Your Valentine’s Day gift will have to be extraordinary to top  the Petit Livre d’Amour (Little Book of Love). This very elaborate handmade book was given by the 16th-century French poet Pierre Salas to his then lover and future wife Marguerite Bullioud. It measures just 5 by 3.7 inches, hand-written by Salas with gold ink and gorgeously illuminated by an artist identified as the “Master of the Chronique scandaleuseas”. The volume begins with a few pages of prose describing the relationship between the poet and the woman he loves. The rest of the book follows with 12 “iconologues”, a combination of prose and poetry on the left-hand page – including the initials M, for Marguerite and P, for Pierre, scattered about in various forms – and on the right-hand page a corresponding picture. Five of these relate to love, the others to more prosaic topics.