51
The catalogue is reproduced with a preface by L. Douet-d'Arcq in the Inventaire de la Bibliothèque du roi Charles VI fait au Louvre en 1423 par ordre du régent duc de Bedford, Paris, 1867.
52
DELISLE, Recherches sur la librairie..., p. 138; BLOCH, La formation de la bibliothèque..., p. 312.
53
See PELLEGRIN, Les manuscrits classiques...; and also D'AGOSTINO, A., «El "Libro de la mágica de los signos"», in his «Libro sulla magia dei segni» ed altri studi di filologia spagnola, Brescia, 1979, pp. 21-64.
54
Manuscripts belonging to Paul Petau can be identified by a catalogue number in the top right-hand corner of the first page, comprising a letter and two numbers. The manuscript of the Libro de astromagia has the press mark «A44» in this position (PELLEGRIN, Les manuscrits classiques..., p. 24).
55
PELLEGRIN, Les manuscrits classiques..., p. 160.
56
The library of Pierre d'Orléans is known to have been divided among PETAU, Paul and BONGARS, Jacques, «L. Jarry, Une correspondance littéraire au XVI siècle. Pierre Daniel et les érudits de son temps», Mémoires de la société archéologique et historique de l'Orléanais, XV (1875), pp. 343-431; HAGEN, H., Étude sur P. Daniel, Orleans, 1876 (1st edition, Berne, 1873, in German).
57
PELLEGRIN, Les manuscrits classiques..., pp. 24, 160.
58
See PELLEGRIN, E., «Membra disiecta Floriacensia», Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes, CVII (1959), pp. 5-56 (55) (now in her Bibliothèques retrouvées, pp. 159-210 [159]).
59
On Paul and Alexandre Petau's library see DE MEYIER, K. A., Paul en Alexandre Petau en de geschiedenis van hun handschriften, Leiden (E. J. Brill), 1947 (Dissertationes inaugurales Batavae ad res antiquas pertinentes, V).
60
I am indebted to the Prefect of the Vatican Library, P. Leonard E. Boyle O.P., for clarification of this matter. On the figure of Isaac Vossius as a bibliophile see BLOK, F. F., Contributions to the History of Isaac Vossius's Library, Amsterdam and London, 1974.