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Book: BnF lat. 919 (Grandes Heures du duc de Berry)

Created 1409

John

Texts:

  • Livre d'heures

    • Illuminator(s):

  • Jacquemart de Hesdin
  • Boucicaut Master
  • Haincelin de Haguenau (aka Bedford Master)

    • Ownership Details

    Charlotte of Savoy, queen of France, Ownership Confirmed (14?? - December 1483) by Inventory.

    John Duke of Berry, Ownership Confirmed (1409-June 1416) by Inventory. Ownership Confirmed (1409-June 1416) by Inscription.

    Charles VIII of France, Ownership Confirmed (1484-1498?) by Inventory.



    Bibliography

    Legaré, Anne-Marie. "Charlotte de Savoie's Library and Illuminators," Journal of the Early Book Society 4 (2001): 32-87.

    Legaré, Anne-Marie. "Le Mécénat artistique de Charlotte de Savoie à Bourges (1470-1483): L'exemple de ses livres à caractère religieux." In "La Dame de coeur": Patronage et mécénat religieux des femmes de pouvoir dans l'Europe des XIVe-XVIIe siècles, ed. Murielle Gaude-Ferragu and Cécile Vincent-Cassy (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2016), 109-22.: 116-17