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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

    • Scribes:

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

    • Ownership Details

    Marie of Berry, duchess of Bourbon, Ownership Confirmed (?-1434?)

    John Duke of Berry, Ownership Confirmed (1408-?)

    Charles I of Bourbon, Ownership possibly (1434?-1456?)



    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).

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