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Book: KBR MS 10308 (Mortifiment de vaine plaisance; La Mendicité spirituelle; Piteuse complainte et oraison devote)

Created c. 1455

John

Texts:

  • Traité de mendicité spirituelle (aka Secret parlement de l'omme contemplatif a son ame)
  • Mortifiement de vaine plaisance
  • Piteuse complainte et oraison devote

    • Illuminator(s):

  • Jean le Tavernier

    • Ownership Details

    Philip the Good, Ownership Confirmed (c. 1455-1467) by Coat of Arms.

    Isabella of Portugal, duchess of Burgundy, Ownership Confirmed (c. 1455-1471?) by Coat of Arms.

    Charles the Bold, Ownership Confirmed (1471?-1477) by Inventory.



    Bibliography

    Bousmanne, Bernard, and Céline van Hoorebeeck. La Libraire des ducs de Bourgogne: Manuscrits conservés à la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique. Volume I: Textes liturgiques, ascétiques, théologiques, philosophiques et moraux (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000).

    Michalove, Sharon. "Women as Book Collectors and Disseminators of Culture in Late Medieval England and Burgundy," in Reputation and Representation in Fifteenth-Century Europe, ed. Douglas L. Biggs, Sharon D. Michalove, and A. Compton Reeves (Leiden: Brill, 2004), 57-79.