Le livre des trois vertus
by Christine de Pisan
Discusses the qualities that the progressive-thinking aristocratic author recommends as useful to women of all estates in counteracting the growth of misogyny.
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Manuscript on vellum in black and red ink.
First leaf blank; second and third leaves contain introductory paragraph and table of contents; fourth to 99th leaves text.
Leaves are 28.6 cm. high and 19.4 cm. wide.
Boston Public Library volume is considered the base manuscript for critical editions of the work.
1 miniature at head of first text page (Christine on her death bed?); 1 full-page and 2 half-page illuminated borders; illuminated initials.
Bound in red gold-ruled morocco.
See critical edition published in 1989 by Librairie Honoré Champion (Paris).
Written in Middle French.
Formerly owned by Monseigneur de Sainct-Vallier (probably Jean de Poitiers, 1499-1566).
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) former call no.: Ms.1528.
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