Books of Duchesses

Book Owner: Margaret Beaufort, countess of Richmond and Derby

Lady Margaret Beaufort by Meynnart Wewyck, ca. 1510, The Master's Lodge, St John's College, Cambridge

b. 1441/3- d. 1509

Title: King's Mother; Countess of Richmond and Derby

Motto: Unknown

Symbol: Unknown

Family Tree

Parents/Up one generation

Margaret Beauchamps, duchess of Somerset, Mother

Anne Neville (Stafford), duchess of Buckingham, Mother-in-law

Children/Down one generation

Henry VII of England, Son

Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, Other

Margaret Beaufort's Locations

Brookwood (1468)

Colleyweston (1498-1506)

Pembroke (1457)

Bletsoe (1443)

London (1509)

Margaret Beaufort's Library

Book Count: 46

Alnwick Castle Library MS 498: Book of Hours. Confirmed ownership 1439?-1509 by Coat of Arms. Confirmed ownership 1439?-1509 by Other.

BL Add. MS 33772: Lections; Memorials of Saints. Confirmed ownership 1498-1509 by Patron.

BL Royal MS 18 D IX: Bible Historiale. Confirmed ownership 1483-1509 by Will.

BL Royal MS 18 E I: Les Chroniques (vol. 2). Confirmed ownership 1483-1509 by Will.

BL Royal MS 2 A XVIII: Beaufort Book of Hours. Confirmed ownership 1456?-1509 by Inscription.

BL Royal MS 20 C IV: Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes. Confirmed ownership ?-1509 by Will.

Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum MS 261: Latin and English Plague Tracts. Confirmed ownership c. 1500-1509 by Other.

Cambridge, St. John's MS N 24 (MS 264): Shirley Book of Hours. Confirmed ownership 1444-1502 by Inscription.

Huntington Library 59139: The Fayttes of Armes and of Chyualrye. Confirmed ownership 1489-1509 by Inscription.

Lambeth Palace Library MS 474: Hours of Richard III. Confirmed ownership 1485-1509 by Will.

NE 105: The Letter of Othea (Scrope Trans.). Confirmed ownership 1472-1509 by Will.

NE 106: Portable Breviary. Confirmed ownership c. 1495-1509 by Will.

NE 108: Siege of Troy by John Lydgate. Confirmed ownership ?-1509 by Will.

NE 109: A Text by John Gower. Confirmed ownership ?-1509 by Will.

NE 110: The Canterbury Tales. Confirmed ownership ?-1509 by Will.

NE 111: Primer and Psalter. Confirmed ownership ?-1502? by Other.

NE 112: Book of Hours. Confirmed ownership 1480-1509 by Will.

NE 113: Golden Legend. Confirmed ownership 1480-1509 by Will.

NE 114: A French Book of Lucan. Confirmed ownership 1480-1509 by Will.

NE 116: A Little Book of Gold with Marguerites. Confirmed ownership ?-1509 by Other.

NE 117: A Book of Gold with Diverse Images. Confirmed ownership ?-1509 by Other.

NE 118: Blanchardin et Eglantine. Confirmed ownership 1480?-1509 by Archival Mention.

NE 880: French Book of the Epistles and Gospels. Confirmed ownership 1480-1509 by Will.

NEP 1: Magna Carta (in French). Confirmed ownership ?-1509 by Will.

NEP 10: Shyppe of Fooles. Confirmed ownership c.1509 by Patron of edition.

NEP 11: Of Mannes Lyfe the Peregrynacioun. Confirmed ownership ?-1509 by Other.

NEP 12: Legenda Aurea (trans. Caxton). Confirmed ownership 1483-1509 by Archival Mention.

NEP 13: Vitas Patrum (trans. Caxton). Confirmed ownership 1504-1509 by Archival Mention.

NEP 14: Eneydos (The Aeneid) (trans. Caxton). Possible ownership 1504-1509 by Archival Mention.

NEP 15: Kalender of Shepherdes (Pynson). Possible ownership 1507-1509 by Archival Mention.

NEP 16: The Kalender of Shepeherdes (de Worde). Possible ownership 1509 by Archival Mention.

NEP 17: Book of Divers Ghostly Matters. Possible ownership 1507-1509 by Archival Mention.

NEP 18: The Canterbury Tales. Possible ownership 1508-1509 by Archival Mention.

NEP 19: Rosarium. Possible ownership 1508-1509 by Archival Mention.

NEP 2: Blanchardin and Eglantine. Confirmed ownership 1488-1509 by Patron of edition.

NEP 20: Liber Cathonis. Possible ownership 1508-1509 by Archival Mention.

NEP 3: Fifteen Oes. Confirmed ownership 1491-1509 by Patron of edition.

NEP 4: Scala perfeccionis. Confirmed ownership 1494-1509 by Patron of edition.

NEP 5: Imytacyon and Folowynge the Blessed Lyfe of our Sauyour Cryste. Confirmed ownership 1504-1509 by Other.

NEP 6: The Mirroure of Golde for the Synfull Soule. Confirmed ownership 1506-1509 by Other.

NEP 7: The Fruytfull Saynges of Dauyd. Confirmed ownership 1508-1509 by Patron of edition.

NEP 8: Life of Saint Ursula. Confirmed ownership 1509 by Patron of edition.

NEP 9: Funeral Sermon for Henry VII. Confirmed ownership c.1509 by Patron of edition.

Unnamed Private Collection, Clarence Book of Hours: Clarence Book of Hours. Possible ownership c. 1439-1486 by Other.

Westminster Abbey MS 39: Illuminated Prayer Book. Confirmed ownership 1441?-1509 by Coat of Arms.

Yale, British Art Center, BV4831.H5 1494+: Scale of Perfection. Confirmed ownership 1494 by Inscription.