The Medieval Booklists of the Southern Low Countries. Volume V: Dukes of Burgundy

With this volume Corpus Catalogorum Belgii comes to an end. It

contains the critical edition of all surviving medieval inventories of

the library of the Dukes of Burgundy. This was in the fifteenth century

one of the most prestigious princely collections in the world,

consisting of hundreds of mostly illuminated manuscripts. The hitherto

available editions of these inventories were for the most part

incomplete or unreliable. In the present book the editors have provided

critical editions of the inventories already known, based on all

existing archival documents, and of a series of newly discovered ones.

The substantial introduction, dealing with the growth and the

organization of the collection, the notes giving complete details on the

documents and on all persons mentioned in them, and the full indices

make this book an indispensable tool for all students of medieval

literature (especially French), manuscript illumination and Burgundian

culture.