Would anyone be able to tell me where I might find information as to what
books might have been owned by the Cardinals and Popes in Avignon?
I am specifically interested in Cardinal Jacopo Stefaneschi (d. 1341), and
in Pope Clement VI, who was Cardinal Pierre Roger before his
pontificate.
I wonder whether either of them might have owned Books of Hours. One is
usually told that these were owned by lay people (often women, although
I'm not so sure about this) and therefore, I had the impression that they
might not have been the sort of thing which Cardinals would have in their
possession. However, I am told that the Emperor Charles IV of Bohemia
writes in his autobiography that Pierre Roger (who was Charles's tutor)
taught him using a Book of Hours. Would this have been a Book of Hours
owned by Charles himself, or might his teacher, despite being a learned
cleric, have owned a Book of Hours?
Does anyone have any ideas?
Beth Williamson
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