Digitization

Catalog

Format: le premier volume du myrouer ystorial que ladicte dame [Charlotte] emprunta de monseigneur de chastillon et ordonna quil luy feust rendu (BnF fr. 15538, f. 80)

Texts:

Miroir historial v. 1

Illuminator(s):

Master of the Roman de Fauvel

Richard de Verdun (aka Master of the Bible of Jean de Papeleu)

Ownership Details

John Duke of Berry, Ownership Confirmed (14??-1416?) by Inventory. Ownership Confirmed (14??-1416?) by Inscription.

Bonne of Berry, Viscountess of Carlat, Ownership Confirmed (1416-1435?) by Other.

Bernard VIII d'Armagnac, Ownership Possible (1435?-1462?) by Other.

Jacques d'Armagnac, Ownership Confirmed (1462?-1476?) by Inscription.

Charlotte of Savoy, queen of France, Ownership Confirmed (1476?-December 1483) by Inventory.

Louis de Laval, lord of Châtillon, Ownership Confirmed (1476?-14??) by Other.

Charles VIII of France, Ownership Confirmed (March 1484-1498?) by Inventory.

Bibliography

BnF fr. 15538: f. 80

Legaré, Anne-Marie. "Charlotte de Savoie's Library and Illuminators," Journal of the Early Book Society 4 (2001): 32-87.: 76, Item 80

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