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16pp. (introductory text in French) + 100 loose plates (clean and intact), in publisher's cardboard cover with spine in blue cloth, 21x16cm., heraldic ex-libris on first title page, Photographic reproduction of 100 illuminated miniatures, printed in collotype, reproducing in full the pictorial cycle of MS 9392 (Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels), a Burgundian manuscript of Christine Pisan's "Epistre d'Othéa", revised and adapted by Jean Miélot (ca.1460) who was secretary and translator to the Burgundian court. This publication constitutes one of the earliest complete facsimile reproductions of a major illuminated medieval manuscript devoted to Christine de Pisan, one of the first professional woman writers in Western Europe. Her "Epistre d'Othéa" is a didactic and allegorical work in 100 chapters in which the goddess Othea instructs the Trojan hero Hector through moral exampla drawn from classical mythology and chivalric ethics // good condition, Y120593