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Date: 1387-1394	Shelf Nos. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, ms 96	f. 65v
	Title: Book of Hours
	Evidence: Dated between 1387 and 1394. The dating is based on references in a prayer to the Peter of Luxembourg who died in 1387 and to Clement VII as still alive(d. 1394).
	Bibliography: Meiss, 1967, figs. 616, 618, 621, 626, and 627; Randall, cat. 76, pp.205-209.

Date: 1401	Shelf Nos.Barcelona, Bibl. Central, ms. 1850
	Title: Book of Hours
	Evidence: Inscription on folio 25v reads: "L'an de grace mil quatre cens et un furent faitez ces heures p[ar] Colin le besc"
	Bibliography: Meiss, 1967, figs. 334, 705, 706, 810; Meiss, 1974m p. 306.

Date: Jan 1, 1402	Shelf Nos. Brussels, Bibliothèque royale, ms. 9094.	folio 10: Cleres femmes Scribe A: Cleres femmes B decorator.
	Title: Livre des propriétés des Choses
	Evidence: Account record: A Jaques Raponde, auquel estoit deu par mon dit seigneur la somme de IIIIc escuz d'or, en quoy icellui seigneur luy estoit tenuz pour la vendue et delivrance d'un livre nommé de la Proprieté des Choses tout nuef, escript et ystorié, couvert de velueil en graine a fermouers d'argent doréz, lequel mon dit seigneur fist prendre et achetter ledit pris, si qu'il appert plus a plain par les letres patentes dudit seigneur sur ce faictes donné le IIIe jour de janvier l'an mil IIIIc et I cy rendu avec quictance, ensemble certifficacion sur ce de maistre Richart le barbier, garde des livres et rommant dudit seigneur IIIIc escuz Dijon, ADCO, B 1526, f. 292v- Cockshaw, 1969, p. 133, no. 45.
	Bibliography:

Date: Before 1402	Shelf Nos.Paris, Bibl. nat, fr. 282	fol. 173: Miniature by the Virgil Master; decoration by the A Master of the Belles Heures.
	Title: *Valerius Maximus, Faits et dits memorable* (translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicholas de Gonesse)**
	Evidence: Inscription written in gold on folio 411v records that Nicholas de Gonesse, on the request of the Duke of Berry and his treasurer, Jacques Courau, finished the translation on September 28, 1401. An erased ownership inscription of the Duke of Berry appears beneath this note. The manuscript can be identified with an entry in the 1413 inventory of the Duke's collection. This entry states: "Un grant livre de Valerius Maximus, historié et escript de lettre de court, lequel sire Jacques Courau envoya à monseigneur à estraines le I Janvier 1402 (n.s.)."
	Bibliography: Meiss, 1974, pp. 21, 56, 62, 104, 116, 408, 410, 415, 436 n. 35; Farber, 1980, 44-49, 151-158.

Date: Before 1402	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibl. nat., fr. 159	folio 10v: Miniature by Coronation Master, decoration by Walters 231 decorator, text by Scribe A of fr. 159.
	Title: Guiart des Moulins, Bible Historiale
	Evidence: Ms. illuminated before 1402 when it was given to Jean de Berry by Raoulet d'Auguetonville. Inscription by Flamel and ex libris of Berry on folio B.
	Bibliography: Meiss, 1967, fig. 822; Meiss, 1968, figs. 459-463; Meiss, 1974, p. 383.

Date: Before 1402	Shelf Nos. London, British Library, Royal 19 D I
	Title: Histoire de Troye, d'Alixandre et des Romains
	Evidence: Jean de Berry borrowed ms. from the king to make BN fr. 301. Ms. owned by Jean de Berry.
	Bibliography: Hedeman, Translating the Past, p. 239.

Date: Before 1402	Shelf Nos.Paris, Bibl. nat. fr. 301	folio 1. Miniature attributed by Avril to Perrin Remiet; decoration by the Walters 231 Decorator.
	Title: Paulus Orosius, Histoire Ancienne
	Evidence: Ms. illuminated shortly before purchase by Jean de Berry from Bureau de Dampmartin (bourgeois et changeur de Paris) in April, 1402. Avril (p. 308) identifies fr. 301 with the following entry in the 1413 inventory of Jean de Berry: Item, un livre de Troye la grant, escript en françois de lettre de fourme, et au commencement du second feuillet a escript: les parolles; et est couvret de veluiau vermeil fermant à deux fermouers d'argent dorez, roons; lequel fut achaté par mondit seigneur de Bureau de Dampmartin, bourgeois et changeur de Paris, ou mois d'avril mil cccc et II. (Inventaires, I, p. 237, no. 912)
	Bibliography: Meiss, 1974, p. 399, fig. 274: Avril, 1969.

Date: 1402	Shelf Nos. New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 515	folio 95: miniature attributed by Meiss to the Coronation Master; decoration by the A Master of the Belles Heures.
	Title: Book of Hours, made for the use of Nantes
	Evidence: Colophon on folio 216v written by the scribe Yvo Luce states that the ms. was written and illuminated at Nantes in 1402: "L'an mil IIII et II furent escriptes et enlumines cests matines a la ville de Nantes."
	Bibliography: Meiss, 1967, fig. 823; Meiss, 1974, p. 336, fig. 412: Farber, 1980, pp. 58-60,.

Date: 1403	Shelf Nos. Florence, Bibl. Laurenziana, Med. Pal. 69
	Title: Virgil, Ecologues, Georgics, and Aeneid
	Evidence: Colophon on folio 265v, states that Pierre de l'Ormel, a licensed bookdealer of the University of Paris, finished this ms. in July 17, 1403, for Jacques Courau. The ex libris is illustrated in Meiss, 1974, fig. 264 (illustrated in Meiss, 1974, fig. 264). Courau, who was the treasurer and maître d hôtel of Jean de Berry, commissioned several books for the Duke, including a copy of Valerius Maximus (see fr. 282 above) by the same workshop which illuminated the Florence Virgil ms. The Berry inventories include a reference to an additional book: "Un livre de la Cité de Dieu, en deux volumes, escript en francois, de lettre de court, historié en pluseurs lieux, lequel sire Jacques Coureau donna à Monseigneur, le 20 juin 1403." (Delisle, Recherches, III, p. 243).
	Bibliography: Meiss, 1967, fig. 841; Meiss, 1974, p. 324, figs. 223 & 264.

Date: 1401-January 1, 1403	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 12420	f. 13v: Miniature: Coronation Master; Decorator: Walters 231 Decorator.
	Title: Boccaccio, Des cleres et nobles femmes
	Evidence: Note states that the translation was completed on September 12, 1401. The manuscript was given to Philippe le Hardi on étrennes 1404 by Jacques Rapondi.
	Bibliography: Paris 1400, pp. 264-265, no. 160

Date: 1403	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Fr. 380	f. 1r
	Title: Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Le Roman de la Rose, Jean de Meun, Le Testament les Sept Articles de la foi et le Codicille
	Evidence: Martin Gouge probably presented this book to Jean de Berry on July 7, 1403.
	Bibliography: Paris 1400, p. 238 no. 141.

Date: 1403	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 12201	f. 49: Miniature: Coronation Master; Decorator: Walters 231 Decorator
	Title: Hayton, Fleur des histoires de la terre d'Orient, Liber de toto orbe terrarum
	Evidence: On May 24, 1403, Philippe le Hardi paid Jacques Rapondi 300 francs d'or for three copies of this text. Fr. 12201 was owned by the Duke of Burgundy. The other two copies were given to the Dukes of Berry and of Orléans.
	Bibliography: Paris 1400, p.139 no. 65

Date: 1404	Shelf Nos. Brussels, Bibliothèque royale, ms. 9508
	Title: Christine de Pizan, Mutacion de fortune
	Evidence: Text completed in November, 1403. Manuscript presented to Philippe le Hardi in January of 1404.
	Bibliography: Meiss, 1974, p. 291, figs. 12, 21, 25, 29, and 33.

Date: 1404	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 598	f. 6v: Miniature: Cleres femmes Master; Decorator: Walters 231 Decorator
	Title: Boccaccio, Des cleres et nobles femmes
	Evidence: The book was given to Jean de Berry in February, 1404 by Jean de La Barre, receveur général des finances for Languedoc and Guyenne.
	Bibliography: Paris 1400, pp. 264-265, nos. 161.

Date: Feb. 1404	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 425	f. 1r: decoration by the fr. 242 Decorator
	Title: Cy nous dit
	Evidence: Bought in Paris from Jehan le Moustardier, escripvain de fourme, by Jean de Berry
	Bibliography: Hedeman, Translating the Past, p. 240

Date: March, 1404	Shelf Nos. The Hague, Kon. Bibl. 78D42
	Title: Christine de Pizan, Mutacion de fortune
	Evidence: The same text as Bibl. Roy. 9508. This copy presented to Jean de Berry in March, 1404.
	Bibliography: Meiss, 1974, p. 291, figs. 14, 19, and 23.

Date: 1404	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 414	f. 1: Virgil Master; Walters 231 Decorator
	Title: Jacobus de Voragine, La Légende dorée
	Evidence: Scribe dates the manuscript 1404. The miniature by the Virgil Master is based on the same image from the Belles Heures. The miniature probably dates from about 1407.
	Bibliography: Paris 1400, pp. 299-300, no. 187.

Date: c. 1404	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 9684	f. 1: Sallust Decorator
	Title: Sallust, The Conspiracy of Cataline
	Evidence: Jean Lebègue completed this copy for the sons of Louis d'Orléans. The arms of the Duke of Orléans appear in the opening initial.
	Bibliography: Paris 1400, pp. 204-205, no. 117a; Hedeman, "Making the Past Present: Visual Translation in Jean Lebègue's 'Twin' Manuscripts of Sallust," in Patrons, Authors, and Workshops: Books and Book Production in Paris around 1400, Godfried Croenen and Peter Ainsworth eds., 2006, pp. 173-196.

Date: 1404 or before	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 12559
	Title: Thomas de Saluces, Chevalier errant
	Evidence: The arms of Philippe le Hardi, who died in 1404, appear on the last tent to the right in the miniature on fol. 161v, by the Master of the Cité des Dames.
	Bibliography: Meiss, 1974, p. 381, figs. 18, 47-49, and 56/

Date: 1405 or before	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 117-120	f. 1: Walters 265 Decorator
	Title: Legends of the Holy Grail
	Evidence: Manuscript was sold to Jean de Berry for 300 écus in January, 1405 by Regnault du Montet. Erased signature of Jean de Berry appears on fol. 602.
	Bibliography: Meiss, 1974, p. 374

Date: 1405	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 7789
	Title: Cicero, Pro Marcello and De senectute, translation by Laurent de Premierfait
	Evidence: Colophon on f. 104r states that Laurent de Premierfait finished the translation for Louis de Bourbon on November 5, 1405.
	Bibliography: Paris 1400, p. 240, no. 144

Date: 1405-06	Shelf Nos. Philadelphia, Museum of Art, Philip S. Collins Collection, 1945-65-1?? or 1945-61-1	f. 5
	Title: Saint Augustine, La Cité de Dieu
	Evidence: Date for entering the collection of Jean de Berry.
	Bibliography: Hedeman, Translating the Past, p.241

Date: 1406	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 926	f. 1: Luçon master and Walters 265 Decorator
	Title: Saint Bonaventura, L'Aiguillon d'amour divin; Henri Suso, L'Horloge de sapience; Jean Gerson, Sermon prononcé au nom ve l'université devant le roi, Le Chapel des trois fleurs de lys, Règle des preudes femmes.
	Evidence: On f. 1v there is note saying that the manuscript was completed on the feast of the Pentecost in 1406. Notes on f. 110v and 334 identify the scribe as I. Delacroix. Marie de Berry, daughter of Jean, received this ms. from her confessor Simon de Courcy.
	Bibliography: Paris 1400, p. 328 no. 205.

Date: Before 1407	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 8886	f. 1: Luçon Master; Decorator: B Master of the Belles Heures
	Title: Pontifical and Missal for the use of Luçon
	Evidence: The manuscript was made for the Bishop Étienne Loypeau who died in 1407.
	Bibliography: Paris 1400, 279-280, no. 171

Date: c. 1407	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Fr. 172-173	fr. 172, f. 5: Walters 265 Decorator
	Title: St. Augustine, La Cité de Dieu
	Evidence: Ms. given to Jean de Berry by Pierre le Frutier dit Salmon
	Bibliography: Hedeman, Translating the Past, p. 244

Date: October 29, 1407	Shelf Nos. London, British Library, Royal 19 E VI
	Title: Croniques de Burgues
	Evidence: Bought by Jean de Berry on this date.
	Bibliography: Hedeman, Translating the Past, p. 243

Date:Before Nov. 1407	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 606, 835-836
	Title: Christine de Pizan, Collected Works
	Evidence: Jean de Berry repossessed this manuscript which he had given to Louis d'Orléans who had been assassinated on Nov. 23, 1407.
	Bibliography: Hedeman, Translating the Past, p. 243.

Date: Jan 1, 1408	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Lat. 7907A	f. 2
	Title: Terence
	Evidence: Date ms. given to Jean de Berry as a New Year Gift by Martin Gouge.
	Bibliography: Hedeman, Translating the Past, p. 244.

Date: 1408	Shelf Nos. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 144	f.5v
	Title: Book of Hours, use of Paris
	Evidence: Note on f. 27: "anno Mo.CCCCo.VIIo. quo ceciderunt pontes Parisius." The bridges were swept away on January 30, 1408 (1407 old style). This indicates the note was written between the end of January and the end of March of 1408.
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Date: 1408	Shelf Nos. Sotheby, Tuesday, 24 June, 1969, no. 58 and 58A to 58 K
	Title: Book of Hours
	Evidence: Inscription on fol. 158v: "Factum est Mo CCCCo VIIIo quo ceciderunt pontes parisus."
	Bibliography: London, Sotheby and Co., Tuesday, 24 June, 1969, 58 and 58A to 58K, pp. 67-69; Ackland Memorial Art Center, A Medieval Treasury from Southeastern Collections, 1971, nos. 39 & 40, pp. 41-42. Birmingham, Barber Institute, Flight into Egypt (illustrated in Meiss, 1974, fig. 532; London, Sotheby and Co., 14 July, 1981, lot. 21; Manion and Vines, Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts in Australian Collections, 1984, no. 73, pp. 181-182.

Date: After March1408	Shelf Nos. Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS 2657	f. 1v
	Title: Jean Petit, Defense of the Role of the Duke of Burgundy, John the Fearless, in the Death of Duke Louis d'Orléans
	Evidence: Jean Petit delivered his defense of Jean sans Peur in March of 1408. The border decoration of both the Paris and Vienna copies are by the same hand who is also responsible for the miniature borders in Douce 144. This hand is likely to have also been responsible for the miniatures in both the Paris and Vienna copies. The miniature shows an allegory of the conflict between Jean sans Peur and Louis d'Orléans. It depicts the lion of Burgundy and the wolf of Orléans fighting over the crown of France before a tent emblazoned with the fleurs de lys.
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Date: After March 1408	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 5733	f. 1v
	Title: Jean Petit, Defense of the Role of the Duke of Burgundy, John the Fearless, in the Death of Duke Louis d'Orléans
	Evidence: Jean Petit delivered his defense of Jean sans Peur in March of 1408. The border decoration of both the Paris and Vienna copies are by the same hand who is also responsible for the miniature borders in Douce 144. This hand is likely to have also been responsible for the miniatures in both the Paris and Vienna copies. The miniature shows an allegory of the conflict between Jean sans Peur and Louis d'Orléans. It depicts the lion of Burgundy and the wolf of Orléans fighting over the crown of France before a tent emblazoned with the fleurs de lys.
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Date: After March 1408	Shelf Nos. Chantilly, Musée Condé, MS 878	f. 2
	Title: Jean Petit, Defense of the Role of the Duke of Burgundy, John the Fearless, in the Death of Duke Louis d'Orléans
	Evidence:
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Date: 1408-1409	Shelf Nos. New York, The Cloisters Collection	f. 48v
	Title: Belles Heures
	Evidence: Meiss's analysis of the inventory of Jean de Berry's collection suggests that this manuscript was give to Jean de Berry before lat. 919: Grandes Heures.
	Bibliography:

Date: 1409	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Lat. 919
	Title: Grandes Heures
	Evidence:
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Date: 1409	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 23279	f. 1
	Title: Pierre Salmon, Responses a Charles VI et Lamentation au roi sur son etat
	Evidence: Text written by Salmon in 1409 at the request of Charles VI. The text was superseded by Geneva, Bibl. Publique et universitaire, fr. 165 dated after 1411.
	Bibliography: Paris 1400, p. 120, no. 51

Date: 1409-Jan. 1, 1411	Shelf Nos. Geneva, Bibliothèque publique et universitaire, fr. 190
	Title: Boccaccio, Cas des noble hommes et femmes
	Evidence: Ms. given to Jean de Berry on this date by Martin Gouge. Laurent de Premierfait completed the translation in 1409. Item, un livre de Jehan Bocace, des Cad des nobles hommes et femmes, translaté de latin en françoys par Laurens de Premierfait, clerc, escript de fourme, bien enluminé et historié; et au commancment du second fueillet a escript: il ont plaisir; couvert de drap de damas noir, et fermant à deux fermouers d'argent dorez, esquelz est escript le nom dudit livre...
	Bibliography: Hedeman, Translating the Past, p. 246

Date: 1410	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 1210	f. 1r
	Title: Informacion des rois et des princes
	Evidence: Frontispiece in a style derived from the Boucicaut and Bedford Masters. Bought in Feb. 1410 by Jean de Berry from the Parisian bookseller Regnault du Montet.
	Bibliography: Meiss, 1967, p. 314; Hedeman, Translating the Past, p. 246.

Date: 1410	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 1023
	Title: Jacques le Grand, Le Livre des Bonnes Moeurs
	Evidence: Given by the author to Jean de Berry on March 4, 1410.
	Bibliography: Meiss, 1974, p. 344, fig. 671.

Date: Before Sept. 3, 1413	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 1454
	Title: Brut d'Angleterre
	Evidence: Ms. acquired by Jean de Berry on September 3, 1413.
	Bibliography: Hedeman, Translating the Past, p. 247.

Date: 1411	Shelf Nos. London, British Library, Royal 19 D III
	Title: Bible Historiale
	Evidence: Written in 1411 for Thomas du Val, canon of Notre Dame de Clerefontaine in the diocese of Chartres.
	Bibliography: Meiss, 1967, figs. 312, 313.

Date: 1411or after	Shelf Nos. Geneva, Bibliothèque publique et universitaire, fr. 165
	Title: Pierre Salmon, Les demandes faites par le roi Charles VI touchant son état et le gouvernement de son royaume, avec les résponses de Salmon
	Evidence: Letters dated 1410 and 1411, respectively, appear on fols. 95 and 100v. These letters thus serve as a terminus post quem for the manuscript.
	Bibliography: Meiss, 1968, pp. 87-88.

Date: 1411-12 ?	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, MS 664
	Title: Térence des ducs
	Evidence: Manuscript was given to Louis duc de Guyenne by his tutor Jean d'Arsonval. Châtelet (2000, pp. 121-123) argued that the manuscript belonged to Charles VI before it belonged to the dauphin. Jean de Berry acquired the ms. in 1416 after the death of the dauphin in 1415.
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Date: 1412	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, MS 623
	Title: Missel de Saint-Magloire
	Evidence: In August of 1412, the counsellor of the king and the master of the Chambre des comptes, Jean de la Croix and his wife Jeanne Coquatrix established a perpetual mass in the chapel of the Assumption and St. Eustache in the church of Saint-Magloire. This manuscript was given at this time.
	Bibliography: Paris 1400, p. 291, no. 182

Date: 1412-1413	Shelf Nos. Paris, Arch. nat., ms MM 397 (Musée 1580)
	Title:Recueil de pièces concernant le Collège de Fortet
	Evidence: The documents in this miscellany relate to the foundation in the late fourteenth century of the Collège de Fortet; one of them is an inventory of the library of the Collège as it existed in December 1412. The single miniature is in the Boucicaut style.
	Bibliography: Meiss, 1968, pp. 38 and 108, fig. 79

Date: January, 1413	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 2810
	Title: Livre des merveilles
	Evidence: Inscription on a guard folio at the beginning of the book by the Duke of Berry's secretary Flamel, states that it was given as a gift to Jean of Berry from John the Fearless in January, 1413
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Date: 1413 (July 4)	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 6474-6475	fr. 6474, f. 1r.
	Title: Froissart, Chroniques
	Evidence: Colophon by the scribe Raoul Tainguy dates the copy to Tuesday, July 4. Since July 4 fell on Tuesday in 1402 and 1413, the manuscript can be dated to 1413.
	Bibliography: Marie Hélène Tesnière, "Les Manuscrits copiés par Raoul Tainguy," Romania, 107, 1986,pp. 354-359.

Date: 1414	Shelf Nos. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 251
	Title: Propriétés des choses
	Evidence: Purchased in 1414 for the Duke of Berry's grandson, Amadeus VIII
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Date: Before 1415	Shelf Nos. Chateauroux, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 2	f. 282v
	Title: Breviary made for Louis duc de Guyenne
	Evidence: Louis died in 1415
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Date: 1415 or before	Shelf Nos. Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, Ms. 406	f. 7
	Title: Missal of Louis duc de Guyenne
	Evidence: Manuscript left unfinished at the death of Louis.
	Bibliography: Patricia Stirnemann and Claudia Rabel, "The Très riches heures and Two Artists Associated with the Bedford Workshop," The Burlington Magazine, 2005, 147, pp. 534-538.

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