Book: BL Royal MS 15 D IV (Quinte Curse Ruffe des fais du grant Alexandre)

Created c.1468


Ownership Details

Margaret of York, duchess of Burgundy, Ownership Confirmed (c.1470-1480?) by Inscription.

Marie of Burgundy, duchess of Burgundy, Ownership Possible (c. 1470-?) by Inscription.

Sir John Donne, Ownership Confirmed (1480?-1503?) by Coat of Arms.

Henry VIII of England, Ownership Confirmed (1509?-1547?) by Coat of Arms.



Bibliography

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Hughes, Muriel J. "The Library of Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy," The Private Library 7, no. 3 (1984): 53-78.

Barstow, Kurtis A. "Appendix: The Library of Margaret of York and Some Related Books," in Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and The Visions of Tondal, ed. Thomas Kren (Malibu, CA: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1992), 257-63.

Backhouse, Janet. "Sir John Donne's Flemish Manuscripts." In Medieval Codicology, Iconography, Literature and Translation: Studies for Keith Val Sinclair, ed. Peter Rolfe Monks and D.D.R. Owen (Leiden: Brill, 1994), 48-57.: 49-51