Catalog

Format: 1516: ... L'admonestement de vivre contre la vanité de ce monde; 1523: ung aultre grant, couvers de velours noir, a cloz dorez, qui ce nomme Plusieurs livres de devocion

Texts:

Traité de mendicité spirituelle (aka Secret parlement de l'omme contemplatif a son ame)

Méditations de saint Bernard

Doctrine de bien vivre

Eternelle consolation

Visite de Jéus Christ à l'âme dévote

Ame embrasée d'amour

De reparatione lapsi

Lamentations du pécheur à l'article de la mort

Ownership Details

Margaret of York, duchess of Burgundy, Ownership Possible (c. 1475-1503?) by Other.

Margaret of Austria, duchess of Savoy, Ownership Confirmed (1503-1 December 1530) by Inventory. Ownership Confirmed (1503-1 December 1530) by Will.

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

Bibliography

Bousmanne, Bernard, and Céline van Hoorebeeck. La Libraire des ducs de Bourgogne: Manuscrits conservés à la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique. Volume I: Textes liturgiques, ascétiques, théologiques, philosophiques et moraux (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000).

Michalove, Sharon. "Women as Book Collectors and Disseminators of Culture in Late Medieval England and Burgundy," in Reputation and Representation in Fifteenth-Century Europe, ed. Douglas L. Biggs, Sharon D. Michalove, and A. Compton Reeves (Leiden: Brill, 2004), 57-79.

Legaré, Anne-Marie. "Les Bibliothèques de deux princesses: Marguerite d'York et Marguerite d'Autriche," in Livres et lectures de femmes en Europe entre Moyen Age et Renaissance, ed. Anne-Marie Legaré (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), 253-64.

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.

Debae, Marguerite. La Bibliothèque de Marguerite d'Autriche: Essai de reconstitution d'après l'inventaire de 1523-1524 (Louvain: Peeters, 1995).: 272-74, Item 155