other related names

• Léon Gruel, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr94004085)
• Henry Walters, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr94027104)

Call number

W.313
(Baltimore, Walters Art Museum)

Publisher

Walters Art Museum

Language

Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

Savoy, France

Summary

This late fifteenth-century manuscript is one of the earliest surviving examples from a small group of illustrated compilations of proverbs. Each drawing and accompanying verse refer to a commonly known proverb or turn of phrase. The verse does not typically include the phrase, so the combination of image and text is like a riddle that would bring the saying to mind (the proverbs are used in this catalog record as the titles of the images). The proverbs can be both entertaining and moralizing, and they frequently refer to religious life, farming and trades, and acceptable (or unacceptable) behavior. This manuscript originally contained more entries, but several leaves were detached at some point or not included when the book was rebound. Two leaves separated from this manuscript are now in the Wildenstein Collection at the Musée Marmottan in Paris. A third individual leaf (fol.add.1), which has significant damage on one side, was purchased by the Walters Art Museum in the 1990s.

Notes

• Antique laid paper, medium-weight, moderate brown staining and wormholes
   

Watermark

Recurring watermark, usually truncated at spine edge, a male head inprofile with flowing hair and a thin line ending in a star extending from thetop of the head

Extent

Bound to 13.1 cm wide by 19.9 cm high

Foliation

Foliation: iii+91+iii; Two sets of foliations, the first entered ca. 1900 on the lower right of rectos (fols. 1-71, 73-86, 81, 72, 87-91), the second (used here) entered ca. 1940 by Walters staff in upper right corners of rectos, and begins after fol. 71 to reflect current binding order; two leaves separated from this manuscript are now in the Wildenstein Collection at the Musée Marmottan in Paris; A third separated leaf (fol.add.1) was purchased by the Walters in the 1990s; Flyleaves likely added by Léon Gruel in the nineteenth or twentieth century; watermark on front and back flyleaves, small heart flanked by "A" and "R" in an oblong outline; Front flyleaf i,r and back flyleaf iii,v covered with crimson silk

Collation

Due to tight binding, collation formula is unavailable

Support

Paper

Binding

The binding is not original; Rebound in France, twentieth century; Crimson leather over boards sewn on five single cords; Identical blind tooled design on front and back boards: rectangular sections of intertwining vines at sides and foliate squares at corners, central panel with two columns of three roundels (containing a pelican and chicks, a bird with two eggs, a baboon, a sheep, a feline, and a man) with two confronted dragons at top and bottom; Six compartments at spine framed by thin blind tooled borders, "RECEUIL DE PROVERBES" insecond compartment, "1470" in third compartment; Gold line along board-edges; Narrow crimson turn-ins; White parchment pastedowns bordered with three gold lines, stamped "GRUEL" in gold on front pastedown at bottom center; Endbands in green, yellow, and red silk worked with edge-bead around two-tiered cord core; Modern green silk ribbon marker and gilt edges added in nineteenth or twentieth century)

Layout

Columns: 1; Written surface and lines varies from page to page

Decoration

Book has 182 pen drawings, with two additional images on separate leaf, in brown ink by three artists, shaded in fine hatching and occasional use of wash (fol. 3v), sparse use of red (fols. 14r and 55r) and green (fol. 79r); Underdrawing in lead visible on several folios (e.g. fols.31r, 60v, 71r); Though executed in a simple fashion, the figures show animated facial expressions and gestures, and a variety of detailed interior and exterior scenes are used as backgrounds; Two leaves separated from this manuscript are now in the Wildenstein Collection at the Musée Marmottan in Paris, a third separated leaf (fol.add.1) was purchased by the Walters Art Museum in the 1990s

Script

Littera batarda cursiva by several scribes, capitals with large sweeping curves and extenders, lacking punctuation; Some illustrations labeled with early cursive script by several different hands (e.g. "lange" on fol. 6v, "le fo[u]" on fol. 32r)

Provenance

• Created in Savoy in the late 1480s.
   
• Notes in pencil "XVᵉ / Le plus ancien connu" written on flyleaf ii,r in nineteenth or twentieth century.
   
• Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century [Gruel collection number "12" in pencil on flyleaf iv; Gruel and Engelmann book plate inscribed "No. 413"].
   
• Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel on February 17, 1906 [Receipt housed in museum archives].
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p.848, no. 514.
• Miner, Dorothy and Grace Frank. Proverbs en rimes: Text and Illustrations of the Fifteenth Century from a French Manuscript in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1937.
• Frank, Grace. "Proverbs en Rimes (B)," Romanic Review 31 (1940): 209-238.
• Foote, Timothy. The World of Bruegel : c. 1525-1569. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 142, illus. (p. 2).
• Zick, Gisela. "Der zerbrochene Krug als Bildmotiv des 18. Jahrhunderts," Wallraf-Richartz Jahrbuch 31 (1969): 149-150, fig. 100 (p. 19).
• Schrader, J.L. The Waning Middle Ages : an Exhibition of French and Netherlandish Art from 1350 to 1500, Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of "The Waning of the Middle Ages" by Johan Huizinga. Lawrence: University of Kansas Museum of Art, 1969, no.16, pls. 56-57 (fols. 10v, 86v).
• Bowles, E. A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery," Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 32/4 (1976): 719-726.
• Zotter, Hans. Bibliographie faksimilierter Handschriften. Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1976, p. 36.
• Kunzle, D. "Brueghel's Proverb Painting and the World Upside Down," The Art Bulletin 59 (1977): 199.
• Schulize-Busacker, E. "Eléments de culture populaire dans la littérature courtoise." La culture populaire au moyen âge. Etudes présentés auquatrième colloque de l'Institut d'études médiévales de l'Université de Montréal 2-3 April 1977. Montreal, 1979, pp. 84, 85, 87, 89, 97, 99, illus.(fols. 15v, 24v, 17v, 39v, 70, 78).
• Massing, Jean Michel. "Proverbial wisdom and social criticism: two new pages from the Walters Art Gallery's "Proverbes en Rimes"," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 46 (1983): 208-210.
• Russell, Daniel S. The Emblem and Device in France, French Forum Monographs 59. Lexington, Kentucky: French Forum, 1985, p. 198.
• Céard, Jean and Jean-Claude Margolin. Rébus de la Renaissance: des images qui parlent. Vol. 1. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 1986, pp. 141-145, figs. 53-59 (fols. 1v, 2v, 4v, 5v, 22r, 26v, 27r).
• Vandenbroeck, Paul. Jheronimus Bosch: tussen volksleven en stadscultuur. Berchem: EPO, 1987, pp. 105, 110 (refs. to proverbs numbered I, IX, XLVIII, LIX, LXIV), 127, 220, 221.
• Burin, Elizabeth. "Pierre Sala's Pre-emblematic Manuscripts," Emblematica 3 (1988): 8-11, 21-23.
• Saunders, Alison. The Sixteenth-century French Emblem Book: a Decorative and Useful Genre. Geneva: Droz, 1988, p. 39.
• Edmunds, S. "Catalogue des Manuscrits Savoyards," in Les Manuscrits enluminés des comptes et ducs de Savoie, ed. A. Paravicini Bagliani (Turin1989), pp. 215, 222.
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• Noel, William and Daniel Weiss. The Book of Kings: Art, War, and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible. London: Third Millennium Publishing; Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2002, p. 88.
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Keywords

• Christian
• French
• Illustration
• France
• 15th century
• Literature — Poetry
• Drawing
• Literature
• Miniature
• Watermark

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "When I keep most quiet, I am seen by one who gives no good counsel"
• fol. 1v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "To buy a pig in a poke"
• fol. 2r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king"
• fol. 2v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "God is at the lending"
• fol. 3r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "The Devil is at the paying"
• fol. 3v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "If you wrestle with a collier, you will get a blotch"
• fol. 4r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "The big dog with the great collar"
• fol. 4v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "By shaving a fool one learns to shave"
• fol. 5r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He who dares not cry out is beaten"
• fol. 5v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Light gains make heavy purses"
• fol. 6r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "One hand washes the other"
• fol. 6v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "No flying without wings"
• fol. 7r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "You should not hang your cloak on a broken peg"
• fol. 7v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "You cannot hide behind a finger"
• fol. 8r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "The colt that does not break his halter is worth nothing"
• fol. 8v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He that grasps at too much can hold on to little"
• fol. 9r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He plants needles to grow bars"
• fol. 9v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "There is none so humpbacked in the parish that he cannot find a humpbacked wife"
• fol. 10r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "What the eye cannot see, the heart cannot regret"
• fol. 10v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Link by link the coat of mail is finished at last"
• fol. 11r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "While the dog relieves himself, the wolf escapes to the woods"
• fol. 11v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He sees two gods in one Mass"
• fol. 12r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "To bring a florin to nine groats"
• fol. 12v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He cuts the stick with which he is beaten"
• fol. 13r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "A man must keep one eye on the woods and the other on the town"
• fol. 13v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Brother Martin can sing only from his book"
• fol. 14r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Once a woman's brow is broken, she becomes a wanton"
• fol. 14v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Who speaks of the wolf finds him at the door"
• fol. 15r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Largesse is stingy only toward man"
• fol. 15v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "An oven and a mill are nurseries of news"
• fol. 16r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He is wise who is always on guard, for an enemy never sleeps"
• fol. 16v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Embrace a churl and he will prick you"
• fol. 17r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Prick a churl and he will embrace you"
• fol. 17v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth"
• fol. 18r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Sick man, would you have health?"
• fol. 18v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "The more the mud is stirred, the more it will stink"
• fol. 19r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "The pitcher goes so often to the river that it is broken at last"
• fol. 19v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "I have no friend but my purse"
• fol. 20r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He that reckons without his host must reckon twice"
• fol. 20v — Half page miniature with proverb. Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "The gosling is unworthy to show the goose where to pasture".
• fol. 21r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Goslings lead the goose to grass"
• fol. 21v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "After death the doctor is of no use"
• fol. 22r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "A sea voyage will teach you how to pray"
• fol. 22v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He would bite the hand of a little child"
• fol. 23r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Still waters run deep"
• fol. 23v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "An old cat does not need to have a straw dragged before it"
• fol. 24r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Between two friends the spade is lost"
• fol. 24v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Who keeps company with the wolf must learn to howl"
• fol. 25r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "A friend in need is a friend indeed"
• fol. 25v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Who lives, sees"
• fol. 26r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "The caterpillar lives on the cabbage and the wise man on the fool"
• fol. 26v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He who has a ready tongue will get to Rome"
• fol. 27r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He ill conceals himself that shows his back"
• fol. 27v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "A handful of nobility is worth six pennies a year"
• fol. 28r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He reaches with both hands and chews with both jaws"
• fol. 28v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "His vain and idle words are flutes in verjuice"
• fol. 29r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "A mighty knave will have a mighty fall"
• fol. 29v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "The Lombards' petitions for grace after meals consist of three dice on the table"
• fol. 30r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "To agree like cat and dog"
• fol. 30v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He who has no ox lives from day to day"
• fol. 31r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Piteous mothers make scurvy-ridden children"
• fol. 31v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "The face of a man has great power"
• fol. 32r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "After the feast the fool remains"
• fol. 32v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "There are all sorts of people in the world"
• fol. 33r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "It thunders until at last it rains"
• fol. 33v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "A prophet is not without honor save in his own country"
• fol. 34r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He who makes crosetz makes lasaigne"
• fol. 34v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "A fool needs no bell"
• fol. 35r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He is sure of a cat that has her skin"
• fol. 35v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Too much urging makes a horse restive"
• fol. 36r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Even the best singing can be too much"
• fol. 36v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He's a poor guardian of honey who does not lick his own fingers"
• fol. 37r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Large fish are not caught in small streams"
• fol. 37v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "There is no ascent so great but that the descent is equally so"
• fol. 38r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "All things are at length discovered in raking"
• fol. 38v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He plucks out good herbs and plants bad"
• fol. 39r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "The wolf knows what the evil beast thinks"
• fol. 39v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He who kicks against a prick deserves to be twice hurt"
• fol. 40r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Who loves God loves his saints"
• fol. 40v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "It is wise not to live too high because of the crows, nor too low because of the foxes"
• fol. 41r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "A small pack is fit for a small peddler"
• fol. 41v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Little by little the ox may catch the hare"
• fol. 42r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He lives so wisely that he does not gamble, drink, nor give pledges, and yet some other misfortune overtakes him"
• fol. 42v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Great clamor destroys the castle"
• fol. 43r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "The greedy man loves the wedding feast better than the bride"
• fol. 43v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "The knife should be chosen according to the meat"
• fol. 44r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "It is too late for the rat to repent when the cat has got it by the tail"
• fol. 44v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "No dog wants another dog in the kitchen"
• fol. 45r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "A rolling stone gathers no moss"
• fol. 45v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "God helps those who help themselves"
• fol. 46r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "All that glitters is not gold"
• fol. 46v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Greedy folk do not care what they spend on their food"
• fol. 47r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Ease makes the thief"
• fol. 47v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "All can be lost through carelessness"
• fol. 48r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "The cat would like to eat fish but will not get her feet wet"
• fol. 48v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Who goes to Rome a fool returns a fool"
• fol. 49r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "If it has a beak, call it a sickle"
• fol. 49v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "There is a remedy for all things but death"
• fol. 50r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Dress up a bush and it will seem a baron"
• fol. 50v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "A deaf man has no need for two Masses"
• fol. 51r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "A friend is better than money in the chest"
• fol. 51v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He beats the bush while the others catch the birds"
• fol. 52r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "You cannot make a sparrow hawk of a buzzard"
• fol. 52v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He eats cabbage with a spoon"
• fol. 53r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He makes broth in a basket"
• fol. 53v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "The love of a great man is like the shadow of a bush"
• fol. 54r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "All rivers run to the sea"
• fol. 54v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "The mortar always smells of garlic"
• fol. 55r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Strike while the iron is hot"
• fol. 55v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Patience conquers great anger"
• fol. 56r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He can pick new spoons out of an old house"
• fol. 56v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Dame Loyalty sleeps and Truth is dead"
• fol. 57r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Faith breaks the neck of him who bears her"
• fol. 57v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Who washes an ass's head loses both labor and soap"
• fol. 58r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He needs to have his ear pulled"
• fol. 58v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He who has a bad neighbor has a bad morrow"
• fol. 59r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Who turns the spit never tastes a morsel"
• fol. 59v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He heats himself in his armor"
• fol. 60r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Love lasts as long as the money holds out"
• fol. 60v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Crooked loaves are made in the oven"
• fol. 61r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "In the oven of a lazy baker the dough freezes"
• fol. 61v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Who would not resemble the wolf must not wear his hide"
• fol. 62r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He ill protects himself who makes a coverlet of balls of yarn"
• fol. 62v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "It is well to beware of fools and children for they tell what they hear"
• fol. 63r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Each priest praises his own relics"
• fol. 63v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Go to the seashore to find your peer"
• fol. 64r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "A man wastes his worldly goods by seeking St. Peter at Rome and ignoring his presence at his door"
• fol. 64v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He is not so much the devil as he is black"
• fol. 65r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Finding a long tail on a false fox"
• fol. 65v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Necessity is the mother of invention"
• fol. 66r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Of a little take a little, of a mickle take a mickle"
• fol. 66v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He carries fire in one hand and water in the other"
• fol. 67r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He puts at his feet what he holds in his hands"
• fol. 67v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Falling between two stools"
• fol. 68r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Let sleeping dogs lie"
• fol. 68v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "If you carry a large bag, I carry the measure"
• fol. 69r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "I must make arrows of such wood as I have"
• fol. 69v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He winnows his corn in the wind"
• fol. 70r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "A churl should have a churl's fare"
• fol. 70v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "An enterprising fool needs no wit"
• fol. 71r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He leaps from cock to ass"
• fol. 71v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "A poor man supping cannot reach from one loaf to another"
• fol. 72r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "For want of a wise man, a fool is put in the pulpit"
• fol. 72v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "An ass finds nothing to eat in the hay-rack except thistles"
• fol. 73r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "The ass was beaten for performing another's task"
• fol. 73v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He puts a stone before the scythe"
• fol. 74r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "To hunt a hare with a tabor (drum)"
• fol. 74v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He who labors for another labors for himself"
• fol. 75r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "The wolf eats counted sheep"
• fol. 75v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Let him that has no money in his purse have money in his mouth"
• fol. 76r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "It is useless to send a fool on an errand"
• fol. 76v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "It is good to have two strings to one's bow"
• fol. 77r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "There's many a slip between cup and lip"
• fol. 77v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Who drives an ass and leads a whore hath toil and sorrow evermore"
• fol. 78r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "To beat the dog before the lion"
• fol. 78v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "The fool must have his club"
• fol. 79r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He eats his grain in the blade"
• fol. 79v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Such a cat is not to be caught without mittens"
• fol. 80r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "When there's a will there's a way"
• fol. 80v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is"Sated pigeons find cherries bitter"
• fol. 81r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "From ill came the lamb, and to ill goes its skin"
• fol. 81v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Men take oats or straw from debtors who are poor"
• fol. 82r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "The goat scratches the ground so much that it falls ill"
• fol. 82v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He is called a rich pinart [selfish, unfriendly person]"
• fol. 83r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Who has leisure makes a basket"
• fol. 83v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "The mule resembles its father"
• fol. 84r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Carrying off either the foot or the wing of a bird"
• fol. 84v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Let another take the snake from the bush"
• fol. 85r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "A man's esteem depends on his land"
• fol. 85v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Coins that do not ring are found to be best"
• fol. 86r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He is made to count the pegs"
• fol. 86v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "The house shows its owner"
• fol. 87r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "One knows a workman by his work"
• fol. 87v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He sometimes laughs who bites"
• fol. 88r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He that makes himself a sheep shall be eaten by the wolf"
• fol. 88v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "A foolish abbot runs a foolish ménage"
• fol. 89r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Who cannot grind at one mill must go to another"
• fol. 89v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "If the shoe fits, wear it"
• fol. 90r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "To shoe the goose"
• fol. 90v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "He steps back in order to leap higher"
• fol. 91r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "Trickery turns upon its master"
• fol. 91v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "The sluggard loves to be done with his work"
• fol. add.1r — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "One must not cast pearls before swine;" The word "marguerites" in Middle French meant both "pearls" and "daisies"
• fol. add.1v — Half page miniature with proverb; Cataloguer's note: translated title of the proverb is "A good wine needs no praise, and a poor one is not improved because of it"