Great news from the British Library, they have announced the recent upload of Christine de Pizan’s Book of the Queen (Harley MS 4431) to their Digitised Manuscripts site.

Christine de Pizan is widely regarded as one of Europe’s earliest female professional authors. The largest extant collection of her writing can be found in Harley MS 4431.

The British Library has plans to exhibit the Book of the Queen in the Sir John Ritblat Treasures Gallery.

Full details about this announcement can be found at the British Library’s Medieval manuscripts blog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/06/christine-de-pizan-and-the-book-of-the-queen.html