The manuscript is a collection of fifteen texts in French. These are chivalric romances, treatises on warfare, chansons de geste (epic poems) and Statutes of the Order of the Garter (a chivalric order founded by King Edward III in 1348, still active).
Among the heroic figures who appear in the book are Charlemagne and Alexander the Great (hidden in a barrel-like submarine).
Here are a few images. The full manuscript has been digitised by the British Library.
Talbot, with his dog, presenting the book to Queen Margaret of Anjou (beside King Henry VI), detail from the frontispiece of the Talbot Shrewsbury Book, Wikipedia [Public Domain]
Henry VI appointing Talbot as Constable of France, the Talbot Shrewsbury Book, Wikimedia Commons [Public Domain]
Boat and Bed, the Talbot Shrewsbury Book, Wikimedia Commons [Public Domain]
Charlemagne and Four Kings, the Talbot Shrewsbury Book, Wikimedia Commons [Public Domain]
Genealogical Table of Descendants of Saint Louis IX, the Talbot Shrewsbury Book, Wikimedia Commons [Public Domain]
Alexander in a Submarine, the Talbot Shrewsbury Book, Wikimedia Commons [Public Domain]
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