Book: NE 1209 (Livre du roy Melyadus)

Created pre-1467


John

Format: couvert [...] de cuir blanc, historié en plusieurs lieux, | fermé et cloué comme dessus [de clouz de laiton], intitulé au dehors "Le livre Melyadus", | et est le second volume, escript en parchemin a trois volumes, commençant | le second feullet "say qu'il plaira as vous" et le derrain feullet | "lie que chevalier" (CCB:V 5.466); grant [...] finissant "par | tout ainsi s'en vont" (CCB:V 11.10)

Texts:

  • Roman de Meliadus
  • Ownership Details

    Philip the Good, Ownership Confirmed (?-1467) by Inventory.

    Margaret of York, duchess of Burgundy, Ownership Possible (post-1478-1503?) by Instance of borrowing, inventory.



    Bibliography

    Falmagne, Thomas, and Baudouin Van Den Abeele, eds. Corpus Catalogorum Belgii: The Medieval Booklists of the Southern Low Countries, Vol. V: Dukes of Burgundy (Leuven: Peeters, 2016).: 220, Item 5.466; 370, Item 9.7; 378, Item 11.10; and 383, Item 12.12

    Wijsman, Hanno. Luxury Bound: Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550) (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010).: 193

    Kaplan, S.C. Women's Libraries in Late Medieval Bourbonnais, Burgundy, and France: A Family Affair (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022).: 190-91