Book: NE 163 (Du saint Graal, de Lancelot, de Gauvain)

Created pre-1378


John

Format: en grant volume plat em prose, Couvert de cuir rouge a empraintes a iii fermouers d'argent des armes de la royne Jehanne de Bourbon et boullionz d'argent (BnF fr. 2700, f. 16v)

Texts:

  • Le saint Graal
  • Lancelot du Lac (aka Lancelot en prose)
  • Ownership Details

    Joan of Bourbon, queen of France, Ownership Confirmed (13??-1378?) by Inventory. Ownership Confirmed (13??-1378?) by Coat of Arms.

    Charles V of France, Ownership Confirmed (1378?-1380) by Inventory.

    Charles VI of France, Ownership Confirmed (1380-29 August 1390) by Inventory.

    Isabeau of Bavaria, queen of France, Ownership Confirmed (29 August 1390-1435?) by Inventory. Ownership Confirmed (29 August 1390-1435?) by Instance of borrowing.



    Bibliography

    Delisle, Léopold. Le Cabinet des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale, 3 vols, vol. 3 (Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1881).

    Kaplan, S.C. Women's Libraries in Late Medieval Bourbonnais, Burgundy, and France: A Family Affair (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022).: 44-45, 178-79

    BnF fr. 2700: ff. 16v, 45v

    Kaplan, S.C. "Isabeau de Bavière's Books: A Reassessment," Manuscripta: A Journal for Manuscript Research 67, no. 2 (2024 for 2023): 171-223, https://doi.org/10.1484/J.MSS.5.143577: 180, 198