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Online assignment with medieval manuscript facsimiles

Prayer Book of Anne de Bretagne

This Prayer Book is a private devotional book created in about 1495.  It was commissioned by Anne of Brittany.  

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Chansonnier de Jean de Montchenu

This manuscript is a heart-shaped book created in around 1460.  It opens into a butterfly shape.  The songs are love poems that a couple sent to one another.  

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Resource Citations

Prayer Book of Anne Bretagne

Anne, et al. The prayer book of Anne de Bretagne : MS M.50, the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York . Faksimile Verlag Luzern, 1999.

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Chansonnier de Jean de Montchenu

Montchenu, Jean de. Chansonnier de Jean de Montchenu. Vicent García Editores, S.A., 2007.

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