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Towards 1400, ?vrart de Conty, Charles V's doctor, wrote the Livre des Eschez Amoureux Moralis?s from a text in verse, Les Esch?s Amoureux, which he himself had written some 30 years earlier. ?vrart's undertaking consisted of converting his long poem into prose and moralizing it. In both versions, the work circulated in France, between Paris and Cognac, as well as in Burgundian circles, where it received a most favorable reception. Focusing our attention on the Duchy of Burgundy, we went in search of archival documents and for codicological, artistic, and heraldic clues, enabling us to be more specific about the place where the illuminated specimens were produced, to track lost copies and to link a lost manuscript with the t?moin gamma said to be the source of the Burgundian family of prose commentary.