Marginal Matters | Catalog of Decorators | Catalog of Manuscripts
Walters 231 Decorator
| Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, MS 231: Book of Hours, use of Paris. | Collaborators: Miniatures by the Luçon Master |
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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, MS 125-126: Guiart des Moulins, Bible Historiale. Ex libris of Jean de Berry and note by Flamel on f. 277v. |
Identified Collaborators: Miniatures: Hand A identified as Perrin Remiet (see Randall, 1989, p. 201);Hand B identified as Ravenelle Painter (Lindquist Sandgren, 2002, p. 46); Decorator: Walters 231 Decorator |
f. 82 v: Decoration: Walters 231 Decorator; Miniature: Remiet |
f. 262v: Walters 231 Decorator; Miniature: Ravenelle Painter |
| Bibliography: Randall, 1989, pp. cat. 74, pp. 196-202. |
| Brussels,Bibliothèque royale, MS 9024-9025: Guiart des Moulins, Bible historiale; Manuscript was bought by Jean sans Peur in 1415 from Jean Chousat. | Identified Collaborators:Scribes: Cleres femmes Scribe C; Bible Historiale Scribe; Decorators: Cleres femmes B Decorator; Cleres femmes E Decorator; Cleres femmes F Decorator; Miniatures: related to Berry's Cleres femmes; Cité des Dames workshop; Virgil Master workshop. |
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f. 64v: Bible historiale Scribe; Walters 231 Decorator; Cité des dames. |
folio 175: Tree of Jesse |
| Brussels, Bibliothèque royale, ms 9091: Épîtres de Senèque à Lucilius | |
f. 1 |
| Cambridge, Mass, Harvard College, Houghton Library, MS Richardson 45: Book of Hours | Identified Collaborators: Walters 231 Decorator; Luçon Master |
f. 110v (detail) |
f. 110v: Walters 231 Decorator; Miniature: Luçon Master |
f. 79v (detail) |
f. 79v |
| The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 71 A 16-18: Livy, Histoire romaine , c. 1395-1400. Jean de Berry was possibly the first owner. Later owned by Philippe van Cleve whose arms have been added on the frontispiece | |
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| London, British Library, Harley 4382 | |
f. 182: Man of Sorrows |
| Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, MS Felton 411/4: Livy, History of Rome: Three Decades (translated by Pierre Bersuire) | Identified Collaborators: Walters 265 Decorator ; workshop of the Cité des dames Master |
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| Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 62: Book of Hours, use of Paris. | Identified Collaborators: Master of the Brussels Initials. |
f. 7, detail |
f. 7. |
| Paris, Arsenal, MS 5057-58: Guiart des Moulins, Bible Historiale; the ex libris of Jean de Berry was once legible on fol. 571v. The manuscript appears in the 1413 Berry inventory. | Identified Collaborators: Scribes: Bible Historiale Scribe; Cleres femmes Scribe C; Decorators:Cleres femmes B Decorator; Cleres femmes E Decorator. |
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f. 300: Bible historiale Scribe; Walters 231 Decorator; workshop of Berry's Cleres femmes. |
| Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 45: Valerius Maximus, Faits et paroles memorables des Romains, after 1402 | Identified Collaborators: Miniature by the Virgil Master |
fol. 11 |
fol. 11: King receiving Simon de Hesdin's Translation; Valerius Maximus reading to Tiberius |
| Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 159: Guiart des Moulins, Bible historiale;Manuscript was given to Jean de Berry in 1402 by Raoulet d'Auquetonville. Flamel inscription and ex libris of Jean de Berry. Ms. appears in the 1402 Berry inventory. | Identified Collaborators: Cleres femmes Scribe C; Bible historiale Scribe; Decorators: Cleres femmes B Decorator; Miniatures: Coronation Master/ |
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f. 16v: Bible historiale Scribe; Walters 231 Decorator; Coronation Master. |
Paris,
Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 301: Paulus Orosius, Histoire ancienne: Manuscript was purchased from Bureau de Dampmartin by Jean de Berry
in April 1402. |
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| Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 309: Vincent of Beauvais, Miroir historial, fr. 309 | |
f. 62 |
| Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 414 : Légende dorée. Colophon gives date of 1404 for the text, but the miniature by the Virgil Master is c. 1407. The miniature shows an awareness of compositions in the Belles heures by the Limbourg Brothers. Compare to the Virgil Master work in the Getty copy of the philosopher Alchandreus ( MS. 72)which also shows a knowledge of Limbourg compositions. | |
fr. 414, f. 1. |
| Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 598: Boccaccio, Des cleres et nobles femmes.In February 1404, Jean de Berry received this copy from Jean de la Barre, receveur general des finances in Languedoc and Guyenne. | Identified Collaborators:Scribes:Walters 231 Decorator (Cleres femmes Scribe A) ; Cleres femmes Scribe B; Cleres femmes Scribe C; Decorators:Cleres Femmes B Decorator; Cleres femmes C Decorator; Walters 232 Decorator (Cleres femmes D Decorator) ;fr. 242 Decorator (Cleres femmes E Decorator); Miniatures: Master of Berry's Cleres femmes. | |
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f. 14:Cleres femmes Scribe A; WAG 231 Decorator: Master of Berry's Cleres femmes. |
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f. 3r: paragraph marks. |
f. 3v: paragraphs and border ornament |
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| Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 12201:Hayton, Fleur des histoires de la terre d'Orient....Manuscript is one of three copies of the text bought by Philippe le Hardi in 1403 from Jacques Rapondi. fr. 12201 was given to Jean de Berry on March 22, 1403. Ms. appears in the 1413 Berry inventory. | Identified Collaborators: Scribe: Cleres femmes Scribe A: Decorators:Walters 231 Decorator ( Cleres femmes A Decorator), Walters 232 Decorator (Cleres femmes D Decorator), fr. 242 Decorator (Cleres femmes E Decorator); Miniatures: Coronation Master. |
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f. 49r: Cleres femmes Scribe A; WAG 231 Decorator; Master of Berry's Cleres femmes. |
f. 1v |
f.2v |
| Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 12420: Boccaccio, Des cleres et nobles femmes; Colophon on f. 167v states that the translation was completed on September 12, 1401; on New Year's day of 1403, Jacques Rapondi presented this manuscript to Philippe le Hardi. | Identified Collaborators: Scribes: Cleres femmes Scribe A; Cleres femmes Scribe C; Decorators: Cleres femmes B Decorator;fr. 242 Decorator (Cleres femmes E Decorator) |
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f. 93v: Cleres femmes Scribe A; WAG 231 Decorator; Coronation Master. |
| Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 2810: Le Livre des merveilles; note written on guard leaf by Flamel, the secretary of the Duke of Berry, states that the manuscript was given to Jean de Berry by Jean sans Peur. The Berry inventory of 1413 states that this gift was made in January, 1413. | see also Walters 232 Decorator |
f. 89v |
fol. 226: Walters 231 Decorator
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| Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Nouv. acq., fr. 21013: Second volume of Flavius Josephus, Les antiquités judaïques (first volume is fr. 247). Ex libris of Jean de Berry appears at the end of the second volume. The text does not appear in the 1416. The manuscript was unfinished at the death of the Duke. | |
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| Vatican City, Bibl. Apost. Vat., Reg, lat. 25:Bible Moralisée | Identified Collaborator: Cleres femmes B Decorator See John Lowden, "The Bible Moralisée in the Fifteenth Century and the Challenge of the Bible Historiale," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 68 (2005) pp. 73-136 esp. pp. 81-90. |
f. 3: Creation |
| Vienna, Nationalbibliothek, MS 2537: Tristan, Romans de la table ronde et de la quête du Saint Graal | Identified Collaborators: Cleres femmes Scribe C; Walters 231 Decorator.Bibliography: Cazenave, Michel,Tristan und Isolde: Codex 2537 der Osterreichischen Nationalbibliothek,Graz, Austria, 1992. |
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f. 4, Cleres femmes Scribe C, Walters 231 Decorator, miniatures associated with the Master of Berry's Cleres femmes. |
