Very Rich Hours of the duke of Berry

See also: Berry (homonymy)

the Very Rich Hours of the duke of Berry is a Livre of hours that the duke Jean I {{er}} of Berry ordered with the brothers Paul, Jean and Hermann de Limbourg, who completed it only well after his death. The Manuscrit is preserved at the Musée Cop, with Chantilly.

It is probably about the most important manuscript enluminé of the 15th century, “the king of the enluminés manuscripts”. It contains more than 200 folios, of which more half are illustrations full-page.

It was painted between 1412 and 1416 by the Frères of Limbourg, which left it unfinished with their death and with that of the duke in 1416. Jean Colombe completed the illustrations between 1485 and 1489 for Charles I {{er}} of Savoy.

This manuscript contains also a remarkable illustration of the Ascension of Christ.

See too

  • Jean de France.

External bonds

  • Reproductions on the site of the university of Chicago
  • Site of the CRDP of Amiens
  • Presentation of the quasi totality of the folios of this illumination of the Middle Ages

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