BnF Français 25516

BnF Français 25516 is a late-13th century[1] illuminated manuscript held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

The quarto manuscript has 209 folios, with Old French text written in two columns in a small 13th-c hand.

It is heavily illuminated, and the illuminations are accompanied by explanatory rubrics.

Large initials are found at the beginnings of chapters and other significant passages; the usual small initials are done alternately in red and blue.

[2] It contains four romances:

Incipit , miniature and first four lines of Aiol and Mirabel , fol. 96r.