Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 324: Le Miroir des dames
Alternate Title:
Miroir des Dames
Language:
French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Extent:
ff. 2 + 298
Dimensions:
234 Height (mm) and 161 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1300 - 1399]
Provenance:
From the Library of Charles V of France.
Table of contents:
Le Miroir des dames
Description:
CCCC MS 324 contains a luxurious fourteenth-century copy of Le Miroir des dames, a translation into French of the Speculum dominarum, a didactic text written for Jeanne de Navarre (d. 1305), wife of Philip IV of France, by her confessor, Durand de Champagne OFM. The manuscript is described as bearing the sign manual of Charles V of France (1338-80), and in 1411 the catalogue of the French royal library recorded this manuscript as still being in the collection at the Louvre palace, where it is described as 'de bonne lettre de forme' in a linen cover with two gold clasps. It contains a miniature of the presentation of the book to Jeanne by her confessor, and many illuminated borders and initials.
