Is the VMS a work of female authors ?

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There is an English line of survival for this text. Is there any reference to her book in other libraries (pre-1500)?

There are two surviving 15th century French manuscripts. One written in the Picard language (as the original) has two chapters only: ms Valenciennes 0239; the other one in middle French has 140 chapters: ms Chantilly 157.

Source: Elodie Pinel. Poétique du Miroir des âmes simples de Marguerite Porete : de sa production à sa réception, une oeuvre au reflet de son temps. Littératures. Université de Nanterre - Paris X, 2020. (PhD dissertation) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

The dissertation lists and describes many translations: Italian manuscripts (Firenze, Riccardiano 1468, end of the 14th century, etc.), English manuscripts (Bodleian 505, third quarter of the 15th century, etc.)...