Le livre des trois vertus
By: Christine de Pisan
Contributors: Poitiers, Jean de, former owner
Published: 1450
Place of publication: France
Language: frm
Number of pages: 99
Subjects: Study and teaching; Virtues; Women
Description: Discusses the qualities that the progressive-thinking aristocratic author recommends as useful to women of all estates in counteracting the growth of misogyny.
Notes: 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.