Books of Duchesses

Book Owner: Margaret of York, duchess of Burgundy

Anonymous Portrait of Margaret of York, c. 1468. Paris, Musée du Louvre.

b. 1446- d. 1503

Title: Duchess of Burgundy

Motto: Bien en enviengne

Symbol: Unknown

Arms

KBR MS 9305, f. 1

Signatures

Family Tree

Parents/Up one generation

Isabella of Portugal, duchess of Burgundy, Mother-in-law

Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, Mother

Richard, Duke of York, Father

Same generation

Charles the Bold, Spouse

Elizabeth Woodville, queen consort of England, Sister-in-law

Edward IV of England, Brother

Children/Down one generation

Marie of Burgundy, duchess of Burgundy, Other

Philippa of Guelders, duchess of Lorraine, Other

Margaret of York's Locations

Mechelen (23 November 1503)

Fotheringhay (3 May 1446)

Bruges (1468)

London (1480)

Margaret of York's Library

Book Count: 57

Beinecke MS 639: Guide des pelerinages aux eglises de Rome. Confirmed ownership c.1475-1503 by Coat of Arms.

Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett MS 78 B 13 (with BNE, Vitr. 25.5 and folios at the Philadelphia Museum of Art): Vostre demeure Hours. Possible ownership c. 1472-1503? by Other.

BL Add. MS 38126: Huth Hours (Use of Rome). Possible ownership 1485-1503 by Other.

BL Add. MS 7970: Dialogue de la duchesse de Bourgogne à Jésus Christ. Confirmed ownership c.1468 - 1502 by Inscription. Confirmed ownership c.1468 - 1502 by Coat of Arms. Confirmed ownership c.1468 - 1502 by Other.

BL Arundel MS 71: Le lieure d felicite de vie (plus 1 leaf from a Gradual). Possible ownership 1477?-1503? by Other.

BL Royal MS 15 D IV: Quinte Curse Ruffe des fais du grant Alexandre. Confirmed ownership c.1470-1480? by Inscription.

BL Royal MS 16 G III: Vita Christi; La Vengance de la mort Jhesu Crist. Confirmed ownership 1479-1503 by Other.

BL Royal MS 19 E V: Romuléon. Possible ownership 1480 by Patron Portrait.

BnF n.a.f. 28650: Vie de sainte Catherine. Confirmed ownership c. 1475-1503 by Coat of Arms.

Bodleian MS Douce 365: Religious Compendium. Confirmed ownership 1475-1503 by Other.

Cambridge, St. John's MS H 13 (MS 215): Breviaire (with BL Cotton MS Tiberius A II, fol. 1; Cotton MS Galba A XVIII, fol. 2; Cotton MS Vespasian A I; and Cotton MS TItus C XV, f. 1). Confirmed ownership c. 1477-1503? by Coat of Arms.

Escorial, Bibl. Monast. e. III. 2: Marcus Iustinus, Epitome historiarum Trogi Pompeii. Confirmed ownership 14?? by Inscription.

Getty MS 30 (87.MN.141): Les Visions du chevalier Tondal. Confirmed ownership 1475-1503 by Other.

Getty MS 31 (87.MN.152): La Vision de l'âme de Guy de Thurno. Confirmed ownership 1475-1503 by Other.

Holkham Hall, Coll. Leicester 659: Chroniques de Hainaut. Confirmed ownership 1503 by Inscription.

Iena, Bibl. Univ., Gall. f. 85: Livre de Boece de consolation de phylosophie (Jean de Meun Trans.). Confirmed ownership 1476 by Other.

KBR MS 2027: Le Triomphe des dames et la Chaire d'honneur. Possible ownership 1471?-1503? by Other.

KBR MS 9030-37: Religious compendium; Chastel d'amour. Confirmed ownership 1475?-1503 by Coat of Arms.

KBR MS 9106: Somme le Roi. Possible ownership 1475?-1503? by Other.

KBR MS 9169: Leges palatine. Possible ownership pre-1483 by Other.

KBR MS 9233: La Fleur des histoires. Confirmed ownership 14??-15?? by Inscription.

KBR MS 9272-76: Religious compendium. Possible ownership c. 1475-1503? by Other.

KBR MS 9296: Bienheureux les misericordieux. Possible ownership c. 1468-1503? by Other.

KBR MS 9305-06: Mendicité sprituelle; Montagne de contemplation; Trésor de sapience. Confirmed ownership c. 1475-1503 by Inscription.

Metz, BM MS 1255 (no longer extant): Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome. Destroyed in 1944. Confirmed ownership 1488 - 1503 by Coat of Arms.

Monasterium "Bethlehem" of the Zusters Clarissen-Coletienen MS 8: Vie de sainte Colette. Confirmed ownership 1468? by Other.

NE 1209: Livre du roy Melyadus. Possible ownership post-1478-1503? by Instance of borrowing, inventory.

NE 1210: Des Proprietez des bestes; Lucidaire; Des vii sages de Romme; autres livres. Possible ownership post-1478-1503? by Instance of borrowing, inventory.

NE 1211: Fais des Rommains. Possible ownership post-1499?-1503? by Instance of borrowing, inventory.

NE 1211: Fais des Rommains. Possible ownership post-1478?-1493? by Instance of borrowing, inventory.

NE 1212: Dyalogue saint Gregoire. Possible ownership post-1487-1503? by Instance of borrowing, inventory.

NE 1213: Des Fortunes de nobles hommes et femmes. Possible ownership post-1487-1503? by Instance of borrowing, inventory.

NE 1214: Passion saint Adrian. Possible ownership post-1478-1503? by Instance of borrowing, inventory.

NE 1215: Passaige d'Outremer. Possible ownership post-1478-1503? by Instance of borrowing, inventory.

NE 1216: Livre de medecine. Possible ownership post-1478-1503? by Instance of borrowing, inventory.

NE 1217: Livre de Ysengrin. Possible ownership post-1478-1503? by Instance of borrowing, inventory.

NE 1218: Livre des solitaires. Possible ownership post-1478-1503? by Instance of borrowing, inventory.

NE 1219: Enseignements de saint Louis a son fils. Possible ownership post-1478-1503? by Instance of borrowing, inventory.

NE 1220: Psautier. Possible ownership post-1478-1503? by Instance of borrowing, inventory.

NE 1221: Divers livres de chant. Possible ownership post-1478-1503? by Instance of borrowing, inventory.

NE 1222: Mappamundi. Possible ownership post-1478-1503? by Instance of borrowing, inventory.

NE 427: Vie de saint Gommaire. Confirmed ownership 14??-1503? by Other.

NE 428: Livre d'heures. Possible ownership post-1468-1503? by Patron Portrait. Possible ownership post-1468-1503? by Other.

NE 429: Gradual. Confirmed ownership c. 1482 by Inscription.

NE 771: Breviaire. Possible ownership 14??-1503? by Other.

NE 977: Dialogue de l'ame et de l'oeil. Possible ownership post-March 1482-1503? by Dedication.

NEP 21: Recyell of the Histories of Troy. Confirmed ownership 1464-1503? by Patron of edition.

NEP 22: Tretye of Loue. Possible ownership 1493-1503? by Patron.

NEP 23: Chroniques (de Froissart). Confirmed ownership October 1499-1503? by Other.

NLR Saltykov-Shchedrin, MS Fr. O v. I, 2 (no longer extant): Contemplation pour attraire la personne a Dieu; De diligendo deo; Méditations de St. Bernard. Possible ownership post-1468-1503? by Other.

ONB Cod. 1857: Hours of Mary of Burgundy. Possible ownership 147? by Other.

PML MS M 484: Apocalypse. Confirmed ownership 1475-1503 by Other.

Saint-Quentin, BM MS 109: Le Livre du Trésor. Confirmed ownership c.1468 - 1503 by Inscription.

Unnamed Private Collection, Christie's, May 26-27, 1965, lot 195, Livre d'heures: Livre d'heures. Confirmed ownership 1468-1503 by Other.

Valenciennes, BM 240: Sermons; L'Imitation de Jésus-Christ; Soliloque des quatre exercices; Miroir de l'ame. Possible ownership 1468?-? by Inscription.

Vesoul, BM 91: L'abbaye de saint Esprit. Possible ownership c.1468 - 1503? by Other.

Windsor Castle MS RCIN 1047371: Register of the Guild of St. Anne. Confirmed ownership c. 1476-1503? by Patron Portrait.