The Arts in the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance

by P. L. Jacob

Fig. 345.—Fac-simile of the Inscription Ex libris, &c., in the beginning of a Manuscript executed by John Flamel, Scribe and Librarian to the Duke de Berry, at the end of the Fourteenth Century.

(Imperial Library, Paris.)

Text.—Ceste Bible est a Monseigneur le Duc de Berry.

Flamel.

Translation.—This Bible belongs to Monseigneur the Duke de Berry.

Flamel.

Note.—The Duke de Berry, John, brother of King Charles V., and uncle to King Charles VI., was a great amateur of fine books. He spent very large sums in having manuscripts copied and illuminated. The Imperial Library, Paris, preserves a large number of the most valuable of them.

Fig. 346.—Writing of the Fifteenth Century, after the First Page of a Breviary. (Royal Library, Brussels.)