Jerome, Letter LIV To Furia [To Furia, On the Duty of Remaining a Widow], in the translation by Charles Bonin, France, likely Bourges, c. 1500 - 1510
In French, Illuminated manuscript on parchment. In its original purple velvet binding and adorned with a frontispiece painted by the Master of Spencer 6
Probably Louise de Savoy (1476-1531), Duchess suo jure of Auvergne and Bourbon, Duchess of Nemours, mother of King Francis I, regent of France in 1515, in 1525–1526 and in 1529;
Library of Anne de Polignac (1495-1554), Dame de Randan et de Beaumont, Château de Verteuil, Charente, France;
By descent to Louis-François Auguste, Cardinal de Rohan-Chabot (1788-1833), Château Josselin, Brittany, France;
Sale, Paris, Labitte, 1879, lot 10;
Where acquired by Eugène Paillet;
By whom sold to the Librairie Damascène Morgand in 1887;
Currently with Les Enluminures, Paris, Chicago & New York.