Digitization

Catalog

Format: Parchment, illuminated; ung grant, couvert de velours verd, a cloz dorez, qui ce nomme Au commencement du monde jusques au temps que Julle Cesar se partit de Romme pour conquester France (Debae, 40); ung aultre gros livre en parchmenin escript en francois en lectre de forme historie d'or et d'aczur traictant de la bible commencant en sa grosse lectre Quant Dieu eust fait le ciel reslie de postz couvert de velours bleuz a bouctonz de locton doures (Debae, 42)

Texts:

Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César (1st version)

Scribe(s):

Bernard of Acre

Ownership Details

Anne of Cyprus, Duchess of Savoy, Ownership Possible (c. 1434-1462?) by Other.

Margaret of Austria, duchess of Savoy, Ownership Confirmed (1504-1 December 1530) by Inventory.

Mary of Hungary, queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia, Ownership Confirmed (December 1530-18 October 1558) by Inventory.

Bibliography

Edmunds, Sheila. "The Medieval Library of Savoy (III): The Documents (the end)," Scriptorium 26, no. 2 (1972): 269-93.: 271, Item 50, and 279

Debae, Marguerite. La Bibliothèque de Marguerite d'Autriche: Essai de reconstitution d'après l'inventaire de 1523-1524 (Louvain: Peeters, 1995).: 40-42, Item 23