Douce 144 Group
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folio 1 |
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folio 5v |
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folio 44 |
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folio 52 |
folio 63 |
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folio 68v |
folios 69v-70 |
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folio 72v |
folio 76v |
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folio 80v |
folio 105 |
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folio 108v |
folio 109 |
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folio 110 |
folio 111v |
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folios 119v-120 |
folio 122 |
folio 122v |
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folio 123 |
Folio 128v |
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folio 129 |
folio 131 |
folio 135 |
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| Paris, Arsenal 664 | |
folio 1v |
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| Mazarine, ms. 406 | |
folio 7 |
Compare the design to that of that of the Christmas Vigil in the Très Riches Heures (folio 158v) |
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| Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, MS 260 | |
f. 27 |
| London, British Library, Add. 30899 | |
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Vienna, ONB, ms. 1840 (1340?), f. 27. |
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| Vienna, ONB, ms. 2657: Jean Petit, Justification du duc de Bourgogne | ||
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Paris, BN, fr. 5733 |
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| New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 1044, f. 79v: Gaston Phébus, Livre de la Chasse : Avril has identified the original owner of the Morgan manuscript as Louis, duc d'Orléans, who was assassinated in 1407. Avril has identified a decorator in this manuscript with one of the decorators in the Belles Heures and the decorator of two of the copies of the defense of Jean sans Peur. | |
Like Fr. 616's frontispiece, M. 1044's frontispiece has been augmented by an outside border. The inside border which was original was by a different hand than the outside border. The outside border is clearly by the Douce 144 decorator. For the motif in the elaborate staff see König, Bedford Hours, p. 69 |
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| Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, nouv. acq. fr. 4792: Christine de Pizan, Sept Psaumes. The text was completed between June 1409 when Pope Alexander V was elected and January 1410 when one of the first copies was presented to Jean de Berry as an étrennes gift. | See Album Christine de Pizan, no. 51, pp.680-685 (there the decoration is attributed to Petrus Gilberti). Folio 1r is the only border the Douce 144 miniature border specialist did in the manuscript. |
f. 1r |
f. 1r detail |
| Philadelphia, Free Library, Widener 6 | ||
f. 29 |
f. 78v-79 The format of the text page with the staff and quatrefoils comes very close to the decoration of the Belles Heures. The decorator of this page is not one of the Belles Heures' decorators. (Acanthus decoration on folio 79 can be fairly confidently attributed to the Egerton Master. Note the gold balls and tendrils which come very close to the decoration of Egerton 1070 (see British Library digital entry). The gold balls are a possible connection to the decorative vocabulary of the Master of the Brussels Initials. Such gold balls are found regularly in Italian manuscripts of the 14th century. |
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f. 137v (Egerton Decorator) |
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f. 147v |
f. 220v. (the decoration of this folio can be fairly confidently attributed to the Douce 144 miniature border decorator. The penned line rinceaux is characteristic of this decorator. |
detail of f. 220v |
| Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, MS 2713: Book of Hours | The Annunciation is the only miniature left in the manuscript. The text decoration of this page as well as the decoration of the rest of the manuscript can be attributed to the A Master of the Belles Heures. The Limbourg Brothers catalog (pp. 406-7) attributes the miniature to the Mazarine Master. A comparison is made to the St. Maur Hours' Annunciation which is also based on the Belles Heures. I question the attribution to the Mazarine Master. The face of the Angel especially comes close to the young Bedford Master material. |
fol. 13: Annunciation |
| New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, De Levis Hours: | |
f. 77 |
