Digitization

Format: 1516: gros livre de parchemin, escript a la main, de belle grosse lettre, illumine et historye, couvert de velours vert, a fermaulx et cloz de cuyvre sans dorrure appele Alixandre le Grant; 1523: ung aultre grant, couvert de velours verd, a cloz dorez, qui ce nomme L'histoire du bon roy Alixandre (Debae, 72-73)

Texts:

Faiz et conquestes d'Alexandre le Grand (Wauquelin)

Illuminator(s):

Lieven van Lathem

Willem Vrelant

Master of the Vraie Cronicque d'EScoce

Painter of the Livre du roy Modus

Ownership Details

Philip the Good, Ownership Confirmed (post-1457-1467) by Inventory.

Philip the Fair, Ownership Confirmed (1482-7 July 1501) by Archival Mention.

Margaret of Austria, duchess of Savoy, Ownership Confirmed (7 July 1501-1 December 1530) by Inventory. Ownership Confirmed (7 July 1501-1 December 1530) by Archival Mention.

Mary of Hungary, queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia, Ownership Confirmed (December 1530-18 October 1558) by Inventory.

Bibliography

Debae, Marguerite. La Bibliothèque de Marguerite d'Autriche: Essai de reconstitution d'après l'inventaire de 1523-1524 (Louvain: Peeters, 1995).: 72-73, Item 46

Kaplan, S.C. Women's Libraries in Late Medieval Bourbonnais, Burgundy, and France: A Family Affair (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022).: 172-73