Book of hours of Joan of France

After her death, the whereabouts of the book are unknown; it reappeared again in the late 19th century when it was bought by private collector Victor Martin Le Roy.

It was again sold in 2011, and then bought by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, thanks to funding from private donors.

[1] The book was given by Charles VII to his daughter for the occasion of her marriage to John II, Duke of Bourbon in 1452.

[2] On the death of Joan in 1482, the book passed to the second wife of John II, Catherine of Armagnac.

It resurfaced in the possession of an antiques dealer in Leipzig, Germany in the 19th century, and was subsequently bought by French art collector Victor Martin Le Roy, and eventually passed to his son-in-law, art historian Jean-Joseph Marquet de Vasselot.