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b. c. 1490- d. c. 1543
Title: Unknown
Motto: musas naturas lachrymas fortuna
Symbol: Chantepleure
j'en garde un leal
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Book Count: 36
Abu Dhabi, Louvre, LAD 2014.029: A translation into French of the five Berosus books published by Annius da Viterbo in 1498 as part of his Antiquities. Made for Anne de Graville probably at the behest of her husband, Pierre de Balsac, c. 1508-1510 (datable by the miniature). Translation possibly by Robert Frescher (see L'Estrange, 2023). Confirmed ownership post-1508 by Patron Portrait.
Arsenal 2691: Recueil (Secret des secrets, Livre de Mélibée…). Confirmed ownership 1521-1540 by Inscription.
Arsenal 3172: Livre de mutacion de Fortune. Confirmed ownership 15??-c. 1543 by Coat of Arms.
Arsenal 3511: Devisement du monde. Confirmed ownership 1518-1540 by Inscription. Confirmed ownership 1518-1540 by Coat of Arms.
Basel, University Library, F IV 44: Ami and Amiles, prose version in alexandrine rhyme. Confirmed ownership 1521-1540 by Inscription.
Beinecke MS Marston 274: Leonardo Bruni, Premiere bataille punique, trans. Lebegue. Confirmed ownership 1518-1540 by Inscription.
Bib. Sainte-Genevieve MS 1144-45: Two volumes of John of Salisbury's Policraticus although perhaps not originally a pair. Possible ownership pre-1540 by Other.
Bibliotheque historique de la ville de Paris, 4-MS-Res-010: Collection of works including the Jeu des eschés moralisé by Jean de Vignay. Confirmed ownership 1522-1540 by Inscription.
BL Cotton MS Nero D IX: Antoine de la Sale, Petit Jehan de Saintré and Rasse Brunhamel, Flordian et Elvide. Confirmed ownership pre-1540 by Inscription.
BL Egerton 989: Helie de Boron, Roman de Tristan. Confirmed ownership 1518-1540 by Inscription.
BnF fr. 10053: Histoire ancienne jusqu'a Cesar (2nd version, abridged). Confirmed ownership c. 1521-1540 by Inscription.
BnF fr. 20350: Grandes chroniques de France. Possible ownership 1518-1540 by Inscription. Possible ownership 1518-1540 by Inventory.
BnF fr. 20853: Recueil de pièces sur les Croisades et les guerres françaises, sur la population de la France et l’Hôtel du roi (XIIIe-XIVe siècles). Confirmed ownership 1518-1540 by Inscription.
BnF fr. 22541: Petrarch's Triumphs with anonymous translation of the commentaries by Bernardo Illicino. Confirmed ownership 1518-1540 by Coat of Arms. Confirmed ownership 1518-1540 by Other.
BnF fr. 23932: Inventaire des meubles et joyaux du Charles V. Confirmed ownership 1518-1540 by Inscription.
BnF fr. 24315: Collection of poetry and only surviving copy of Guillaume Tasserie's Le Triomphe des Normands; also includes a riddle on Anne de Graville's name. Confirmed ownership 1518-1540 by Inscription.
BnF fr. 24368: Auberi le Bourguignon. Confirmed ownership pre-1540 by Inscription.
BnF fr. 24377: Anseis de Metz. Confirmed ownership 1521-1540 by Inscription.
BnF fr. 24758: . Confirmed ownership 1522-1540 by Inscription.
BnF fr. 24758: . Confirmed ownership 1521-1540 by Inscription.
BnF fr. 254: Histoire ancienne (second redaction). Confirmed ownership 1518-1540 by Inscription.
BnF fr. 25441: Beau roman des deux amants, Palamon et Arcita et de la belle et saige Emilia. Possible ownership c. 1524-1540 by Inscription.
BnF fr. 25535: Chants royaux, ballades et rondeaux Poems entered at the Puy de l'Immaculée conception in Rouen, 1524, offered to Anne de Graville. Confirmed ownership 1524-1540 by Inscription. Confirmed ownership 1524-1540 by Coat of Arms.
BnF fr. 5730: Prières et instruction morale à l'usage « du bon roy Charles le Quint ». Confirmed ownership 1518-1540 by Inscription.
BnF lat. 8838: Proces de rehabilitation de Jeanne d’Arc et Siège d’Orléans. Possible ownership 1518-1540 by Other.
BnF n.a.f. 1880: Devisement du monde. Confirmed ownership 1518-1540 by Inscription.
BnF, mss fr. 22548-50: Three-volume Sept-Sages de Rome. Confirmed ownership 1518-1540 by Archival Mention.
Bodleian MS Douce 178: Robert de Boron, Roman du Graal. Confirmed ownership pre-1540 by Inscription.
Chicago, Newberry Library, ms f. 21: Lancelot en prose. Confirmed ownership 1518-1540 by Inscription.
Lille, BM 130 (190): Collection of works including Ami et Amile (prose). Confirmed ownership 1521-1540 by Inscription.
Lille, BM, ms 402 (308): Collection of Rondeaux including on the acrostics of Jeanne de Graville and Louise de Graville. Possible ownership pre-1540 by Other.
Munich, BSB, Cod. gall. 11: Livre de la mutacion de Fortune. Possible ownership pre-1540 by Instance of borrowing, inscription.
Oxford, Bodl. Douce 329: French Mise-en-prose of Boccaccio's Teseida; copy used by Anne de Graville in the writing of the Beau roman.. Confirmed ownership 1518-1540 by Other.
San Marino, Huntington Library, MS 1163: Book of Hours probably made for Louis de Graville and Marie de Balsac.. Possible ownership 1518-1540 by Coat of Arms.
St Petersburg, National Library of Russia, ms fr. f°v. XIV.7: Alain Chartier, BDSM, and works of the querelle de la BDSM, and other poems inc. by Villon. Possible ownership pre-1540 by Instance of borrowing, other.
Tours, BM, ms 2128: Copy of Christine de Pizan's Livre des trois vertus; sometimes placed in Anne de Graville's library. Possible ownership pre-1540 by Other.