[Coictivy] French noble family of patrons. During the mid-15th century members of the Breton family of Coëtivy were influential in French affairs. Their most esteemed member was Admiral Prigent or Prégent de Coëtivy (b c. 1399; d Cherbourg, 20 July 1450), a distinguished campaigner and important bibliophile. Several manuscripts bearing the admiral’s heraldry, his motto Dame sans per or other marks of ownership have survived, many containing significant illumination. Among the most opulent are a Livre du trésor des histoires (Paris, Bib. Arsenal, MS. 5077; Paris, Louvre, R.F. 1928) that originally contained over 225 miniatures and a French translation of Boccaccio’s De claris mulieribus (Lisbon, Mus. Gulbenkian, MS. L.A. 143) with more than 100 miniatures (mostly missing). These manuscripts, datable to the second decade of the 15th century, contain miniatures in the innovative style of the boucicaut master (see Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists, §I), and the ...