Les petites prières de Renée de France
France, early sixteenth century
Renaissance Humanist script
Biblioteca Estense di Modena (Italy)
a.U.2.28 = Lat.614
Date of Publication of the Facsimile: 1991
Publishers: Guaraldi/La Stamperia-Edizioni d'arte, Rimini (Italy)
Photography of the Manuscript: Gianni Roncaglia
Photolithography: Cooperativa S. Patrignano (Italy)
Printing: La Stamperia di M. Filippini & C. (Itlay)
This prayer book contains the prayers a little child would have been taught, such as the
Pater Noster (Our Father), the
Ave Maria (Hail Mary), a
prayer to the
Guardian Angel, and so forth. The child in this case was Renée de France, daughter of
Louis XII and Anne de Bretagne.