Book: KBR MS 9305-06 (Mendicité sprituelle; Montagne de contemplation; Trésor de sapience)
Created 1468-1477
Format: 1516: Autre livre de parchemin escript a la main, de belle et grose lettre, illuminé et historyé, couvert de velours noir a fermaulx et cloz dorez appellé le secret parlement de l'omme contemplatif a son ame; 1523: ung aultre grant, couvers de velours noir, a cloz dorez, qui ce nomme La permiere partie du Dialogue Maistre Jehan Jarsson
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Ownership Details
Margaret of York, duchess of Burgundy, Ownership Confirmed (post-1468-1503) by Inscription.
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 Inventory.
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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).: 274-75, Item 156