Les Beaulx dicts et enseignements. Manuscript on vellum, dated Chartres, 1537.
Les Beaulx dicts et enseignements
Chartres, 1537
Case MS 5326
Joint acquisition with the University of Illinois (Champaign/Urbana), the Newberry portion supported by the Florence Gould Foundation and the Georges Lurcy Trust.
A sixteenth-century copy of an important work of the greatest female poet of the Middle Ages. In addition to Pisan’s work, the codex contains a miscellany of poetical texts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a number of which have never been edited.
Acquisition Date:
2005