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The Book of the City of Ladies — Christine de Pizan’s prose book, composed around 1404–1405 and handed down in manuscripts
A prose book that Christine de Pizan composed in 1404–1405 according to the study of its manuscript tradition, between 1404 and 1407 according to the bilingual edition of 2023. It has come down through thirty witnesses, all of the fifteenth century but one: twenty-six more or less complete manuscripts, a fragment, a manuscript in private hands, a Flemish translation of 1475 preserved in a single manuscript, and an English translation known only from a print of 1521. (Editorial synthesis)
Recorded author of The Book of the City of Ladies: Christine de Pizan.
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