Is the VMS a work of female authors ?

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German, Dutch and Catalan translations may have existed but there is no definitive proof.

Yes, that is very strange. I have not found any transcripts in German or Dutch, despite an intensive search. I can hardly imagine that there should be no such works , the Inquisition can not have been that successful.

A trace clearly mentions a distribution of the work on the European continent:

The transmission and safeguarding of the written heritage of women mystics is exemplified by the case of Marguerite Porete. She was burned in Paris on May 27, 1310, in the Place de Grêve, along with her writings. A copy of her work "Le mirouer des simples ames" was rescued by the Carthusians to England, translated into Latin and from there spread again through the Carthusians on the continent.

The similarities between Porete and Carthusian spirituality are so strong that in the 15th century it was mistakenly assumed that the writing of the Mirouer, which was only circulated anonymously, was written by Jan van Ruysbroeck, a Flemish theologian close to the Carthusian order.

Source: Nathalie-Josephine von Möllendorff, Bildtopographien und Raumkontexte ..., Inauguraldissertation, page 200-2001, October 20th, 2017

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By the way, here is Porète's book briefly and understandably introduced:

Marguerite Porete & The Mirror of Simple Souls