Les petites prières de Renée de France

France, early sixteenth century
Renaissance Humanist script

Biblioteca Estense di Modena (Italy)
a.U.2.28 = Lat.614

Date of Publication of the Facsimile: 1991
Publishers: Guaraldi/La Stamperia-Edizioni d'arte, Rimini (Italy)
Photography of the Manuscript: Gianni Roncaglia
Photolithography: Cooperativa S. Patrignano (Italy)
Printing: La Stamperia di M. Filippini & C. (Itlay)

This prayer book contains the prayers a little child would have been taught, such as the Pater Noster (Our Father), the Ave Maria (Hail Mary), a prayer to the Guardian Angel, and so forth. The child in this case was Renée de France, daughter of Louis XII and Anne de Bretagne.

fols. 4v-5r (64K)

fols. 5v-6r (64K)

fols. 11v-12r (64K)

Legendarium

Hours of Anne de Bretagne