Cleres femmes E Decorator

Cleres femmes E Decorator

Brussels, Bibliothèque royale, MS 9094: Bartholomeus Anglicus, Livres des proprietés des choses.

Jacques Rapondi sold this manuscript to Philippe le Hardi for 400 escus on January 3, 1402.

Identified Collaborators: Scribes:  Cleres femmes Scribe A (Oudin de Carnavay), Gillequin Gressier; Decorators: Cleres femmes B Decorator.

Folio 314v: Cleres femmes Scribe C; Cleres femmes E Decorator.

Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, MS 5057-5058: Bible Historiale

Identified Collaborators: Cleres femmes Scribe C; BnF fr. 242 Scribe; Decorators: Cleres femmes A Decorator; Cleres femmes B Decorator; Miniatures: Master of Berry's Cleres femmes; Virgil Master; Master of the Cité des dames.

Folio 77r: Cleres femmes Scribe C; Cleres femmes E Decorator; Virgil Master miniature. Compare to the frontispiece of BnF fr. 425, folio 1r and BnF fr. 24289, folio 1r

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 184: Jacques de Voragine and Jean de Vignay, La Légende dorée, soon after 1401 or 1402

BnF fr. 184, folio 5r: Cleres femmes E Decorator

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 242: Jacobus de Voragine, Légende dorée

Contains Vignay's translation augmented by the Festes nouvelles completed shortly after 1400 by Jean Golein.

Identified Collaborators: fr. 242 Scribe; running titles by Cleres femmes Scribe A (Oudin de Carnavay); miniature by Coronation Master.

Folio 1r: fr. 242 Scribe; Running titles: Cleres femmes Scribe A; Cleres femmes E Decorator; Miniature by Coronation Master.

Paris, Biblliothèque nationale, fr. 425: Cy nous dit

Bought in Paris from Jehan le Moustardier, escripvain de fourme, by Jean de Berry in February, 1404.

BnF fr, 425, folio 1r.  Compare folio 1r to Arsenal 5057, folio 77r. See also BnF fr. 24289, folio 1r.

Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 598: Bocaccio, Des cleres et nobles femmes

In Febraury 1404, Jean de Berry received this copy from Jean de la Barre, receveur general des finances in Languedoc and Guyenne.

Identified collaborators: Cleres femmes Scribe A (Oudin de Caranavay), Cleres femmes Scribe B, Cleres femmes Scribe C; Decorators: Cleres femmes A Decorator, Cleres femmes B Decorator; Cleres femmes C Decorator; Cleres femmes D Decorator; Cleres femmes E Decorator; Miniatures: Master of Berry's Cleres femmes.

Folio 134v: Cleres femmes Scribe C; Cleres femmes E Decorator

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, and it appears in the 1413 Berry inventory.

Identified collaborators: Cleres femmes Scribe A; Decorators: Cleres femmes A Decorator; Cleres femmes D Decorator; Miniatures: Coronation Master.

Folio 84r: Cleres femmes Scribe A; Cleres femmes E Decorator

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 12420: Boccaccio, Des Cleres et nobles femmes

Colophon on folio 167v states that the anonymous translation was completed on September 12, 1401; on New Year's day of 1403 (n.s.), Jacques Rapondi presented this manuscript to Philippe le Hardi.

Identified Collaborators: Scribes: Cleres femmes Scribe A, Cleres femmes Scribe C; Decorators: Cleres femmes A Decorator; Cleres femmes B Decorator.

Folio 46v: Cleres femmes Scribe A; Cleres femmes E Decorator.

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 24289: Boccaccio, Des Cas de nobles hommes et femmes

This is the single extant copy of Laurent de Premierfait's first translation of Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium dating from 1400 done in Laurent's life time.

Folio 1r: Cleres femmes E Decorator. Compare to Arsenal ms 5057, folio 77r and BnF 425, folio 1r.

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