Early Modern Women Research Network

Mary Stuart

Quatrain in Anne of Lorraine’s Book of Hours

Date: 1559-60

Material: Print

Source: Joseph-Balthazar Silvestre, Paléographie Universelle, Volume III, 1840 (Paris: Firmin Didot frères, 1841). Note: Publication date of Vol III is 1840, while the publication date of the series is given as 1841.
J. B. Silvestre, ‘Plate CXCVIII Gothic Miniscule Writing XVth Century: Book of Prayers of Mary Stuart’, in Universal Palæography, Vol II, Trans. Sir Frederic Madden (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849), p. 553.

Permissions: The 1840 image is taken from Silvestre’s original in the Special Collections, Rare Books section of the State Library of NSW and is no longer in copyright. The image was purchased from the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. The 1849 English translated image is a public domain image from Archive.org https://archive.org/stream/universalpalaeo00silvgoog#page/n194/mode/2up. The original book is held at Princeton University.

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	Si ce lieu est pour ecrire ordonné Ce quil vous plest auoir en souenance Je vous requiers que lieu mi soit donné Il que nul temps ne noste lordonance Royne de Frāce (monogram MS) Marie	If this place for writing is set aside, Please remember; I require that space be given to me And that time does not erase the privilege. Queen of France M.S. Marie		Si ce lieu est pour écrire ordonné, Ce qu’il vous plest avoir en sovenance, Je vous requiers, que lieu mi soit donné, Et que nul temps ne’ n oste l’ordonance. Royne de Frāce (monogram M.S.) Marie