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Douce 144 Group

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 144, f. 2v

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 144, f. 72v

 

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 144, f. 111v

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 144, f. 5v

Vienna, ONB, ms. 2657: Jean Petit, Justification du duc de Bourgogne

Paris, BN, fr. 5733

New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 1044, f. 79v: Gaston Phébus, Livre de la Chasse :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

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 144, f. 28

Vienna, ONB, ms. 1840, f. 27.

Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, MS 2713: Book of Hours

 

Paris, Arsenal MS 664, f. 1

Chateauroux Breviary, f. 8

Chateauroux Breviary, f. 33

 

Paris, Mazarine MS 406, folio 7

Paris, Mazarine Ms 406, f. 7 (detail)

Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, MS 260, f. 27

London, British Library, Add. 30899

Philadelphia, Free Library, Widener MS 6, 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.


Philadelphia, Widener 6, f. 220v (detail)

New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS 400, the De Levis Hours, f. 93

San Marino, Huntington Library, MS 1100, f. 28

Boucicaut Hours Group

Boucicaut Hours, f. 118v: Trinity

Boucicaut Hours, detail of f. 118v See also fol 29v (Meiss, '68, fig. 14)

Arsenal, MS 623, Missel de Saint-Magloire:Compare flowers in lower right border to Boucicaut f.118v

Paris, Arsenal 623

Paris, Arch. nat., ms MM 397 (Musée 1580), 1412-13

   

Richardson MS 32, f. 623

Richardson MS 32, f. 1

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Collins 45-65-5

 
Egerton Hours Group
   

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 2810

Philadelphia Free Library, Widiner MS 6, f. 78v-79.

Chantilly, Musée condé, MS 64, f. 87

Chantilly, Musée condé, MS 64, f. 158.

Bedford Hours Group

Bedford Hours, f. 75

f. 144

Chantilly, Musée condé, MS 64, f. 25

New York, The Morgan Library, ms 1004: The Hours of Charlotte of Savoy, f. 17 (see also f. 63v, f. 78)

New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, ms 400, De Levis Hours, folio 23.

Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, MS 288, f. 17

Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, MS 288, f. 89 (compare winged vase in lower right corner to the same motif in the Bedford Hours f. 75. See also the elaborate staff in the Morgan Phoebus frontispiece.)

 

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 226, f. 6v

Philadelphia, Free Library, Widener 1, f. 1: Jacques Bruyant, La Voir de Povreté ou de Richesse (Le Livre du Chastel de Labour), Bibliography: Leaves of Gold, no. 70 pp. 202-205.

f. 61v