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The Belles Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry. New York: George Braziller, 1974. ISBN 978-0807607503; Meiss, Millard, and Marcel Thomas. The Rohan Master: A Book of Hours (translation, Katharine W. Carson). New York: George Braziller, 1973. ISBN 978-0807613580; Porcher, Jean. The Rohan Book of Hours: With an Introduction and Notes by Jean Porcher.
Illuminated manuscript page illustrating the Annunciation from the Belles Heures du Duc de Berry.. The Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry, or Belles Heures of Jean de Berry (The Beautiful Hours) is an early 15th-century illuminated manuscript book of hours (containing prayers to be said by the faithful at each canonical hour of the day) commissioned by the French prince John, Duke ...
The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (French pronunciation: [tʁɛ ʁiʃz‿œʁ dy dyk də beʁi]; English: The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry [1]), or Très Riches Heures, is an illuminated manuscript that was created between c. 1412 and 1416.
It is their first documented commission and the work seems to have been executed in Paris. Art historians are divided as to whether the Bible Moralisée (Ms. fr. 166 in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris is the same manuscript as Philip's commission; [4] although there is consensus that manuscript was executed by Jean and Pol ...
The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belle Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. ISBN 978-1-58839-294-7. Meiss, Millard. French Painting in the Time of Jean De Berry: The Late Fourteenth Century and the Patronage of the Duke (2 Vols). London: Phaidon. pp. 44, 160– 69.
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John and the duke bided their time, and were soon able to retake power, in 1392, when the king had his first attack of insanity, an affliction which would remain with him throughout his life. In the 1390s, the dukes of Berry and Burgundy would jockey for royal favor against the Duke of Orléans, Charles VI's brother.
It was sold in 1954 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York where it is now part of the collection held at The Cloisters (accession number 54.1.2), and usually on display. The book is very lavishly decorated, mostly in grisaille drawings, and is a highly important example of an early royal book of hours, a type of book designed for the ...