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Book: BnF fr. 605 (Epistre à la Royne de France; Epistre à Eustache Morel; Proverbes moraulx; Livre de prudence)

Created 1407-1408

John

Texts:

  • Epistre à la Royne de France
  • Epistre à Eustace Morel
  • Livre de Prudence
  • Proverbes Moraulx (Christine de Pizan)

    • Scribe(s):

  • Hand X (perhaps Christine de Pizan)
  • P. de Cruce
  • Hand R

    • Ownership Details

    John Duke of Berry, Ownership Confirmed (1408-1416) by Inventory.

    Marie of Berry, duchess of Bourbon, Ownership Confirmed (1416-1434?) by Inventory.



    Bibliography

    Kaplan, S.C. "Transmission of Knowledge to and between Women in 15th-Century France: Agnès de Bourgogne's Education and Library," Ph.D. diss., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2016.

    Beaune, Colette, and Elodie Lequain. "Marie de Berry et les livres," in Livres et lectures de femmes en Europe entre Moyen Age et Renaissance, ed. Anne-Marie Legaré (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), 49-66.: 53 and n62

    Ouy, Gilbert, Christine Reno, and Inès Villela-Petit. Album Christine de Pizan (Turnhout: Brepols, 2012).: 280-85