Beth Williamson wrote:
>
> 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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Beth,
It is most likely that the Book of Hours from which Chas IV was taught was, indeed, his
own volume. It is also quite likely that Pierre Roger had some supervisory capacity in
the making of the book. Clerics often appear in books owned by the laity, offering the
possibility that they were acting as advisors or teachers to the owners.
Marian Hollinger
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