Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry

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Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry or Très Riches Heures is probably the most important illuminated manuscript of the 15th century, "le roi des manuscrits enluminés" ("the king of illuminated manuscripts"). It is a very richly decorated Book of Hours containing over 200 folios, of which about half are full page illustrations.

It was painted sometime between 1412 and 1416 by the Limbourg brothers for their patron Jean, Duc de Berry . They left it unfinished at their (and the Duke's) death in 1416. Charles I, Duke I of Savoy commissioned Jean Colombe to finish the paintings between 1485-1489.

Folio 19v The Martyrdom of Saint Mark	Folio 22r The Virgin, the Sibyl and the Emperor Augustus	Folio 25v The Garden of Eden	Folio 26r The Annunciation
Folio 26v David Foresees the Coming of Christ	Folio 27v David Imagines Christ Elevated Above All Other Beings	Folio 28r David Foresees the Preaching of the Apostles	Folio 29r The Ark of God Carried into the Temple
Folio 31r David Foresees the Mystic Marriage of Christ and the Church	Folio 32r The Sons of Core Thank God for Their Salvation	Folio 34r The Last Judgement	Folio 34v Christ in Glory
Folio 35v The Building of the Jerusalem Temple	Folio 37v The Baptism of Saint Augustine	Folio 38v The Visitation	Folio39r God Reigns Over All the Earth
Folio 39v	Folio 40v The Three Hebrews Cast into the Fiery Furnace	Folio 41v God in Majesty	Folio 43v The Archangel Gabriel Appears to Zachary
Folio 44v The Nativity	Folio 45r David Plays the Harp	Folio 45v The Messiah' Dominions	Folio 46v David Beseeches God Against Evildoers
Folio 48r The Annunciation to the Shepherds	Folio 48v Psalm CXIX	Folio 49v Building in Jerusalem	Folio 51v The Meeting of the Magi
Folio 52r The Adoration of the Magi	Folio 52v Prayer of David	Folio 53r Prayer of David	Folio 54v The Purification of the Virgin
Folio 55r Psalm CXXV	Folio 55v Psalm CXXVI	Folio 56r Psalm CXXVII	Folio 57r The Flight into Egypt
Folio 59v The Visitation	Folio 60v The Coronation of the Virgin	Folio 61v Psalm XLII	Folio 62r Psalm CXXVIII
Folio 62v Psalm CXXX	Folio 63r The Presentation in the Temple	Folio 65r Psalm VI	Folio 65v David and Nathan
Folio 66v Psalm XXXVII	Folio 67v David Entrusts a Letter to Uriah	Folio 68v An Attack on a City	Folio 70r De Profundis
Folio 70v Psalm CXLII	Folio 71v The Procession of Saint Gregory	Folio 72r The Procession of Saint Gregory	Folio 75r The Man of Sorrows
Folio 79r Pentecost	Folio 82r Job Mocked by His Friends	Folio 84r Psalm CXXXVII	Folio 85r Psalm CXLV
Folio 86v The Funeral of Raymond Diocrès	Folio 88r Psalm VII	Folio 90v The Horseman of Death	Folio 91v Psalm XXIV
Folio 92v Psalm XXVI	Folio 95r David's Victory	Folio 96r Psalm XXXIX	Folio 97v Psalm XLI
Folio 100v The Penance of David	Folio 101v Psalm LXIV	Folio 103v Hezekiah's Canticle	Folio 108r Lucifer - torturing souls as well as being tortured himself in hell
Folio 109v The Baptism of Christ	Folio 113v Purified souls in Purgatory	Folio 122v The Apostles Going Forth to Preach	Folio 126r Paradise
Folio 129v The Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist	Folio 133v The Revealing of the True Cross	Folio 137r The Presentation of the Virgin	Folio 141v A Plan of Rome
Folio 142v Christ in Gethsemane	Folio 143r Christ Led to the Praetorium	Folio 144r The Flagellation of Christ	Folio 146v Christ Leaving the Praetorium
Folio 147r The Road to Calvary	Folio 147v Judas Hangs Himself	Folio 150r Psalm XXI	Folio 152r The Crucifixion
Folio 153r The Death of Christ	Folio 153v Psalm LXVIII	Folio 156v The Deposition	Folio 157r The Entombment
Folio 157v Psalm LVI	Folio 158r The Christmas Mass	Folio 161v The Temptation of Christ	Folio 164r The Canaanite Woman
Folio 166r The Exorcism	Folio 168v The Feeding of the Multitude	Folio 171r The Raising of Lazarus	Folio 173v The Entry into Jerusalem
Folio 182v The Resurrection	Folio 184rv The Ascension	Folio 186r Pentecost	Folio 188r Christ Blessing the World
Folio 189v The Communion of the Apostles	Folio 191v The Madonna and the Child	Folio 193r The Exaltation of the Cross	Folio 195r The Mass of Saint Michael
Folio 197r The Pope and His Cardinals	Folio 199v A Funeral Service	Folio 201r The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew	Adoration of the Magi
Three kings	Folio 000v Anatomical Man	Folio 000r Jean de Berry	Crucifixion
Saint John on Patmos	Saint Luke	Saint Matthew

[edit] Labors of the Months

“Labors of the months”	January: The Duke's household exchanges New Year gifts - the Duke at right in a blue robe.	February: A typical winter's day. Some peasants warm themselves by the fire, another peasant chops wood, and still another goes to market.	March: Sowing the field. In the background is the Château de Lusignan, a residence of Jean de Berry.
April: A young couple exchanging rings. In the background is the Château de Dourdan.	May: Young nobles riding in a procession. In the background is the Palais de la Cité in Paris.	June: Harvest. In the background is the Hôtel de Nesle, the Duke's Paris residence	July: The shearing of the sheep. In the background is the Château de Clain near Poitiers
August: Falconry, with the Duc's Château d'Étampes in the background.	September: The harvest of the grapes. In the background is the Château de Saumur.	October: Tilling the field. In the background is the Louvre.	November: The autumn harvest of acorns, on which pigs are feeding.
December: A wild boar hunt. In the background is the Château de Vincennes.	January - Detail	April - Detail	Man and woman shearing sheep
Two women raking hay	October - Detail	December - Detail

Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry

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[edit] Labors of the Months

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