Breviari d'Amor (fragment).Ermengaud, Matfre, active 1288-1322[ca. 1320]proManuscript fragment on parchment of the Breviari d'Amor by Matfre Ermengaud. This fragment, the sole example of troubadour lyric in North America outside of the Morgan Library, contains sections II.15913-16015 of the poem, which details the ten punishments of hell. Marginal notes in two later hands are presentIn Old Occitan (Old Provençal).Accompanied by: nineteenth-century printed description in French and translation into modern French.Script: main text in vernacular Gothic bookhand. Marginal notes in a late medieval hand and an early modern hand.Decoration: nine four-line initials in alternating red and blue with contrasting penwork. Two two-line initials in red. A single red capitulum mark. Rubrics present in red.Layout: single column of thirty lines; the initial letter of each line is set slightly apart. Light brown ink.