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Book: Arsenal 5116 (Le Beau roman)

Created pre-1524

John

Format: Parchment, illuminated, frontispiece with Anne de Graville presenting her work to Claude of France (identifiable by her coat of arms)

Texts:

  • Le Beau roman des deux amants, Palamon et Arcita et de la belle et saige Emilia

    • Illuminator(s):

  • Etienne Colaud (Master of Anne de Graville)

    • Ownership Details

    Claude of France, queen of France, Ownership Confirmed (c. 1521-1524) by Patron Portrait.



    Bibliography

    L'Estrange, Elizabeth, ‘Re-Presenting Emilia in the Context of the querelle des femmes: Text and Image in Anne de Graville’s Beau roman’, in Text/Image Relations in Late Medieval French and Burgundian Culture (Fourteenth-Sixteenth Centuries), ed. by Rosalind Brown-Grant and Rebecca Dixon (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015), pp. 187-207

    L'Estrange, Elizabeth. Anne de Graville and Women's Literary Networks in Early Modern France (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2023): 160-232

    Pascale Mounier, En style poétique L’écriture romanesque en vers autour de 1500 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2020)

    Cousseau, Marie-Blanche. Etienne Colaud and l'Enluminure parisienne (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2016).: 161-213, 215-27