Digitization

Catalog

Format: La belle Bible du duc de Berry, garnie à deux fermans, vii petiz ymages esmaillez, et une espère au millieu (Chazaud)

Texts:

Bible historiale complétée

Illuminator(s):

Master of the Book of Hours of Johannette Ravenelle

Master of the Coronation of the Virgin

Ownership Details

Raoulet d'Anquetonville, Ownership Confirmed (1395-1401?) by Inventory.

John Duke of Berry, Ownership Confirmed (1402-June 1416) by Inscription.

Marie of Berry, duchess of Bourbon, Ownership Confirmed (June 1416-1434?) by Inventory.

Charles I of Bourbon, Ownership Possible (1434-1456) by Other.

Agnes of Burgundy, duchess of Bourbon, Ownership Possible (1434-1472?) by Other.

John II of Bourbon, Ownership Possible (1456-1472?) by Other.

Margaret of Bourbon, (posthumous) duchess of Savoy, Ownership Possible (1472?-1483) by Other.

Philibert II of Savoy, Ownership Confirmed (1483?-1504?) by Inscription.

Bibliography

Leroux de Lincy, Antoine. "Catalogue de la bibliothèque des ducs de Bourbon," Mélanges de littérature et d'histoire recueillis et publiés pour la Société des bibliophiles françoïs 25 (1850): 1-102.

Beaune, Colette, and Elodie Lequain. "Marie de Berry et les livres," in Livres et lectures de femmes en Europe entre Moyen Age et Renaissance, ed. Anne-Marie Legaré (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), 49-66.: 50 and n22

Chazaud, A.M. Les Enseignements d'Anne de France, duchesse de Bourbonnais et d'Auvergne, à sa fille Susanne de Bourbon: Texte original publié d'après le ms. unique de Saint-Pétersbourg (Moulins: C. Desroziers, 1878).: 234, Item 26

Edmunds, Sheila. "The Medieval Library of Savoy (III): The Documents (the end)," Scriptorium 26, no. 2 (1972): 269-93.: 270, Item 20, and 282