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

Saint John on Patmos

Saint Luke

Saint Matthew

Labors of the Months [edit]

  • “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

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