Is the VMS a work of female authors ?

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A nice find on the topic of female scribes in general :

The Medieval Magazine, Number 36, October 5, 2015

   

A female scribe and male artist present their book to the Virgin Mary in this medieval manuscript, called the Guta-Sintram Codex (c. 1154). The Codex supports Fiona Griffiths’ finding that men and women collaborated during this period of history.

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It is hard to say whether such obvious collaboration also took place in the 15th century.

Women and Reform in the Central Middle Ages
Fiona J. Griffiths
The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe
Edited by Judith Bennett and Ruth Karras
Print Publication Date: Aug 2013
Online Publication Date: Mar 2013

.... As Alison Beach [1] has shown, female scribes and artists were active in the production of books, sometimes alongside male collaborators, and extant catalogues record the richness of women’s library holdings; as we have seen, some women were also active in the composition of their own texts, producing visionary texts, biographies, letters, commentaries, and even sermons.....

[1] Beach, Alison I.. Women as Scribes: Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria, Series: Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology, vol. 10. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 198.