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Book: BL Cotton MS Otho D II (Six texts on the Orient by Jean le Long d'Ypres; Mélusine)

Created 1400-1415

John

Texts:

  • La Fleur des Histoires de la terre d'Orient
  • Melusine ou La noble histoire de Lusignan
  • L'ytineraire de la peregrinacion frere Riculd
  • Merveilles de la terre d'outre mer
  • Livre des parties d'Outremer
  • Lettres du grand khan au pape Benoit XII
  • Livre de l'Etat du grand Khan

    • Illuminator(s):

  • Master of the Epistre Othéa

    • Ownership Details

    Charles VI of France, Ownership Possible (c.1400-1422) by Other.

    John Duke of Bedford, Ownership Possible (1425-1433) by Other.

    Jacquetta of Luxembourg, duchess of Bedford, Ownership Confirmed (1433/1435-1472) by Inscription.



    Bibliography

    Diaz Pascual, Lucia L. “Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Duchess of Bedford and Lady Rivers (c. 1416-1472),” The Ricardian 21 (2011): 67-91.

    Kaplan, S.C. "A Library of Lost Works: Non-Extant Books as Evidence of Female Reader Networks." Pecia 24 (2023 for 2021): 221-38.: 224