Digitization

Catalog

Texts:

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

Le Montagne de contemplation

Trésor de sapience

Illuminator(s):

Master of Margaret of York (Philippe de Mazerolles?)

Ownership Details

Margaret of York, duchess of Burgundy, Ownership Confirmed (c. 1475-1503) by Inscription.

Margaret of Austria, duchess of Savoy, Ownership Confirmed (1503-?) 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.