Format: Parchment, illuminated (15 miniatures by Missant, 1 by Lorens), reliure "couverte de velours noir" doubled with satin, with two "fermoirs d'or à vingt-deux carats" (Legaré, 2009)

Texts:

Livre d'heures

Illuminator(s):

Jean Missant

Lorens (d'Aix)

Scribe(s):

Giles Renart

Ownership Details

Louise de Laval, countess of Penthièvre, Ownership Confirmed (1460?-14??) by Archival Mention.

Joan of Laval, duchess of Anjou, Ownership Confirmed (1459) by Archival Mention. Ownership Confirmed (1459) by Patron.

Bibliography

Legaré, Anne-Marie. "Les deux épouses de René d'Anjou et leurs livres." In Splendeur de l'enluminure: Le Roi René et les livres, ed. Marc-Edouard Gautier (Angers: Ville d'Angers/Actes Sud, 2009), 59-71.: 62

Legaré, Anne-Marie. "Les deux épouses de René d'Anjou et leurs livres." In Splendeur de l'enluminure: Le Roi René et les livres, ed. Marc-Edouard Gautier (Angers: Ville d'Angers/Actes Sud, 2009), 59-71.: 398-99, App. 29-36

Legaré, Anne-Marie. "Reassessing Women's Libraries in Late Medieval France: The Case of Jeanne de Laval," Renaissance Studies 10, no. 2 (1996): 209-36.: 225-26, Item 20-25

Kaplan, S.C. Women's Libraries in Late Medieval Bourbonnais, Burgundy, and France: A Family Affair (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022).: 166-67